273.170. Applicability of law--petition--election. - Missouri Statutes

Applicability of law--petition--election.

273.170. 1. Upon the filing of a petition signed by onehundred or more voters of any county and presented to the countycommission at any regular or special session thereof the countycommission shall order the question, as to whether or not thereshould be adopted the law creating a license tax on dogs,submitted to the voters, to be voted upon at the next election.

2. The question shall be submitted in substantially thefollowing form:

Shall there be a license tax on dogs?

3. If the majority of the votes cast upon the question be infavor of the license tax on dogs, the county commission shallenter the result of the submission of the question upon itsrecords and give notice thereof by publication in some newspaperprinted and published in such county and such law shall becomeoperative from the time such publication is made.

(RSMo 1939 § 14558, A. 1949 S.B. 1097, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)

Prior revision: 1929 § 12881