Missouri § 99.948 - Powers of municipality creating authority — powers authorized to authority — public hearings held, when.

§ 99.948. Powers of municipality creating authority — powers authorized to authority — public hearings held, when.

1.  A municipality which has created an authority pursuant to section 99.921 may:

(1)  Approve by ordinance the exercise by the authority of the powers, functions, and duties of the authority under sections 99.915 to 99.980; and

(2)  After adopting an ordinance in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection and after receipt of recommendations from the authority in accordance with subsections 3 and 4 of this section, by ordinance, designate development areas or expanded development areas, adopt the development plans and development projects or adopt expanded development plans and expanded development projects, designate a development project area for each development project adopted or designate an expanded development project area for each expanded development project adopted, and adopt development financing for each such development project area or adopt development financing for each such expanded development project area.  No development plan or expanded development plan, as applicable, may be adopted until the development area or expanded development area, as applicable, is designated.  No development project or expanded development project, as applicable, shall be adopted until the development plan or expanded development plan, as applicable, is adopted and the development project area for each development project or the expanded development project area for each expanded development project, as applicable, shall be designated at the time of adopting the development project or expanded development project, as applicable.

2.  A municipality may authorize an authority created pursuant to section 99.921 to exercise all powers and perform all functions of a transportation development district pursuant to sections 238.200 to 238.280 within a development area or expanded development area, as applicable.  An expanded development project shall not, by virtue of receiving increments under sections 99.915 to 99.980, be rendered ineligible to participate in the programs established by sections 67.1401 to 67.1571, 100.010 to 100.200, and 238.200 to 238.280.

3.  With respect to development plans and development areas, the municipality or authority shall hold public hearings and provide notice pursuant to sections 99.957 and 99.960.  Within ten days following the completion of any such public hearing, the authority shall vote on and shall make recommendation to the governing body of the municipality with regard to any development plan, development projects, designation of a development area or amendments thereto which were proposed at such public hearing.

4.  The municipality or authority may only consider and approve any expanded development plan, expanded development project, designation of an expanded development area or amendments thereto, modification of a development area or development project area, and, to the extent required under section 99.951, amendments thereto at a meeting held in accordance with chapter 610.

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(L. 2003 H.B. 289, A.L. 2026 H.B. 3231 & 2531)

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