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United States — Missouri
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Cities, towns, or villages supplied with water may acquire needed rights-of-way, lands, easements, and related access by purchase, donation, or condemnation.
United States — Missouri
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Certain qualifying city councils may build, buy, run, and maintain waterworks and may supply water to inhabitants for reasonable rates.
United States — Missouri
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A qualifying city may supply water from its waterworks to people and private companies and may make related contracts.
United States — Missouri
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Every such city may buy a waterworks system and may also build one.
United States — Missouri
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A city may buy a waterworks system, and the city council or proper authorities must submit the question to voters when the statutory conditions are met.
United States — Missouri
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A proposal to sell the waterworks property to the city must be written, state the price, and include acceptance of the specified bonds.
United States — Missouri
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If the owners propose selling the plant and the city council does not submit the proposition, a petition from 100 taxpaying city citizens requires the council and mayor to pass an ordinance putting the proposition to voters.
United States — Missouri
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If city voters approve the proposition, the owner of the waterworks system must convey it to the city, and the city must issue bonds to pay the agreed purchase price.
United States — Missouri
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The Board of Waterworks Commissioners may issue bonds to pay for the waterworks system, and the bonds must be signed and attested as stated.
United States — Missouri
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If a city has no operating waterworks and wants to build waterworks, the city council must arrange plans, advertise for bids, and contract for the work under the provision’s conditions.
United States — Missouri
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A contractor awarded the contract must give the city a bond securing proper performance of the work.
United States — Missouri
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The council must, by ordinance, submit the waterworks proposition to the city’s voters.
United States — Missouri
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After the waterworks proposition is approved by a citywide majority, the city council must appoint a suitable superintendent, and the contractor must pay that superintendent’s compensation into the city treasury before work starts.
United States — Missouri
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Provisions about purchasing waterworks also apply, as far as applicable, to erecting or buying electric light, gas, ice, or other lighting plants.
United States — Missouri
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If bond principal or interest is unpaid for six months, the commissioners must convey the waterworks property to the bondholders, with an option to convey it to a trustee chosen by a majority of bondholders.
United States — Missouri
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The city must pay a reasonable fire hydrant rental, and city inhabitants must pay reasonable water rates set by the waterworks commissioners.
United States — Missouri
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The manager of the waterworks system must deposit money received from water consumers every day.
United States — Missouri
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Qualifying cities may deposit certain waterworks bonds as securities with Missouri officials, if the stated conditions are met.
United States — Missouri
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This provision sets up a three-member Board of Waterworks Commissioners for city-owned waterworks and gives the mayor and city council appointment and approval roles.
United States — Missouri
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The board controls and manages the waterworks system, can set rates and make related rules, may hire staff with mayoral approval, and must keep its records open for public inspection.