Effective 28 Aug 2007
260.830. Landfill fee authorized, counties of third and fourth classification — approval, ballot, limitation. — 1. Any county of the third classification or any county of the second classification with more than forty-eight thousand two hundred but less than forty-eight thousand three hundred inhabitants or any county of the fourth classification with more than forty-eight thousand two hundred but less than forty-eight thousand three hundred inhabitants may or any county of the first classification with more than one hundred four thousand six hundred but fewer than one hundred four thousand seven hundred inhabitants, by a majority vote of its governing body, impose a landfill fee pursuant to this section and section 260.831, for the benefit of the county. No order or ordinance enacted pursuant to the authority granted by this section shall be effective unless the governing body of the county submits to the qualified voters of the county, at a public election, a proposal to authorize the governing body of the county to impose a fee under the provisions of this section. The ballot of submission shall be in substantially the following form:
If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting thereon are in favor of the proposal, then the order or ordinance and any amendments thereto shall become effective on the first day of the calendar quarter immediately after such election results are certified. If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters voting are opposed to the proposal, then the governing body of the county shall have no power to impose the fee authorized by this section unless and until the governing body of the county shall again have submitted another proposal to authorize the governing body of the county to impose such fee, and the proposal is approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon. If an economic development authority does not exist in a county at the time that a landfill fee is adopted by such county under this section, then the governing body of such county shall establish an economic development authority in the county.
2. The landfill fee authorized by such an election may not exceed one dollar and fifty cents per ton or its volumetric equivalent of solid waste accepted, which charge may be in addition to any such fee currently imposed pursuant to the provisions of section 260.330.
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(L. 1993 S.B. 80, et al. § 17, A.L. 2003 S.B. 11 merged with S.B. 546, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
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