SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 760
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KLARICH.
Pre-filed December 30, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3401S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 55.010, RSMo 1994, relating to certain county auditors, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 55.010, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 55.010, to read as follows:
55.010. 1. In all counties of the first [class] classification having a charter form of government there shall be a county auditor who is the budget officer and accounting officer of the county and who shall perform all the duties imposed by the county budget law upon the budget officer and accounting officer. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, the county commission shall appoint and fix the compensation of some competent person as county auditor, who shall serve for a term of four years from and after the first day of January, 1947, and until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified. In case of a vacancy in the office of county auditor caused by death, resignation or otherwise, the county commission shall appoint some qualified person for the unexpired term of the county auditor. The county commission shall employ and fix the compensation of clerical and other assistants to the county auditor necessary to enable him to efficiently perform his or her duties.
2. In counties of the first classification having a charter form of government with a population over nine hundred thousand inhabitants the county auditor shall be elected at the general election in the year 2002 and shall hold office for a term of four years, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. Sections 55.040
to 55.305, except section 55.091, where such sections refer to counties of the first classification without a charter form of government, shall apply to counties of the first classification with a charter form of government with a population over nine hundred thousand inhabitants.