SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 732
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GROSS.
Pre-filed December 1, 2003, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2861S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 67.1706, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the duties of the metropolitan park and recreation system.
Section A. Section 67.1706, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.1706, to read as follows:
67.1706. The metropolitan district shall have as its [primary] sole duty the development, operation and maintenance of a public system of interconnecting trails and parks throughout the counties comprising the district. The metropolitan district shall supplement but shall not substitute for the powers and responsibilities of the other parks and recreation systems within the metropolitan district or other conservation and environmental regulatory agencies and shall have the power to contract with other parks and recreation systems as well as with other public and private entities. Nothing in this section shall give the metropolitan district authority to regulate water quality, watershed or land use issues in the counties comprising the district.