All County Officials Legislation - Missouri

SB 1285 - Effective January 1, 2009, for all charter counties and the City of St. Louis, assessors are required to provide the city or county clerks with assessment books on or before March first of each year. The city or county clerks must make abstracts of the assessment books showing the aggregate amounts of different types of property and the valuations of each type for each political subdivision levying taxes on property. The governing bodies of political subdivisions must use the information provided in the abstracts to informally project non-binding tax rate levies and provide such projected levies to the clerk no later than April 15th of each year. Utilizing the projected tax levies, the county collector must then calculate the projected tax liability for each property for which the assessor intends to provide a notice of increased assessed value by April thirtieth. Failure by a political subdivision to provide projected tax levies by April 15th will result in a twenty percent reduction [...]

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SB 1271 - This act requires the City of St. Louis to provide suitable furnishings for the public administrator and the city supply commission shall purchase necessary supplies for the public administrator. Such supplies shall be approved by the comptroller. All necessary expenses incurred by the public administrator of St. Louis City shall, upon his or her requisition, be approved by the comptroller and paid out of the city treasury. The public administrator of St. Louis City, with the approval of the majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court in St. Louis City, shall employ necessary deputies and fix their salaries. Such compensation cannot exceed the annual rate of compensation fixed by the board of aldermen. For additional duties imposed by this act, the public administrator shall act as trustee or successor trustee when so appointed by the circuit court or the probation division of the circuit court. This act is similar to a provision of SS/SCS/HB 1711 (2008) & HB 2367 [...]

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SB 1032 - Under current law, certain dangerous wild animals may not be kept unless they are registered with local law enforcement except if the animals are kept in a zoo, circus, scientific or educational institution, research laboratory, veterinary hospital or animal refuge. This act removes the exception for animal refuges. The act also adds the criteria that research laboratories and scientific and educational institutions must be accredited, veterinary hospitals must be permitted by the Missouri Veterinary Medical Board, and zoos must be accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in order for the exception to apply. The act specifies that the law enforcement agency responsible for receiving the registrations is the chief law enforcement official in each county or in the City of St. Louis, or his or her designee. Any such dangerous wild animal shall be registered within five days of being acquired or moved into any county or the city of St. Louis. The act adds the requirement [...]

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CCS/HCS/SS/SCS/SB 711 - This act modifies laws regarding property taxation by requiring tax rate rollbacks by all political subdivisions in reassessment years, changing the way voter-approved tax increases are applied to assessed values, changing the time line for the assessment and appeal of property taxes. The imposition of penalties and interest on the erroneous payments of property taxes is prohibited when there is clear and convincing evidence that the county made an error in determining the tax amount due. Any penalty or interest paid by the taxpayer will be refunded upon the discovery of the error or omission. Voter-approved property tax rate increases must to be applied to a political subdivision's most recent total assessed valuation, as certified by the city or county on or before the date of the election. Every political subdivision in a reassessment year must roll back its prior year's tax rate regardless of whether the political subdivision was levying the tax at its [...]

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