Any elected or appointed officer, employee, or member of any committee, authority, board or commission of the City who has any direct or indirect substantial financial interest (as defined by the conflict of interest Statutes of Missouri):
(a) 
In any party transacting business with the City, or
(b) 
In the subject matter of any City transaction, shall make known that interest and shall refrain from voting upon or otherwise participating in his/her capacity as a City Officer, employee or member in such transaction. Any City Officer, employee or member who willfully conceals such a substantial financial interest or willfully violates the requirements of this Section shall be guilty of malfeasance in office or position and shall forfeit the office or position. Violation of this Section with the express or implied knowledge of the party transacting business with the City shall render the transaction voidable by the City.
(a) 
Activities Prohibited.
(1) 
Discrimination. No person shall be appointed to or removed from, or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to, any City position or appointive City administrative office because of race, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, political or religious opinions or affiliations.
(2) 
False reports. No person shall willfully make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report in regard to any test, certification or appointment under the personnel provisions of this Charter or the rules and regulations made thereunder, or in any manner commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of such provisions, rules and regulations.
(3) 
Undue influence. No person who seeks appointment or promotion with respect to any City position or appointive City administrative office shall directly or indirectly give, render or pay any money, service or other valuable thing to any person for or in connection with his/her test, appointment, proposed appointment, promotion or proposed promotion.
(4) 
Concealed Weapons. No person shall directly or indirectly carry any concealed weapon capable of lethal use onto any portion of a building owned, leased, or controlled by the City of Raymore or during any meeting of the Council or its advisory boards, commissions, or committees wherever they are held.
(b) 
Penalties. Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section shall, upon conviction, be punishable as may be provided by law or by ordinance.
(Ord. No. 28045 Questions 2 and 12, 5-19-08; Ord. No. 28083 Questions 2 and 12, 8-25-08; Ord. No. 2010-64 Question 1, 8-9-10; Ord. No. 2010-103, Question 1, 11-22-10[1])
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Editor's Note: Approved by vote of the people on 11-2-2010.
(a) 
All employees may exercise their rights as private citizens to express opinions and, if a qualified voter of the City, to vote in any municipal election. Political affiliation, participation or contribution shall not be considered in making any City employment decision. No City Officer, committee, authority, board or commission member, or employee shall use official authority or official influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election to a Raymore City office or any ballot proposition. No City Officer, committee, authority, board or commission member, or employee shall directly or indirectly coerce or command a City employee to pay, lend or contribute anything of value to a committee, organization, agency or person for the political or electoral purposes of any candidate for Raymore City office or any ballot proposition.
(b) 
Penalties. Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as may be provided by law or ordinance.
In addition to all other powers herein granted, the City of Raymore shall have the right and authority to administer and enforce all its municipal ordinances within all areas owned or occupied by the City which are outside of the corporate City limits.
No action shall be maintained against the City for or on account of any injury growing out of alleged negligence of the City unless notice shall first have been given in writing to the Mayor within ninety (90) days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed, stating the place, time, character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages thereof from the City.
All officers and employees of the City who receive, disburse, or are responsible for City funds, and such other officers and employees as the Council by ordinance may designate, shall, within such time after election or appointment as may be fixed by ordinance, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond to the City in such sums and with such sureties as shall be prescribed by ordinance or law, and subject to approval by the Council, conditioned upon the faithful and proper performance of their duties and for the prompt accounting for and paying over to the City of all monies belonging to the City that may come into their hands. The City shall pay the premiums on all such bonds.
(a) 
Procedure. Amendments to this Charter may be framed and submitted to the electors by a commission in the manner provided by law and the Missouri Constitution for framing and submitting a complete Charter. Amendments may also be proposed by the Council by the Charter Review Commission, or by petition of not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified voters of the City, filed with the City Clerk, setting forth the proposed amendments(s). In the event that a petition is filed with the City Clerk, the petition shall be certified according to the provisions of subsection (f) below. The Council, upon certification pursuant to subsection (f), if applicable, shall at once provide by ordinance that any amendment so proposed shall be submitted to the voters at the next election held in the City not less than sixty (60) days after passage of the ordinance, or at a special election held as provided by law and the Constitution for a Charter. Copies of the proposed Charter amendment shall be made available at the polls. Any amendment approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon shall become a part of this Charter at the time and under the conditions fixed in the amendment. Sections or Articles may be submitted separately or in the alternative and determined as provided by law and the Constitution for a complete Charter.
(b) 
Commencement of Proceedings—Petitioners' Committee—Affidavit. Any five (5) qualified voters may propose a Charter amendment by filing with the City Clerk an affidavit stating they will constitute the petitioners' committee and be responsible for circulating the petition and filing it in proper form, stating their names and addresses and specifying the address to which all notices to the committee are to be sent, and setting out in full the proposed Charter amendment. Not more than five (5) business days after the affidavit of the petitioners' committee is filed, the City Clerk shall issue the appropriate petition blanks to the petitioners' committee.
(c) 
Form and Content. All papers of a petition shall be uniform in size and style and shall be assembled as one (1) instrument for filing. Each signature shall be executed in ink or indelible pencil and shall be followed by the address of the person signing. The petitions shall contain the full text of the Charter amendment proposed.
(d) 
Affidavit of Circulator. When filed, each paper of a petition shall have attached to it an affidavit executed by the circulator thereof stating that the circulator personally circulated the paper, the number of signatures thereon, that all the signatures were affixed in the circulator's presence, that the circulator believes them to be the genuine signatures of the persons whose names they purport to be, and that each signer had an opportunity before signing to read the full text of the Charter amendment proposed. A petition circulator need not be a member of the petitioners' committee, but shall be a qualified voter.
(e) 
Time for Filing Petitions. A Charter amendment shall be filed within one hundred twenty (120) calendar days of the issuance of the appropriate petition forms to the petitioners' committee.
(f) 
Procedure for Certifying Petition. In the event that a petition signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified votes of the City is submitted for a Charter amendment to the City Clerk, the City Clerk shall, within thirty (30) calendar days after the filing of the petition, complete a certificate as to the petition's sufficiency, specifying, if it is insufficient, the particulars wherein it is defective and shall promptly send a copy of the certificate to the petitioners' committee by registered mail. A petition certified insufficient for lack of the required number of valid signatures may be amended if the petitioners' committee files a notice of intention to amend it with the City Clerk within two (2) business days after receiving the copy of the City Clerk's certificate and files a supplement to the petition within ten (10) calendar days after receiving the copy of such certificate. Such supplement to the petition shall comply with the requirements as outlined above, and within ten (10) business days after it is filed, the City Clerk shall complete a certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition as amended and promptly send a copy of such certificate to the petitioners' committee by registered mail as in the case of an original petition. If a petition or amended petition is certified insufficient and the petitioners' committee does not amend it within the time required, the City Clerk shall promptly present the City Clerk's certificate to the Council, and the certificate shall then be a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.
(g) 
Court Review—New Petition. A final determination as to the sufficiency of a petition shall be subject to court review. A final determination of insufficiency, even if sustained upon court review, shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.
(h) 
Withdrawal of Petitions. A Charter amendment petition may be withdrawn at any time prior to 5:00 P.M. on the final day for certification, as prescribed by State law, by filing with the City Clerk a request for withdrawal signed by at least four (4) members of the petitioners' committee. Upon the filing of such requests, the petition shall have no further force or effect and all proceedings thereon shall be terminated.
(Ord. No. 2013-084 Question 3, 12-9-13; Ord. No. 2014-015 Question 3, 4-14-14; Ord. No. 2017-078, Question 16, 11-27-17)
From time to time, but no less often than every ten (10) years, the Council shall provide for a Charter Review Commission to review this Charter and to recommend to the voters of the City proposed amendments, if any, to this Charter. The members of the Charter Review Commission shall be selected as provided by the Council. The Charter Review Commission shall consist of nine (9) qualified voters of the City, not more than three (3) of whom shall be an elected official of the City. No more than three (3) of the Commission members shall reside in any one (1) Council ward. The Charter Review Commission shall, within twelve (12) months of its first (1st) meeting, report to the voters as many amendments to the Charter as it shall deem advisable.
(a) 
Improvements. The procedure for making, altering, vacating or abandoning a public improvement shall be governed by general ordinance, consistent with applicable State law.
(b) 
Special Assessments. The procedure for levying, collecting and enforcing payment of special assessments for public improvements or special tax bills or liens evidencing such assessments shall be governed by general ordinance, consistent with applicable State law.
(Ord. No. 28045 Question 3, 5-19-08; Ord. No. 28083 Question 3, 8-25-08)
Any ordinance may be proved by a copy thereof certified by the City Clerk under the Seal of the City. When printed and published by authority of the City, the certified copy shall be received in evidence in all courts, or other places, without further proof of authenticity.
If any provision of this Charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the Charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application of the Charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application of the Charter and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.