Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 100 - Industrial Development
Section 100.255 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories
100.255. Definitions. — As used in sections 100.250 to 100.297, the following terms mean:
(1) "Board", the Missouri development finance board created by section 100.265;
(2) "Borrower", any person, partnership, public or private corporation, association, development agency or any other entity eligible for funding under sections 100.250 to 100.297;
(3) "Development agency", any of the following:
(a) A port authority established pursuant to chapter 68;
(b) The bi-state development agencies established pursuant to sections 70.370 to 70.440*, and sections 238.010 to 238.100;
(c) A land clearance for redevelopment authority established pursuant to sections 99.300 to 99.660;
(d) A county, city, incorporated town or village or other political subdivision or public body of this state;
(e) A planned industrial expansion authority established pursuant to sections 100.300 to 100.620;
(f) An industrial development corporation established pursuant to sections 349.010 to 349.105;
(g) A real property tax increment financing commission established pursuant to sections 99.800 to 99.865;
(h) Any other governmental, quasi-governmental or quasi-public corporation or entity created by state law or by resolution adopted by the governing body of a development agency otherwise described in paragraphs (a) through (g) of this subdivision;
(4) "Development and reserve fund", the industrial development and reserve fund established pursuant to section 100.260;
(5) "Export finance fund", the Missouri export finance fund established pursuant to section 100.260;
(6) "Export trade activities" includes, but is not limited to, consulting, international market research, advertising, marketing, insurance, product research and design, legal assistance, transportation, including trade documentation and freight forwarding, communication, and processing of foreign orders to and for exporters and foreign purchases and warehousing, when undertaken to export or facilitate the export of goods or services produced or assembled in this state;
(7) "Guarantee fund", the industrial development guarantee fund established by section 100.260;
(8) "Infrastructure development fund", the infrastructure development fund established under section 100.263;
(9) "Infrastructure facilities", the highways, streets, bridges, water supply and distribution systems, mass transportation facilities and equipment, telecommunication facilities, jails and prisons, sewers and sewage treatment facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, airports, railroads, reservoirs, dams and waterways in this state, acquisition of blighted real estate and the improvements thereon, demolition of existing structures and preparation of sites in anticipation of development, public facilities, and any other improvements provided by any form of government or development agency;
(10) "Jobs now fund", the jobs now fund established under section 100.260;
(11) "Jobs now projects", the purchase, construction, extension, and improvement of real estate, plants, buildings, structures, or facilities, whether or not now in existence, used or to be used primarily as infrastructure facilities or public facilities. When any entity provides a certified design or operation plan which is demonstrably less than the usual and customary average industry determination of cost for installation, construction, purchasing, extension, and improvement of real estate, manufacturing facilities, buildings, structures or facilities, including public facilities, then the entity or company providing such service may receive payment in an amount equal to the usual and customary fee for such project plus additional compensation equal to two times the percentage by which the cost of such aforementioned criteria of such facility is less than the usual and customary average industrial determination of cost for installation, construction, materials, extension and improvement of real estate, manufacturing facilities, buildings, structures, or facilities, including public facilities. Such entity shall also pay to such company providing such aforementioned service compensation equal to twenty-five percent of the amount of any annual operational costs which are lower than the customary average industry determination of cost for operation for such facility, procedure, or service for a period of time equal to one-fourth the design lifetime of such entity or five years whichever is less;
(12) "Participating lender", a lender authorized by the board to participate with the board in the making of a loan or to make loans the repayment of which is secured by the development and reserve fund;
(13) "Project", the purchase, construction, extension, and improvement of real estate, plants, buildings, structures or facilities, whether or not now in existence, used or to be used primarily as a factory, assembly plant, manufacturing plant, fabricating plant, distribution center, warehouse building, office building, port terminal or facility, transportation and transfer facility, industrial plant, processing plant, commercial or agricultural facility, nursing or retirement facility or combination thereof, recreational facility, cultural facility, public facilities, job training or other vocational training facility, infrastructure facility, video-audio telecommunication conferencing facility, office building, facility for the prevention, reduction, disposal or control of pollution, sewage or solid waste, facility for conducting export trade activities, or research and development building in connection with any of the facilities defined as a project in this subdivision. The term "project" shall also include any improvements, including, but not limited to, road or rail construction, alteration or relocation, and construction of facilities to provide utility service for any of the facilities defined as a project under this subdivision, along with any fixtures, equipment, and machinery, and any demolition and relocation expenses used in connection with any such projects and any capital used to promote and facilitate such facilities and notes payable from anticipated revenue issued by any development agency. The term "project" shall also include any transfer, expenditure or working capital of the state, any agency or department of the state or any development agency;
(14) "Public facility", any facility or improvements available for use by the general public including facilities for which user or other fees are charged on a nondiscriminatory basis.
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(L. 1982 S.B. 681 § 2, A.L. 1985 H.B. 416, A.L. 1986 S.B. 664 merged with S.B. 731 merged with H.B. 989 & 1390, A.L. 1989 H.B. 378, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564, A.L. 1992 S.B. 485, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1248 & 1048, A.L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1, A.L. 1998 S.B. 829, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1155, A.L. 2020 S.B. 599)
*Section 70.440 was repealed by H.B. 1248 & 1048 in 1994.

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Missouri Revised Statutes

Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages

Chapter 100 - Industrial Development

Section 100.010 - Definitions.

Section 100.020 - Municipality may carry out industrial development projects.

Section 100.030 - Acceptance of federal grants or gifts.

Section 100.040 - Plans for industrial development to be made.

Section 100.050 - Approval of plan by governing body of municipality — information required — additional information required, when — payments in lieu of taxes, applied how — reimbursement, when.

Section 100.059 - Notice of proposed project for industrial development, when, contents — limitation on indebtedness, inclusions — applicability, limitation.

Section 100.090 - General obligation bonds authorized.

Section 100.100 - Revenue bonds authorized, how paid.

Section 100.105 - Municipality to file annual report on bond issuances with department, content.

Section 100.120 - Time for election — subsequent elections.

Section 100.130 - Municipality to fix terms and form of revenue bonds.

Section 100.140 - Sinking fund for revenue bonds.

Section 100.150 - Revenue bonds payable from revenues only — statement on bond.

Section 100.155 - Revenue bonds, municipalities, refunding issue authorized — form and terms.

Section 100.160 - Municipality to carry out plan on receipt of funds.

Section 100.170 - Construction to be under contract — how let, notice.

Section 100.180 - Municipality's power to enter into loans, sales, leases or mortgages — terms — requirements.

Section 100.190 - Property acquired may be sold.

Section 100.200 - Sales of industrial development property acquired with revenue bonds.

Section 100.250 - Title of act.

Section 100.255 - Definitions.

Section 100.260 - Funds established — administration, investment — no transfer to general revenue, when — increase of certain revenue calculated and allocated to Jobs Now fund.

Section 100.263 - Infrastructure development fund, created, purpose — lapse into general revenue, prohibited.

Section 100.265 - Missouri development finance board created — members, qualifications, appointment, terms — meetings — quorum — expenses.

Section 100.270 - Board's powers and duties — rules, authority to promulgate.

Section 100.273 - Development finance board employees are state employees eligible for state retirement — not eligible for state health insurance plan unless requested by board — no purchase of creditable service, exception.

Section 100.275 - Bonds and notes issued — approved as investment, who may invest — tax exemptions, exceptions — power to contract with development agency.

Section 100.277 - Employment and business opportunities required to be provided, to whom.

Section 100.281 - Project plan, approval procedure — board to review and grant loan, when — borrowing power — sale of bonds.

Section 100.282 - Limitations on approval of loans.

Section 100.286 - Loans secured by certain funds — standards — information required — review and certification by participating lender — board approval — fee, tax credit, limitation.

Section 100.287 - Default procedure — subrogation to rights of lender upon payment from fund, amount.

Section 100.291 - Guarantees issued by board, when — application, fee — information required.

Section 100.292 - Guarantee agreement provisions.

Section 100.293 - Citation — jobs now recommendation committee created, membership, duties — applications — preference given to certain projects — requests granted, determinations required.

Section 100.296 - Application of provisions of other sections — state and local records laws — meetings of governmental bodies — conflict of interest or lobbying — prohibited loans — notifications of certain campaign contributions.

Section 100.297 - Tax credit for owner of revenue bonds or notes, purpose, when, amount, limitation.

Section 100.300 - Short title.

Section 100.310 - Definitions.

Section 100.320 - Planned industrial expansion authority created, powers exercised, when.

Section 100.330 - Commissioners, number reduced, appointment, term, vacancies.

Section 100.331 - Commissioners, number reduced, appointment, terms, qualifications, vacancies — consolidation plan authorized (St. Louis City).

Section 100.340 - Commission, quorum, officers, legal services, how obtained.

Section 100.350 - Commissioner, expenses — certificate of appointment.

Section 100.360 - Commissioner, removal for cause, hearing.

Section 100.370 - Commissioners or employees of authority, voluntary interest in project prohibited — disclosure of involuntary interest required and participation in action of authority forbidden — violation is misconduct, office forfeited.

Section 100.380 - Adoption of resolution or ordinance, effect of — certified copy admissible as evidence.

Section 100.390 - Authority to be a body corporate and politic, powers and duties of authority.

Section 100.400 - Preparation and approval of plans, regulations governing.

Section 100.410 - Property in a project, how disposed of.

Section 100.420 - Authority may exercise power of eminent domain.

Section 100.430 - Bonds, issuance by authority.

Section 100.440 - Bonds, how issued, authorized and sold.

Section 100.445 - Allowable rates of interest.

Section 100.450 - Bonds, no personal liability on, not a debt of issuing subdivision or state — interest on bonds exempt from income tax.

Section 100.460 - Signatures on bonds, validity of — bonds negotiable — conclusive presumption that bond was issued for stated purpose.

Section 100.470 - Payment of bonds secured, how.

Section 100.480 - Powers of obligee granted by authority.

Section 100.490 - Obligee, rights of, exception.

Section 100.500 - Bonds or other obligations legal investments for enumerated purposes, when.

Section 100.510 - Contracts with federal government, provisions for conveyance of project and land to federal government — authorized, reconveyance when.

Section 100.520 - Execution or judicial process, property and funds of authority exempt from, exceptions.

Section 100.530 - Public bodies may assist a project, how.

Section 100.540 - Sales by public body to authority, how made.

Section 100.550 - Cities may levy taxes or sell bonds to finance grants to an authority.

Section 100.560 - Two or more authorities may cooperate in a project.

Section 100.570 - Ad valorem tax benefits available, when.

Section 100.580 - Annual report of authority, contents — satisfactory progress of projects, procedure to determine.

Section 100.590 - Authority may assume projects of constitutional charter cities, when.

Section 100.600 - Any municipality authorized to prepare a master plan for physical development of community.

Section 100.610 - Law to be liberally construed.

Section 100.620 - Powers conferred in this law to be supplemental to existing powers.

Section 100.700 - Title.

Section 100.710 - Definitions.

Section 100.720 - Additional powers of Missouri development finance board — certificates, state credit for.

Section 100.730 - Establishment of procedures to determine eligible industries — authority to request information.

Section 100.740 - Financing agreement, authority to enter into.

Section 100.750 - Financing agreement, contents.

Section 100.760 - Credit agreement, conditions.

Section 100.770 - Factors considered in awarding credit.

Section 100.780 - Board authority to determine projects, assessments, credits and refunds, credit and assessment time limit.

Section 100.790 - Agreement contents.

Section 100.800 - Noncompliance by eligible industry, determination, penalty.

Section 100.810 - Evaluation of program.

Section 100.820 - Program costs, how paid, assessments.

Section 100.830 - Special fund, purposes — certification by employer.

Section 100.840 - Board, powers to borrow money — issue and sell certificates — sale or exchange of refunding certificates — certificates not indebtedness of state.

Section 100.850 - Assessments remittal, job development assessment fee — company records available to board, when — when remitted assessment ceases — tax credit amount, cap, claiming credit — refunds.