94.700. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

94.700. The following words, as used in sections 94.700 to 94.755,shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appearsfrom the context:

(1) "City" shall mean any incorporated city, town, or village in thestate of Missouri with a population of one hundred or more, but the term"city" does not include any city not within a county or any city of overfour hundred thousand inhabitants wholly or partially within a first classcounty;

(2) "City transit authority" shall mean a commission or board createdby city charter provision or by ordinance of a city, and which operates apublic mass transportation system;

(3) "City utilities board" shall mean a board or commission createdby city charter provision or by ordinance of a city, which controls andoperates city-owned utilities including a public mass transportationsystem;

(4) "Director of revenue" shall mean the director of revenue of thestate of Missouri;

(5) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any politicalsubdivision created by compact between this state and another state, whichis a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of bothcontracting states, and which operates a public mass transportation system;

(6) "Interstate transportation district" shall mean that geographicalarea set forth and defined in the particular compact between this state andanother state;

(7) "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, orother entity;

(8) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a transportationsystem or systems owned and operated by an interstate transportationauthority, a municipality, a city transit authority, or a city utilitiesboard, employing motor buses, rails or any other means of conveyance, bywhatsoever type or power, operated for public use in the conveyance ofpersons, mainly providing local transportation service within an interstatetransportation district or municipality;

(9) "Transportation purposes" shall mean financial support of a"public mass transportation system"; the construction, reconstruction,repair and maintenance of streets, roads and bridges within a municipality;the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of airports ownedand operated by municipalities; the acquisition of lands and rights-of-wayfor streets, roads, bridges and airports; and planning and feasibilitystudies for streets, roads, bridges, and airports. "Bridges" shall includebridges connecting a municipality with another municipality either withinor without the state, with an unincorporated area of the state, or withanother state or an unincorporated area thereof.