As used in sections 182.701 to 182.723, the following terms mean:

(1) “Nine director urban school district”, a school district which is located in a county of the first class having a charter form of government, which school district contains the greater part of a city which has a population of more than three hundred thousand inhabitants as defined in sections 162.461 to 162.551;

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 182.701

  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(2) “Public library purposes”, all those functions ordinarily and properly carried out by a public library, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, storage, indexing, display and distribution of reading and viewing materials for use by the public, maintenance of facilities for the storage, reading and viewing of such materials, and the management and administration of these operations;

(3) “Board of trustees”, the members of the library board of an urban public library district appointed pursuant to the provisions of sections 182.701 to 182.723.