[Ord. No. 01-121 §§1-5, 9-26-2001; Ord. No. 04-096 §1, 6-30-2004; Ord. No. 08-130 §1, 10-30-2008]
A. The office
of County Registrar is hereby created and shall be a division of the
Department of Finance.
B. The position
of County Registrar is hereby established as a position within the
merit system.
C. Pursuant to Article II, Section 2.507 of the St. Charles County Charter, and on the recommendation of the County Executive, the functions and duties of the office of County Clerk as delineated in the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, including, but not limited to, the duty to accept service of summons on the County as required by Section 506.150, RSMo., shall be transferred to the Department of Finance, with the exception of the functions and duties set out in Subsection
(D) below. Those duties and functions transferred by Ordinance No. 02-121 and amended by Ordinance No. 04-096 and transferred by Ordinance No. 01-159 shall now be transferred to the Registrar Division of the Department of Finance.
D. The functions
and duties of the office of County Clerk which are excepted from the
transfer to the office of County Registrar and remain the responsibility
of the County Clerk are all functions and duties regarding:
1. Voter
registration and the conduct and certification of elections;
2. Petitions
seeking the establishment of political subdivisions or special districts;
3. Petitions,
certification and recording of boundary changes, including, but not
limited to, consolidations, incorporations, disincorporations of political
subdivisions or special districts, petitions seeking the establishment
of, or inclusion of a new area in, special districts and the transfer
of areas between school districts in accordance with Missouri law.
E. The above
transfer of functions and duties from the County Clerk to Registrar
became effective January 1, 2002. The transfer of the duties of the
Registrar to a division of the Department of Finance shall become
effective January 1, 2009.
[Ord. No. 01-159 §§1—2, 11-28-2001]
A. The County
Clerk shall charge the following fee for services required by Sections
486.200 through 486.405, Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended:
Five dollars ($5.00) for processing the applicant's bond, maintaining
the applicant's signature on file and entering the notary in the register
of notaries for the County of St. Charles.
B. On January
1, 2002, the duty of the County Clerk set forth in Sections 486.200
through 486.405, Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended, shall be
transferred to the County Registrar and the authority to collect this
fee shall likewise be transferred from the County Clerk to the County
Registrar.