Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.030 (2026)

  67.030.  Governing body may revise budget, limits — approval — budget decrease for law enforcement, injunctive relief, when. — 1.  The governing body of each political subdivision may revise, alter, increase or decrease the items contained in the proposed budget, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law or charter or in subsection 2 of this section; provided, that in no event shall the total authorized expenditures from any fund exceed the estimated revenues to be received plus any unencumbered balance or less any deficit estimated for the beginning of the budget year.  Except as otherwise provided by law or charter, the governing body of each political subdivision shall, before the beginning of the fiscal year, approve the budget and approve or adopt such orders, motions, resolutions, or ordinances as may be required to authorize the budgeted expenditures and produce the revenues estimated in the budget.

  2.  Any taxpayer of a political subdivision may initiate an action for injunctive relief, which the court shall grant, if the governing body of such political subdivision decreases the budget for its law enforcement agency, except for those created under section 162.215, by an amount exceeding more than twelve percent relative to the proposed budgets of other departments of the political subdivision over a five-year aggregate amount.