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.
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(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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[1]
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.
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.
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(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)
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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.
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(Ord. No. 28045 Question 3, 5-19-08; Ord. No. 28083 Question
3, 8-25-08)
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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.
