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MO Rev Stat § 233.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.320 - Special road districts — organized how — by whom.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.320. Special road districts — organized how — by whom. — 1. In counties now operating or which may hereafter operate under township organization, whenever it is proposed to form a special road district within the limits of one or more incorporated townships, such proposed district shall be organized in the manner herein prescribed.  2. The county commission shall divide the territory within their respective counties into road districts in the manner herein prescribed, and every such district organized according to the provisions of sections 233.320 to 233.445 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a public corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled "______ special road district of ______ County", and in that name shall be capable of suing and being sued, of holding such real estate and personal property as may at any time be either donated to or purchased by it in accordance with the provisions of sections 233.320 to 233.445, or of which it may be rightfully possessed at the time of the passage of sections 233.320 to 233.445, and of contracting and of being contracted with as herein provided.  3. Districts so organized may be of any dimensions that may be deemed necessary or advisable, except that every district shall be included wholly within the county organizing it and shall contain at least six hundred and forty acres of contiguous territory; provided, that the county commission shall not have power to divide the territory within the corporate limits of a city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand into such road district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8836)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8176; 1919 § 10937
MO Rev Stat § 233.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.330 - Commissioners of special road district, how selected — term — qualifications — vacancies, how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   233.330. Commissioners of special road district, how selected — term — qualifications — vacancies, how filled. — 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 special road district commissioners, who shall be voters of the district who shall hold their office until the second Tuesday in April thereafter. The voters of the district, at an hour and place to be fixed by said commissioners, shall elect three special road district commissioners, 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 special road district commissioner 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 who is not a voter of the district. Any vacancy caused by resignation, death, removal from the district of a special road district commissioner or sale of all land owned by him in the district shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining special road district commissioners of the district. All special road district commissioners 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 according to law.  3. If for any reason the board of commissioners herein mentioned shall fail to call an annual election to fill a vacancy or vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of any one or more of the special road district commissioners, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to call an election to fill said vacancy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8838, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8178; 1919 § 10939
MO Rev Stat § 233.332 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.332 - Commissioners of special road districts in certain counties of the third classification — vacancies, how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   233.332. Commissioners of special road districts in certain counties of the third classification — vacancies, how filled. — Notwithstanding any provisions of section 233.330 to the contrary, in any county of the third classification with a population according to the most recent federal decennial census in excess of four thousand nine hundred and not in excess of six thousand one hundred, if a special road district commissioner resigns, dies, is no longer eligible to serve as a commissioner or the commissioner's term of office expires, then the county commission may by ordinance appoint a person to fill the vacancy or in the alternative hold an election to fill such vacancy pursuant to section 233.330. No person shall be elected or appointed who is not an eligible voter in the special road district. Any person appointed pursuant to this section shall serve a term equal in duration to that of the previous special road district commissioner replaced by such person. The county commission may appoint a county commissioner to fill such vacancy. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 609 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 233.335 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.335 - Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.335. Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how. — 1. The special road district 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 said special road district commissioners any person not a member of said board may be chosen secretary. Meetings of said 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.  2. The treasurer of said board shall be appointed by the special road district commissioners and before he shall enter upon the duties of his office he shall give bond in double the amount of all moneys likely to come into his hands by virtue of his office. Said bond shall be payable to the special road district, approved by the special road district commissioners, and filed with the secretary of the special road district commission, and he shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful keeping of all moneys deposited with him by reason of sections 233.320 to 233.445.  3. The president of the board shall preside at all meetings thereof; he shall sign the minutes and records of the board, and all 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 said district, and exercise a general supervising control over the work of such commissioners and in a general way may do all acts and things that the said board may empower him 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 herein conferred upon the president.  4. The secretary shall carefully keep a true record of all warrants drawn on the treasurer, and all written contracts that may be entered into on behalf of the district, shall attest such warrants and the execution of such contracts, keep minutes of meetings of the board, and perform such other duties as the law may require.  5. All money paid to the treasurer of the special road district shall be placed to the credit of the district and shall be paid out only on warrants signed by the president or vice president and attested by the secretary, except as may be otherwise authorized by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8839)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8179; 1919 § 10940
MO Rev Stat § 233.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.340 - Tools and machinery, delivery to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when.

Effective - 30 May 1990   233.340. Tools and machinery, delivery to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. — 1. The township board of trustees shall, upon the organization of such special road district commissioners, cause all tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts and parts of 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 receipt, and such commissioners shall keep and use such tools and machinery for constructing and improving public roads and bridges.  2. The township boards shall also cause the township treasurer to pay over to the treasurer of the special road district all moneys in his hands belonging to the district or districts that have been merged into the special road district whenever the board of special road district commissioners of such special road district shall make demand therefor.  3. Except as provided in subsection 4 of this section, the special road district commissioners shall have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than those 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 special road district commissioners may have such road work, or bridge or culvert work, or any part thereof, done by contract, under such regulations as the special road district commissioners may prescribe.  4. 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 § 8840, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8180; 1919 § 10941  Effective 5-30-90
MO Rev Stat § 233.345 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.345 - Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   233.345. Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot. — 1. The special road district commissioners of 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.  2. Whenever the board of special road district commissioners of such road district propose to issue such bonds, they shall order the question to be submitted to the voters of the district. 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 bonds in the amount of ______ dollars?  5. The board of special road district commissioners shall not sell the bonds for less then ninety-five percent of the par value thereof and the proceeds shall be paid over to the treasurer of the special road district 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 § 8843, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8183; 1919 § 10944
MO Rev Stat § 233.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.360 - Special tax — how apportioned.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.360. 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 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 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 land 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 § 8846)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8186; 1919 § 10947
MO Rev Stat § 233.365 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.365 - Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.365. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. — In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land for 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 purpose of sections 233.320 to 233.445, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of 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 one 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 § 8852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8192; 1919 § 10953
MO Rev Stat § 233.375 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.375 - Special tax payable in installments — interest — special assessments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.375. Special tax payable 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 desire that the cost of the 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 § 8848)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949
MO Rev Stat § 233.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.380 - Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.380. 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 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 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 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 land described therein, for the amount thereof and all interest and penalties that may accrue thereon and all cost in collecting the same, including reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in any 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 payment of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid. Whenever any of such tax bills have 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 treasurer of the special road district all money collected on said special tax bills and the treasurer of the special road district 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 § 8848)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949
MO Rev Stat § 233.385 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.385 - Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.385. 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 commissioners may designate and to whom they shall order the county collector to deliver such unpaid special tax bills. 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 the favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8848)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949