COUNTIES

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2008)
Bills Indexed by Subject
COUNTIES

: Requires compensation to county officers from municipalities to be paid directly to the county

: Allows certain cemetery operators in a federally or state-declared disaster area to withdraw funds from the endowed care fund for cemetery clean up due to acts of God or weather events

: Authorizes a county governing body to disincorporate a village incorporated after August 28, 2007, under certain specified circumstances

: Adds the counties of Andrew and Buchanan to the list of counties authorized to enact nuisance abatement ordinances regarding the condition of real property

: Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county

: Authorizes allocation of property taxes collected from the Senior Citizens' Services Fund tax to senior centers for their operational and capital needs

: Allows noncharter counties to adopt certain noise ordinances

: Allows any county to retroactively apply planning and zoning regulations to certain subdivisions of land

: Requires all counties and fire protection districts to adopt and enforce the 2003 ICC International Fire Code

: Allows taxpayers to pay real property taxes in quarterly installments

: Requires tax statements to be mailed to all resident taxpayers at least 45 days before the delinquent date

: Limits the increase in assessed valuation of residential property by the percentage of increase in Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled who own and live in their principal residence

: Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System

: Authorizes, upon voter approval, an increase in the fee charged for recorded instruments from $3 to $10 to be designated for assistance programs for the homeless

: Allows first and second classification counties to collect property taxes using electronic records and disbursements

: Requires the Missouri Public Service Commission to consider existing planning and zoning plans and building codes and hold a public hearing before approving the location of a proposed electric plant

: Prohibits water and sewer line easements from being considered as transfers of title of real property to counties

: Authorizes counties to preserve electronic images of original cancelled checks instead of the actual check

: Allows political subdivisions to elect to cover certain personnel as members of the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System

: Prohibits penalties for the erroneous payment of property taxes as a result of an error by the county

: Prohibits county commissioner salary increases or decreases in Clay County from taking effect until after two elections for county commissioner have occurred

: Changes the laws regarding property taxation

: Requires Christian County to appoint an emergency services board upon voter approval of a county sales tax for central dispatching of emergency services

: Changes the laws regarding emergency services and requires most counties to establish and maintain 911addressing

: Allows certain first and second classification counties to collect property taxes using electronic records and disbursements

: Changes from two to five years the cycle for determining the assessed valuation of real property in St. Louis County

: Increases from $3 to $10 the fee charged by the county recorder of deeds for certain recorded documents pertaining to real property

: Prohibits St. Louis County from enacting charter provisions governing waste collection in unincorporated areas of the county

: Establishes the Missouri County Planning Act

: Exempts first classification counties from the procedural requirements when establishing regulations related solely to speed limits

: Changes the laws regarding the establishment of a joint transportation development district

: Authorizes the recorder of deeds in Jackson County to collect a $1 donation in addition to the fees charged for marriage and birth records to assist homeless families in the county

: Requires certain surpluses in the Missouri Disaster Fund to be used to provide grants to political subdivisions to purchase necessary equipment for local emgency personnel to respond to a disaster

: Allows a county to become a second classification county upon reaching the required assessed valuation and approval from the governing body

: Authorizes, upon voter approval, an increase in the fee charged for recorded instruments by the county recorder of deeds from $3 to $10 to fund assistance programs for the homeless

: Changes the laws regarding property taxation

: Prohibits any governing authority, board, commission, or the personnel of a political subdivision from preventing the display of founding documents with religious content in public

: Authorizes counties to impose, upon voter approval, a sales tax for the purpose of funding the operation of public safety departments

: Requires all newly established state public road to be 60 feet in total width and the traveled surface at least 20 feet in total width on each side of the centerline

: Prohibits a political subdivision from imposing a fine or penalty on the owner of a pay telephone on his or her property for calls to the emergency telephone service from the pay telephone

: Allows first classification counties to establish a department of probation services to provide certain probation services within the county that are currently being provided by private providers

: Requires St. Louis County to elect a county assessor at the general election in 2008 and every four years thereafter

: Expands the authority of the counties of Clay and Jefferson to adopt regulations for electrical wiring and installation to make them consistent with other first and second classification counties

: Increases the rate certain counties are authorized to impose on agricultural and horticultural property for a special road rock fund tax

: Prohibits St. Louis County from enacting charter provisions governing waste and trash collection in unincorporated areas of the county

: Requires communities establishing and licensing a geographical information system to provide information regarding costs to license the system

: Authorizes Jefferson County, upon voter approval, to impose a retail sales tax to fund public health and safety projects and programs of the county public health center

: Requires the salary, benefits, and working hours of any county officer, deputy, assistant, or employee to be authorized by the county commission

: Changes the requirement determining which counties must withhold 1% of all property taxes to be deposited into the county's assessment fund

: Prohibits political subdivisions from preventing emergency personnel from seeking an elected office in any political subdivision that does not have jurisdiction over the person's place of residence

SB 729 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Creates the Missouri County Planning Act

SB 730 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Establishes a county municipal court in Franklin County and alters the hold harmless provisions of the foundation formula to compensate for the creation of the court

SB 740 --- Sponsor: Nodler, Gary
: Changes the applicable local government entity from "county" to "political subdivision" for certain federal storm water requirements

SB 765 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Repeals the provisions which allow villages to incorporate in an alternative way rather than requiring a petition by 2/3 of the taxable inhabitants that is approved by the county commission

SB 814 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 820 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows a county, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications

SB 822 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Allows cities, towns, villages and counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 885 --- Sponsor: Graham, Chuck
: Modifies provisions relating to children

SB 896 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
: Modifies the methods in which certain special road districts may form, expand or dissolve within fourth class counties

SB 900 --- Sponsor: Vogel, Carl
: Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 949 --- Sponsor: Scott, Delbert
: Modifies provisions of law relating to rural empowerment zones

SB 1018 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows municipalities in St. Charles County to adopt ordinances for the well-being of the community and enforce such ordinances with a fine not to exceed $1,000 or three months of imprisonment

SB 1020 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

SB 1033 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Repeals certain provisions regarding transfers of title of real property to counties by donation or dedication

SB 1145 --- Sponsor: Scott, Delbert
: Allows counties without a charter form of government to adopt certain noise ordinances

SB 1206 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Requires local governments to provide 72 hours notice for public meetings

SB 1276 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Modifies provisions of law requiring the creation of county-wide tax increment finance commissions

SJR 35 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Allows counties and St. Louis City to adopt regulations affecting public health and welfare that are more restrictive than state law

SJR 42 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Allows special laws to be adopted by the General Assembly when regulating the affairs of counties, cities, towns, or villages, or other political subdivisions within such local governments

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