- 1. When one hundred voters of any city of the third class shall petition the mayor and legislative branch of the municipal government, asking that an annual tax be levied for the maintenance of a home for orphan children and the children of indigent parents, and shall specify in the petition a rate of taxes not to exceed one mill on the dollar annually on all property in the city, such mayor by direction of the legislative branch of the municipal government shall submit the question to the voters.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be a tax for a children's home?
- 3. The tax specified shall be levied and collected and shall be known as the "children's home funds".
- 4. If a majority of voters in the city, voting on the question, vote to terminate the tax, the tax shall terminate.
- 5. In case of an increase in valuation in any year of the taxable property within such incorporated city, the council of such city may reduce the levy herein provided for by levying a tax for the maintenance of said orphans' home which in the judgment of said common council shall be sufficient for the maintenance of the orphans' home throughout the year, but in no case shall the tax so levied for any one year by the common council exceed ten percent more than the tax of the previous year.
(RSMo 1939 § 9659, A.L. 1975 H.B. 398, A.L. 1976 S.B. 729, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14122; 1919 § 1126