Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 65

Township Organization Counties

←65.697

Section 65.700.1

65.701→

August 28, 2015

Termination of township zoning, procedure, effect.

65.700. 1. Upon receipt of a petition signed by a number of voters in

the township equal to five percent of the total vote cast in the township at

the next preceding election for governor requesting submission of the

question, the township board in any township which has adopted a program of

township planning, township zoning or township planning and zoning shall

submit to the voters of the township the question to terminate the program.



2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:



Shall township planning (township zoning or township planning and zoning)

be terminated?



3. If a majority of those voting on the question vote for the

termination of the program, the township board shall declare the program

terminated and shall discharge any commission appointed thereunder. Any

resolution, ordinance or regulation adopted under the program pursuant to the

provisions of sections 65.650 to 65.700 shall be void and of no effect from

and after the termination of the program as provided in this section.



(L. 1989 S.B. 11 § 20)







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