EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED ]
SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 678
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2022
3824S.04T
AN ACT
To repeal section 84.730, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the Kansas
City board of police.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 84.730, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 84.730, 2
to read as follows:3
84.730. It shall be the duty of the board, on the 1
fifteenth day of January of each year, to prepare, in 2
writing, a budget estimating the sum of money which will be 3
necessary for the next fiscal year, to enable the board to 4
discharge the duties hereby imposed upo n it, and to meet the 5
expenses of the police department, which it shall forthwith 6
certify to the governing body of such cities, and the budget 7
shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization units, 8
activities, functions, and character classes in not less 9
detail than "personal services", "contractual services", 10
"commodities", and "capital outlays", and shall in any event 11
be prepared in form and detail similar to the form and 12
detail in which budgets for the various departments of such 13
city government are prepared. The governing body of the 14
cities is hereby required to appropriate the total amount so 15
certified, payable out of the revenue of the cities after 16 SS SB 678 2
first having deducted the amount necessary to pay the 17
interest on the indebtedness of the cities, the amount 18
necessary for lighting the city, and any sum required by law 19
to be placed to the credit of the sinking fund of the 20
cities, and if the board shall be required to call out extra 21
police force and the expense thereof shall not have been 22
contemplated in their estimate for the fiscal year during 23
which the extra police force is called out, it shall 24
immediately certify the expense of such additional force, 25
and the additional amount so required shall be appropriated 26
for that purpose, except that in no event shall the 27
governing body of the cities be required to appropriate for 28
the use of the police board in any fiscal year an amount in 29
excess of [one-fifth] one-fourth of the general revenue fund 30
of such year. 31