State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Missouri > T12 > C190 > 190_010Territory of district may be noncontiguous--ambulance districtsauthorized except in counties of 400,000 or morepopulation--district, how named.
190.010. 1. An ambulance district may be created, incorporated andmanaged as provided in sections 190.001 to 190.090 and may exercise thepowers herein granted or necessarily implied. The territory containedwithin the corporate limits of a proposed ambulance district shall not berequired to be contiguous. Any territory which is noncontiguous within aproposed district must be located so that at least a portion of theterritory lies within five miles of any other portion of the territorycontained within the proposed ambulance district. Notwithstanding theprovisions of subsection 2 of section 190.015, an ambulance district mayinclude municipalities or territory not in municipalities or both orterritory in one or more counties; except, that the provisions of sections190.001 to 190.090 are not effective in counties having a population ofmore than four hundred thousand inhabitants at the time the ambulancedistrict is formed. The territory contained within the corporate limits ofan existing ambulance district shall not be incorporated in anotherambulance district. Ambulance districts created and still operating beforeAugust 1, 1998, in counties of less than four hundred thousand populationare authorized to continue operation subject to sections 190.001 to 190.090if the population of the county within the ambulance district exceeds fourhundred thousand after August 1, 1998.
2. When an ambulance district is organized it shall be a bodycorporate and a political subdivision of the state and shall be known as"............... Ambulance District", and in that name may sue and be sued,levy and collect taxes within the limitations of sections 190.001 to190.090 and the constitution and issue bonds as provided in sections190.001 to 190.090.
(L. 1971 S.B. 108 § 1, A.L. 1998 S.B. 743, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with S.B. 210)
