SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 797
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR WESTFALL.
Pre-filed December 4, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2895S.02I
AN ACT
To repeal section 91.210, RSMo, relating to municipally owned utilities, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 91.210, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 91.210, to read as follows:
91.210. 1. All the provisions of sections 91.010 to 91.300, 91.450 to 91.540, 91.600 and 91.610, which concern the purchase of waterworks, shall apply, so far as the same are applicable, to the erection or purchase of electric light plants, gas plants, ice plants or other lighting plants.
2. Any city, town or village in a county of the third classification not having a township form of government with a population of no less than twenty-six thousand nine hundred and no greater than twenty-seven thousand inhabitants; or any city, town or village in a county of the third classification not having a township form of government with a population of no less than fifteen thousand six hundred and no greater than fifteen thousand seven hundred inhabitants; or any city, town or village in a county of the first classification not having a charter form of government with a population no less than two hundred forty thousand three hundred inhabitants and no greater than two hundred forty thousand four hundred inhabitants, the provisions of sections 91.010 to 91.300, 91.450 to 91.540, 91.600 and 91.610 which concern the purchase, acquisition, condemnation or operation of waterworks, shall apply, so far as the same are applicable, to the erection, acquisition, condemnation, operation or purchase of electric light plants, gas plants, ice plants or other lighting plants.
3. For purposes of this section, "gas plant" includes all real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, operated, controlled, used or to be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the manufacture, distribution, sale or furnishing of gas, natural or manufactured, for light, heat or power.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to give any city any condemnation authority otherwise prohibited by section 71.525, RSMo.