80.090. Trustees--power to pass certain ordinances. - Missouri Statutes

Trustees--power to pass certain ordinances.

80.090. Such board of trustees shall have power:

(1) To pass bylaws and ordinances to prevent and removenuisances;

(2) To prevent, restrain and suppress bawdy-houses, gamblinghouses and other disorderly houses within the limits of suchtown, or any addition to said town, or any commons theretoattached;

(3) To restrain and prohibit gambling;

(4) To license, tax and regulate merchants, peddlers andauctioneers, and to regulate and prohibit the sale or giving awayof intoxicating liquors under merchants' licenses in such towns;provided, that druggists and pharmacists may sell uponprescriptions, as is provided by law;

(5) To provide for licensing and regulating and prohibitingdramshops and tippling houses, public shows, circuses, theatricaland other amusements, to the distance of one-half mile from thecorporate limits of such town;

(6) To prohibit the firing of firearms;

(7) To prevent furious and unnecessary riding or driving ofany horse or other animal within such town, or such part thereofas they may think proper;

(8) To establish night watches and patrols;

(9) To erect and maintain calabooses, poorhouses andhospitals;

(10) To prevent the introduction and spreading of contagiousdiseases;

(11) To organize and maintain fire companies;

(12) To prevent and extinguish fires;

(13) To establish fire limits and to define the limitswithin which wooden buildings, stables, manufactories and otherstructures which may increase the danger of calamities from firesshall not be erected;

(14) To establish and provide for wells, cisterns and pumps;

(15) To regulate the construction of chimneys and fluesthereof, and to appoint an inspector of chimneys and flues, andto define the duties and fix the compensation thereof;

(16) To establish and regulate markets;

(17) To erect and repair bridges and culverts;

(18) To erect, repair and regulate wharves and the rate ofwharfage;

(19) To regulate the landing and stationing of steamboats,rafts and other watercraft;

(20) To provide for the inspection of lumber, buildingmaterial and for provisions to be used or offered for sale insuch town, or to be exported therefrom;

(21) To regulate the storage of gunpowder and othercombustible materials;

(22) To regulate the slaughtering of animals;

(23) To license, tax, regulate and prohibit ball and tenpinalleys, billiards and pool tables, or other tables upon whichgames are played for pay or amusement;

(24) To license, tax, regulate and prohibit all other gamesfor pay or amusement; provided, that no permission shall be givento bet money, property or other thing upon any game, or tolicense any such game;

(25) To license, tax and regulate wagons and teams, livery,sale and feed stables, and any vehicle or team kept or let forpay;

(26) To license, tax and regulate hay, grain and stockscales;

(27) To levy and collect taxes upon property and thelicenses herein provided for;

(28) To borrow money for the improvement of such town, or tosupply the same with water or gas;

(29) To open and form public squares, avenues, drains andsewers, and to keep the same cleaned and in order;

(30) To locate and lay out new streets and alleys;

(31) To establish the grade of streets and alleys;

(32) To determine and fix the width of sidewalks, and thematerial of which the same may be built; and

(33) To widen streets heretofore laid out in such town, andto appoint three commissioners to assess the damages done toproperty upon which such street or alley may be located,deducting from such damages the amount of benefit, if any, suchstreet or alley, or the widening thereof, may be to the same; butall assessments so made by the commissioners shall be reported,as soon as may be, to the board of trustees, who may approve orreject the same; and all persons aggrieved by such assessmentmay, within fifteen days after receiving notice of suchassessment, appeal therefrom to the next circuit court of thecounty, by giving notice of such appeal to said board of trusteesat least fifteen days before the first day of the term to whichsaid appeal is taken; and the circuit court, on such appeal,shall be possessed of the case and proceed therewith to finaljudgment, according to law. In all cases of assessment orappeal, the land to be used for or occupied by the street oralley may be taken possession of for the purpose of establishingand improving such street or alley, as soon as the amount ofdamages so assessed shall be tendered to the owner;

(34) Also to open, clear, regulate, grade, pave or improvethe streets and alleys of such town;

(35) To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lampsthereon;

(36) To regulate and prohibit the running at large of dogs,hogs, cattle and horses in the streets and alleys of such town,and to impose and collect tax on dogs not exceeding one dollareach;

(37) To impose and appropriate fines for forfeitures andpenalties for breaking or violating their ordinances;

(38) To levy and collect taxes;

(39) To regulate the enclosure of any common field belongingto or within the limits of such town; and

(40) To pass such other bylaws and ordinances for theregulation and police of such town and commons theretoappertaining as they shall deem necessary, not repugnant to andcontrary to the laws of the state.

(RSMo 1939 § 7248)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7097; 1919 § 8547; 1909 § 9436

CROSS REFERENCES:

Auctioneers, not maintaining a business office in municipality, exempt from license, RSMo 71.620

Farmers, selling own produce, exempt from license, RSMo 150.030