Section 2 Voluntary Annexation in All Municipalities

• Library: Urban Development Subdivisions, and Annexations (2011 Ed.)

In Missouri, all classes and types of municipal government enjoy statutory authority to extend their boundaries through annexation by voluntary petition submitted by landowners. Section 71.012, RSMo Supp. 2010 (providing that the governing body of any city, town, or village may annex unincorporated areas).

0The territory must be "contiguous and compact" to the existing corporate limits. In Reed v. City of Union, Mo., 913 S.W.2d 62 (Mo. App. E.D. 1995), the court noted that the annexed territory must be...