When any incorporated city of the third class shall have received, by gift or otherwise, a home for the care of orphan children or the children of indigent parents, which shall be known as "the children's home", the mayor of such city shall, with the approval of the legislative branch of the municipal government of such city, proceed to appoint a board of nine directors for the same, chosen from the residents at large, with reference to their fitness to such office; and no member of the municipal government shall be a member of said board.

(RSMo 1939 § 9660, A.L. 1975 H.B. 398)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 14123; 1919 § 1127