To repeal section 172.070, RSMo 1994, relating to curators' attendance at board meetings, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI,

AS FOLLOWS:

Section A. Section 172.070, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 172.070, to read as follows:

172.070. [If any curator shall remove from the district in which he resided at the time of his appointment, or shall fail to attend any annual, semiannual or regularly called meeting of the board, of which meeting he shall have had due notice, his office shall become at once vacant, unless such absence shall be caused by sickness or some accident preventing his arrival at the time and place appointed for the meeting of the board of curators; and] 1. The curators shall establish such bylaws as they shall deem appropriate for their attendance at meetings.

2. If a curator is found by unanimous vote of the other curators to have moved such curator's residence from the district from which such curator was appointed or to have violated a bylaw as authorized by subsection 1 of this section, then the office of such curator shall be vacant.

3. If a vacancy shall occur by death, resignation, or from any other cause, the governor shall, without delay, upon being informed of the fact by the secretary of the board of curators, fill such vacancy by appointment; and the person so appointed shall serve until the next regular meeting of the general assembly, and until [his] such curator's successor is appointed and qualified.