The inhabitants of the City of Florissant shall be and continue
to be a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the
name of the City of Florissant.
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Editor's Note—Ordinances annexing territory to the city
are not set out in this volume. Such ordinances are on file in the
office of the city clerk.
The municipal government of the City shall be a Mayor-Council
government. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, the Mayor
shall possess all executive and administrative power of the City and
the Council shall be vested with all legislative authority.
The City shall have all powers of local self-government and
home rule and all powers possible for any City to have under the constitution
and laws of the State of Missouri or which the general assembly would
be competent to grant to any City of any class or population group,
and except as prohibited by the Constitution of the State of Missouri,
the City may exercise all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges,
and immunities of every name and nature. Such powers shall be exercised
in the manner prescribed in this Charter or, if not prescribed herein,
in such manner as may be prescribed by the Council.
The enumeration of particular powers in this Charter is not
exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or phrases granting
powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant power in this Article
impair a power granted in any other part of this Charter; and whether
powers, objects, or purposes are expressed conjunctively or disjunctively,
they shall be construed so as to permit the City to exercise freely
any one or more such powers as to any one or more such objects for
any one or more such purposes.
[Ord. No. 2944 § 1, 7-8-1974]
The City is hereby divided into nine (9) wards bounded and numbered
as shown on the map which is attached to and made a part of this Charter.
On or before the first day of September, 1976, and thereafter
promptly following each federal decennial census, the Council shall
appoint a redistricting commission consisting of nine (9) registered
voters, one (1) from each ward of the City, who have resided in the
City of Florissant for at least two (2) years immediately prior to
their appointment, and who shall not be officers or employees of the
City. The commission shall review the ward boundaries and recommend
such changes in ward boundaries as it deems appropriate to the end
that wards shall comprise compact and contiguous territory and contain,
as nearly as possible, an equal number of inhabitants. The commission
shall make its report in writing to the Council not later than three
(3) months following the date of the appointment of its members. The
Council, after a public hearing, shall take final action on the recommendations
of the commission not later than thirty (30) days following receipt
of such report. The Council may adopt, reject, or modify the recommendations
of the commission, provided that the wards shall comprise compact
and contiguous territory and shall contain, as nearly as possible,
an equal number of inhabitants. If the Council fails to adopt the
commission's recommendations or a modification thereof or substitution
therefor by the date specified above, the recommendations of the commission
shall become effective without Council action. Any changes in ward
boundaries made pursuant to this Section shall be effective for the
following regular election and for each succeeding election until
changed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
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Editor's Note—The ward boundaries for the city are as
established and designated on the maps attached to Ord. No. 2685,
12-18-1972; Ord. No. 4038 § 1, 11-23-1981; Ord. No. 5324,
February 10, 1992, which are on file in the office of the city clerk.
