SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 809
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KLARICH.
Read 1st time January 22, 1998, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 27, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Local government and Economic Development.
Reported from the Committee February 9, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 2, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S3512.01P
AN ACT
To amend chapter 71, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to certain real property.
Section A. Chapter 71, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 71.261, to read as follows:
71.261. Any owner of residential real property as defined in section 137.016 of thirty acres or less that is located within two or more municipalities in a county of the first classification having a charter form of government and having a minimum population of nine hundred thousand may elect which municipality to belong to by agreement of that municipality, and by giving notice in writing to the assessor of the other municipalities before October first of the year such election shall take effect. Such choice of municipalities shall be permanent. This section shall only apply to boundary changes effected after January 1, 1990, and occurring by any annexation, consolidation, incorporation, disincorporation, transfer of jurisdiction between municipalities or between a municipality and the county, or combination thereof, which would result in a municipality composed of contiguous territory.