SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 6

89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY SENATORS HOUSE AND EHLMANN.

Read 1st time September 8, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S1963.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 67.1150, RSMo 1994, relating to county convention and sports facilities authority, 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Section A. Section 67.1150, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.1150, to read as follows:

67.1150. 1. There is hereby authorized to be created in any county [of the first class] with a population of at least two hundred thousand inhabitants which adjoins a [first class] county with a [charter form of government having a] population of nine hundred thousand or more inhabitants, a special authority to be known as the ".................................... County Convention and Sports Facilities Authority", hereinafter referred to in sections 67.1150 to 67.1158 as the "authority". The authority may be created by order of the county governing body, and certified copies of such order shall be filed in the offices of the governor and secretary of state. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic, and a political subdivision of the state of Missouri.

2. The provisions of sections 67.1150 to 67.1158 shall apply to any authority organized under the provisions of sections 67.1150 to 67.1158.

[3. If the authority is created by a first class county and that county later changes its form of government to a charter form of government or any other classification of county, the authority shall remain in full force and effect despite the change in the form of government.]