94.645. Transportation trust fund created, limitation on use of funds, audit required--sheltered workshop, transportation, percentage authorized for St. Louis City and County. - Missouri Statutes

Transportation trust fund created, limitation on use of funds, auditrequired--sheltered workshop, transportation, percentage authorizedfor St. Louis City and County.

94.645. 1. All moneys received by a city imposing a sales taxpursuant to the provisions of sections 94.600 to 94.655 shall be depositedby the city treasurer, or other city officer authorized by ordinance, in aspecial fund to be known as the "Transportation Trust Fund". All moneys insuch transportation trust fund shall be appropriated and disbursed only fortransportation purposes as enumerated herein.

2. Any portion or all of the funds on deposit in a transportationtrust fund may be appropriated and paid by a city directly to an interstatetransportation authority, a city transit authority or a city utilitiesboard for its general purposes in providing a public mass transportationsystem within an interstate transportation district or a municipality;provided that, before such funds may be appropriated and paid to any suchinterstate transportation authority, city transit authority or cityutilities board with a service area population in excess of two millionpersons, such authority or board shall develop, for mutual agreement, aprogram of transit service to be provided to the city. Such program shalldefine the service to be provided, the fare structure to be in effect, theestimated cost of the total transit service program of the authority orboard, and the estimated cost of the city's portion of the program. Suchagreement shall be renewed prior to the beginning of each fiscal year and,when such agreement is reached, the city shall appropriate to the authorityor board funds as are designated in the agreement for the period of theagreement. A city may designate by contract with an interstatetransportation authority, a city transit authority or a city utilitiesboard that a designated portion of such funds shall be used by theinterstate transportation authority, the city transit authority or the cityutilities board to provide specific service or frequency of service tounderwrite a certain fare structure, or for any other purposes consistentwith providing a sound public mass transportation system.

3. Any provisions of sections 94.600 to 94.655 to the contrarynotwithstanding, not less than two percent of the proceeds of any sales taximposed by any city not within a county and any county of the first classhaving a charter form of government and having a population of at leastnine hundred thousand inhabitants pursuant to sections 94.600 to 94.655that are appropriated and paid by a city or county to an interstatetransportation authority shall be expended to sheltered workshop orresidence facility, boards of directors established pursuant to section205.970, RSMo, to pay costs of transportation, above the level ofexpenditures for such costs during the fiscal year of the board immediatelypreceding January 1, 1984, to and from sheltered or presheltered employmentof developmentally disabled clients of the regional center for thedevelopmentally disabled serving the area where the tax is imposed, andshall be expended only for the purpose of transporting persons who aredevelopmentally disabled and require nonpublic transportation and who areresidents of the city not within a county, or of the adjacent county of thefirst class having a charter form of government and having a population ofat least nine hundred thousand inhabitants. As used in this subsection,"developmentally disabled clients" means persons served by the regionalcenter who have a developmental disability as defined in section 630.005,RSMo.

4. No funds may be appropriated and paid to any such transportationauthority, transit authority or utilities board, unless and until suchauthority or board shall file or shall have filed with the city, payingsaid funds, and the secretary of state of the state of Missouri, annuallyand within six months after the close of such authority or board's fiscalyear, an independently audited report and accounting as to such authorityor board's management and administration of any and all funds received andexpended by such authority or board.

5. Transportation authorities operating a public mass transportationsystem pursuant to sections 94.600 to 94.655 shall provide for interior andexterior advertising on each vehicle for mass transportation purposes.

(L. 1973 H.B. 65 § 10, A.L. 1975 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 1, A.L. 1979 H.B. 320, A.L. 1980 S.B. 731, A.L. 1983 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 3, A.L. 1991 S.B. 34, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1814, A.L. 1997 H.B. 229)