80.570. Disincorporation procedure.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

80.570. Disincorporation procedure.

Disincorporation procedure.

80.570. 1. The county governing body of each county shallhave power to disincorporate any town or village which they mayhave incorporated as provided in this section.

2. The county governing body shall order an election uponthe question of disincorporation of a town or village uponpetition of one-half of the voters of the town or village.

3. The county governing body shall give notice of theelection by publication in a newspaper of general circulationpublished in the town or village or, if there is no suchnewspaper in the town or village, then in the newspaper in thecounty published nearest the town or village. The notice shallcontain a copy of the petition and the names of the petitioners.No election on the question of disincorporation shall be helduntil the notice has been published for eight weeks successively.

4. The question shall be submitted in substantially thefollowing form as the case may be:

Shall the town of ............... be dissolved?; or

Shall the village of ................ be dissolved?

5. Upon the affirmative vote of sixty percent of thosepersons voting on the question, the county governing body shalldisincorporate the town or village.

6. Any county governing body may, in its discretion, on theapplication of any person or persons owning a tract of landcontaining five acres or more in a town or village, used only foragricultural purposes, to diminish the limits of such town orvillage by excluding any such tract of land from said corporatelimits; provided, that such application shall be accompanied by apetition asking such change and signed by a majority of thevoters in such town or village. And thereafter such tract ofland so excluded shall not be deemed or held to be any part ofsuch town or village.