Bill Text: MO HB1703 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds Buchanan County to the list of counties authorized to impose a civil fine for a violation of a county rule, regulation, or ordinance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-21 - Public Hearing Completed (H) [HB1703 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2012-HB1703-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1703

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HIGDON (Sponsor) AND CONWAY (27) (Co-sponsor).

5604L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 49.272, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to fines for violations of county ordinances.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 49.272, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 49.272, to read as follows:

            49.272. 1. The county commission of the following counties may impose civil fines as provided in this section:

            (1) Any county of the first classification [without a charter form of government] and with more than one hundred thirty-five thousand four hundred but less than one hundred thirty-five thousand five hundred inhabitants[, and in] ;

            (2) Any county of the first classification [without a charter form of government] having a population of at least eighty-two thousand inhabitants, but less than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants[,] ;

            (3) Any county of the first classification with more than one hundred four thousand six hundred but fewer than one hundred four thousand seven hundred inhabitants[,] ;

            (4) Any county of the first classification with more than one hundred ninety-eight thousand but fewer than one hundred ninety-nine thousand two hundred inhabitants[, and] ;

            (5) Any county of the first classification with more than two hundred forty thousand three hundred but less than two hundred forty thousand four hundred inhabitants[, which] ;

            (6) Any county of the first classification with more than eighty-three thousand but fewer than ninety-two thousand inhabitants and with a home rule city with more than seventy-six thousand but fewer than ninety-one thousand inhabitants as the county seat.

            2. Any county listed in subsection 1 of this section that has an appointed county counselor and which adopts or has adopted rules, regulations, or ordinances under authority of a statute which prescribes or authorizes a violation of such rules, regulations, or ordinances to be a misdemeanor punishable as provided by law, may by rule, regulation, or ordinance impose a civil fine not to exceed one thousand dollars for each violation. Any fines imposed and collected under such rules, regulations, or ordinances shall be payable to the county general fund to be used to pay for the cost of enforcement of such rules, regulations, or ordinances.

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