205.031. Trustees, qualifications--appointment, election, terms--certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown).

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205.031. Trustees, qualifications--appointment, election, terms--certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown).

Trustees, qualifications--appointment, election, terms--certainfourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown).

205.031. 1. The county governing body shall appoint fivetrustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference totheir fitness for such office, all voters of the county, not morethan three of the trustees to be residents of the city, town orvillage in which the county health center is to be located, whoshall constitute a board of trustees for the county healthcenter.

2. The trustees shall hold their offices until the nextfollowing municipal election, when five health center trusteesshall be elected who shall hold their offices, three for twoyears and two for four years. The county governing body shall byorder of record specify the terms of the trustees.

3. At each subsequent municipal election the offices of thetrustees whose terms of office are about to expire shall befilled by the election of health center trustees who each shallserve for a term of four years and notwithstanding any other lawof this state to the contrary all elective officers in each cityof the fourth class with a population of at least thirty thousandbut no more than thirty-three thousand, and which is locatedwithin a county of the first class having a charter form ofgovernment and containing the greater part of a city with apopulation of four hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants,beginning with the first election after January 1, 1987, shall beelected every four years.

4. Any vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned byremoval, resignation or otherwise shall be reported to the countygoverning body and be filled in like manner as originalappointments, the appointee to hold office until the nextfollowing municipal election, when such vacancy shall be filledby election of a trustee to serve during the remainder of theterm of his predecessor.

5. No trustee shall have a personal pecuniary interest,either directly or indirectly, in the purchase of any suppliesfor the health center, unless the same are purchased bycompetitive bidding.

6. The filing and withdrawal of candidates shall be governedby the provisions of chapter 115, RSMo, except that if the numberof candidates is no greater than the number of directors to beelected, no election shall be held, and the candidates shallassume the responsibilities of their offices at the same time andin the same manner as if they had been elected.