Section IV Section 43(b)

Constitution

Effective - 04 Dec 1980, see footnote   

  IV Section 43(b).  Use of revenue and funds of conservation commission. — The moneys arising from the additional sales and use taxes provided for in section 43(a) hereof and all fees, moneys or funds arising from the operation and transactions of the conservation commission, department of conservation, and from the application and the administration of the laws and regulations pertaining to the bird, fish, game, forestry and wildlife resources of the state and from the sale of property used for said purposes, shall be expended and used by the conservation commission, department of conservation, for the control, management, restoration, conservation and regulation of the bird, fish, game, forestry and wildlife resources of the state, including the purchase or other acquisition of property for said purposes, and for the administration of the laws pertaining thereto, and for no other purpose.  The moneys and funds of the conservation commission arising from the additional sales and use taxes provided for in 43(a) hereof shall also be used by the conservation commission, department of conservation, to make payments to counties for the unimproved value of land for distribution to the appropriate political subdivisions as payment in lieu of real property taxes for privately owned land acquired by the commission after July 1, 1977 and for land classified as forest cropland in the forest cropland program administered by the department of conservation in such amounts as may be determined by the conservation commission, but in no event shall the amount determined be less than the property tax being paid at the time of purchase of acquired lands.

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Source: Const. of 1875, Art. XIV, § 16 (Amended November 2, 1976) (Amended November 4, 1980).

(2023) Removal of language in appropriations bill and thus attempting to restrict the Conservation Commission from using its funds for constitutionally enumerated purposes invades the constitutional authority of the Commission.  Conservation Commission v. Bailey, 669 S.W.3d 61 (Mo.banc).