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Statutes > Missouri > T07 > C078 > 78_430Third class city may adopt city manager form of government--procedure.
78.430. 1. Any city of the third class, or any city with a populationentitling it to become a city of the third class, may become organized underthe provisions of sections 78.430 to 78.640 by proceeding in the followingmanner: Upon petition of voters residing in the city equal in number totwenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor in the lastpreceding election, the mayor shall by proclamation submit the question oforganizing under sections 78.430 to 78.640.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the city of ........... organize under sections 78.430 to 78.640,RSMo, providing for the city manager form of government?
3. The election thereon shall be conducted, votes canvassed, and resultsdeclared in the same manner as provided for by law in respect to other cityelections of cities of the third class. If a majority of votes cast on thequestion is in favor of adopting the optional form of government provided forherein, the city clerk shall transmit to the secretary of state and to thecounty clerk of the county in which the city is located, duplicate copies of acertificate stating that the question was adopted. The city shall thenproceed to organize under sections 78.430 to 78.640, by nomination ofcandidates and election of councilmen as herein provided. The elections shallbe held at the next municipal election following the date of adoption ofsections 78.430 to 78.640. If the plan is not adopted, the question ofadopting the plan shall not be resubmitted to the voters of the city foradoption for at least one year thereafter, and then the question of adoptionmay be resubmitted upon a like petition, proclamation and notice as providedabove.
(RSMo 1939 § 7080, A.L. 1957 p. 240, A.L. 1961 p. 198, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)Prior revision: 1929 § 6930
