FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 466
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CASKEY.
Read 1st time February 18, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time February 22, 1999, and referred to the Committee on Elections, Veterans' Affairs and Corrections.
Reported from the Committee March 8, 1999, with recommendation that the bill do pass with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 adopted March 22, 1999.
Taken up March 22, 1999. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2042.01P
AN ACT
To repeal sections 65.110 and 205.180, RSMo 1994, relating to elections of hospital trustees, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 65.110 and 205.180, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 65.110 and 205.180, to read as follows:
65.110. 1. There shall be chosen at the biennial election in each township one trustee, who shall be ex officio treasurer of the township, one township collector, one township clerk, and two members of the township board.
2. If the number of candidates for any township office is no greater than the number of such officers to be elected, no election shall be held for that township office, and the candidate or candidates shall assume the responsibilities of such office at the same time and in the same manner as if such candidate or candidates had been elected. For the purposes of this subsection, township offices are: trustee, ex officio treasurer, collector, clerk and township board.
[2.] 3. Upon the assumption of office of a county assessor elected as provided by section 53.010, RSMo, the township clerk shall cease to perform the duties of ex officio township assessor and shall promptly deliver to the county assessor all books, papers, records, and property pertaining to the office of ex officio township assessor.
205.180. 1. Each candidate for the office of hospital trustee shall file with the county clerk an announcement of candidacy in writing. The announcement shall indicate whether the individual is a candidate for a full or an unexpired term of a named predecessor. No filing fee shall be required to be paid upon the filing of any announcement. If the number of candidates is no greater than the number of trustees to be elected, no election shall be held, and the candidates shall assume the responsibilities of their offices at the same time and in the same manner as if they had been elected. If announcements of a sufficient number of trustees are not filed, the county commission shall appoint such trustee or trustees as may be necessary to fill all vacancies on the board which result from the expiration of the term of any trustee or trustees, and any appointee shall serve until the next general election when a trustee shall be elected to fill the remainder of the unexpired term.
2. The ballots shall not contain any designation of the political party affiliation of any candidate for trustees to be elected and shall state whether any of the trustees is to be elected for an unexpired term:
FOR HOSPITAL TRUSTEE
(Vote for ............................)
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FOR HOSPITAL TRUSTEE
For unexpired term ending ................
(Vote for ........................)
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3. The candidates whose names have been placed on the ballot by the county commission pursuant to sections 205.170 and 205.180 and who receive the highest number of votes for the offices of trustee to be filled shall be declared elected by the county commission which shall issue commissions to the elected trustees.