82.300. Certain cities may enact ordinances, purposes, punishments (including Kansas City). - Missouri Statutes

Certain cities may enact ordinances, purposes, punishments (includingKansas City).

82.300. 1. Any city with a population of four hundred thousand ormore inhabitants which is located in more than one county may enact allneedful ordinances for preserving order, securing persons or property fromviolence, danger and destruction, protecting public and private propertyand for promoting the general interests and ensuring the good government ofthe city, and for the protection, regulation and orderly government ofparks, public grounds and other public property of the city, both withinand beyond the corporate limits of such city; and to prescribe and impose,enforce and collect fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of anyprovisions of such ordinances and to punish the violation of suchordinances by fine or imprisonment, or by both fine and imprisonment; butno fine shall exceed one thousand dollars nor imprisonment exceed twelvemonths for any such offense, except as provided in subsection 2 of thissection.

2. Any city with a population of four hundred thousand or moreinhabitants which is located in more than one county which operates apublicly owned treatment works in accordance with an approved pretreatmentprogram pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.and chapter 644, RSMo, may enact all necessary ordinances which requirecompliance by an industrial user with any pretreatment standard orrequirement. Such ordinances may authorize injunctive relief or theimposition of a fine of at least one thousand dollars but not more thanfive thousand dollars per violation for noncompliance with suchpretreatment standards or requirements. For any continuing violation, eachday of the violation shall be considered a separate offense.

3. Any city with a population of more than four hundred thousandinhabitants may enact all needful ordinances to protect public and privateproperty from illegal and unauthorized dumping and littering, and to punishthe violation of such ordinances by a fine not to exceed one thousanddollars or by imprisonment not to exceed twelve months for each offense, orby both such fine and imprisonment.

4. Any city with a population of more than four hundred thousandinhabitants may enact all needful ordinances to protect public and privateproperty from nuisance and property maintenance code violations, and topunish the violation of such ordinances by a fine not to exceed onethousand dollars or by imprisonment not to exceed twelve months for eachoffense, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(RSMo 1939 § 7644, A.L. 1943 p. 727, A.L. 1993 S.B. 376, A.L. 2000 H.B. 1238, A.L. 2001 S.B. 345, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7501; 1919 § 8912; 1909 § 9764