Missouri § 72.408 - Limitation on resubmission — void petition, when.
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§ 72.408. Limitation on resubmission — void petition, when.
1. If a boundary change is disapproved by the voters, no boundary change which contains more than sixty percent of the area of the disapproved boundary change shall be submitted to or processed by the commission any sooner than two years after the date of the disapproved boundary change.
2. Every petition shall be presented to the commission within two hundred eighty days following the date on which the first signature was affixed to the petition, or any part thereof, except that the period of time from June 14, 1999, to April 15, 2001, shall be excluded. Failure to present a petition within the foregoing time period shall render the petition absolutely void.
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(L. 1998 S.B. 809, A.L. 1999 S.B. 160 & 82, A.L. 2000 H.B. 1967)
Effective 6-27-00
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Source: official Missouri text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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