No county, city, town, village, school township, school district or other municipal corporation shall make any contract, unless the same shall be within the scope of its powers or be expressly authorized by law, nor unless such contract be made upon a consideration wholly to be performed or executed subsequent to the making of the contract; and such contract, including the consideration, shall be in writing and dated when made, and shall be subscribed by the parties thereto, or their agents authorized by law and duly appointed and authorized in writing.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 432.070
Contracts, execution of by counties, towns — form of contract
Known as the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
The act spans §§ 432–432 (26 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 52 Cal. 4th 1171 - Retired Employees Ass'n of Orange County, Inc. v. County of Orange (2011)
Most recently applied in 52 Cal. 4th 1171 - Retired Employees Ass'n of Orange County, Inc. v. County of Orange (November 2011)
Effective: 28 Aug 2007, 2 histories; (RSMo 1939 § 3349, A.L. 2005 S.B. 462, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22); Prior revisions: 1929 § 2962; 1919 § 2164; 1909 § 2778
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.