2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 70 Powers of Political Subdivisions to Cooperate or Contract with Governmental Units
Section 70.210 Definitions.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 70.210 (2017)

Effective 28 Aug 2016

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 70

70.210. Definitions. — As used in sections 70.210 to 70.320, the following terms mean:

(1) “Governing body”, the board, body or persons in which the powers of a municipality or political subdivision are vested;

(2) “Municipality”, municipal corporations, political corporations, and other public corporations and agencies authorized to exercise governmental functions;

(3) “Political subdivision”, counties, townships, cities, towns, villages, school, county library, city library, city-county library, road, drainage, sewer, levee and fire districts, soil and water conservation districts, watershed subdistricts, county hospitals, any board of control of an art museum, the board created under sections 205.968 to 205.973, and any other public subdivision or public corporation having the power to tax.

(L. 1945 p. 1289 § 7403a, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 401, A.L. 1955 p. 302, A.L. 1961 p. 187, A.L. 1963 p. 123, A.L. 1967 p. 141, A.L. 1989 H.B. 487 merged with S.B. 98, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)

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