- 1. The board of fund commissioners of the state of Missouri, as authorized by section 37(h) of article III of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, may borrow on the credit of this state the sum of twenty million dollars for the purposes of financing and constructing storm water control plans, studies and projects as set out in this chapter. The department shall allocate these funds through grants and loans to municipalities, sewer districts, sewer districts established pursuant to article VI, section 30(a) of the Missouri Constitution, water districts, or any combination of the same located in a county of the first classification or in any city not within a county or by any county of the first classification.
- 2. Of the funds allocated in subsection 1 of this section, fifty percent shall be allocated to grants and fifty percent shall be allocated to loans. Grant amounts so awarded shall be fifty percent of the cost of the plan, study or project.
- 3. Grants and loans awarded pursuant to this section shall be disbursed to eligible recipients in counties of the first classification and in a city not within a county in an amount equal to the percentage ratio that the recipient's population bears to the total population of all counties of the first classification and cities not within a county as determined by the last decennial census.
- 4. Grants and loans awarded pursuant to this section shall be disbursed directly to eligible recipients in any city with a population of at least twenty-five thousand inhabitants located in a county of the first classification in an amount equal to the percentage ratio that the recipient's population bears to the total population of the county.
- 5. Other provisions of this section notwithstanding, in those cities or counties served by a sewer district established pursuant to article VI, section 30(a) of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, any grants or loans awarded shall be disbursed directly to such district.
(L. 1999 S.B. 160 & 82)
*This section was enacted by both H.B. 450 and S.B. 160 & 82 during the 1st Regular Session of the 90th General Assembly, 1999. Due to possible conflict, both versions are printed here.