177.101. Public parks and playgrounds, seven-director board may establish. - Missouri Statutes

Public parks and playgrounds, seven-director board may establish.

177.101. 1. In seven-director districts as specified in thissection, the school board may establish and maintain public parksand playgrounds for the use of the public school district, andmay appropriate the sums they deem proper for the supportthereof.

2. The school board may lease or purchase grounds additionalto the schoolhouse site, either adjacent thereto or elsewhere inthe school district, for libraries, public parks and playgroundsand pay for the grounds so leased or purchased out of the fundsof the school district available for the purpose.

3. The board of education shall have full custody andcontrol of the parks and playgrounds including the policing andthe preservation of order thereon and may permit the use of thegrounds that it deems best in the interest of the district. Theboard shall adopt and enforce, subject to the laws of the stateand the ordinances of the city, suitable rules and regulationsfor the control of the grounds and the conduct of persons usingthem.

(L. 1963 p. 200 § 12-10, A.L. 1977 H.B. 130)

(Source: RSMo 1959 § 165.327)