SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HAMPTON (Sponsor), REDMON, FITZWATER AND FRAKER (Co-sponsors).
6305H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 77.530 and 79.380, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to condemnation of property for the purposes of wastewater runoff management.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 77.530 and 79.380, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 77.530 and 79.380, to read as follows:
77.530. The council may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws and enforce the same within five miles of the city. The council may purchase or condemn and hold for the city, within or without the city limits, within ten miles therefrom, all necessary lands for hospital purposes, waterworks, sewer carriage and outfall, and erect, establish and regulate hospitals, workhouses, poorhouses, police stations, fire stations and provide for the government and support of the same, and make regulations to secure the general health of the city, and to prevent and remove nuisances; provided, however, that the condemnation of any property outside of the city limits shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property or railroad purposes is regulated by law and the council shall not condemn any property for the purpose of wastewater runoff management without exhausting all other possible remedies; and provided further, that the police jurisdiction of the city shall extend over such lands and property to the same extent as over public cemeteries, as provided in this chapter.
79.380. The board of aldermen may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases in the city, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws and enforce the same within five miles of the city. They may purchase or condemn and hold for the city, within or without the city limits, or within ten miles therefrom, all necessary lands for hospital purposes, waterworks, sewer carriage and outfall, and erect, establish and regulate hospitals, workhouses, poorhouses, airports and provide for the government and support of the same, and make regulations to secure the general health of the city, and to prevent and remove nuisances; except that the condemnation of any property outside of the city limits shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property for railroad purposes is regulated by law and the board of alderman shall not condemn any property for the purpose of wastewater runoff management without exhausting all other possible remedies. The police jurisdiction of the city shall extend over such land and property to the same extent as over other city property, as provided in this chapter.
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