Effective - 28 Aug 2010, 2 histories
320.097. Residency requirements prohibited, when. — 1. As used in this section, "fire department" means any agency or organization that provides fire suppression and related activities, including but not limited to fire prevention, rescue, emergency medical services, hazardous material response, dispatching, or special operations to a population within a fixed and legally recorded geographical area.
2. No employee of a fire department who has worked for seven years for such department shall, as a condition of employment, be required to reside within a fixed and legally recorded geographical area of the fire department if the only public school district available to the employee within such fire department's geographical area is a public school district that is or has been unaccredited or provisionally accredited in the last five years of such employee's employment. Employees who have satisfied the seven-year requirement in this subsection and who choose to reside outside the geographical boundaries of the department shall reside within a one-hour response time. No charter school shall be deemed a public school for purposes of this section.
3. No employee of a fire department who has not resided in such fire department's fixed and legally recorded geographical area, or who has changed such employee's residency because of conditions described in subsection 2 of this section, shall as a condition of employment be required to reside within the fixed and legally recorded geographical area of the fire department if such school district subsequently becomes fully accredited.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22, A.L. 2010 S.B. 739)
(2012) Exemption from residency restriction for certain veteran firefighters is not an infringement on the constitutional charter city's authority, does not violate equal protection, and is not a special law. City of St. Louis v. State, 382 S.W.3d 905 (Mo.banc).
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals
Section 320.010 - Proprietors of public buildings required to erect fire escapes — how constructed.
Section 320.020 - How erected and enclosed.
Section 320.030 - Number to each building.
Section 320.040 - Buildings to be equipped with fire escapes.
Section 320.060 - Duty of officers.
Section 320.070 - Doors to certain buildings to be hung, how.
Section 320.081 - Fire insurance company records to be furnished law enforcement officials, when.
Section 320.088 - Personal protective equipment, standards for purchasing.
Section 320.089 - Labeling requirement for personal protective equipment, violation, penalty.
Section 320.092 - Creates annual reporting requirements for certain tax credits.
Section 320.097 - Residency requirements prohibited, when.
Section 320.106 - Definitions.
Section 320.121 - Powers of cities and certain counties to regulate or prohibit fireworks.
Section 320.122 - Supremacy clause — regulation of fireworks (St. Louis County).
Section 320.136 - Ground salutes, special type, prohibited.
Section 320.141 - Permissible items of consumer fireworks, how sold, when.
Section 320.146 - Display and storage of fireworks, restrictions on.
Section 320.156 - Items and activities not subject to provisions of sections 320.106 to 320.161.
Section 320.161 - Penalty provisions.
Section 320.200 - Definitions.
Section 320.205 - Fire marshal, appointment, qualifications.
Section 320.210 - Employees, how appointed, qualifications.
Section 320.215 - Reimbursement of employees, expenses and equipment, state to furnish.
Section 320.220 - Special deputy, who eligible.
Section 320.225 - Investigator to have same powers as fire marshal, when.
Section 320.235 - Reports and records required — open to public, exceptions.
Section 320.240 - Property may be entered for investigation, when.
Section 320.250 - Powers of political subdivisions not affected.
Section 320.255 - Salaries, expenses and costs, how paid.
Section 320.260 - Office space to be provided.
Section 320.265 - Appeals, how taken.
Section 320.300 - Volunteer fire protection association, definition.
Section 320.307 - Nonpayment of claim, association has cause of action, amount.
Section 320.310 - Boundaries, filing with county — sole providers, when.
Section 320.330 - Citation of law.
Section 320.333 - Definitions.
Section 320.339 - Wrongful termination, cause of action permitted.
Section 320.350 - Title of law — definitions.
Section 320.362 - Violations, penalties.
Section 320.365 - Rulemaking authority — department of revenue may inspect cigarettes for markings.
Section 320.368 - Enforcement procedures — authorization to examine records.
Section 320.371 - Fund created, use of moneys.