SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1804

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CORCORAN (Sponsor) AND DARROUGH (Co-sponsor).

                  Read 1st time January 23, 2008 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 82.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to home-rule cities.

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

            Section A. Section 82.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 82.020, to read as follows:

            82.020. Any city or town under special charter, as defined in section 81.010, RSMo, and any other city in this state which now has or which may hereafter have a population of more than [ten] five thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding federal decennial census may frame and adopt or amend a charter for its own government by complying with the provisions of sections 19 and 20 of article VI of the constitution of this state, or any amendments thereof.

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