Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 578

Miscellaneous Offenses

←578.100

Section 578.105.1

578.106→

August 28, 2015

Additional counties may be exempted from provisions of section 578.100, procedure.

578.105. If any county of the first class having a charter form of

government containing the major portion of a city of over four hundred fifty

thousand inhabitants exempts itself from the application of section 578.100 by

a vote of the voters of the county pursuant to provisions of law permitting

such vote, then a county in the following classification may also exempt

itself from the application of section 578.100: Any county of the second

class as of 1977 that is adjacent to any county containing a portion of a city

with a population of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants in the 1970

census. The county may exempt itself from the provisions of section 578.100

by submission of the proposition to the voters of the county at a general

election or a primary election, and the proposition receiving a majority of

the votes cast therein. The proposal to exempt the county from the provisions

of section 578.100 shall be submitted to the voters of the county upon a

majority vote of the governing body of the county or when a petition

requesting the submission of the proposal to the voters and signed by a number

of qualified voters residing in the county equal to eight percent of the votes

cast in the county in the next preceding gubernatorial election is filed with

the governing body of the county. The ballot of submission shall contain, but

not be limited to, the following language:





To exempt ....... County from the Sunday sales law.



[ ] YES [ ] NO





If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting

thereon in the county are in favor of the proposal, then the provisions of

section 578.100 shall no longer apply within that county. If a majority of

the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting thereon in the

county are opposed to the proposal, then the provisions of section 578.100

shall continue to apply and be enforced within that county. The exemption of

any county from the provisions of section 578.100 shall not become effective

in that county until the results of the vote exempting the county have been

filed with the secretary of state and with the revisor of statutes and have

been certified as received by those officers. The revisor of statutes shall

note which counties are exempt from the provisions of section 578.100 in the

Missouri revised statutes.



(L. 1978 H.B. 1043 § 1)



Revisor's note: On November 9, 1978, the results of the election

held in Buchanan County on November 7, 1978, were filed with the

Revisor's office showing that the electors of Buchanan

County had voted to exempt that county from the provisions

of this section.



On April 6, 1979, the results of the election held in Cass County

on November 7, 1978, were filed with the Revisor's office

showing that the electors of Cass County had voted to exempt

that county from the provisions of this section.







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