SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1626

88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUMPE.

Read 1st time March 18, 1996 and 1000 copies ordered printed.

DOUGLAS W. BURNETT, Chief Clerk

L3611.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 77.140, RSMo 1994, relating to the powers of certain city councils, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

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

Section A. Section 77.140, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 77.140, to read as follows:

77.140. The council may establish, alter and change the channel of watercourses, and wall them and cover them over, and prevent obstructions thereon, and may establish, make and regulate public wells, cisterns and reservoirs of water, and provide for filling the same. The council may purchase grounds and erect and establish market houses and marketplaces, and regulate and govern the same; and also contract with any person or persons, association or corporation for the erection, maintenance and regulation of market houses and marketplaces, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the council may prescribe. The council may also provide for the erection, purchase or renting of a city hall, workhouses, houses of correction, prisons, engine houses and any and all other necessary buildings for the city; and may sell, lease, abolish or otherwise dispose of the same, and may enclose, improve, regulate, purchase or sell all public parks or other public grounds belonging to the city, and may purchase and hold grounds for public parks within the city, or within three miles thereof. The city council may issue and negotiate interest bearing revenue bonds on any of the facilities provided for in this section.