As used in sections 67.750 to 67.799 and sections 67.1700 to 67.1769, the following terms mean:

(1) “Board”, any board, commission, committee or council appointed or designated to carry out the provisions of sections 67.750 to 67.799 and sections 67.1700 to 67.1769;

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 67.750

  • 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
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(2) “County”, any county or any city not within a county;

(3) “District”, any regional recreational district proposed or created pursuant to sections 67.750 to 67.799 and sections 67.1700 to 67.1769;

(4) “Executive”, any mayor, county executive, presiding commissioner, or other chief executive of a county;

(5) “Gateway Arch grounds”, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site as defined by the United States Department of the Interior, and related public property and improvements;

(6) “Governing body”, any city council, county commission, board of aldermen, county council, board of education or township board;

(7) “Metropolitan district”, any metropolitan park and recreation district established pursuant to sections 67.1700 to 67.1769;

(8) “Political subdivision”, any county, township, city, incorporated town or village in the state of Missouri, and any school district in any county of the first classification without a charter form of government with a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants which contains all or part of a city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants;

(9) “Regional recreation fund” or “metropolitan park and recreation fund”, the fund held in the treasury of the county providing the largest financial contribution to the district or metropolitan district, as appropriate, which shall be the repository for all taxes and other moneys raised by or for the regional recreation district or metropolitan park and recreation district pursuant to sections 67.792 to 67.799 and sections 67.1700 to 67.1769.