Missouri § 94.700 - Definitions.

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§ 94.700. Definitions.

The following words, as used in sections 94.700 to 94.755, shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1)  "City" shall mean any incorporated city, town, or village in the state of Missouri with a population of one hundred or more, but the term "city" does not include any city not within a county or any city of over four hundred thousand inhabitants wholly or partially within a first class county;

(2)  "City transit authority" shall mean a commission or board created by city charter provision or by ordinance of a city, and which operates a public mass transportation system;

(3)  "City utilities board" shall mean a board or commission created by city charter provision or by ordinance of a city, which controls and operates city-owned utilities including a public mass transportation system;

(4)  "Director of revenue" shall mean the director of revenue of the state of Missouri;

(5)  "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any political subdivision created by compact between this state and another state, which is a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of both contracting states, and which operates a public mass transportation system;

(6)  "Interstate transportation district" shall mean that geographical area set forth and defined in the particular compact between this state and another state;

(7)  "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, or other entity;

(8)  "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a transportation system or systems owned and operated by an interstate transportation authority, a municipality, a city transit authority, or a city utilities board, employing motor buses, rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons, mainly providing local transportation service within an interstate transportation district or municipality;

(9)  "Transportation purposes" shall mean financial support of a public mass transportation system; the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of streets, roads, sidewalks, trails, community-owned parking lots, and bridges within a municipality; the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of airports owned and operated by municipalities; the acquisition of lands and rights-of-way for streets, roads, sidewalks, trails, community-owned parking lots, bridges, and airports; and planning and feasibility studies for streets, roads, sidewalks, trails, community-owned parking lots, bridges, and airports.  "Bridges" shall include bridges connecting a municipality with another municipality either within or without the state, with an unincorporated area of the state, or with another state or an unincorporated area thereof.

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(L. 1983 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 9 § 1, A.L. 1987 H.B. 210, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with H.B. 186, A.L. 2012 S.B. 568)

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