Mo. Rev. Stat. § 394.020 : — INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERSRural Electric Cooperatives — Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,

(1) "Member" means each incorporator of a cooperative and each person admitted to and retaining membership therein, and shall include a husband and wife admitted to joint membership;
(2) "Person" includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any body politic; and
(3) "Rural area" shall be deemed to mean any area of the United States not included within the boundaries of any city, town or village having a population in excess of sixteen hundred inhabitants, and such term shall be deemed to include both the farm and nonfarm population thereof. The number of inhabitants specified in this subdivision* shall be increased by six percent every ten years after each decennial census beginning in 2030.

§ 394.020, RSMo

RSMo 1939 § 5415, A.L. 2021 H.B. 271 merged with H.B. 734 merged with S.B. 44

Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, HB 734,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.
Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, SB 44,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.
Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, HB 271,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.
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