SECOND REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHNEIDER.
Read 1st time April 1, 2008 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 546.902, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to political subdivisions, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 546.902, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 546.902, to read as follows:
546.902. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, any municipality located within any county of the first classification with a population in excess of nine hundred thousand or any municipality located within any county with a charter form of government and with more than two hundred fifty thousand but fewer than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, for any purpose or purposes mentioned in this chapter, may enact and make all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations; and they may enact and make all such ordinances and rules, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as may be expedient for maintaining the peace and good government and welfare of the city and its trade and commerce; and all ordinances, except for those governing traffic violations on any state or federal highway in any county with a charter form of government and with more than two hundred fifty thousand but fewer than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants that may be enforced as otherwise provided by law, may be enforced by prescribing and inflicting upon its inhabitants, or other persons violating the same, such fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and such imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment, as may be just for any offense, recoverable with costs of suit, together with judgment of imprisonment, until the fine and costs are paid or satisfied; and any person committed for the nonpayment of fine and costs, or either, may be compelled to work out the same as herein provided; but, in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by any statute, the council shall affix the same penalty by ordinance for the punishment of such offense, except that imprisonments, when made under city ordinances, may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail.
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