Construction fees in Missouri
No act. Courts have found authority in general municipal powers. Fees can be charged, but none of the statutory protections other states give fee payers — refund deadlines, credit rules, advisory committees — exist by default.
Mo. Const. art. X (Hancock Amendment)
Your fee stack in Missouri
Answer four things and get the list of every body that can bill this project, what each one is allowed to charge for, and the rights your state's law gives you before you pay.
What Missouri says about your project
Missouri has no impact fee act. The controlling constraint is the Hancock Amendment, which limits new or increased charges imposed without a vote.
That makes the threshold question in Missouri different from everywhere else: not whether the fee is proportionate, but whether it is really a tax that needed voter approval.
What to do next in Missouri
- Confirm whether your parcel is in a city or unincorporated, then pull the taxing district list from the assessor's record. Why that list is the real fee list.
- Request the current adopted fee schedule and a written fee estimate for the address. The six-step sequence.
- Call each utility separately. Tap fees usually sit outside the act, and are often the largest line.
- Pay under protest if you intend to dispute anything at all. What that preserves.