A dozen Mid-Missouri cities, towns and villages filed a required financial report with the state auditor's office by the end of December, Auditor Nicole Galloway reported Monday.
But 10 other Mid-Missouri communities missed the deadline.
Those communities filing the reports as required included Ashland, Brumley, Clarksburg, Gravois Mills, Hermann, Linn Creek, Olean, Owensville, Sunrise Beach, Taos, Vienna and Wooldridge.
Galloway's report listed the Mid-Missouri communities failing to file the reports as Bagnell, Belle, Bland, Chamois, Hartsburg, Gasconade, Lakeside, Meta, St. Thomas and Stover.
Statewide, 333 communities were required to file reports by the end of December, but only 185 complied with the state law, Galloway said in her "Monthly Report on Municipal Court and Revenue Filings."
The law requires the governing body of each political subdivision in the state to prepare and remit to the state auditor an annual report of financial transactions.
A state regulation requires the financial report to be remitted to the state auditor within six months of the end of the political subdivision's fiscal year - so most communities covered by Monday's report have business years that ended last June 30 and had to submit their reports to Galloway's office by Dec. 31.
This week's report doesn't include all cities or towns in the state - like Jefferson City, where the fiscal year ends Oct. 31.
No counties were included in the latest report, since they generally operate on a calendar year schedule.
The auditor's office posts individual annual financial reports to its website, with a searchable link available at auditor.mo.gov.
Under the law, every county, city, town and village must annually calculate the percentage of its annual general operating revenue received from fines, bond forfeitures and court costs for minor traffic violations - then file that report with the auditor's office.
Another provision of the law requires all municipalities to file an addendum to the annual financial report, adding the percentage of annual general operating revenues the community gets from fines, bond forfeitures and court costs for minor traffic violations.
But, last March 28, Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem issued a ruling blocking the auditor's office from from enforcing those reporting provisions.
So, Galloway noted, her office "will take no action to enforce the addendum provision pending the outcome of the appeal."
Still, she said, her report keeps track of the communities that filed the additional information, and when those documents were filed with the auditor's office.
Mid-Missouri communities submitting the addendum included Ashland, Clarksburg, Gravois Mills, Hermann, Linn Creek, Owensville and Wooldridge.