To determine if the Sunshine Law applies to a body, refer to the definition of public governmental body in § 610.010, RSMo, p. 4, which includes, but is not limited to:
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public bodies created by state constitution or statutes;
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public bodies created by order or ordinance of any political subdivision or
district;
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judicial entities when operating in an administrative capacity;
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public bodies created by executive order, including:
- any advisory committee or commission appointed by the governor by
executive order;
- any department or division of the state;
- any department or division of any political subdivision of the state;
- any department or division of any county or of any municipal
government;
- any department or division school district;
- any department or division of a special purpose district including but
not limited to sewer districts and water districts; and
- other subdistricts of any political subdivision;
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any other legislative or administrative governmental deliberative body under
the direction of three or more elected or appointed members having
rulemaking or quasi-judicial power; and
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certain committees or advisory boards appointed by any of the above entities.
Note: The custodian of records of any public governmental body shall
maintain a list of the policy advisory committees described in this
section.
Or, a body may qualify as a quasi-governmental body under the Sunshine Law, which is defined in § 610.010(4), RSMo, p. 5, and includes, but is not limited to:
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any person, corporation or partnership organized or authorized to do
business in this state by the provisions of chapter 352, 353, or 355,
RSMo, or an unincorporated association which either:
- has as its primary purpose to:
- enter into contracts with public governmental bodies; or
- engage primarily in activities carried out pursuant to an agreement
or agreements with public governmental bodies; or
- performs a statutorily-based public function to:
- allocate or issue tax credits, tax abatement, public debt, tax-exempt debt, rights of eminent domain; or
- contract leaseback agreements on structures whose annualized payments commit public tax revenues.
- any association that directly accepts the appropriation of money from a public
governmental body, but only to the extent that a meeting, record, or vote
relates to such appropriation.