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Article 11: Amending the Plan  
Amending the Plan
SECTION 11.010. Amending the Plan.

Amendments to this Plan may be proposed and adopted in any one of the following ways:

  1. In the manner provided in the Constitution of Missouri for preparing, proposing, submitting, and adopting a complete plan.
     

  2. By ordinance adopted by the Board and submitted to the registered voters residing within the District at a general or special election and approved by a majority of those voting on the proposition in the portions of the District situated within the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, respectively.
     

  3. By petitions signed by registered voters residing within the District in such number as shall equal five per cent of the total vote cast in the portions of the District situated within the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, respectively, at the last general election for governor. Each petition shall contain the full text of the proposal and an enacting clause which shall read as follows: "Be it resolved by the people of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District that the District Plan be amended:". The petitions shall be filed with the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis and the Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County, respectively, which shall determine their sufficiency. Said boards shall submit the proposal to the registered voters residing within the District at the next state or county primary or general election day occurring not less than ninety days after the petitions are filed; provided, that the Board of the District may by ordinance provide for the submission of said proposal at a special election to be held not less than ninety days nor more than one hundred twenty days after said petitions are filed. An affirmative vote of a majority of those voting on any proposal in the portions of the District situated within the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, respectively, shall be sufficient for its adoption.

SECTION 11.020. Plan Amendment Commission – Appointment – Qualifications – Duties.

On or before January 20, 2010, and every ten years thereafter, each Trustee shall appoint two members to a District Plan Amendment Commission, which shall be a commission. Trustees appointed by the Mayor of the City of St. Louis shall appoint members who are registered voters of the City of St. Louis, and Trustees appointed by the County Executive shall appoint members who are registered voters of St. Louis County. The Chairman of the Board shall designate one of the members to serve as chairman of the Commission. On the death, resignation or inability of any member to serve, his appointing Trustee shall appoint a successor. Members of the Commission shall receive no compensation, but the District shall pay all necessary expenses of the Commission.

Prior to June 1 following appointment, the Commission shall recommend to the Board any amendments to the Plan which the Commission deems appropriate. Any recommendation must receive the affirmative vote of eight members. On June 1 following appointment, the Commission shall stand discharged and cease to exist.