Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 81

Special Charter Cities and Towns

←81.270

Section 81.280.1

81.010→

August 28, 2015

Elective officers--terms--appointment--offices combined--section to be effective after vote (cities of 7,500 to 100,000 in certain counties).

81.280. 1. At municipal elections in all cities and towns under special

legislative charters, located in a county containing a city, or a part of a

city, of over four hundred thousand population, which have attained a

population of seven thousand five hundred inhabitants, and not more than one

hundred thousand there shall be elected one alderman from each ward for a

four-year term; at municipal elections there shall be elected a mayor for a

four-year term; and there shall be elected an attorney, a treasurer, who

shall be, by virtue of his office, collector of revenue of the city, an

auditor, a municipal judge, and a clerk, each of whom shall hold his

respective office for a term of two years, and their successors shall be

elected accordingly, except that any such city may provide by ordinance that

the attorney, treasurer, municipal judge, and clerk be appointed by the mayor,

subject to the approval of the city council, and the ordinance may further

provide that all or any of such officers when so appointed and any of the

appointive officers of any such city, except the members of any board created

by statute, shall hold office for an indefinite term and at the pleasure of

the mayor and city council. In addition to the above officers the city

council shall provide by ordinance for the appointment of an assessor and a

chief of police, whose duties shall be prescribed by ordinance.



2. The city council may by ordinance combine the offices of clerk and

treasurer. When so combined, this office may be filled by election at

municipal elections or may be made appointive by ordinance under the same

provisions applying to the offices separately.



3. The provisions of this section shall apply only after a majority of

the voters voting thereon at a municipal election approve the effectiveness

of this section for such city or town. The question shall be placed upon the

ballot by a petition signed by a number of voters of the city or town equal

to five percent of the total number of votes cast for mayor at the last

election, or by a resolution of the board of aldermen of the city or town.



(L. 1965 p. 194 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971 merged with H.B. 1634)



Effective 8-13-78 (H.B. 971)



1-2-79 (H.B. 1634)







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