Section 99.410

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Chapter 99

Effective - 28 Aug 1951   

  99.410.  Resolution creating authority deemed conclusive, when — filing. — 1.  In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of an authority or other public body, such authority or other public body shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers hereunder upon proof of the adoption of the appropriate resolution prescribed in subdivision (1) of section 99.330 or subsection 1 of section 99.360 above.  Each such resolution shall be deemed sufficient if it authorizes the exercise of powers hereunder by the authority or other public body and finds in substantially the terms provided in subdivision (2) of section 99.330 (no further detail being necessary) that the conditions therein enumerated exist.

  2.  A copy of such resolution duly certified by the municipal or county clerk, as the case may be, shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action or proceeding.

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(L. 1951 p. 300 § 4)

(1968) Where redevelopment authority had condemned plaintiff's land and was now owner and possessor, plaintiff had no legally protectable interest and there was no justiciable controversy for plaintiff to maintain action for declaratory judgment on question of authority's compliance with statutory requirements.  Brooks v. Land Clearance for Redevelopment Auth. (A.), 425 S.W.2d 481.

(1954) Land Clearance for Redev. Authority v. City of St.  Louis, 364 Mo. 974, 270 S.W.2d 58.