182.150. Election on tax to establish and maintain library, procedure--funds, management and disbursement (cities over 600,000).
Election on tax to establish and maintain library, procedure--funds,management and disbursement (cities over 600,000).
182.150. 1. In cities of six hundred thousand inhabitants or over whenone hundred voters of the city, or the library board of any free publiclibrary heretofore established in the city, petition in writing the mayor andcouncil, or the mayor and board of aldermen, of the city asking that an annualtax be levied for the establishment, maintenance, rehabilitation or extensionof a free public library, or for the maintenance, rehabilitation or extensionof a free public library theretofore established in the city, and specify intheir petition a rate of taxation on all taxable property in the city, themayor and council, or mayor and board of aldermen, shall submit the questionat an election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be a tax of ............... (insert amount) on each onehundred dollars valuation for a public library?
3. In case the proposed tax is sought as an increased tax for themaintenance, rehabilitation or extension of a library already established,over a lesser tax rate theretofore voted and adopted, then the fact shall berecited in the petition and the notice for the election.
4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be tax increase of ............... (insert amount) over thepresent ........ tax per hundred dollars assessed valuation for the freepublic library?
5. If a majority of all the votes cast on the question is for the taxsubmitted, the tax specified in the notice shall be levied and collected inlike manner with other general taxes of the city, and the proceeds of such taxshall be known as and become a part of the "City Library Fund", to beadministered as provided in section 182.440.
6. The tax shall cease or the tax rate thereof be decreased whenever thevoters of the city determine by a majority vote on the question. The tax ratemay be increased to but not to exceed the rate or limit as may be hereafterprovided by law upon like petition, order of mayor and common council or boardof aldermen, notice of election and the purpose thereof, and majority vote infavor of such increase as provided by this section to be made, given, filedand held as in the case of establishing the public library. Nothing containedin this section or done pursuant to its provisions shall be construed to waiveor satisfy the duty of the general assembly under section 10 of article IX ofthe constitution of this state to grant aid to any free public librarysupported by the city, in such manner and in such amounts as may be providedby law. Any tax rate authorized hereunder may be levied in excess of therates of taxation authorized by law for general municipal purposes, or forcounty purposes of the city of St. Louis, pursuant to section 11 of article Xof the constitution of this state.
(L. 1945 p. 1127 § 14752, A.L. 1951 p. 511, A.L. 1955 p. 555, A.L. 1961 p. 404, A.L. 1969 p. 288, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1643, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1985 S.B. 152)Effective 12-31-85