SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 753
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DePASCO.
Pre-filed December 29, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 24, 2000, and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Economic Development.
Reported from the Committee February 28, 2000, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 9, 2000. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3152S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 82.300, RSMo 1994, relating to constitutional charter cities, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 82.300, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 82.300, to read as follows:
82.300. 1. Any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county may enact all needful ordinances for preserving order, securing persons or property from violence, danger and destruction, protecting public and private property and for promoting the general interests and ensuring the good government of the city, and for the protection, regulation and orderly government of parks, public grounds and other public property of the city, both within and beyond the corporate limits of such city; and to prescribe and impose, enforce and collect fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any provisions of such ordinances and to punish the violation of such ordinances by fine or imprisonment, or by both fine and imprisonment; but no fine shall exceed five hundred dollars nor imprisonment exceed twelve months for any such offense, except as provided in [subsection 2] subsections 2 and 3 of this section.
2. Any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county which operates a publicly owned treatment works in accordance with an approved pretreatment program under the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq. and chapter 644, RSMo, may enact all necessary ordinances which require compliance by an industrial user with any pretreatment standard or requirement. Such ordinances may authorize injunctive relief or the imposition of a fine of at least one thousand dollars but not more than five thousand dollars per violation for noncompliance with such pretreatment standards or requirements. For any continuing violation, each day of the violation shall be considered a separate offense.
3. Any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county may enact all needful ordinances to protect public and private property from illegal and unauthorized dumping and littering and to punish the violation of such ordinances by fine or imprisonment, or by both fine and imprisonment; but no such fine shall exceed one thousand dollars nor imprisonment exceed twelve months for any such offense.