Bill Text: MO HB672 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows the board of aldermen in a fourth class city to provide by ordinance that the city marshal be appointed instead of elected
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-12 - Referred: Elections (H) [HB672 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2011-HB672-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DUGGER (Sponsor), RUZICKA, KOENIG, GATSCHENBERGER, DIECKHAUS, HUMMEL, ENTLICHER AND DENISON (Co-sponsors).
1729L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 79.050 and 79.055, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to marshals in fourth class cities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 79.050 and 79.055, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 79.050 and 79.055, to read as follows:
79.050. 1. The following officers shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city, and shall hold office for the term of two years, except as otherwise provided in this section, and until their successors are elected and qualified, to wit: mayor and board of aldermen. The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance, after the approval of a majority of the voters voting at an election at which the issue is submitted, for the appointment of a collector and for the appointment of a chief of police, who shall perform all duties required of the marshal by law, and any other police officers found by the board of aldermen to be necessary for the good government of the city. The marshal or chief of police shall be twenty-one years of age or older. If the board of aldermen does not provide for the appointment of a chief of police and collector as provided by this section, a city marshal, who shall be twenty-one years of age or older, and collector shall be elected[, and] . The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance that the city marshal shall be appointed instead of elected, and that the same person may be elected or appointed marshal and collector, [at the same election,] and hold both offices at the same time, and the board of aldermen may provide by ordinance for the election of city assessor, city attorney, city clerk and street commissioner, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of two years and until their successors shall be elected or appointed and qualified, except that the term of the city marshal shall be four years.
2. The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance, after the approval of a majority of the voters voting thereon at the next municipal election at which the issue is submitted, that the term of the collector shall be four years and the term of the mayor shall be two, three, or four years. Any person elected as collector after the passage of such an ordinance shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Any person elected as mayor after the passage of such ordinance shall serve for a term of two, three, or four years, as provided, and until his successor is elected and qualified.
3. The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance that the term of the board of aldermen shall be four years. Such ordinance shall be submitted by the board to the voters of the city and shall take effect only upon the approval of a majority of the voters voting at an election at which the issue is submitted. Any person elected to the board of aldermen after the passage of such an ordinance shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified.
79.055. 1. Any person who is appointed, or elected in a general election or in a special election, to his first term as city marshal [in a general election or in a special election] in any fourth class city of this state shall, within six months of such appointment or election, cause to be filed with the city clerk of the city and director of the department of public safety proof that he has completed the training program formulated pursuant to sections 590.170 and 590.175, or some other comparable training program of not less than one hundred twenty hours' instruction approved by the director of the department of public safety. If the newly appointed or elected city marshal is unable to complete the training program within six months due to the proper course not being available from the department of public safety, an extension may be granted until such a course is made available.
2. Whether any person appointed or elected to his first term as city marshal attends such a training program prior to or after assuming the duties of his office shall be left to the discretion of the governing body of the city from which he was appointed or elected. During the time that a [marshal-elect] person is enrolled in such a training program, he shall be hired as a city employee and receive as full compensation from the city from which he was elected, compensation at a rate equal to that of city marshal.
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