Effective - 28 Aug 2013
79.070. Aldermen, qualifications. — No person shall be an alderman unless he or she is at least eighteen years of age, a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant and resident of the city for one year next preceding his or her election, and a resident, at the time he or she files and during the time he or she serves, of the ward from which he or she is elected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7114, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1999 H.B. 476 merged with S.B. 90, A.L. 2013 S.B. 99)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6964; 1919 § 8415; 1909 § 9317
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages
Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification
Section 79.010 - Fourth class cities, incorporation of.
Section 79.020 - City limits may be altered, how.
Section 79.025 - Annexation of territory prohibited, when (City of Byrnes Mill).
Section 79.030 - Election of officers.
Section 79.035 - Primary election may be held, procedure, cost, exception.
Section 79.040 - Election ordered.
Section 79.055 - City marshal, training requirements, fourth class cities.
Section 79.070 - Aldermen, qualifications.
Section 79.080 - Mayor, qualifications.
Section 79.090 - Board to select an acting president, term.
Section 79.100 - Acting president to perform duties of mayor, when.
Section 79.110 - Mayor and board — duties.
Section 79.120 - Mayor may sit in board.
Section 79.130 - Ordinances — procedure to enact — inapplicable, when.
Section 79.130 - Ordinances — procedure to enact.
Section 79.135 - Proposed ordinance by petition, procedure (City of Savannah).
Section 79.140 - Bills must be signed — mayor's veto.
Section 79.150 - Board to keep journal of proceedings.
Section 79.160 - Board shall publish semiannual statements.
Section 79.165 - No money of city to be disbursed until statement is published — penalty.
Section 79.180 - Board may compel attendance of witnesses — mayor to administer oaths.
Section 79.190 - Mayor to sign commissions.
Section 79.200 - Mayor shall have the power to enforce laws.
Section 79.210 - Mayor — communications to board.
Section 79.220 - Mayor may remit fine, grant pardon.
Section 79.230 - Appointive officers.
Section 79.240 - Removal of officers.
Section 79.250 - Officers to be voters and residents — exceptions, appointed officers.
Section 79.260 - Officers' oath — bond.
Section 79.270 - Salaries fixed by ordinance.
Section 79.280 - Vacancies in certain offices, how filled.
Section 79.290 - Powers and duties of officers to be prescribed by ordinance.
Section 79.300 - Treasurer, duties — bond.
Section 79.310 - Collector to make annual report.
Section 79.320 - City clerk, election — duties.
Section 79.330 - Offices of marshal and collector may be consolidated.
Section 79.340 - Officers to report receipts and expenditures.
Section 79.350 - Mayor or board may inspect books and records of officers.
Section 79.360 - Misdemeanor in office, penalty.
Section 79.365 - Compensation of certain board and commission members, how fixed.
Section 79.370 - Board shall regulate sanitary conditions.
Section 79.383 - Abatement of nuisance by civil action, city may be awarded attorney's fees.
Section 79.390 - Powers — water supply, marketplaces, city hall, prison, parks.
Section 79.410 - Powers — regulations governing.
Section 79.430 - Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same.
Section 79.440 - Cemetery lots, how sold.
Section 79.450 - Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed.
Section 79.460 - Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons.
Section 79.470 - Board to set penalties, limitation.
Section 79.480 - Notice of action shall be given — when — contents.
Section 79.490 - Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice.
Section 79.500 - Contracts not affected by disincorporation.
Section 79.510 - County commission shall appoint trustee.
Section 79.520 - Trustee, duties.
Section 79.530 - Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission.
Section 79.540 - Trustee to make final settlement with county commission.
Section 79.552 - Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities).
Section 79.555 - Powers of authority (certain municipalities).
Section 79.600 - Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka)