Effective - 28 Aug 1986
205.031. Trustees, qualifications — appointment, election, terms — certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown). — 1. The county governing body shall appoint five trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such office, all voters of the county, not more than three of the trustees to be residents of the city, town or village in which the county health center is to be located, who shall constitute a board of trustees for the county health center.
2. The trustees shall hold their offices until the next following municipal election, when five health center trustees shall be elected who shall hold their offices, three for two years and two for four years. The county governing body shall by order of record specify the terms of the trustees.
3. At each subsequent municipal election the offices of the trustees whose terms of office are about to expire shall be filled by the election of health center trustees who each shall serve for a term of four years and notwithstanding any other law of this state to the contrary all elective officers in each city of the fourth class with a population of at least thirty thousand but no more than thirty-three thousand, and which is located within a county of the first class having a charter form of government and containing the greater part of a city with a population of four hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants, beginning with the first election after January 1, 1987, shall be elected every four years.
4. Any vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned by removal, resignation or otherwise shall be reported to the county governing body and be filled in like manner as original appointments, the appointee to hold office until the next following municipal election, when such vacancy shall be filled by election of a trustee to serve during the remainder of the term of his predecessor.
5. No trustee shall have a personal pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase of any supplies for the health center, unless the same are purchased by competitive bidding.
6. The filing and withdrawal of candidates shall be governed by the provisions of chapter 115, except that if the number of candidates is no greater than the number of directors to be elected, no election shall be held, and the candidates shall assume the responsibilities of their offices at the same time and in the same manner as if they had been elected.
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(L. 1951 p. 779 § 205.030, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1120, A.L. 1986 S.B. 553 & 775 merged with H.B. 1471, et al.)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs
Section 205.010 - Petition of voters — maximum tax rate — submission of question.
Section 205.020 - Form of ballot — vote necessary to adopt.
Section 205.041 - Trustees, election, ballot — vacancies, how filled.
Section 205.042 - Trustees — organization — powers and duties — expenses.
Section 205.050 - Purpose of health center.
Section 205.060 - Limitations on use of facilities.
Section 205.070 - Center may accept gifts.
Section 205.080 - Building plans — bids.
Section 205.090 - Report to county commission — estimated budget.
Section 205.100 - Director of public health center — appointment.
Section 205.110 - Qualifications of employees.
Section 205.120 - No discrimination in healing methods.
Section 205.141 - Tax levy noncharter first class counties, exception.
Section 205.150 - Determination of tax levy (first class counties).
Section 205.160 - Establishment and maintenance of hospitals — bonds.
Section 205.161 - County commission may issue revenue bonds — purpose — how payable.
Section 205.162 - Bonds, rate, denomination, maturity — negotiable.
Section 205.165 - Investment of moneys in an investment company, when.
Section 205.170 - Board of trustees — tenure — vacancies.
Section 205.180 - Election of trustees, when required — ballot.
Section 205.195 - Bylaws of board of trustees, contents — applications to practice, contents.
Section 205.210 - Hospital tax levy (first class charter counties).
Section 205.220 - Determination of tax levy (first class counties).
Section 205.230 - Appropriation of general fund, when.
Section 205.240 - Property condemned, when.
Section 205.250 - Specifications — bids — notice.
Section 205.260 - Jurisdiction of towns.
Section 205.270 - Beneficiaries of hospital.
Section 205.280 - Board to prescribe rules.
Section 205.290 - Title to donations.
Section 205.300 - Equal privileges to practitioners — rights of patient.
Section 205.310 - Training school for nurses.
Section 205.320 - Board to provide detention room.
Section 205.330 - Board to determine charity patients.
Section 205.340 - Tuberculous residents, how cared for.
Section 205.350 - County commission may purchase land for county hospitals — issuance of bonds.
Section 205.360 - County poor to be kept in county hospital.
Section 205.370 - County commission to make rules and regulations — expenses, how paid.
Section 205.371 - Revenue bonds authorized, when — not an indebtedness of the issuing authority.
Section 205.374 - County hospital property, sale of, procedure for, receipts, how used.
Section 205.379 - Authority to employ counsel granted — counsel, how paid.
Section 205.460 - Tax for hospital purposes — petition for election.
Section 205.470 - County commission to appoint board of trustees.
Section 205.480 - Vacancies, how filled.
Section 205.490 - Members shall elect officers, adopt bylaws — quorum.
Section 205.500 - Treasurer to give bond.
Section 205.510 - Secretary — salary — duties — compensation of treasurer.
Section 205.520 - Board to control expenditures — employ help.
Section 205.530 - Meeting of board — report.
Section 205.540 - Bequests and donations accepted by trustees.
Section 205.550 - Special taxes for hospital collected as township taxes.
Section 205.560 - Discontinuance of tax, when — disposition of property.
Section 205.565 - Grants for caring communities programs.
Section 205.765 - Health and welfare department authorized — certain counties excepted.
Section 205.767 - Director of health and welfare, appointment, compensation, assistants.
Section 205.780 - Additional powers of board — employees (second class counties).
Section 205.800 - Board, organization (second class counties).
Section 205.810 - Treasurer — bond — duties (second class counties).
Section 205.820 - Board — records — reports (second class counties).
Section 205.830 - Board to furnish relief — investigations — prosecutions (second class counties).
Section 205.840 - Board of police commissioners to aid social welfare board (second class counties).
Section 205.860 - Compensation fixed by county commission (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.880 - May be agent for department of social services (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.910 - Cooperation with state employment bureaus (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.930 - Investigation of poor, sick and delinquent (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.940 - Records of cases kept (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.950 - Report of work and proceedings (third and fourth class counties).
Section 205.961 - Family support division to regulate.
Section 205.963 - Food stamps not to be distributed unless county has program, exceptions.
Section 205.964 - Reimbursement to federal government, how made.
Section 205.968 - Facilities authorized — persons to be served, limitations, definitions.
Section 205.971 - Tax levy, approval, use.
Section 205.972 - Maximum tax — ballot form.
Section 205.973 - Employers of workshop participants not liable for city head tax.
Section 205.975 - Definitions.
Section 205.976 - Department to establish service areas.
Section 205.977 - Tax authorized.
Section 205.979 - Election — notice — ballot form — how conducted.
Section 205.980 - Tax to be levied and collected, when — rate — deposit of funds collected.
Section 205.981 - May contract for services — length of contract.
Section 205.983 - Joint financing, procedure — treasurer to be bonded.
Section 205.985 - Existing facilities may be utilized.
Section 205.986 - Powers and duties of board of trustees.
Section 205.987 - Duties of department as to standards — to be met, when.
Section 205.988 - Additional duties of department.
Section 205.989 - Payment for services — services not to be denied for inability to pay.