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MO Rev Stat § 233.245 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.245 - Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.245. Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment. — 1. The owner of any tract of land against which such special tax shall have been levied may, within thirty days after the date of said order, elect to pay all of said special tax in one installment on or before the date of payment of the first installment thereof, by filing with the clerk of the county commission his written election, signed by him, so to do, in which election he shall state the tract, or tracts, upon which he so elects to pay; and thereupon the clerk shall note the filing of said election and the date of such filing, on the tax record book opposite the description of such tract, or tracts, and forthwith make out and deliver to the county collector a tax bill payable in one installment, for the amount charged or chargeable against each of such tracts, with interest from the date of said order to the first day of April next after the first installment of the tax levied is payable.  2. All tax bills so issued shall constitute liens, be subject to penalties and interest and be collectible in the same manner as those payable in more than one installment; and they shall in all other respects conform to the provisions hereof, relating to the issue, effect, payment and collection of such installment tax bills. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8722)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
MO Rev Stat § 233.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.250 - Special assessment bonds to be issued.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.250. Special assessment bonds to be issued. — 1. After the expiration of thirty days from the date of said order, the commissioners of such district shall issue special assessment bonds of the district as follows: If no election to pay in full the tax so ordered shall have been filed with the county clerk, as herein provided, said bonds shall be for an amount not exceeding ninety percent of the total amount of the tax so ordered; and, if such an election or elections shall have been so filed, then said bonds shall be for an amount not exceeding ninety percent of the total amount of the tax so ordered, after deducting the amount assessed against any and all tracts, the owners of which shall have filed an election to pay in one installment as herein provided, said bonds to be in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars, having some convenient date, and bearing interest from such date at a rate not to exceed six percent per annum. The interest of such bonds shall be payable on the first day of each April and October after said date, until all of such bonds are paid.  2. Said bonds shall be payable in the same number of installments, which need not be equal, as the special tax so ordered; one of which shall become due and payable on the first day of April after each installment of such tax becomes payable. Both principal and interest shall be payable at some convenient banking house or trust company's office to be named in said bonds.  3. Said bonds shall be signed by the president of the road district and attested by the county clerk, who shall, before the delivery thereof, register the same in a suitable book for that purpose. After such bonds are so registered, they shall be presented to the state auditor for registration, who shall register the same as bonds mentioned in sections 108.240 to 108.300 are required by law to be registered, and the provisions of said sections shall be applicable to bonds issued pursuant to sections 233.170 to 233.315, the same as to bonds mentioned in said sections.  4. Such bonds, after being so registered by the state auditor, shall be deposited with the county treasurer in whose custody they shall remain until disposed of as authorized by sections 233.170 to 233.315, and such bonds after being so registered by the state auditor, shall be eligible as good and lawful securities for any and all purposes that bonds issued under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 and sections 243.010 to 243.540 are made so eligible for by sections 108.240 to 108.300 and county commission of this state may invest school funds or other trust funds that may be under their control, in said bonds at their par value. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8722)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
MO Rev Stat § 233.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.260 - Cost of improvements — estimate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.260. Cost of improvements — estimate. — Whenever the issuing of special tax bills, or bonds, as herein provided, shall have been delayed for any cause for a period of at least six months subsequent to the estimate made therefor, and it shall be made to appear to the road commissioners of any such road district that the estimate of the cost of proposed improvements in said road district is excessive, or more than is needed for that purpose, they may appear before the county commission at any regular or adjourned term of said county commission, and ask for an order of the county commission authorizing the state transportation department to make and file with said county commission a new or revised estimate of the cost of such proposed improvements, and all tax bills, or bonds issued thereafter in said road district for such improvements shall be based upon the new or revised estimate so made and filed by said state transportation department, less state and federal aid, if any, and shall in all respects be the legal estimate of the cost of such proposed improvements. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8723)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8074
MO Rev Stat § 233.265 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.265 - Partial payments of special tax bills — correction of errors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.265. Partial payments of special tax bills — correction of errors. — 1. County treasurers and collectors may receive and receipt for partial payments of special tax bills they may have for collection, but not cancel any such tax bills until receiving full payment thereof.  2. Whenever the owner of any tract of land against which a special tax has been ordered desires to divide, or has divided, such tract into two or more tracts, the county commission shall, upon his application, make an apportionment of the special tax against the entire tract, against the tracts into which it is divided, and when special tax bills are thereafter issued, a separate bill shall issue, in accordance with such apportionment, against each of the tracts into which such tract is divided.  3. Special tax bills issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall not be void by reason of errors therein, but shall be valid for such amount and to such an extent as they should have been issued for, and the county clerk may at any time correct any error that may be found in any such special tax bills. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8724)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8075; 1919 § 10846
MO Rev Stat § 233.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.270 - Contracts for improvement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.270. Contracts for improvement. — 1. Whenever an order for improvement is made, the special road district commissioners of the district shall, in the name of the district, enter into a written contract with the lowest and best bidder for making such improvement in compliance with such order. Such contract shall require that the work be completed within a certain time, and shall provide a penalty for each day beyond said time said work remains uncompleted, and said commissioners shall require said contractor to enter into a bond, to be approved by the commissioners, for the full performance of said contract, and payment for all labor and material used or employed in the performance of such contract.  2. Said special road district commissioners may advertise for bids for such contract in any manner they may choose; and the contract shall in no case be let to any special road district commissioner, nor shall any special road district commissioner, directly or indirectly, have any pecuniary interest therein other than the performance of his official duties as herein required.  3. Said contract shall in no case provide for the payment of a sum in excess of the estimated cost of the work, as found by the county commission, plus ten percent thereof; and shall not provide for payment of exceeding eighty percent of the value of the work actually performed and materials furnished until the entire improvement is completed.  4. As payments to the contractor become payable by the terms of the contract, the commissioners shall cause warrants to be drawn on the county treasurer therefor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8725)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8076; 1919 § 10847
MO Rev Stat § 233.275 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.275 - Title to lands — how considered.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   233.275. Title to lands — how considered. — If it shall appear that any land within a district so incorporated has been conveyed by mortgage or deed of trust, the mortgagor or owner of the equity of redemption, or if any land shall be owned by a minor, his conservator, or if any land shall have been conveyed or devised to a trustee to be held by him for the use or benefit of another for a number of years or during the life of such other, the trustee, or if any land shall be held by any surviving spouse as a homestead, then the surviving spouse and adult heirs, shall be deemed and held to be the owner of such land within the meaning of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8726, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8077; 1919 § 10848
MO Rev Stat § 233.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.280 - Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of road districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   233.280. Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of road districts. — 1. County collectors shall receive for collecting special tax bills authorized by sections 233.170 to 233.315 the same compensation as if collected as county taxes.  2. Clerks of county commissions shall receive for issuing and attesting each special tax bill issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315, six cents; for recording an abstract or description of each such tax bill, five cents; for making the record of a special tax payable in installments, four cents for each tract of land against which such tax is assessed; for attesting special assessment bonds issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315, and registering the same, twenty cents for each bond; for any other services performed under sections 233.170 to 233.315, such compensation as may be fixed by law, and if not fixed by law, such as may be fixed by the county commission.  3. Commissioners of road districts incorporated under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall receive such compensation for their services as a majority of the road district commissioners shall fix from time to time, not to exceed one hundred dollars per month, provided the compensation of a commissioner shall not change during the time for which he or she was elected or appointed. In addition to the compensation for their services, commissioners of road districts incorporated under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be paid any and all expenses they incur in transacting business of the district, including reasonable attorney's fees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8728, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1037)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8079; 1919 § 10850
MO Rev Stat § 233.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.290 - Dissolution of road district — not to affect validity of bonds, levy or collection of special taxes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   233.290. Dissolution of road district — not to affect validity of bonds, levy or collection of special taxes. — Whenever any owner of land within any road district organized under the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall file with the county commission of the county in which such district may be located a petition verified by an affidavit stating that such road district has no special road district commissioners and has failed to elect special road district commissioners or that such road district has ceased to perform the functions for which it was created, the county commission shall cause five notices to be posted in conspicuous places in said district, giving notice of the filing of such petitions, and that unless cause be shown to the said county commission on a day to be named in said notices, not less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the time of posting such notices, why the said road district should not be dissolved, that the same will be dissolved; and if on the day named in such notices no party in interest shall appear and show that the said road district is performing the functions for which it was created or that it has special road district commissioners or that good cause exists why the said road districts should not be dissolved, the county commission shall, on the next meeting of the county commission make its order of record that such road district be dissolved; provided, that if any party in interest shall appear and show cause as herein provided, the county commission shall proceed to hear evidence on the matter, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the county commission that no good cause exists why such road district should not be dissolved, it shall enter its order of record that such road district be dissolved, and if contrary appear, the said petition shall be dismissed; provided further, that nothing in sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall affect the validity of any bonds that may have been issued by such road district or affect the levy or collection of any special taxes that may have been* levied or assessed against any lands within such district; provided further, after the dissolution of any such special road district the land therein shall be divided into road districts under the provisions of sections 231.010 to 231.030, 231.050 to 231.100 and 137.555 to 137.575, and any money that may be on hand to the credit of such special road district that shall not be needed to satisfy any liabilities of such special road district shall, by order of the county commission, be turned over to such new road districts in proportion to the number of acres allotted to each such new district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8730, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8081; 1919 § 10852  *Word "been" does not appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 233.297 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.297 - Dissolution of a special road district, procedure — ballot language — land assigned to common road district, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   233.297. Dissolution of a special road district, procedure — ballot language — land assigned to common road district, when. — 1. In lieu of the modes of dissolution set forth in section 233.290 or in section 233.295, a special road district may be dissolved by election. The dissolution procedure established under this section shall only apply to the dissolution of special road districts in counties of the fourth classification.  2. Upon presentation of a petition signed by fifty registered voters of the special road district, the county commission shall make an order that the dissolution of the special road district order that the question of dissolving the special road district shall be submitted to a vote of the people of the special road district. However no such petition may be presented until the expiration of four years from the date of establishment of the special road district or from the date of the last election seeking to expand or dissolve the special road district.  3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ Special Road District be dissolved?  4. If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the dissolution, the district shall be disincorporated and the operation of the law shall cease in that district.  5. The dissolution of the road district shall not affect the validity of any bonds issued by the road district and all levies related to such bonds shall remain in effect until such bonds are paid. Likewise, the dissolution of the road district shall not affect the validity of any special assessments or taxes levied against particular parcels or the validity of any unpaid taxes previously levied against a particular parcel.  6. Upon dissolution of a special road district pursuant to this section, the land therein shall be assigned to a new or existing common road district pursuant to chapter 231. If after payment of all debts of the special road district, there are funds left in the possession of the special road district, such funds shall be allocated proportionately to the common road districts to which the land within the former special road district were assigned based on the acreage assigned to each common road district. To the extent that funds are paid subsequent to such original allocation, other than funds connected with bond obligations under subsection 5 of this section, based on obligations assigned to particular parcels or property, such funds shall be allocated to the common road district in which such parcels or property is located. ­­-------- (L. 2008 S.B. 896)
MO Rev Stat § 233.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.300 - Contracts not affected by disincorporation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.300. Contracts not affected by disincorporation. — No dissolution of such road district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such road district or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such road district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8732)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8083; 1919 § 10854
MO Rev Stat § 233.305 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.305 - Appointment of trustee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.305. Appointment of trustee. — Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such road district, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the road district so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security to be approved by the county commission, to the use of such disincorporated road district, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8733)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8084; 1919 § 10855
MO Rev Stat § 233.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.310 - Trustee, duties of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.310. Trustee, duties of. — The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the road district, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to such road district, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and generally to do all acts requisite to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the road district, and for that purpose, under the order and direction of the county commission, to exercise all the powers given by law to said road district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8734)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8085; 1919 § 10856
MO Rev Stat § 233.315 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.315 - Final settlement of trustee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   233.315. Final settlement of trustee. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the road district, and shall have paid all debts due by said road district, he shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his hands, and take receipt therefor, and deliver to the clerk of such county commission all books, papers, records and deeds belonging to the dissolved road district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8735)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8086; 1919 § 10857
MO Rev Stat § 233.317 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts|Section 233.317 - Expansion or extension of a road district, procedure — ballot language.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   233.317. Expansion or extension of a road district, procedure — ballot language. — 1. In addition to any other mechanism established by law for the expansion or extension of a road district established under sections 233.170 to 233.315, such road district may be extended by election. The provisions of this section shall only apply to the extension of special road districts in counties of the fourth classification.  2. Upon presentation of a petition signed by not less than thirty-five registered voters in the old district and by the lesser of thirty-five registered voters or fifty percent of the registered voters in the area to be added to the road district to the county commission, the county commission shall make an order of record that the proposed extension of said road district under the provisions of this section, describing the same by its title and the date of its approval, and describing the boundaries of the district as proposed to be extended, be submitted to the voters of such proposed road district.  3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ Special Road District be extended?  4. If the majority of the votes cast for and against the expansion of the road district be for its expansion, the commission shall declare the result of the vote thereon by an order of record, and shall make an order of record declaring that the road district shall be expanded to include the territory covered by the petition. If the majority of the votes be against the expansion, the territory shall remain as it was prior to the vote. Any order pursuant to this section shall take effect ten days after its entry. ­­-------- (L. 2008 S.B. 896)