Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 78 · 62 active provisions
In the construction of sections 78.010 to 78.420 the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent or repugnant to the context of the statute: (1) The words "councilman" or "alderman" shall be construed to mean councilman when applied to cities under said sec…
That any city of the third class, including any such city acting under special charter or any city now having or which may hereafter have a population entitling them to become cities of the third class, may become organized as a city under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 by proceeding as herein provided, un…
Upon petition of voters equal in number to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding city election of any such city, the mayor shall, by proclamation, submit the question of organizing as a city under sections 78.010 to 78.420 at an election. If said plan is not adopted at…
Every city having a population of eight thousand and less than thirty thousand shall be governed by a council consisting of the mayor and four councilmen, and every city having a population of three thousand and less than eight thousand shall be governed by a council consisting of the mayor and two councilmen, chosen a…
The mayor and councilmen shall have an office at the city hall or at some other convenient and suitable place. The mayor's and each councilman's annual salary shall be fixed by ordinance. Such salary shall be payable in equal monthly or semimonthly installments as provided by ordinance. Every other officer or assistant…
1. The council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive, legislative and judicial powers and duties now had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, city attorney, assessor, treasurer, collector, city engineer and other executive and administrative officers in cit…
The mayor shall be superintendent of the department of public affairs and the council shall at the first regular meeting after election of its members designate by a majority vote one councilman to be superintendent of the department of accounts and finances; one to be superintendent of the department of public safety,…
In every city having a population of over three thousand and under eight thousand there shall be elected at the first municipal election held after the taking effect of this section, and every four years thereafter, a mayor and two councilmen, except in any city with a population of at least five thousand within a thir…
1. Candidates to be voted for at all general municipal elections at which a mayor and councilmen are to be elected under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.400 shall be nominated by a primary election, except as provided in this section, and no other names shall be placed upon the general ballot except those selec…
Any person desiring to become a candidate for mayor or councilman shall file with the city clerk a statement of such candidacy in substantially the following form:
Upon the said ballot the names of the candidates for mayor, arranged in the order of filing shall first be placed, with a square at the left of each name, and immediately below, the words, "vote for one". Following these names, likewise arranged in the order of filing, shall appear the names of the candidates for counc…
The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for mayor shall be the candidates, and the only candidates whose names shall be placed upon the ballot for mayor at the next succeeding general municipal election, and in cities having a population of eight thousand and less than thirty thousand the eight candida…
Regular meetings of the council shall be held on the first Monday after the election of councilmen, and thereafter at least once each month. The council shall provide by ordinance for the times of holding regular meetings, and special meetings may be called from time to time by the mayor or two councilmen. All meetings…
If at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected in such city under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 the appropriations for the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, said council shall have power by ordinance to revise, to repeal or change said…
The council shall each month in cities having a population of ten thousand and less than thirty thousand, and every three months in cities having a population of three thousand and less than ten thousand, print in pamphlet form a detailed itemized statement of all receipts and expenses of the city and a summary of its…
Every ordinance or resolution appropriating money or ordering any street improvement or sewer, or making or authorizing the making of any contract or granting any franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges or public places in the city for any purpose shall be complete in the form in which it is…
Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the council by petition signed by voters of the city equal in number to the percentage hereafter required. The signatures, verification, authentication, inspection, certification, amendment and submission of such petition shall be the same as provided for petitions under secti…
1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance) 2. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the city;…
No ordinance passed by the council, except when otherwise required by the general laws of the state, or by the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420, except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency and is passed by a two-thirds vote o…
Any city which shall have operated for more than six years under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 may abandon such organization hereunder, and accept the provisions of the general law of the state then applicable to the cities of its population, or if now organized under special charter, may resume said spec…
Petitions provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420 shall be signed by none but voters of the city. Each petition shall contain, in addition to the names of the petitioners, the street and house number in which the petitioner resides, his age and length of residence in the city. It shall be accompanied by an affidavit…
The council shall have power from time to time to create, fill and discontinue offices and employments other than herein prescribed according to their judgment of the needs of the city; and may by majority vote of all the members remove any such officer or employee, except as otherwise provided for in sections 78.010 t…
The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time by the voters qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows: a petition signed by voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be remove…
Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters' register ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of voters, and if necessary, the council shall allow him extra help for the purpose; and he shall attach to said petition his certific…
1. Nominations hereunder shall be made without the intervention of a primary election by filing with the clerk a statement of candidacy accompanied by a petition signed by voters of the city, equal in number to at least ten percent of the entire vote for all candidates for the office of mayor at the last preceding muni…