JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge Tuesday to a voter-approved law requiring local elections to decide whether to keep municipal earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas City.

Missouri voters in 2010 approved a statewide ballot measure that forced the state’s two largest cities to hold elections on their earnings taxes, with subsequent public votes every five years. The measure also barred other communities from enacting their own city tax on local earnings and profits.

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