File #: 4105    Version: Name: JaCoCode - anti-drug sales tax
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/8/2009 In control: (R)Anti-Drug Committee
On agenda: 6/8/2009 Final action: 6/22/2009
Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing section 9305. Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the anti-drug sales tax and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject.
Sponsors: Dan Tarwater III, Henry C. Rizzo, Scott Burnett
Indexes: ANTI-DRUG SALES TAX FUND, JACKSON COUNTY CODE
Attachments: 1. 4105adopt.pdf
Anti-Drug Committee Substitute
June 15, 2009

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE repealing section 9305. Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the anti-drug sales tax and enacting, in lieu thereof, one new section relating to the same subject.

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ORDINANCE #4105, June 8, 2009

INTRODUCED BY Dan Tarwater, Henry Rizzo, and Scott Burnett, County Legislators

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WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance 3974, the 2008 revisions to Chapter 93 of the County Code have changed the role of the new Drug Commission; and,

WHEREAS, in 2009 a comprehensive Ethics Code relating to all officers, employees, boards and commissions was adopted; and,

WHEREAS, these actions have lessened the need for separate stringent conflict of interest provisions in Chapter 93; and,

WHEREAS, the revisions to Chapter 93 of the County Code proposed in this Ordinance, together with the new Ethics Code, will appropriately address the need for uniform conflict of interest requirements for all County boards and commissions; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri as follows:

Section A. Enacting_Clause. Section 9305., Jackson County Code, 1984, is hereby repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 9305., to read as follows:

9305. Drug Commission.
A Drug Commission shall be established and organized as follows:
9305.1 Composition
The County Executive shall appoint, as members of the commission, nine residents of Jackson County from among those recommended by the County Legislature or from among those citizens known by the County Executive to be interested in serving on the Commission. One member shall be appointed from each of the six legislative districts and three members shall be appointed from the County at large. The at-large members shall represent the professional fields of law, substance abuse, and public health/health...

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