SCS/HCS/HB 1757 - This act allows the governing body of any municipality to initiate the petition process to establish a community improvement district as long as the chief elected officer of the municipality signs the petition. In any county or city except St. Louis, the clerk of the governing body seeking to initiate a tax within a community improvement district shall record the boundaries of the district with the recorder of deeds for the county/counties in which any portion of the district is located. If a majority votes in favor of adopting a community improvement district, the district will be created and a tax may be imposed by the district's board of directors without further approval. If a majority rejects adopting a community improvement district the question may not be resubmitted to the voters for at least one year.
Once created, the state auditor may audit a community improvement district in the same manner as any state agency. The board of a community improvement district shall retain certain records and make them available to the public.
This act is similar to HB 2557 (2016), HB 186 (2015) & SB 397 (2015).
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