Mo. Rev. Stat. § 162.491 – Directors may be nominated by petition, when — contents of petition, certain districts — no petition required, Buchanan County

1. Directors for urban school districts, other than those districts containing the greater part of a city of over one hundred thirty thousand inhabitants, may be nominated by petition to be filed with the secretary of the board and signed by a number of voters in the district equal to ten percent of the total number of votes cast for the director receiving the highest number of votes cast at the next preceding biennial election, except as provided in subsection 4 of this section.
2. This section shall not be construed as providing the sole method of nominating candidates for the office of school director in urban districts which do not contain the greater part of a city of over three hundred thousand inhabitants.
3. A director for any urban school district containing a city of greater than one hundred thirty thousand inhabitants and less than three hundred thousand inhabitants may be nominated as an independent candidate by filing with the secretary of the board a petition signed by five hundred registered voters of such school district.
^*4. In any urban school district located in a county of the first classification with more than eighty-three thousand but fewer than ninety-two thousand inhabitants and with a home rule city with more than seventy-six thousand but fewer than ninety-one thousand inhabitants as the county seat, a candidate for director shall file a declaration of candidacy with the secretary of the board and shall not be required to submit a petition.

(L. 1963 p. 200 § 3-49, A.L. 1965 p. 283, A.L. 1967 p. 232, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 H.B. 463, A.L. 2015 H.B. 63, A.L. 2015 S.B. 104)

(Source: RSMo 1959 § 165.470)

Effective 4-08-15 (H.B. 63); 8-28-15 (S.B. 104)

*Revisor's note: H.B. 63, effective 4-08-15, contained the following language for subsection 4 which was amended by S.B. 104, effective 8-28-15: "4. In any urban school district located in a home rule city with more than seventy-one thousand but fewer than seventy-nine thousand inhabitants, a candidate for director shall file a declaration of candidacy with the secretary of the board and shall not be required to submit a petition."