Section VI Section 16

Constitution

Effective - 27 Feb 1945, see footnote   

  VI Section 16.  Cooperation by local governments with other governmental units. — Any municipality or political subdivision of this state may contract and cooperate with other municipalities or political subdivisions thereof, or with other states or their municipalities or political subdivisions, or with the United States, for the planning, development, construction, acquisition or operation of any public improvement or facility, or for a common service, in the manner provided by law.

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Source: Const. of 1945.

(1964) City had authority to enter into contract with school district for erection of library by school district on land acquired by city by condemnation proceedings for purpose of parkway. School District of Kansas City v. Kansas City (Mo.), 382 S.W.2d 688.

(1967) Cities' cooperative sewer agreement which conditioned obligation of a fourth class city to build facilities on its passage of a bond issue did not, until the passage of the bond issue, create an indebtedness of the city, within constitutional debt limitation, and was not ultra vires or void ab initio. The passage of the bond issue obligated the city to perform the construction and established corresponding obligation of the other contracting city to perform its duties conditioned on the passage of the bond issue. Kansas City v. City of Raytown (Mo.), 421 S.W.2d 504.