1. Upon receipt of a petition signed by a number of voters in the county equal to five percent of the total vote cast in the county at the next preceding election for governor requesting submission of the question, the county commission in any county which has adopted a program of county planning, county zoning or county planning and zoning shall submit to the voters of the county the question to terminate the program.

2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:

Shall county planning (county zoning or county planning and zoning) be terminated?

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 64.695

  • 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

3. If a majority of those voting on the question vote for the termination of the program, the county commission shall declare the program terminated and shall discharge any commission appointed thereunder. Any resolution, ordinance or regulation adopted under the program pursuant to the provisions of sections 64.510 to 64.690 shall be void and of no effect from and after the termination of the program as provided in this section.