Effective - 28 Aug 1939
80.020. Towns and villages — how incorporated. — Whenever two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of any town or village within this state shall present a petition to the county commission of the county, setting forth the metes and bounds of their village and commons, and praying that they may be incorporated under a police established for their local government, and for the preservation and regulation of any commons appertaining to such town and village, and the county commission shall be satisfied that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of such town or village have signed such petition, and that the prayer of such petition is reasonable, the county commission may declare such town or village incorporated, designating in such order the metes and bounds thereof, and thenceforth the inhabitants within such bounds shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The town of ______" naming it and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law; have perpetual succession, unless disincorporated; sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; defend and be defended in all courts and in all actions, pleas and matters whatsoever; may grant, purchase, hold and receive property, real and personal, within such town and no other, burial grounds and cemeteries excepted; and may lease, sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the town, and may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7242)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7091; 1919 § 8541; 1909 § 9430
(1971) Where vast majority of six square mile area included within proposed incorporation was being used for agricultural purposes and was not within the boundaries of the existing village, nor an integral part thereof and had no logical relationship to the existence and function of the village as a municipality, the judgment affirming the order incorporating the village was reversed. In re Incorporation of Village of Lone Jack (A.), 471 S.W.2d 513.
(1976) Held, that while incorporation was improper, the state was barred by laches (22 years in this case) from challenging validity of incorporation. State ex rel. King v. Village of Praethersville (A.), 542 S.W.2d 578.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages
Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages
Section 80.010 - Town construed.
Section 80.020 - Towns and villages — how incorporated.
Section 80.040 - Board of trustees — corporate powers vested in — terms of office.
Section 80.050 - Trustees — qualifications.
Section 80.060 - Trustees — oath — organization — meetings.
Section 80.070 - Trustees — quorum.
Section 80.080 - Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings.
Section 80.090 - Trustees — power to pass certain ordinances.
Section 80.100 - Trustees — style of ordinances.
Section 80.110 - Trustees — passage of ordinances.
Section 80.120 - Trustees — publication of ordinances — chairman.
Section 80.130 - Trustees — sprinkling and oiling of streets.
Section 80.140 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — estimate of cost — notice of hearing.
Section 80.150 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — special ordinance.
Section 80.160 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — tax bill — limitation on cost.
Section 80.170 - Trustees — restraint of domestic animals.
Section 80.180 - Trustees — powers as to sidewalks.
Section 80.190 - Trustees — repair of sidewalks, procedure.
Section 80.200 - Repair of sidewalks — publication of notice.
Section 80.210 - Trustees — semiannual reports.
Section 80.220 - Semiannual report, failure to make — penalty.
Section 80.230 - Trustees — vacancy, how filled.
Section 80.240 - Trustees — power of appointment.
Section 80.250 - Appointed officers — bond.
Section 80.400 - Marshal — powers.
Section 80.410 - Marshal — police powers.
Section 80.420 - Marshal and policemen — removal.
Section 80.430 - Taxes a lien on property.
Section 80.440 - Redemption of property.
Section 80.450 - Compensation of county clerk.
Section 80.470 - Additional levies — maximum rates.
Section 80.480 - Assessment and collection of revenues.
Section 80.490 - Trustees — taxing powers.
Section 80.560 - Failure to elect officers — procedure.
Section 80.570 - Disincorporation procedure.
Section 80.575 - Election not required, when.
Section 80.580 - Disincorporation through failure of trustees to qualify.
Section 80.600 - No rights affected by disincorporation.
Section 80.610 - Trustee in disincorporation — appointment.
Section 80.620 - Trustee in disincorporation — bond.
Section 80.630 - Trustee in disincorporation — powers.
Section 80.640 - Trustee in disincorporation — report.
Section 80.650 - Trustee in disincorporation — duties on conclusion of trust.
Section 80.660 - Trustee in disincorporation — compensation.
Section 80.670 - Disincorporated town or village — disposition of revenue.