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2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XI EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES
Chapter 162 School Districts
Section 162.491 Directors may be nominated by petition, when--contents of petition, certain districts.

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MO Rev Stat § 162.491 (2012)
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Directors may be nominated by petition, when--contents of petition, certain districts.

162.491. 1. Directors for urban school districts, other than those districts containing the greater part of a city of over one hundred thirty thousand inhabitants, may be nominated by petition to be filed with the secretary of the board and signed by a number of voters in the district equal to ten percent of the total number of votes cast for the director receiving the highest number of votes cast at the next preceding biennial election.

2. This section shall not be construed as providing the sole method of nominating candidates for the office of school director in urban districts which do not contain the greater part of a city of over three hundred thousand inhabitants.

3. A director for any urban school district containing a city of greater than one hundred thirty thousand inhabitants and less than three hundred thousand inhabitants may be nominated as an independent candidate by filing with the secretary of the board a petition signed by five hundred registered voters of such school district.

(L. 1963 p. 200 3-49, A.L. 1965 p. 283, A.L. 1967 p. 232, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 H.B. 463)

(Source: RSMo 1959 165.470)

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