SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1617

88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE STOLL.

Read 1st time March 7, 1996 and 1000 copies ordered printed.

DOUGLAS W. BURNETT, Chief Clerk

L3581.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 160.011, RSMo 1994, relating to school definitions, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 160.011, RSMo 1994, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 160.011 and 162.212, to read as follows:

160.011. As used in chapters 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 170, 171, 177 and 178, RSMo, the following terms mean:

(1) "District" or "school district", when used alone, may include [sixdirector] seven-director, urban, and metropolitan school districts;

(2) "Elementary school", a public school giving instruction in [two or more grades] not higher than the eighth grade;

(3) "High school", a public school giving instruction in [two or more grades] not lower than the ninth nor higher than the twelfth grade;

(4) ["Householder", the head of a family who occupies a place of residence together with his family or his spouse;

(5)] "Metropolitan school district", any school district the boundaries of which are coterminous with the limits of any city which is not within a county;

[(6)] (5) "Public school" includes all elementary and high schools operated at public expense;

[(7)] (6) "School board", the board of education having general control of the property and affairs of any [sixdirector, urban or metropolitan] school district;

[(8)] (7) "School term", a minimum of one hundred seventyfour school days, as that term is defined in section 160.041, and one thousand fortyfour hours of actual pupil attendance as scheduled by the board pursuant to section 171.031, RSMo, during a twelvemonth period in which the academic instruction of pupils is actually and regularly carried on for a group of students in the public schools of any school district. A "school term" may be within a school year or may consist of parts of two consecutive school years, but does not include summer school. A district may choose to operate two or more terms for different groups of children;

[(9)] (8) "Secretary", the secretary of the board of a school district;

[(10)] (9) "[Sixdirector] Seven-director district", any school district which has [six] seven directors and includes urban districts regardless of the number of directors an urban district may have unless otherwise provided by law;

[(11)] (10) "Taxpayer", any individual who has paid taxes to the state or any subdivision thereof within the immediately preceding twelve months' period or the spouse of such individual;

[(12)] (11) "Town", any town or village, whether or not incorporated, the plat of which has been filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which it is situated;

[(13)] (12) "Urban school district", any district which includes all or more than half of the population or land area of any city which has not less than seventy thousand inhabitants, other than a city which is not within a county.

162.212. The six-director school district shall hereafter be known as the "Seven-Director School District".