FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 268
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS GIBBONS AND COLEMAN.
Read 1st time January 31, 2005, and ordered printed.
Read 2nd time February 3, 2005, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Reported from the Committee March 1, 2005, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 8, 2005. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0110S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 184.357, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to museums and memorials.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 184.357, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 184.357, to read as follows:
184.357. 1. The board of directors of any metropolitan zoological park and museum district as established pursuant to the provisions of sections 184.350 to 184.384, on behalf of the district, may request the election officials of any city and county of such district to submit a proposition or propositions to increase the tax rate for the zoological park subdistrict and the art museum subdistrict set in section 184.350 and to increase the rate for the botanical garden subdistrict set in section 184.353 to the qualified voters of such district at any general, primary or special election. Such election officials, upon receipt of such request in the form of a verified resolution or resolutions approved by the majority of the members of such district board of directors, shall set the date of such election and give notice of such election as provided by sections 115.063 and 115.065, RSMo.
2. Such proposition or propositions shall be jointly or severally submitted to the voters in substantially the following form at such election:
(1) Shall the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District of the City of .......... and County of ............ be authorized to increase the tax rate for the zoological park subdistrict up to the maximum tax rate of eight cents, or any percent thereof, on each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property within the district for the purpose of operating, maintaining and otherwise financially supporting the subdistrict? The tax rate shall be set annually by the board based on the budget submitted by the zoological park subdistrict and approved by the board. This tax rate shall replace the present tax rate of ...... cents for the zoological park subdistrict.
□ YES □ NO
(2) Shall the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District of the City of .......... and County of .......... be authorized to increase the tax rate for the art museum subdistrict up to the maximum tax rate of eight cents, or any percent thereof, on each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property within the district for the purpose of operating, maintaining and otherwise financially supporting the subdistrict and approved by the board? The tax rate shall be set annually by the board based on the budget submitted by the art museum subdistrict and approved by the board. This tax rate shall replace the present tax rate of ...... cents for the art museum subdistrict.
□ YES □ NO
(3) Shall the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District of the City of .......... and County of .......... be authorized to increase the tax rate for the botanical garden subdistrict up to the maximum tax rate of six cents, or any percent thereof, on each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property within the district for the purpose of operating, maintaining and otherwise financially supporting the subdistrict and approved by the board? The tax rate shall be set annually by the board based on the budget submitted by the botanical garden subdistrict and approved by the board. This tax rate shall replace the present tax rate of ...... cents for the botanical garden subdistrict.
□ YES □ NO
(4) Shall the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District of the City of ......... and the County of ........... be authorized to increase the tax rate for the Missouri history museum subdistrict up to the maximum tax rate of six cents, or any percent thereof, on each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property within the district for the purpose of operating, maintaining and otherwise financially supporting the subdistrict and approved by the board? The tax rate shall be set annually by the board based on the budget submitted by the Missouri history museum subdistrict and approved by the board. This tax rate shall replace the present tax rate of .......... cents for the Missouri history museum subdistrict.
□ YES □ NO
In the event that a majority of the voters voting on such proposition or propositions in such city and the majority of the voters voting on such proposition or propositions in such county cast votes "YES" on the proposition or propositions, then the tax rate for such subdistrict shall be deemed in full force and effect as of the first day of the second month following the election. The results of the aforesaid election shall be certified by the election officials of such city and county, respectively, to the respective chief executive officers of such city and county not less than thirty days after the day on which such election was held. The cost of the election shall be paid as provided by sections 115.063 and 115.065, RSMo. In the event the proposition or propositions shall fail to receive a majority of the votes "YES" in either the city or the county, then the proposition or propositions shall not be resubmitted at any election held within one year of the date of the election the proposition or propositions were rejected.