1. Any such constitutional charter city is empowered to finance and pay for the planning, designing, acquisition, construction, equipment and improvement of property for parking motor vehicles by any one or combination of the following methods:

(1) General revenue funds, including any proceeds derived from the leasing of the parking facilities;

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 82.480

  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

(2) General obligation bonds within legal debt limitations;

(3) Negotiable interest-bearing revenue bonds, the principal and interest of which shall be payable from the revenues derived by such municipality from the leasing of the parking facilities, and when the existing facility is located within five hundred feet of a municipally owned and operated auditorium and convention hall, then the interest and principal of the bonds may be payable from any parking meter receipts or revenues from municipal parking meters located on any streets or facility and designated by ordinance to be used for that purpose, which proceeds or any part thereof may be pledged by the city to the retirement of negotiable interest-bearing bonds, which revenue bonds may be issued and sold by the municipality when authorized by the legislative authority of the city;

(4) Special benefit assessments, equal to the total cost of land and improvements or only a portion thereof, to be assessed against benefitted property in proportion to the benefit derived, to be paid entirely or in such installments and at such rate of interest as the legislative authority of any such city may prescribe.

2. The benefit assessments shall be determined in accordance with established local special assessment practice after proper notice and hearing, subject to the approval of the legislative authority of the city.