[R.O. 2011 § 100.010; R.O. 2009
§ 10.01]
This codification of ordinances by
and for the City of St. Charles shall be designated as the Code of
Ordinances of the City of St. Charles and may be so cited.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.020; R.O. 2009
§ 10.02; CC 1981 § 1-2; Ord. No.
87-96, 5-12-1987; Ord. No. 87-97, 5-12-1987; Ord. No. 91-51, 3-8-1991; Ord. No. 03-122, 5-27-2003]
For the purposes of this Code, the
following definitions and rules of construction shall apply unless
the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
When a bond is required, an undertaking in writing in such
form and with such sureties as may be satisfactory to the Mayor is
sufficient unless otherwise required by State law or this Code.
Includes certified mail carried by the United States Postal
Service or any parcel or letter carried by an overnight, express or
ground delivery service that allows a sender or recipient to electronically
track its location and provides a record of the signature of the recipient.
The words "the City" or "this City" shall mean the City of
St. Charles, Missouri.
The words "City Council" or "the Council" shall mean the
City Council of the City of St. Charles, Missouri.
In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by
this Code, by order of court, or by any applicable Statute, the day
of the act, event, or default after which the designated period of
time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period
so computed is to be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or
a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the
next day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday, nor a legal holiday.
When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven (7)
days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be
excluded in the computation.
Whenever the words "corporate limits," "corporation limits"
or "City limits" are used, they shall mean the legal boundary of the
City of St. Charles, Missouri.
The words "the County" or "this County" shall mean the County
of St. Charles, Missouri.
The Municipal Court of the City.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, definitions given within
a Title, Chapter, Article, Section or Subsection apply only to words
or phrases used in such Title, Chapter, Article, Section or Subsection.
Whenever a provision appears requiring an officer or the
head of a department of the City to do some act or make certain inspections,
it is to be construed to authorize the officer or department director
to designate, delegate and authorize subordinates to perform the required
act or make the required inspection unless the terms of the provision
or Section designate otherwise.
Following an official of the City, means the authorized agent,
employee or representative of such official.
The Office of Community Services.
When any subject matter, party or person is described or
referred to by words importing the singular number or the masculine
gender, several matters and persons, and females as well as males,
and bodies corporate as well as individuals, are included.
In the interpretation and application of any provision of
this Code, it shall be held to be the minimum requirement adopted
for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience
and general welfare. Where any provision of the Code imposes greater
restrictions upon the subject matter than another more general provision
imposed by the Code, the provision imposing the greater restriction
or regulation shall be deemed to be controlling.
Words importing joint authority to three (3) or more persons
shall be construed as authority to a majority of the persons, unless
otherwise declared in the law giving the authority.
Natural persons, firms, associations, corporations, clubs
and partnerships, whether acting by themselves or through a servant,
agent or employee.
All general provisions, terms, phrases and expressions contained
in this code shall be liberally construed in order that the true intent
and meaning of the City Council may be fully carried out.
A calendar month.
Whenever the name of an officer is given, it shall be construed
as though the words "of the City of St. Charles" were added.
Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain or ordinary
and usual sense, but technical words and phrases having a peculiar
and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their
technical import.
A word importing the singular number only may extend and
be applied to several persons or things as well as to one (1) person
or thing.
An affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation
may be substituted for an oath and in such cases the words "swear"
and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed."
Applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner,
joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety
of the whole or a part of such building or land.
May extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate,
and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations.
Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences
of debt.
When used by way of reference to any Section of this Code,
shall mean the Section next preceding or next following that in which
the reference is made, unless some other Section is expressly designated
in the reference.
Includes real and personal property.
Any place where the public is permitted or invited to go
or congregate, a place of common resort, a place where the public
has a right to go and be. "Public places" include, but are not limited
to, streets, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, parks, cemeteries, beaches,
school yards, parking lots, boats, barges, business and commercial
establishments (whether for profit or not-for-profit and whether open
to the public at large or where entrance is limited by a cover charge
or membership requirement), bottle clubs, hotels, motels, restaurants,
nightclubs, country clubs, cabarets and meeting facilities utilized
by any religious, social, fraternal or similar organizations.
Any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway, sidewalk
or other public thoroughfare.
Including the terms "premises," "real estate" or "lands,"
shall be deemed to be co-extensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
The place adopted by a person as his/her place of habitation
and to which, whenever he/she is absent, he/she has the intention
of returning. When a person eats at one place and sleeps at another,
the place where such person sleeps shall be deemed his/her residence.
The Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended.
The Seal of the City of St. Charles.
The word "shall" as used in this Code is mandatory; "may"
is permissive or discretionary.
The portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent
property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
Where the written signature or subscription of any natural
person is required, the proper handwriting of such person or his/her
mark, when such person cannot write, shall be intended.
The State of Missouri.
Any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway,
alley or other public thoroughfare and each of such words shall include
every other of them.
Goods, chattels and all personal property except intangible
personal property.
Applied to a building or land, shall include any person who
occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone
or with others.
Words used in the past or present tense include the future
as well as the past and present.
Seven (7) days.
Includes printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing
words and letters, but in all cases where the signature of any person
is required, the proper handwriting of the person, or his/her mark,
is intended.
A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed and the word
"year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord."
[1]
State Law Reference: Construction of statutes
generally, §§ 1.020 – 1.210, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.030; R.O. 2009
§ 10.03; CC 1981 § 1-3]
Unless otherwise provided in this
Code, this Code shall apply to acts performed within the corporate
limits of the City. The provisions of this Code shall also apply to
acts performed outside the corporate limits and up to the limits prescribed
by law where the law confers power on the City to regulate such particular
acts outside the corporate limits.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.040; R.O. 2009
§ 10.04; CC 1981 § 1-4]
The catchlines of the several Sections
of this Code printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords
to indicate the contents of the Section and shall not be deemed or
taken to be titles of such Sections, nor as any part of the Section,
nor, unless expressly so provided, shall they be so deemed when any
of such Sections, including the catchlines, are amended or re-enacted.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.050; R.O. 2009
§ 10.05; CC 1981 § 1-5]
The provisions appearing in this
Code, insofar as they are the same as those of the Revised Ordinances
of 1965 and Revised Ordinances of 1980 and ordinances existing at
the time of the effective date of this Code, shall be considered as
continuation thereof and not as new enactments.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.060; R.O. 2009
§ 10.06; CC 1981 § 1-6]
It is hereby declared to be the intention
of the City Council that the Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this Code are severable and if any phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or Section of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional
by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction,
such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases,
clauses, sentences, paragraphs and Sections of this Code since the
same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation
in this Code of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or Section.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.070; R.O. 2009
§ 10.07; CC 1981 § 1-7]
A.
All ordinances passed subsequent to this
Code, which amend, repeal or in any way affect this Code, may be numbered
in accordance with the numbering system of this Code and printed for
inclusion herein or, in the case of repealed Chapters, Sections and
Subsections or any part thereof by subsequent ordinances, such repealed
portions may be excluded from the Code by omission from reprinted
pages affected thereby and the subsequent ordinances as numbered and
printed or omitted, in the case of repeal, shall be prima facie evidence
of such subsequent ordinances until such time that this Code and subsequent
ordinances numbered or omitted are readopted as a new Code by the
City Council.
B.
Amendments to any of the provisions of
this Code should be made by amending such provisions by specific reference
to the Section of this Code in substantially the following language:
"That Section __________ of the Code of Ordinances of the City of
St. Charles, Missouri, is hereby amended to read as follows: (Set
out new provisions in full)"
C.
When the City Council desires to enact
an ordinance of a general and permanent nature on a subject not heretofore
existing in the Code, which the City Council desires to incorporate
into the Code, a Section in substantially the following language shall
be made a part of the ordinance:
"Section __________. It is the intention
of the City Council and it is hereby ordained that the provisions
of this Chapter shall become and be made a part of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of St. Charles, Missouri, and the Sections of this Chapter
may be renumbered to accomplish such intention."
D.
All Titles, Chapters, Articles or Sections
of this Code desired to be repealed should be specifically repealed
by Section number or Chapter number, as the case may be.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.080; R.O. 2009
§ 10.08; CC 1981 § 1-8]
A.
By contract or by City personnel, supplements
to this Code shall be prepared and printed whenever authorized or
directed by the City Council. A supplement to the Code shall include
all substantive permanent and general parts of ordinances passed by
the Council during the period covered by the supplement and all changes
made thereby in the Code. The pages of a supplement shall be so numbered
that they will fit properly into the Code and will, where necessary,
replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete and
the new pages shall be so prepared that, when they have been inserted,
the Code will be current through the date of the adoption of the latest
ordinance included in the supplement.
B.
In preparing a supplement to this Code,
all portions of the Code which have been repealed shall be excluded
from the Code by the omission thereof from reprinted pages.
C.
When preparing a supplement to this Code,
the codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized
to prepare the supplement) may make formal, non-substantive changes
in ordinances and parts of ordinances included in the supplement,
insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them into the unified
Code. For example, the codifier may:
1.
Organize the ordinance material into
appropriate subdivisions;
2.
Provide appropriate catchlines, headings
and titles for Sections and other Subsections of the Code printed
in the supplement and make changes in such catchlines, headings and
titles;
3.
Assign appropriate numbers to Sections
and other Subsections to be inserted in the Code and, where necessary
to accommodate new material, change existing Section or other Subsection
numbers;
4.
Change the words "this ordinance"
or words to the same meaning to "this Chapter," "this Article," "this
Subsection," etc., as the case may be or to "Sections __________ to
__________" (inserting Section numbers to indicate the Sections of
the Code which embody the substantive Sections of the ordinance incorporated
into the Code); and
5.
Make other non-substantive changes
necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance Sections inserted
into the Code; but in no case shall the codifier make any change in
the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement
or already embodied in the Code.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.090; R.O. 2009
§ 10.09; CC 1981 § 1-9]
A.
The City Clerk shall keep three (3) copies
of this Code. These copies shall be printed or otherwise mounted to
withstand heavy usage and preserved by the City Clerk in a book or
binder in looseleaf form or in such other form as the City Council
may consider most expedient, so that all amendments thereto and all
general ordinances hereafter passed may be inserted in their appropriate
places in such volumes and all Sections of this Code or ordinances
repealed from time to time may be extracted therefrom for the purpose
of maintaining said three (3) copies in such condition that they will
show all general ordinances passed up to date at any time in such
manner that ready reference may be had thereto.
B.
In determining whether or not any ordinance
hereafter passed, or any part thereof, shall be inserted in such volume
and in determining the form, Chapter, Article or Section which shall
be taken out, if any doubt arises, the City Clerk shall be guided
by the advice of any regular or special City Counselor.
C.
The copies of the Code shall be available for inspection by the public
at all reasonable business hours in the office of the City Clerk.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.100; R.O. 2009
§ 10.10]
The ordinances in this Code are organized
into Titles, Chapters, Articles, Sections and Subsections as identified
in the following definitions:
Itemizes the information found in a Chapter by breaking it
into smaller parts according to subject matter.
Organizes the information that is contained within a Title.
The basic unit of a Code designated by the symbol "§."
Separates a Section into paragraphs, designated by letters
and numbers as follows:
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The largest unit of organization in this Code. Titles divide
ordinances by broad subject matter into the following categories:
[R.O. 2011 § 100.110; R.O. 2009
§ 10.11; CC 1981 § 1-11]
A.
Designated. United States standard or daylight
savings time for the zone in which the City is located shall be the
official time of the City.
B.
Referred To In Ordinances, Notices, Documents And The Like. When reference is made to any time without qualification in any ordinance, resolution or order heretofore passed or which may be passed hereafter by the City Council or in any official notice, advertisement or document of the City or in any contract to which the City is a party, it shall be understood to refer to the official time of the City as described in Subsection (A) of this Section.
C.
Application. In all ordinances, resolutions or orders of the City Council and in all official notices, advertisements or documents of the City and in all contracts to which the City is a party relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the City or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the official time of the City as prescribed in Subsection (A) of this Section.
D.
Public Timepieces. All clocks or other timepieces in or upon public buildings or other premises maintained at the expense of the City shall be set and run according to the official time as provided in Subsection (A) of this Section. It is hereby made the duty of the officer or other person having control and charge of any such building and premises to see that the clocks or other timepieces are set and run in accordance with official time.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.120; R.O. 2009
§ 10.12; CC 1981 § 1-12]
When the Code shall be printed and
bound, it shall be deemed a sufficient publication of all ordinances
contained therein and they shall be received in evidence without further
proof in all cases, suits or proceedings had, instituted or prosecuted
under the provisions thereof and in pleading any ordinance or part
of ordinance in prosecutions and proceedings had by virtue of any
of the provisions thereof, it shall be sufficient to designate the
number of the Section or Chapter under which the action is instituted
or proceedings had.
[1]
State Law Reference: Admission of printed
copies of ordinances as evidence, § 490.240, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.130; R.O. 2009
§ 10.13; CC 1981 § 1-14]
In case any person is found guilty
and sentenced by the Municipal Judge for violation of this Code or
any other ordinance of the City, whether the punishment be by fine
or imprisonment, or by both, such person may be put to work and required
to perform labor on the public streets or highways or other public
works or buildings of the City and the City shall have power and be
authorized and required to have or cause all such prisoners to work
out the full number of days for which they have been sentenced and
in case the defendant has sufficient property out of which to make
the money fine and costs against the defendant and the same shall
remain unpaid, the defendant shall be required to do and perform such
labor on the streets, highways or other public buildings or public
works of the City, as his/her health and strength will permit, not
exceeding eight (8) hours per day and for such work and labor the
person so employed shall be allowed, exclusive of his/her board, the
sum of ten dollars ($10.00) per day, which amount shall be credited
on such fine and costs. Such labor shall be done at the direction
and under the supervision of the Mayor. The officer or person in charge
of such prisoner while so employed may impose such restraints as may
be reasonably necessary to prevent the escape of the prisoner while
so employed. And if the punishment is by fine, and the fine be not
paid, then for a portion of such judgment that is equal to the greater
of the actual daily cost of incarcerating the prisoner or the amount
the municipality is reimbursed by the State for incarcerating the
prisoner, the prisoner shall work one (1) day. And it shall be deemed
a part of the judgment and sentence of the court that such prisoner
may be worked as herein provided.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.140; R.O. 2009
§ 10.14; CC 1981 § 1-15]
In all cases where the same offense
may be made punishable or shall be created by different clauses or
Sections of the ordinances of the City, the prosecuting officer may
elect under which to proceed, but not more than one (1) recovery shall
be had against the same person for the same offense.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.150; R.O. 2009
§ 10.99; CC 1981 § 1-13; Ord. No. 20-144, 10-20-2020]
A.
Whenever
in this Code or in any ordinance of the City any act is prohibited
or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or an ordinance
violation, except where:
1.
A specific statutory penalty is provided for, the violation of any
such provision shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding three (3) months
or both such fine and imprisonment, as may be just for any offense,
recoverable with cost of suit; provided, however, that where the City
and the State both prescribe the same offense, the penalty for violating
the City provision shall be the same as is set by Statute.
[Ord. No. 16-270 § 1, 12-20-2016]
2.
Exceptions:
a.
In any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a Statute
of the State of Missouri, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall
be imposed for such offense.
b.
The penalty for a "minor traffic violation" as those words are defined
by Section 479.350, RSMo., shall be subject to the following provisions:
c.
The penalty for an ordinance violation
for which penalties are authorized by Sections 67.398 (nuisances),
71.285 (high grass and weeds and litter and debris nuisances), or
89.120 and 89.490 (zoning violations), RSMo., shall be subject to
the following provisions:
(1)
The maximum fine and
court costs that can be imposed for a violation shall be:
(a)
For the first violation
within any twelve-month period of time: two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(b)
For the second violation
within any twelve-month period of time: two hundred seventy-five dollars
($275.00).
(c)
For the third violation
within any twelve-month period of time: three hundred fifty dollars
($350.00).
(d)
For the fourth and any
subsequent violation within any twelve-month period of time: four
hundred fifty dollars ($450.00).
(2)
Court costs shall be
assessed against such person unless the Municipal Court finds such
person is indigent.
d.
A person shall not be placed in confinement
for failure to pay a fine unless such non-payment violates terms of
probation or unless the due process procedures mandated by Missouri
Supreme Court Rule 37.65 or its successor rule are strictly followed
by the Municipal Court.
B.
Except where otherwise provided, each and
every day any violation of this Code or any ordinance of the City
or any rule, regulation, order or notice promulgated by any officer,
board. commission or agency of the City under authority duly vested
in him/her or it shall constitute a separate offense.
C.
Whenever any act is prohibited by this
Code, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted
thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing.
securing, aiding or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever
any act is prohibited by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise
prohibited.
D.
In case of the amendment by the City Council of any Section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Subsection (A) of this Section shall apply to the Section as amended or, in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty other than the aforementioned general penalty is provided in another Section in the same Chapter, the penalty so provided in such other Section shall be held to relate to the Section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
E.
The failure of any officer or employee
of the City to perform any official duty imposed by this Code shall
not subject such officer or employee to the penalty imposed by this
Section unless a penalty is specifically provided.
[1]
State Law Reference: Limitation on penalty,
§ 77.590, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.152; Ord. No. 20-144, 10-20-2020]
In addition to any other remedies
or penalties established for violations of any ordinance or Code Section
or any rule, regulation, notice, condition, term or order promulgated
by any officer or agency of the City under duly vested authority,
the City Official responsible for the enforcement of such ordinance,
Code Section, rule, regulation, notice, condition, term or order may,
on behalf of the City and after approval by the Director of Administration,
apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for such legal or equitable
relief as may be necessary to enforce compliance with such ordinance,
Code Section, rule, regulation, notice, condition, term or order.
In such action the court may grant such legal or equitable relief,
including, but not limited to, mandatory or prohibitory injunctive
relief as the facts may warrant. Upon the successful prosecution of
any such action, the City may be awarded by the court reasonable attorney
fees as allowed by law.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.155; Ord. No. 20-144, 10-20-2020]
A.
APPLICANT
RELATED PERSON OR ENTITY
1.
2.
3.
RELEVANT LAW
1.
2.
For the purposes of this Section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
A person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
limited partnership, trust, estate, joint venture, association, organization,
firm or entity of any kind, including any shareholder, owner, officer,
partner, manager, trustee, joint venturer or member of such entity
or any other person holding an ownership interest in such entity requesting
any City permit, license, franchise or other approval.
A corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, limited partnership, trust, estate, joint venture,
association, organization, firm or entity of any kind in which the
applicant holds any stock, title or other ownership interest of at
least twenty percent (20%);
A corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, limited partnership, trust, estate, joint venture,
association, organization, firm or entity of any kind which holds
any stock, title or other ownership interest in the applicant of at
least twenty percent (20%); or
An individual, corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, limited partnership, trust, estate,
joint venture, association, organization, firm or entity of any kind
whose affairs the applicant has the legal or practical ability to
direct, either directly or indirectly, whether by contractual agreement,
majority ownership interest, any lessor ownership interest, familial
relationship or in any other manner.
Any ordinance or Municipal Code provision
of the City or any rule, regulation, notice, condition, term or order
promulgated by any officer, board, commission or agency of the City
under duly vested authority of the City; or
Any final judgment or order of any
court of competent jurisdiction when a Statute, ordinance, Municipal
Code provision, rule, regulation, notice, condition, term, order or
judgment at issue regulates conduct or conditions germane to the issuance
of the requested permit, license, franchise or other approval as provided
by the applicable ordinance or Municipal Code provision of the City.
B.
In enforcing or administering the ordinances
of the City, no permit, license, franchise or approval of any kind
shall be granted to any applicant if the applicant or a related person
or entity is charged with or in violation of any relevant law until
such time as the applicant or the related person or entity resolves
the pending charge or comes into compliance with the relevant law.
C.
In acting on any new application or on
any reapplication by an applicant whose prior permit, license, franchise
or other approval has been denied, suspended, revoked or forfeited,
the reviewing or enforcement officer may consider past violations
of relevant law by the applicant or a related person or entity in
considering whether to issue the permit, license, franchise or approval
requested by the applicant. Taking into account the nature and character
of the permit, license, franchise or other requested approval in question
and the need for the City to rely on representations and/or future
conduct by the applicant when acting pursuant to the permit, license,
franchise or other requested approval by the City, the reviewing or
enforcement officer may deny the application or reapplication if the
past violations of relevant law are reasonably recent in time and
of such character or magnitude as to reasonably call into question
the fitness of the applicant or the City's ability to rely on representations
and/or future conduct by the applicant.
D.
If a permit, license, franchise or other
approval has been denied, suspended, revoked or forfeited, the applicant
may not submit a new application for one (1) year from the date of
the denial, suspension, revocation or forfeiture unless the reviewing
or enforcement officer finds that substantial new facts or a change
in circumstances warrant reconsideration; provided, however, that
if the ordinances governing the particular permit, license, franchise
or other approval in question prescribe a different disqualification
period, those ordinances shall govern.
E.
Any aggrieved applicant may appeal the
decision of the reviewing or enforcement officer to the Director of
Administration within five (5) business days of said decision. The
Director of Administration may reverse or modify the decision of the
reviewing or enforcement officer provided the applicant:
1.
Establishes an inability to effect
compliance with any relevant law because of the ownership structure
of any pertinent related entity, if the denial in question was due
to conduct or circumstances of a related person or entity; or
2.
Establishes that he/she has not been
charged with, nor is, if applicable, in violation of any relevant
law.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 100.157, Notice of Suits, was
repealed 2-28-2023 by Ord. No. 23-018. Former history: R.O. 2011 § 100.157; Ord. No. 21-191, 11-9-2021
[R.O. 2011 § 100.160; R.O. 2009
§ 11.01; CC 1981 § 1-10; Ord.
No. 10-29 § 1, 2-19-2010]
A.
Description. The logo and seal of the City
shall consist of a circular shape in the foreground and surrounded
in the background by an eight-point compass rose. The diameter of
the four (4) cardinal points of the compass rose shall be no smaller
than one and one-half (1 1/2) inches by one and one-half (1 1/2) inches.
The circular shape in the foreground shall be divided into four (4)
quadrants. The northeast quadrant shall contain a fleur de lis, once
used as the armorial emblem of French sovereigns. The southeast quadrant
shall contain a depiction of two (2) building structures representative
of historic Main Street. The southwest quadrant shall contain two
(2) leaves. The northwest quadrant shall contain a depiction of a
river that is representative of the Missouri River. The four (4) quadrants
of the circular shape shall be surrounded by a scroll that is inscribed
with the words "CITY OF SAINT CHARLES - EST. 1809." A banner shall
drape across the bottom of the circle, touching the southeast and
southwest ordinal points and shall be inscribed with the word "MISSOURI."
B.
Custodian — Use. The City Clerk shall
keep the Seal of the City in his/her office and shall affix the same
to all instruments of writing of whatsoever nature, when required
by ordinance, resolution or order of the City Council or on direction
of the Mayor. The City Clerk is also authorized to affix the Seal
of the City to copies of all records and documents, whenever thereto
required by any person and for such services such person shall pay
to the City fifty cents ($.50) for each certificate.
[1]
State Law Reference: City seal authorized,
§ 77.010, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.170; R.O. 2009
§ 11.02; Ord. No. 03-156, 7-8-2003]
The Redbud, scientifically designated
as Cercis Canadensis, is declared to be the arboreal emblem of the
City of St. Charles and the City shall recognize it as the official
City tree and encourage its cultivation on account of the beauty of
its flower and foliage.
[R.O. 2011 § 100.180; R.O. 2009
§ 11.03; Ord. No. 03-218, 9-3-2003]
The Purple Coneflower, scientifically
designated as Echinacea Purpurea (Asteraceae), is declared to be the
floral emblem of the City of St. Charles and the City shall recognize
it as the official flower of the City and encourage its cultivation
on account of the beauty of its flower and foliage.
