Missouri Real Estate Salesperson Exam — All Questions
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Land Use Controls and Regulations
A city's authority to enact zoning ordinances that regulate how land may be used comes primarily from its:
- a.Police power✓
- b.Power of eminent domain
- c.Power of escheat
- d.Power of taxation
Zoning, building codes, and other land-use regulations are exercises of the government's police power: the inherent authority to enact rules that protect public health, safety, and general welfare. Eminent domain is the power to take private property for public use with compensation; escheat returns property to the state when an owner dies without heirs.