Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages
Section 80.080 - Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949
80.080. Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings. — The board of trustees shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members; they may determine rules of their own proceedings, punish any member or other person for disorderly behavior in their presence, and, with the concurrence of four of the trustees, expel any member, but not a second time for the same cause; they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and, at the desire of any member, shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered on the journal, on any question, resolution or ordinance; and their proceedings shall be public.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7247, A. 1949 H.B. 2030)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7096; 1919 § 8546; 1909 § 9435
(1962) Duty to maintain journal and to enter ordinances therein held mandatory and ordinances which are not properly entered in such record do not exist. Missouri Public Service Company v. Barton County Electric Cooperative (A.), 353 S.W.2d 818.
(1995) Four trustees may expel any member from a meeting, but not for the remainder of the member's term. State ex rel. Foster v. Morris, 913 S.W.2d 85 (Mo.App.E.D.).

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

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 80.460 - County clerk to furnish abstract from assessment books — tax levy not to exceed maximum rate except by special vote.

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.