72.409. Boundary change, effective when--transition committee established, members, how selected--to disband when delay in declaring new incorporated municipality, when--conflict of laws, this section

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

72.409. Boundary change, effective when--transition committee established, members, how selected--to disband when delay in declaring new incorporated municipality, when--conflict of laws, this section

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72.409. 1. If a proposed boundary change is approved by the voters,such proposal shall be effective six months following the date of theelection or the date specified in such proposal, whichever date is later.Immediately following the certification of the election, the commissionshall establish a committee to determine the details of the transition.The governing body of each affected municipality shall select two membersand the governing body of the county in which each unincorporated territoryis situated shall select two members from the affected unincorporatedterritory to meet with similar members appointed from other affectedmunicipalities and the unincorporated territory. The committee shalldisband no later than the date the boundary change becomes effective. Thegoverning body of the county may delay declaring a newly incorporatedmunicipality for a period not to exceed six months at the request of theboundary commission to provide for an orderly transition fromunincorporated to incorporated status.

2. If a conflict shall exist between the provisions of sections72.400 to 72.423 and the orders, ordinances or charters of any statutory orcharter cities affected by sections 72.400 to 72.423, the provisions ofsections 72.400 to 72.423 shall prevail.

3. If a boundary change involves an annexation, failure of theproposing agent to provide services to the area being annexed or to zone incompliance with the plan of intent required of the proposing agent withinthree years of the boundary change becoming effective, unless compliance ismade unreasonable, shall give rise to a cause of action for deannexationwhich may be filed in the circuit court by any resident who was residing inthe area at the time the boundary change became effective.