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MO Rev Stat § 233.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.180 - Commissioners of the special road district, how selected.

Effective - 28 Aug 2017, 2 histories   233.180. Commissioners of the special road district, how selected. — 1. At the term of the county commission in which such order is made, or at any subsequent term thereafter, the county commission shall appoint three commissioners of the special road district, who shall be voters of the district and owners of land within the district, who shall hold their office until the second Tuesday in April thereafter. The voters of the district shall elect three commissioners of the special road district, one of whom shall serve one year, one for two years and one for three years, and on municipal election days each year thereafter they shall elect a commissioner of the special road district to take the place of the one whose term is about to expire, who shall serve three years.  2. No person shall be elected or appointed commissioner of the special road district who is not a voter of the district or a registered voter from the county in which the district is located and an owner of land in the district. Any vacancy caused by resignation, death, removal from the district of a commissioner of the special road district or sale of all land owned by the commissioner in the district shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining commissioners of the special road district. All commissioners of the special road district shall qualify by taking, subscribing and filing with the county clerk the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that they will faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge their duties as commissioners of the special road district according to law.  3. If for any reason the board of commissioners of the special road district herein mentioned shall fail to fill a vacancy or vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of any one or more of the commissioners of the special road district, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to appoint a person to fill the vacancy. In the event that two consecutive elections pass without any candidates for a special road district commissioner in municipal elections, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to appoint commissioners of the special road district for three-year terms thereafter with no further elections being held. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8712, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 2017 S.B. 283)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8063; 1919 § 10835; 1909 § 10613
MO Rev Stat § 233.185 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.185 - Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   233.185. Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how. — 1. The commissioners so appointed and qualified shall meet at such a time and place within such district as may be fixed by the county commission at the time of appointing them, or as they may in writing agree upon, and shall organize by electing one of their number president, another vice president and another secretary; provided, that by a unanimous vote of such commissioners any person not a member of such board may be chosen secretary.  2. Meetings of the special road district commissioners shall be held thereafter at such time and place as they may agree upon in writing, or the president or vice president may order. The president of the board shall preside at all meetings thereof; the president shall sign the minutes and records of the board, and all check warrants that may be drawn upon the treasury for the payment of any money out of the treasury on account of the funds belonging to such district, and exercise a general supervising control over the work of such commissioners, and in a general way may do all the acts and things that the board may empower the president to do, and such others as may be authorized by law. During absence of the president from the county, or from any meeting of the board, the vice president shall perform the duties conferred upon the president.  3. The secretary shall carefully keep a true record of all check warrants drawn on the treasurer and all written contracts that may be entered into on behalf of the district, shall attest such check warrants and the execution of such contracts, keep minutes of meetings of the board, and perform such other duties as the law may require. All money paid to the county treasurer and placed to the credit of the district shall be paid out only on check warrants signed by the president or vice president and attested by the secretary, except as may be otherwise authorized by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8713, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8064; 1919 § 10836; 1909 § 10614
MO Rev Stat § 233.187 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.187 - Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties — check warrants, how paid, interest.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   233.187. Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties — check warrants, how paid, interest. — 1. The county treasurer may be the treasurer of the special road district board unless another person is appointed by the board of commissioners. The board shall fix the amount of the treasurer's bond and prescribe the treasurer's duties. The bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission. If the county treasurer is acting as the treasurer of the road district, the county treasurer's bond pursuant to section 54.070 shall cover the treasurer's duties as road district treasurer and no additional bond shall be required.  2. The board may issue check warrants on the treasurer of the board in payment of the expenses and obligations which the board is authorized to incur on behalf of such special road district and such check warrants may be issued in anticipation of the income and revenue provided for the year for which the debt or obligation for which the check warrant is issued was incurred; but such districts or such board on behalf of the district shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any one year the income and revenue provided for such years; provided, however, that this shall not prevent the incurring of indebtedness under bond issue as is or may be provided by law.  3. No treasurer of a district shall pay any check warrant drawn on such treasurer unless such check warrant is presented for payment by the person in whose favor it is drawn or by the person's assignee, endorsee, executor or administrator and when presented for payment if there is no money in the treasury for that purpose, the treasurer shall so certify on the back of the check warrant and shall date and subscribe the same and such check warrant shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from such date until such check warrant is paid or until the money to pay such check warrant is in the hands of the treasurer. The treasurer shall keep a record of the check warrants presented and shall pay the same or set aside money for the payment of the same in the order in which they are issued. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 813, A.L. 1998 S.B. 550)
MO Rev Stat § 233.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.190 - Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when.

Effective - 30 May 1990   233.190. Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. — 1. The county commission shall, upon the organization by* such commissioners of the special road district, cause all tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts formerly existing and composed of territory embraced within the incorporated district to be delivered to the special road district commissioners, for which such commissioners shall give a receipt, and such commissioners shall keep and use such tools and machinery for constructing and improving public roads and bridges.  2. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, the commissioners shall have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than roads controlled by the highways and transportation commission, within the district, to construct, improve and repair such highways, bridges and culverts, and shall have all the power, rights and authority conferred by law upon road overseers, and shall at all times keep such roads, bridges and culverts in as good condition as the means at their command will permit, and for such purpose may employ competent people and road equipment at such compensation as they shall agree upon; rent, lease or buy road equipment, implements, tools and machinery; all kinds of motor power, and all things needed to carry on such work, except that the commissioners may have such road work, or bridge or culvert work, or any part thereof, done by contract, under such regulations as the commissioners may prescribe.  3. Any special road subdistrict established under the provisions of sections 233.500 to 233.520 shall have concurrent control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than those controlled by the highways and transportation commission, within the boundaries of the special road subdistrict with any special road district containing land within the boundaries of the special road subdistrict. The special road subdistrict may contract with the special road district to use the tools and machinery described in subsection 1 of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8714, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8065; 1919 § 10837  Effective 5-30-90  *Word "of" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 233.195 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.195 - Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay and Platte counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1974   233.195. Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay and Platte counties). — 1. County commissions shall cause to be set aside and placed to the credit of each road district so incorporated four-fifths of such part or portion of the tax arising from and collected and paid upon any property lying and being within any such district, by authority of section 137.555. All revenue so set aside and placed to the credit of any such incorporated district shall be used by the commissioners thereof for constructing, repairing and maintaining bridges and culverts within the district, and working, repairing, maintaining and dragging public roads within the district and paying legitimate administrative expenses of the district, and for such other purposes as may be authorized by law.  2. In any county of the first class not having a charter form of government or of the second or third class containing all or part of a city having a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more, the revenue set aside and credited to a road district as provided in subsection 1 may, with the consent of the city, be expended within any incorporated city, town or village located within the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8715, A.L. 1945 p. 1496, A.L. 1963 p. 185, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1733)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8066; 1919 § 10838
MO Rev Stat § 233.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.200 - Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   233.200. Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot. — 1. The commissioners of such districts so incorporated shall have power to issue road and bridge bonds for and on behalf of their respective districts, payable out of funds derived from taxation of all property taxable therein to an amount including existing indebtedness payable out of funds so derived not exceeding five percent of the assessed valuation of such property to be ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for state and county purposes. Such bonds to be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars, or some multiple thereof, to bear interest at not exceeding the rate per annum permitted by law, and to become due in not exceeding twenty years after the date of such bonds. Whenever the board of commissioners of any such road district propose to issue such bonds, they shall submit the question to the voters in the district.  2. The notice of election shall state the amount of bonds to be issued.  3. The result of the submission of the question shall be entered upon the records of the district. If it shall appear that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters voting on the question shall have voted in favor of the issue of the bonds, the commissioners shall order and direct the execution of the bonds for and on behalf of such district and provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the district sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds so authorized as they respectively become due.  4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ special road district of ______ County issue road and bridge bonds in the amount of ______ dollars?  5. The board of commissioners shall not sell the bonds for less than ninety-five percent of the par value thereof, and the proceeds shall be paid over to the county treasurer, and disbursed on warrants drawn by the president or vice president of the board of commissioners and attested by the secretary. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be used for the purpose only of paying the cost of holding such election, and constructing, repairing and maintaining bridges and culverts within the district, and working, repairing, maintaining and dragging public roads within the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8717, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8068; 1919 § 10840
MO Rev Stat § 233.215 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.215 - Special tax — how apportioned.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.215. Special tax — how apportioned. — Such special tax shall be apportioned against the lands in the district in the following manner: For the purpose of such apportionment, lands appearing by said list of lands as approved by the county commission to be within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, shall be given the valuation thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one-half mile from and within one mile of said public road or part of a public road, seventy-five percent of the valuations thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one mile and within one and one-half miles, fifty percent, and all over one and one-half miles, twenty-five percent of such valuations thereof; and the amount of the special tax assessed against each tract of said lands shall be such that the ratio between the amount assessed against each tract and the amount assessed against all of such tracts shall be the same as between the value so given each tract and the aggregate of the values so given all tracts in the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8720)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8071; 1919 § 10843
MO Rev Stat § 233.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.220 - Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.220. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. — In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land of forty acres, according to a government survey, and each of the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfully platted and each separate tract of less than forty acres, shall, for the purposes of this section, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of a public road, if the major portion thereof is within one-half mile; and over one-half mile and less than a mile, if the major portion thereof is over one-half mile and less than a mile; and over one mile and less than one and one-half miles, if the major portion thereof is over one mile and less than one and one-half miles; and over one and one-half miles if the major portion thereof is over one and one-half miles. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8727)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8078; 1919 § 10849
MO Rev Stat § 233.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.230 - Special tax may be paid in installments — interest — special assessments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.230. Special tax may be paid in installments — interest — special assessments. — 1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered and the county commission ascertains and recites in such order that the petitioners stated in their petition that they desired that the cost of improvement be payable in more than one installment, the special tax ordered assessed shall be payable in the number of installments, not exceeding fifteen, so found to be desired, which installments shall be equal, and each tract of land in the district shall be charged with interest which shall be apportioned against the lands in the district by the same rule of apportionment as the principal special tax.  2. The payments of such installments, and such interest charge and the payments thereof shall be as follows:  (1) If such order is made on or after the first day of January and before the first day of November of any year, the first installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December following the date of such order, with interest on the principal of the tax, at the rate of six percent per annum, from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such installment becomes payable, and one installment shall become payable on the thirty-first day of each December thereafter, with interest at such rate on the portion of the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December until the first day of the following April, until the entire tax is paid.  (2) If such order is made on or after the first day of November of any year, the first installment of such special tax shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December of the next year after the date of such order, with interest at such rate on the principal tax from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such first installment becomes payable, and thereafter an installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of each December, with interest at such rate on the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December to the first day of the following April, until the entire principal of the tax is paid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8722)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
MO Rev Stat § 233.235 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.235 - Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.235. Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection. — 1. The clerk of the county commission, after such order is made, shall procure a suitable special tax record book and therein charge each tract of land in the district, as shown in the list of lands prepared and filed by the commissioners of the district, with the special tax chargeable against it and the charges as interest, and indicate therein the date each installment becomes payable, and the amount of each installment, and the date each charge as interest becomes payable and the amount thereof.  2. Thereafter he shall make out and deliver to the county collector for collection, not less than thirty days before any installment becomes payable, a separate special tax bill against each tract of land in the district, on which the tax has not been paid in full, as herein provided, for the amount of the installment charged or chargeable against it and so becoming payable and the amount payable as interest with such installment. Each of such special tax bills shall be in favor of such road district, shall be numbered, and shall state the date of the order of the county commission ordering the assessment, and describe, using abbreviations, the tract of land against which it is issued. Each of such special tax bills shall constitute a lien upon the land described therein, for the amount thereof, and all interest and penalties that may accrue thereon and all cost in collecting the same, including a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the county commission and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment; which lien shall be paramount to all other liens except of the state for general state, county, school and road taxes. Each of such special tax bills as are not paid on the day they become payable, shall have added thereto a penalty equal to two percent of the total amount payable thereon, and thereafter a like penalty, on the first day of each month, until paid.  3. The county collector shall receive payments of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and of the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid. Whenever any of such tax bills has been so cancelled by the county collector and is exhibited to the clerk of the county commission, or the county collector reports payment of any such tax bills to the clerk of the county commission, he shall note the payment thereof in such special tax record book.  4. The county collector shall pay to the county treasurer all money collected on said special tax bills and the county treasurer shall give such district credit therefor on a special account kept with said district on account of collections on said tax bills, indicating therein the amount paid as principal, and the amount paid as interest and penalties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8722)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
MO Rev Stat § 233.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.240 - Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.240. Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills. — If any such special tax bills be unpaid on the first day of February after becoming payable, the commissioners shall cause suits to be instituted for foreclosure of the lien thereof. Such suits shall be instituted in the circuit court of the county by any attorney the special road district commissioners may designate and order the county collector to deliver such unpaid special tax bills to. The road district shall be plaintiff in such suits and any and all parties having an interest in the property to be affected thereby may be made defendants. In such suits, each special tax bill shall be prima facie evidence of a valid lien in favor of the district, and upon the land described therein, for the amount stated therein. In every suit so instituted, there shall be taxed as costs, in favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8722)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845