79.010.  Fourth class cities, incorporation of. — Any city of the fourth class in this state may become a body corporate under the provisions of this chapter, in the manner provided by law, under the name of "The city of ______", and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity and in all actions whatever; may receive and hold property, both real and personal, within such city, and may purchase, receive and hold real estate within or without such city for the burial of the dead; and may purchase, hold, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of any property, real or personal, it now owns or may hereafter acquire; may receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds of property, and may have and hold one common seal, and may break, change or alter the same at pleasure, and all courts of this state shall take judicial notice thereof.

  79.020.  City limits may be altered, how. — The mayor and board of aldermen of such city, whether the same shall have been incorporated before becoming a city of the fourth class or not, with the consent of a majority of the voters of such city voting on the question, shall have power to extend the limits of the city over territory adjacent thereto, and to diminish the limits of the city by excluding territory therefrom, and shall, in every case, have power, with the consent of the voters as aforesaid, to extend or diminish the city limits in such manner as in their judgment and discretion may redound to the benefit of the city.

  79.025.  Annexation of territory prohibited, when (City of Byrnes Mill). — No city of the fourth classification with more than two thousand three hundred but fewer than two thousand four hundred inhabitants and located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than one hundred ninety-eight thousand but fewer than one hundred ninety-nine thousand two hundred inhabitants shall annex any territory adjacent to the city if such adjacent territory proposed for annexation does not contain any registered voters unless the city has obtained the written consent of all the owners of real property within such adjacent territory.

  79.030.  Election of officers. — An election for the elective officers of each city of the fourth class shall be held after the organization of such city under the provisions of this chapter, and on municipal election days every two years thereafter, except that cities may provide by ordinance that beginning with the election of a collector after January 1, 1990, collectors shall be elected every four years.

  79.035.  Primary election may be held, procedure, cost, exception. — 1.  In all cities of the fourth class, except those in a county of the first class with a charter form of government and which adjoins a city not within a county, the governing body may provide for a primary election, to be held on one of the days specified in section 115.123, only by ordinance.  Any city adopting such an ordinance shall file a certified copy thereof with the secretary of state within thirty days of its adoption, and shall not hold a primary election sooner than sixty days after its adoption.

  2.  In lieu of establishing its own election authority to conduct its primary or general elections, or both, the appropriate election authority of the county in which a fourth class city is located shall conduct such elections.  All costs incurred in conducting such primary and general elections, including those incurred by a county election authority under this subsection, shall be paid by the fourth class city for which the elections are held.

  79.040.  Election ordered. — If, at any time, by reason of nonacceptance, resignation, refusal to qualify, or for any other cause, there shall be no officers of the city to order an election, any commissioner of the county commission, or associate circuit judge of the county, is empowered to order and hold an election for city officers.

  79.050.  Elective officers, terms — chief of police or marshal, qualification — same person may be elected collector and marshal — board of aldermen, four-year term permitted, submission to voters required. — 1.  The following officers shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city, and shall hold office for the term of two years, except as otherwise provided in this section, and until their successors are elected and qualified, to wit:  mayor and board of aldermen.  The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance, after the approval of a majority of the voters voting at an election at which the issue is submitted, for the appointment of a collector and for the appointment of a chief of police, who shall perform all duties required of the marshal by law, and any other police officers found by the board of aldermen to be necessary for the good government of the city.  The marshal or chief of police shall be twenty-one years of age or older. If the board of aldermen does not provide for the appointment of a chief of police and collector as provided by this section, a city marshal, who shall be twenty-one years of age or older, and collector shall be elected, and the board of aldermen may provide by ordinance that the same person may be elected marshal and collector, at the same election, and hold both offices and the board of aldermen may provide by ordinance for the election of city assessor, city attorney, city clerk and street commissioner, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of two years and until their successors shall be elected or appointed and qualified, except that the term of the city marshal shall be four years.

  2.  The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance, after the approval of a majority of the voters voting thereon at the next municipal election at which the issue is submitted, that the term of the collector shall be four years and the term of the mayor shall be two, three, or four years.  Any person elected as collector after the passage of such an ordinance shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified.  Any person elected as mayor after the passage of such ordinance shall serve for a term of two, three, or four years, as provided, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

  3.  The board of aldermen may provide by ordinance that the term of the board of aldermen shall be four years.  Such ordinance shall be submitted by the board to the voters of the city and shall take effect only upon the approval of a majority of the voters voting at an election at which the issue is submitted.  Any person elected to the board of aldermen after the passage of such an ordinance shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified.

  79.055.  City marshal, training requirements, fourth class cities. — 1.  Any person who is elected to his first term as city marshal in a general election or in a special election in any fourth class city of this state shall, within six months of such election, cause to be filed with the city clerk of the city and director of the department of public safety proof that he has completed the training program formulated pursuant to sections 590.170 and 590.175, or some other comparable training program of not less than one hundred twenty hours' instruction approved by the director of the department of public safety.  If the newly elected city marshal is unable to complete the training program within six months due to the proper course not being available from the department of public safety, an extension may be granted until such a course is made available.

  2.  Whether any person elected to his first term as city marshal attends such a training program prior to or after assuming the duties of his office shall be left to the discretion of the governing body of the city from which he was elected.  During the time that a marshal-elect is enrolled in such a training program, he shall be hired as a city employee and receive as full compensation from the city from which he was elected, compensation at a rate equal to that of city marshal.

  79.060.  City to be divided into wards — aldermen elected — aldermen at large permitted for certain cities. — 1.  The board of aldermen shall, by ordinance, divide the city into not less than two wards, and two aldermen shall be elected from each ward by the qualified voters thereof, at the first election for aldermen in cities adopting the provisions of this chapter.  At such election for aldermen, the person receiving the highest number of votes in each ward shall hold his office for two years, and the person receiving the next highest number of votes shall hold his office for one year; but thereafter each ward shall elect annually one alderman, who shall hold his office for two years.

  2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, cities with a population of one thousand or less in the most recent census may, by ordinance, choose to elect aldermen at large instead of by the method outlined in subsection 1 of this section.  Under this option, the seats of aldermen shall be filled at large as soon as the current terms expire.  Each year thereafter, one-half of the board of aldermen shall stand for election at large for a two-year term.

  79.070.  Aldermen, qualifications. — No person shall be an alderman unless he or she is at least eighteen years of age, a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant and resident of the city for one year next preceding his or her election, and a resident, at the time he or she files and during the time he or she serves, of the ward from which he or she is elected.

  79.080.  Mayor, qualifications. — No person shall be mayor unless he be at least twenty-five years of age, a citizen of the United States and a resident of the city at the time of and for at least one year next preceding his election.

  79.090.  Board to select an acting president, term. — The board shall elect one of their own number who shall be styled "acting president of the board of aldermen" and who shall serve for a term of one year.

  79.100.  Acting president to perform duties of mayor, when. — When any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor by death, resignation, removal from the city, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or from any other cause whatever, the acting president of the board of aldermen shall, for the time being, perform the duties of mayor, with all the rights, privileges, powers and jurisdiction of the mayor, until such vacancy be filled or such disability be removed; or, in case of temporary absence, until the mayor's return.

  79.110.  Mayor and board — duties. — The mayor and board of aldermen of each city governed by this chapter shall have the care, management and control of the city and its finances, and shall have power to enact and ordain any and all ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, and such as they shall deem expedient for the good government of the city, the preservation of peace and good order, the benefit of trade and commerce and the health of the inhabitants thereof, and such other ordinances, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry such powers into effect, and to alter, modify or repeal the same.

  79.120.  Mayor may sit in board. — The mayor shall have a seat in and preside over the board of aldermen, but shall not vote on any question except in case of a tie, nor shall he preside or vote in cases when he is an interested party.  He shall exercise a general supervision over all the officers and affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city, and the state laws relating to such city, are complied with.

  *79.130.  Ordinances — procedure to enact — inapplicable, when. — 1.  The style of the ordinances of the city shall be:  "Be it ordained by the board of aldermen of the city of ______, as follows:"  No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of the members elected to the board of aldermen shall vote for it, and the ayes and nays be entered on the journal.  Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the board of aldermen in writing and shall be read by title or in full two times prior to passage, both readings may occur at a single meeting of the board of aldermen.  If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time the bill is under consideration by the board of aldermen.  No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the mayor or person exercising the duties of the mayor's office, or shall have been passed over the mayor's veto, as herein provided.

  2.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to ordinances proposed or passed under section 79.135.

  *79.130.  Ordinances — procedure to enact. — The style of the ordinances of the city shall be:  "Be it ordained by the board of aldermen of the city of ______, as follows:"  No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of the members elected to the board of aldermen shall vote for it, and the ayes and nays be entered on the journal.  Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the board of aldermen in writing and shall be read by title or in full two times prior to passage, both readings may occur at a single meeting of the board of aldermen.  If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time the bill is under consideration by the board of aldermen.  No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the mayor or person exercising the duties of the mayor's office, or shall have been passed over the mayor's veto, as herein provided.

  *79.135.  Proposed ordinance by petition, procedure (City of Savannah). — 1.  In any city of the fourth classification with more than five thousand but fewer than six thousand inhabitants and located in any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than sixteen thousand but fewer than eighteen thousand inhabitants, a proposed ordinance may be submitted to the board of aldermen by petition signed by at least ten percent of the registered voters voting for mayor at the last municipal election.  The petition shall contain, in addition to the requisite number of valid signatures, the full text of the ordinance sought to be passed and a request that the ordinance be submitted to a vote of the people if not passed by the board of aldermen.

  2.  The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his or her signature his or her place of residence, giving the street and number.  One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true as he or she believes and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

  3.  Within ten days from the date of filing such petition, the city clerk shall examine and ascertain whether the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters and, if necessary, the board of aldermen shall allow the clerk extra help for such purpose.  The clerk shall attach a certificate of examination to the petition.  If by the clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient, the petition may be amended within ten days from the date of the issuance of the clerk's certificate.  The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition.  If the second certificate shows the petition to be insufficient, the petition shall be returned to the person filing it, without prejudice to the filing of a new petition to the same effect.  If the petition is deemed to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit it to the board of aldermen without delay.

  4.  Upon receipt of the petition and certificate from the clerk, the board of aldermen shall either:

  (1)  Pass said ordinance without alteration within twenty days after attachment of the clerk's certificate to the accompanying petition; or

  (2)  Submit the question without alteration to the voters at the next municipal election or, if the petition has been signed by twenty-five percent or more of the registered voters voting for mayor at the last municipal election, the board of aldermen shall immediately submit the question without alteration to the voters of the city.

  5.  The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:

Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance)

  6.  If a majority of the voters vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the city.

  7.  Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, in accordance with the provisions of this section.

  8.  Any ordinance in effect that was proposed by petition cannot be repealed except by a vote of the people.  The board of aldermen may submit a proposition for the repeal of any such ordinance or for amendments thereto, to be voted upon at any municipal election; and should such proposition receive a majority of the votes cast thereon, such ordinance shall thereby be repealed or amended accordingly.  The board of aldermen may amend an ordinance proposed by petition without a vote of the people, but the original purpose of the ordinance may not be changed by such amendment.

  79.140.  Bills must be signed — mayor's veto. — Every bill duly passed by the board of aldermen and presented to the mayor and by him approved shall become an ordinance, and every bill presented as aforesaid, but returned with the mayor's objections thereto, shall stand reconsidered.  The board of aldermen shall cause the objections of the mayor to be entered at large upon the journal, and proceed at its convenience to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form:  Shall the bill pass, the objections of the mayor thereto notwithstanding? The vote on this question shall be taken by ayes and nays and the names entered upon the journal, and if two-thirds of all the members-elect shall vote in the affirmative, the city clerk shall certify the fact on the roll, and the bill thus certified shall be deposited with the proper officer, and shall become an ordinance in the same manner and with like effect as if it had received the approval of the mayor.  The mayor shall have power to sign or veto any ordinance passed by the board of aldermen; provided, that should he neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance and return the same with his objections, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the board of aldermen, the same shall become a law without his signature.

  79.150.  Board to keep journal of proceedings. — The board of aldermen shall cause to be kept a journal of its proceedings, and the ayes and nays shall be entered on any question at the request of any two members.  The board of aldermen may prescribe and enforce such rules as it may find necessary for the expeditious transaction of its business.

  79.160.  Board shall publish semiannual statements. — The board of aldermen shall semiannually each year, at times to be set by the board of aldermen, make out and spread upon their records a full and detailed account and statement of the receipts and expenditures and indebtedness of the city for the half year ending with the last day of the month immediately preceding the date of such report, which account and statement shall be published in some newspaper in the city.

  79.165.  No money of city to be disbursed until statement is published — penalty. — In the event the financial statement of any fourth class city is not published as required by section 79.160, the treasurer of such city shall not pay out any money of the city on any warrant or order of the board of aldermen after the end of the month in which such financial statement should have been published until such time as such financial statement is published.  Any treasurer violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

  79.180.  Board may compel attendance of witnesses — mayor to administer oaths. — The board of aldermen shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers and records relating to any subject under consideration in which the interest of the city is involved, and shall have power to call on the proper officers of the city, or of the county in which such city is located, to execute such process.  The officer making such service shall be allowed to receive therefor such fees as are allowed by law in the circuit court for similar services, to be paid by the city.  The mayor or acting president of the board of aldermen shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses.

  79.190.  Mayor to sign commissions. — The mayor shall sign the commissions and appointments of all city officers elected or appointed in the city, and shall approve all official bonds unless otherwise prescribed by ordinance.

  79.200.  Mayor shall have the power to enforce laws. — The mayor shall be active and vigilant in enforcing all laws and ordinances for the government of the city, and he shall cause all subordinate officers to be dealt with promptly for any neglect or violation of duty; and he is hereby authorized to call on every male inhabitant of the city over eighteen years of age and under fifty, to aid in enforcing the laws.

  79.210.  Mayor — communications to board. — The mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the board of aldermen such measures as may, in his opinion, tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the city.

  79.220.  Mayor may remit fine, grant pardon. — The mayor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses arising under the ordinances of the city; but this section shall not be so construed as to authorize the mayor to remit any costs which may have accrued to any officer of said city by reason of any prosecution under the laws or ordinances of such city.

  79.230.  Appointive officers. — The mayor, with the consent and approval of the majority of the members of the board of aldermen, shall have power to appoint a treasurer, city attorney, city assessor, street commissioner and night watchman, and such other officers as he may be authorized by ordinance to appoint, and if deemed for the best interests of the city, the mayor and board of aldermen may, by ordinance, employ special counsel to represent the city, either in a case of a vacancy in the office of city attorney or to assist the city attorney, and pay reasonable compensation therefor, and the person elected marshal may be appointed to and hold the office of street commissioner.

  79.240.  Removal of officers. — 1.  The mayor may, with the consent of a majority of all the members elected to the board of aldermen, remove from office, for cause shown, any elective officer of the city, such officer being first given opportunity, together with his witnesses, to be heard before the board of aldermen sitting as a board of impeachment.  Any elective officer, including the mayor, may in like manner, for cause shown, be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to the board of aldermen, independently of the mayor's approval or recommendation.  The mayor may, with the consent of a majority of all the members elected to the board of aldermen, remove from office any appointive officer of the city at will, and any such appointive officer may be so removed by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the board of aldermen, independently of the mayor's approval or recommendation.  The board of aldermen may pass ordinances regulating the manner of impeachments and removals.

  2.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the mayor, with the consent of the majority of all the members elected to the board of aldermen, or the board of aldermen by a two-thirds vote of all its members, to remove or discharge any chief, as that term is defined in section 106.273.

  79.250.  Officers to be voters and residents — exceptions, appointed officers. — All officers elected to offices or appointed to fill a vacancy in any elective office under the city government shall be voters under the laws and constitution of this state and the ordinances of the city except that appointed officers need not be voters of the city.  No person shall be elected or appointed to any office who shall at the time be in arrears for any unpaid city taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office.  All officers, except appointed officers, shall be residents of the city.

  79.260.  Officers' oath — bond. — Every officer of the city and his assistants, and every alderman, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation before some court of record in the county, or the city clerk, that he possesses all the qualifications prescribed for his office by law; that he will support the Constitution of the United States and of the state of Missouri, the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class, and the ordinances of the city, and faithfully demean himself while in office; which official oath or affirmation shall be filed with the city clerk.  Every officer of the corporation, when required by law or ordinance, shall, within fifteen days after his appointment or election, and before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, give bond to the city in such sum and with such sureties as may be designated by ordinance, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duty, and that he will pay over all moneys belonging to the city, as provided by law, that may come into his hands.  If any person elected or appointed to any office shall fail to take and subscribe such oath or affirmation, or to give bond as herein required, his office shall be deemed vacant.  For any breach of condition of any such bond, suit may be instituted thereon by the city, or by any person in the name of the city to the use of such person.

  79.270.  Salaries fixed by ordinance. — The board of aldermen shall have power to fix the compensation of all the officers and employees of the city, by ordinance.  But the salary of an officer shall not be changed during the time for which he was elected or appointed.

  79.280.  Vacancies in certain offices, how filled. — If a vacancy occurs in any elective office, the mayor or the person exercising the duties of the mayor shall cause a special meeting of the board of aldermen to convene where a successor to the vacant office shall be selected by appointment by the mayor with the advice and consent of a majority of the remaining members of the board of aldermen.  If the vacancy is in the office of mayor, nominations of a successor may be made by any member of the board of aldermen and selected with the consent of a majority of the members of the board of aldermen.  The board of aldermen may adopt procedures to fill vacancies consistent with this section.  The successor shall serve until the next regular municipal election.  If a vacancy occurs in any office not elective, the mayor shall appoint a suitable person to discharge the duties of such office until the first regular meeting of the board of aldermen thereafter, at which time such vacancy shall be permanently filled.

  79.290.  Powers and duties of officers to be prescribed by ordinance. — The duties, powers and privileges of officers of every character in any way connected with the city government, not herein defined, shall be prescribed by ordinance.  And bonds may be required of any such officers for faithfulness in office in all respects.

  79.300.  Treasurer, duties — bond. — The treasurer shall receive and safely keep all moneys, warrants, books, bonds and obligations entrusted to his care, and shall pay over all moneys, bonds or other obligations of the city on warrants or orders, duly drawn, passed or ordered by the board of aldermen, and signed by the mayor and attested by the city clerk, and having the seal of the city affixed thereto, and not otherwise; and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by ordinance.  Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall give bond in such sum as may be required by ordinance.

  79.310.  Collector to make annual report. — The collector shall, annually, at such times as may be designated by ordinance, make a detailed report to the board of aldermen, stating the various moneys collected by him during the year, and the amounts uncollected and the names of the persons from which he failed to collect and the causes therefor.

  79.320.  City clerk, election — duties. — The board of aldermen shall elect a clerk for such board, to be known as "the city clerk", whose duties and term of office shall be fixed by ordinance.  Among other things, the city clerk shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the board of aldermen.  He shall safely and properly keep all the records and papers belonging to the city which may be entrusted to his care; he shall be the general accountant of the city; he is hereby empowered to administer official oaths and oaths to persons certifying to demands or claims against the city.

  79.330.  Offices of marshal and collector may be consolidated. — The board of aldermen may by ordinance provide that hereafter the same person shall hold the offices of marshal and collector, in which case his official title shall be "marshal and ex officio collector".

  79.340.  Officers to report receipts and expenditures. — It shall be the duty of all the officers of the city to report annually to the board of aldermen, such reports to embrace a full statement of the receipts and expenditures of their respective offices, and such other matters as may be required by the board of aldermen, by ordinance, resolution or otherwise.

  79.350.  Mayor or board may inspect books and records of officers. — The mayor or board of aldermen shall have power, as often as he or they may deem it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his accounts or other papers or records, and to make report to the board of aldermen, in writing, touching any matter relating to his office.

  79.360.  Misdemeanor in office, penalty. — Any member of the board of aldermen or officer of the city who shall, in official capacity, or under color of his office, knowingly or willfully or corruptly vote or assent to, or report in favor of or allow or certify for allowance, any claim or demand against the city, which claim or demand shall be on account of or under color of a contract or agreement not authorized by law and the ordinances of the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

  79.365.  Compensation of certain board and commission members, how fixed. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in all cities of the fourth class, the board of alderpersons shall have the authority to fix the compensation, not to exceed two hundred dollars per month, of members of the planning and zoning commission, the board of adjustment, the park board and the board of police commissioners of the city by ordinance.

  79.370.  Board shall regulate sanitary conditions. — The board of aldermen shall have power, by ordinance, to secure the general health of the inhabitants of the city by any measure to regulate, suppress and abate slaughterhouses, slaughtering animals, stockyards, soap and other factories, pig pens, cow stables, and other stables and dairies, and to remove the same, and to regulate or prevent the carrying on of any business which may be dangerous or detrimental to the public health, or the manufacturing or rendering of articles obnoxious to the health of the inhabitants; and to pass ordinances for the prevention of nuisances and their abatement.

  79.380.  Diseases, control of — condemnation for public facilities — police jurisdiction, city-owned property. — The board of aldermen may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases in the city, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws and enforce the same within five miles of the city.  They may purchase or condemn and hold for the city, within or without the city limits, or within ten miles therefrom, all necessary lands for hospital purposes, waterworks, sewer carriage and outfall, and erect, establish and regulate hospitals, workhouses, poorhouses, airports and provide for the government and support of the same, and make regulations to secure the general health of the city, and to prevent and remove nuisances; except that the condemnation of any property outside of the city limits shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property for railroad purposes is regulated by law.  The police jurisdiction of the city shall extend over such land and property to the same extent as over other city property, as provided in this chapter.

  79.383.  Abatement of nuisance by civil action, city may be awarded attorney's fees. — 1.  If any fourth class city shall enact an ordinance allowing for a civil cause of action for abatement of nuisances created by the accumulation of unsightly, dangerous, or noxious personal property within the borders of such city, the city may, upon successful prosecution of such cause of action, be awarded by the court reasonable attorney's fees incurred in such action.

  2.  This section shall not be construed to allow any award of attorney's fees in any municipal court hearing on criminal charges or traffic violations.

  79.390.  Powers — water supply, marketplaces, city hall, prison, parks. — The board of aldermen may establish, alter and change the channel of watercourses, and wall them and cover them over, and prevent obstructions thereon, and may establish, make and regulate public wells, cisterns and reservoirs of water, and provide for filling the same.  The board of aldermen may purchase grounds and erect and establish market houses and marketplaces, and regulate and govern the same, and also contract with any person or persons, association or corporation, for the erection, maintenance and regulation of market houses, and marketplaces, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the board of aldermen may prescribe.  They may also provide for the erection, purchase or renting of the city hall, workhouse, houses of correction, prisons, engine houses, and any and all other necessary buildings for the city, and may sell, lease, abolish or otherwise dispose of the same, and may enclose, improve, regulate, purchase or sell all public parks or other public grounds belonging to the city, and may purchase and hold grounds for public parks within the city, or within three miles thereof.

  79.400.  Powers — regulation of lumberyards, fences, animals and poultry — may establish pounds. — 1.  The board of aldermen may prescribe limits within the city within which no lumberyard or woodyard shall be kept, and may regulate, restrain or prohibit the erection or maintenance of any fence composed in whole or in part of barbed wire, along or adjacent to any public street, avenue, alley, park, lane, cemetery or other public grounds.

  2.  The board of aldermen may also regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats and all other domestic animals, also geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys and all other domestic fowls and cause such animals or fowls as may be running at large to be impounded and sold in such manner and at such time as may be prescribed by ordinance.

  3.  They may also provide penalties for the owners or keepers who shall permit such animals or fowls to be at large.

  4.  The board of aldermen may also provide for the erection of all needful pounds, pens and buildings for the use of the city, within or without the city limits, and appoint and compensate keepers thereof and establish and enforce rules governing the same.

  5.  The board of aldermen may also tax, regulate and restrain and prohibit the running at large of dogs, and provide for their destruction when at large contrary to ordinance, and impose penalties on the owners or keepers thereof.

  79.410.  Powers — regulations governing. — The board of aldermen may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other public places of the city, and may provide for the removal of obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters and crosswalks, at the expense of the owners or occupants of the ground fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person causing the same; they may also regulate the planting of shade trees, erecting of awnings, hitching posts, lamp posts, awning posts, telephone, telegraph and electric light poles, and making of excavations through and under the sidewalks or in any public street, avenue, alley or other public place within the city.  They may prevent and punish for all horseracing, or other racing, fast riding or driving or training in the streets, highways, avenues, alleys, or over bridges or through tunnels in the city, and all games, practices or amusements therein likely to result in damage to any person or property, and to regulate, prevent and punish for the riding, driving, leading, standing, hitching or passing of horses, mules, oxen or other teams or stock or animals or any vehicle over or upon or across or along any sidewalk, street, avenue or alley of the city.

  79.430.  Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same. — The board of aldermen shall have power to purchase, receive, and to hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for public cemeteries, either within or without the city, within a distance of three miles thereof, and the city and its officers shall have jurisdiction over the said cemeteries wherever located; provided, that no such cemetery shall exceed eighty acres in one body.  The board of aldermen shall provide for the survey, platting, grading, fencing, ornamenting and improving of all the cemetery ground, and the avenues leading thereto, owned by the city, and may construct walks and protect ornamental trees, and provide for paying the expenses therefor.  The board of aldermen may make rules and pass ordinances imposing penalties and fines, regulating, protecting and governing city cemeteries, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, and punish trespassers therein, and the officers of such city shall have as full jurisdiction and power in the enforcing of such rules and ordinances as though they related to the city itself.

  79.440.  Cemetery lots, how sold. — The cemetery lots shall be conveyed by certificates, signed by the mayor, countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot described therein by numbers, as laid down upon the official map or plat of such cemetery made by the city, for the purpose of interment, and such certificate shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs or assigns, a right in fee simple to such lots, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the board of aldermen.  Such certificates shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of recorder of deeds of the proper county without further acknowledgment, and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognized as sufficient description thereof.  The board of aldermen may limit the number of lots owned by the same person at the same time, and may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning and erecting monuments, tombstones and ornaments on cemetery lots, and prohibit any improper adornment thereof; but no religious test shall be made to the ownership of the lots, or the burials had therein, or for the ornamentation of graves or lots.

  79.450.  Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed. — 1.  The board of aldermen shall enact ordinances to prohibit and suppress houses of prostitution and other disorderly houses and practices, including gambling and gambling houses, and all kinds of public indecencies, and may prohibit the selling or giving of intoxicating liquors to any minor or habitual drunkard.

  2.  The board of aldermen shall also enact ordinances to restrain and prohibit riots, noises, assaults and batteries, disturbances of the peace, disturbances of religious and other lawful assemblies, indecent shows, exhibitions or concerts in any street, house or place in the city, disorderly assemblies, and to regulate, restrain and prevent the discharge of firearms, and the keeping and discharge of rockets, powder, fireworks or other dangerous combustible materials in the streets or in limits of the city.

  3.  The board of aldermen may also regulate and control the construction of buildings, the construction and cleaning of fireplaces, chimneys, stoves and stovepipes, ovens, boilers, kettles, forges or any apparatus used in any building, manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires, and may provide for the inspection of the same.

  4.  The board of aldermen may also provide by ordinance limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick or stone or other incombustible materials, with fireproof roofs, and impose a penalty for the violation of such ordinance, and may cause buildings commenced, put up or removed into such limits in violation of such ordinance, to be removed or abated.

  5.  The board of aldermen may also purchase fire engines, hook and ladder outfits, hose and hose carts, buckets and all other apparatus useful in the extinguishing of fires, and organize fire companies and prescribe rules of duty for the government thereof, with such penalties for the violation thereof as they may deem proper, and not exceeding one hundred dollars and to make all necessary expenditures for the purchase of such fire apparatus and the payment of such fire companies.

  6.  The board of aldermen may enact or make all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

  7.  The board of aldermen may enact or make all ordinances, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, expedient for maintaining the peace, good government and welfare of the city and its trade and commerce.

  79.460.  Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons. — The board of aldermen may adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of and punishment for the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, and may also adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of vagrancy and providing that upon conviction one adjudged guilty may be imprisoned, fined or set to work.

  79.470.  Board to set penalties, limitation. — For all ordinance violations the board of aldermen may impose penalties not exceeding a fine of five hundred dollars and costs, or ninety days' imprisonment, or both the fine and imprisonment.  Where the city and state have a penalty for the same offense, the board shall set the same penalty by ordinance as is set by statute, except that imprisonments, when made under city ordinances, may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail.

  79.480.  Notice of action shall be given — when — contents. — No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the fourth class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard, street, sidewalk or thoroughfare, in said city until notice shall first have been given in writing to the mayor of said city, within ninety days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed, stating the place where, the time when such injury was received, and the character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages therefor from such city.

  79.490.  Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice. — 1.  The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall disincorporate such city as provided in this section.

  2.  The county governing body shall order an election upon the question of disincorporation of a fourth class city upon petition of twenty-five percent of the voters of the city.

  3.  The county governing body shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or, if there is no such newspaper in the city, then in the newspaper in the county published nearest the city.  The notice shall contain a copy of the petition and the names of the petitioners.  No election on the question of disincorporation shall be held until the notice has been published for four weeks successively.

  4.  The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:

  5.  Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of those persons voting on the question, the county governing body shall disincorporate the city.

  79.495.  Disincorporation without election allowed, when — diminishing city limits (certain fourth class cities). — 1.  The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall have the power to disincorporate such city upon petition of two-thirds of the voters of such city, without an election in such city, provided that the petition requests disincorporation without an election, and provided that the population of such city is less than one hundred.

  2.  Upon the application of any person or persons owning a tract of land containing five acres or more in a city of the fourth class with a population less than one hundred in any county, the governing body of such county may, in its discretion, diminish the limits of such city by excluding any such tract of land from said corporate limits without an election in such city; provided that such application shall be accompanied by a petition asking for such change without an election and signed by a majority of the registered voters in such city and to the extent there are no such registered voters available in such city, then such petition shall be signed by the parties owning a majority of the land area to be excluded from such city limits.  Thereafter, such tract of land so excluded shall not be deemed or held to be any part of such city.

  79.500.  Contracts not affected by disincorporation. — No dissolution of such corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such corporation or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such corporation.

  79.510.  County commission shall appoint trustee. — Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such city of the fourth class, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the commission, to the use of such disincorporated city, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty.

  79.520.  Trustee, duties. — The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the corporation, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to such corporation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and generally to do all acts requisite to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the corporation.

  79.530.  Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission. — Such trustee shall employ counsel whenever necessary in the discharge of his duties, and shall make report of his proceedings to the county commission at each regular term thereof, and such trustee shall receive for his services such compensation as the commission shall think reasonable.

  79.540.  Trustee to make final settlement with county commission. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation, and shall have paid all debts due by said corporation, he shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his hands, and take receipt therefor, and deliver to the clerk of such county commission all books, papers, records and deeds belonging to the dissolved corporation.

  79.550.  Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain municipalities). — Any fourth class city with a population of at least one thousand which is located within a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county and which has had, during four years prior to June 24, 1988, at least fifteen percent of the lands within the city limits of such city purchased under a federal noise abatement program designed to purchase residential property due to the high level of noise from a nearby airport, any municipality which adjoins a city not within a county and which contains an enterprise zone, and any municipality which has a population of less than seven thousand inhabitants which adjoins a city not within a county and also adjoins either a municipality containing an enterprise zone or a municipality which adjoins a municipality containing an enterprise zone may, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, establish a municipal redevelopment authority pursuant to sections 79.550 to 79.565.

  79.552.  Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities). — 1.  In any municipality eligible under section 79.550 to create a municipal redevelopment authority, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, there is hereby created a municipal redevelopment authority in such municipality, which shall consist of nine members appointed pursuant to this section.  Three members of such authority shall be appointed by the mayor of such municipality, six members of such authority shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate.

  2.  The members of the authority shall be citizens and residents of the state.  The members of the authority appointed by the mayor shall be residents of the municipality, or shall have previously been residents of the municipality for at least five years preceding the appointment.  Of the members of the authority appointed by the governor, at least four members shall be residents of the county in which the municipality is located and such members may also be residents of the municipality.

  3.  Each member appointed shall serve for a term of two years, except that of the members first appointed, two of the members appointed by the mayor and three of the members appointed by the governor shall serve for a term of one year.  The mayor shall designate one of the members as chairman.  Vacancies in the authority shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments are made.  Five members of the authority shall constitute a quorum, and any action or order of the authority shall require the approval of at least five members.

  4.  All members shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, except that the reimbursements for expenses incurred on any one day other than the cost of travel shall not exceed one hundred and fifty percent of the daily expense allowance established for members of the general assembly pursuant to section 21.145. Any member who is a resident of the county in which the municipality establishing the authority is located shall not be reimbursed for lodging.

  96.222.  Bonds, issuance of — payable from revenue — mortgage authorized. — The authority shall have the power to:

  (1)  Acquire by gift, purchase or lease, sell or otherwise dispose of, and to plan, construct, operate and maintain, or lease to others for operation and maintenance, industrial parks, warehouses, grain elevators, commodity and other storage facilities, and air, water, rail, motor vehicle and other terminal or parking facilities;

  (2)  Contract with municipalities or other political subdivisions for the services or use of any facility owned or operated by the authority, or owned or operated by any such municipality or other political subdivision;

  (3)  Borrow money for any of the authorized purposes of the authority and to issue the negotiable notes, bonds or other instruments in writing of the authority in evidence of the sum or sums to be borrowed;

  (4)  Issue negotiable refunding notes, bonds or other instruments in writing for the purpose of refunding, extending or unifying the whole or any part of its valid indebtedness from time to time outstanding, whether evidenced by notes, bonds or other instruments in writing;

  (5)  Provide that all negotiable notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued either pursuant to subdivision (3) or pursuant to subdivision (4) of this section shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, out of the revenues collected for the use of any facility or combination of facilities owned or operated or owned and operated by the authority, or out of any other resources of the authority, and may be further secured by a mortgage or deed of trust upon any property owned by the authority.  All notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by the authority as provided in this section shall be sold at public or private sale, shall mature in not to exceed thirty years from the date thereof, shall bear interest at the best obtainable rate, and shall be sold for not less than ninety-five percent of the par value thereof.  The authority shall have the power to prescribe the details of such notes, bonds or other instruments in writing, and of the issuance and sale thereof, and shall have power to enter into covenants with the holders of such notes, bonds or other instruments in writing, not inconsistent with the powers granted to the authority, without further legislative authority;

  (6)  Contract and be contracted with, and to sue and be sued in contract;

  (7)  Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to administer the provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565;

  (8)  Specifically purchase lands from the county in which one city is situated, from any county airport authority or from any other political subdivision of this state;

  (9)  Make leasing arrangements and contracts on any lands purchased by the authority in order to finance economic development, with revenues from such contracts and arrangements to be used to assist in the repayment of bonds issued by the authority;

  (10)  Hire personnel necessary in order to effectively administer the provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565.

  79.557.  Bonds, interest and income tax exempt — recognized as securities (certain municipalities). — 1.  All bonds, notes and other instruments of indebtedness issued by the authority and all interest thereon and income therefrom shall be tax exempt.

  2.  Any notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565 are hereby recognized to be securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings associations, building and loan associations, investment companies, and all other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or who may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state of Missouri may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them, or within their control and the obligations are hereby recognized as securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any state or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.

  79.560.  Purchases of real property, cooperation of other political subdivisions — limitation of powers (certain municipalities). — 1.  Where the authority attempts to purchase real property for fair market value from any political subdivision in this state, such political subdivision shall, if at all possible and if it would not incur undue hardship, assist the authority by selling such property.

  2.  The provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565 shall apply only in the boundaries of the municipality which establishes a municipal redevelopment authority as such boundaries existed on January 1, 1988.  If any such municipality disincorporates after establishing an authority, the authority shall be dissolved, except that the authority shall determine the method of retiring any bonds issued by the authority.

  79.565.  Elected or appointed officials, no financial interest in authority operations (certain municipalities). — No elected or appointed official or employee of the municipality or authority, and no spouse or dependent child of any official or employee shall have any financial or pecuniary interest whatsoever in any land, land development which is a part of a redevelopment project of the authority or any of the authority's operations including the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness.

  79.600.  Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka) — Notwithstanding the annexation provisions of chapter 71, if the governing body of a city of the fourth classification with more than seven thousand five hundred but fewer than seven thousand six hundred eighty inhabitants and located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants finds it is in the public interest that a parcel of land located in an unincorporated area of said county, which is proposed for use as a trash and recyclable material transfer facility or recyclable material reclamation facility, should be located in the city for purposes of ensuring that there is more local legislative consideration, building inspections, and monitoring of ongoing operations, the city may annex such parcel, provided that the city obtains the written consent of all the property owners located within the unincorporated area of such parcel.  Further, both such city and county shall adopt reciprocal ordinances authorizing the annexation of such parcel by the city.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 71.012, the subject parcel shall be considered contiguous and compact with the city if it is located within two miles of the city by means of railroad line-owned property.