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MO Rev Stat § 235.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.180 - Board to certify rate of levy to county commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.180. Board to certify rate of levy to county commission. — On or before the first day of September of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of the county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with directions that at the time and in the manner required by law for levy of taxes for county purposes such county commission shall levy a tax at the rate so fixed and determined upon the assessed valuation of all the taxable tangible property within the district, in addition to such other taxes as may be levied by such county commission. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 18)
MO Rev Stat § 235.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.190 - Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.190. Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes. — It shall be the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within the county to levy the taxes provided in this law, and it shall be the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect such taxes at the time and in the form and manner and with like interest and penalties as other taxes are collected; and when collected, to pay the same to the district ordering its levy and collection or entitled to the same, and the payment of such collections shall be made monthly to the treasurer of the district and paid into the depositary thereof to the credit of the district. All taxes levied under this law, together with interest thereon and penalties for default in payment thereof, and all costs of collecting the same, shall, until paid, constitute a perpetual lien on and against the property taxed, and such lien shall be on a parity with the tax lien of general taxes, and no sale of such property to enforce any general tax or other lien shall extinguish the perpetual lien of district taxes. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 19)
MO Rev Stat § 235.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.200 - Property to be sold for delinquent taxes — manner.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.200. Property to be sold for delinquent taxes — manner. — If the taxes levied are not paid as provided in section 235.190, then the delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest and penalties, in the manner provided by the statutes of the state of Missouri for selling property for the nonpayment of general taxes. If there are no bids at said tax sale for the property so offered, said property shall be struck off to the county or other agency provided by law, and the county or agency shall account to the district in the same manner as provided by law for accounting for school, town and city taxes. Delinquent personal property shall be distrained and sold as provided by general law. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 20)
MO Rev Stat § 235.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.210 - Boundaries of district may be altered to include new territory — annexation, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   235.210. Boundaries of district may be altered to include new territory — annexation, procedure. — 1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this law may be changed in the manner prescribed in this section and in section 235.220, but any change of boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges whatsoever; or shall it affect or impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which it might be liable or chargeable had the change of boundaries not been made.  2. A petition for annexation of real property in an area contiguous with a street light maintenance district organized under this chapter and not located within any municipality or another street light maintenance district shall be signed by property owners who own not less than ten percent of the parcels of property within the area proposed for annexation. The petition shall be filed with the county clerk in which the district is situated and shall be addressed to the county commission. A hearing shall be held regarding the proposed annexation petition as soon as reasonably possible. If the county commission finds at the hearing that the petition is in compliance with the provisions of this section, they shall order the question to be submitted to the voters within the proposed area of annexation and within the district at a municipal, primary, or general election.  3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:   Shall ______ (description of area) be annexed to the ______ street light maintenance district?    ☐ YES   ☐ NO    If you are in favor of the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "YES". If you are opposed to the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "NO".    4. If a majority of the votes cast on the question in the district and in the area described in the petition, respectively, are in favor of the annexation, the county commission shall by order declare the area annexed and shall describe the altered boundaries of the district. A copy of the order of the commission shall be filed within the county recorder. If a majority of the votes cast on the question in the district and in the area described in the petition, respectively, are not in favor of the annexation, such area shall not be declared annexed. No such question shall be resubmitted to the voters sooner than twelve months from the date of submission of the last question. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 21, A.L. 1967 p. 353, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
MO Rev Stat § 235.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.220 - Boundaries may be altered to exclude certain territory, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.220. Boundaries may be altered to exclude certain territory, how. — 1. The owner or owners of any real or personal property contained within the boundaries of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such property be excluded and taken from said district. Such petition shall describe the property which the petitioners desire to have excluded.  2. The secretary of the board shall cause a notice of filing of such petition to be published in the county in which said property is located. The notice shall state the filing of such petition, the names of petitioners, description of the property mentioned sought to be excluded and the prayer of said petitioners; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at the office of said board at the time named in said notice showing cause in writing, if any they have, why said petition should not be granted.  3. The board at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times at which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause as aforesaid, why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The filing of such petition shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all such petitioners to the exclusion from the district of the property mentioned in the petition, or any part thereof.  4. The board, if it deems it not for the best interests of the district that the property mentioned in the petition, or any portion thereof, shall be excluded from the district, shall order that said petition be denied; but if it deems it for the best interest of the district that the property mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, be excluded from the district, then the board may order the property mentioned in the petition or some portion thereof, excluded from the district.  5. Upon allowance of such petition, the board shall file a certified copy of the order of the board making such change with the county clerk; and upon order of the county commission said property shall be excluded from the district, and a copy of the order of the board and the order of the commission shall be filed with the recorder.  6. The county commission shall make any such order excluding property from the district as provided in the order of the board, unless the commission shall find that such order of the board was not authorized by law, or that such order of the board was not supported by competent and substantial evidence. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 22)
MO Rev Stat § 235.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.230 - Property subject to taxation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.230. Property subject to taxation. — All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that after any real property shall have been excluded from a district, as provided in section 235.220, any buildings and improvements thereafter erected or constructed on said excluded real property, and all machinery and equipment thereafter installed or placed therein or thereon, and all tangible personal property not in said district at the time of the exclusion of said real property from said district which shall thereafter be situate on or used in connection with said real property, shall not be subject to any taxes levied by said district. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 23)
MO Rev Stat § 235.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.240 - Annexation of district by municipality.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.240. Annexation of district by municipality. — Any provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, no city, town or village shall annex a part of the territory of any district; but nothing herein shall be construed so as to prevent the annexation of the whole of the territory of a district by any city, town or village. If the entire district be annexed by any city, town or village as provided by law such municipality shall assume all debts, liabilities and obligations of the district; and title to all property, real, personal and mixed, of the district shall be transferred to and vested in such municipality. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 24)
MO Rev Stat § 235.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.250 - Dissolution of district, election for, when required — form of ballot.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.250. Dissolution of district, election for, when required — form of ballot. — 1. Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have been filed with the county commission setting forth all the relevant facts pertaining to said district, and alleging that the further operation of said district is inimicable to the best interests of the inhabitants of said district, and that said district should, in the interest of the public welfare and safety, be dissolved, said county commission shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question which shall be submitted to the voters of the district.  2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ street light maintenance district be dissolved? ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 25, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 235.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.260 - Dissolution of district, when — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.260. Dissolution of district, when — procedure. — 1. If the commission shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district * that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the question to dissolve such district to a vote of the voters of the district. The question shall be submitted only at the time of the general election at which a board member is elected. Returns of the submission of the question certified to the commission.  2. If the commission finds that a majority of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the question to dissolve said district, the commission shall make a final order dissolving said district, and the order shall contain a proviso that said district shall continue in full force for the purpose of paying all outstanding and lawful obligations and disposing of property of the district; but no additional costs or obligations shall be created except such as are necessary to pay such costs, obligations and liabilities theretofore incurred or necessary to the winding up of the district.  3. If the commission shall find that a majority of the voters of the district voting thereon shall not have voted favorably on the question to dissolve such district, then the commission shall make a final order declaring such result dismissing the petition praying for the dissolution of said district; and the district shall continue to operate in the same manner as though said petition asking for such dissolution had not been filed. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 26, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  *Word "and" appears here in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 235.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.270 - Appointment of trustee to liquidate district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.270. Appointment of trustee to liquidate district. — No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such district or person; and whenever the county commission shall, under the provisions of section 235.260, dissolve any such district, the said commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the said 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 dissolved district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate said district under orders of said commission. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 27)
MO Rev Stat § 236.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.010 - Dams across nonnavigable streams — who may erect.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.010. Dams across nonnavigable streams — who may erect. — Any person or corporation chartered and organized to construct, operate and maintain mills, electric power and light works, or other machinery, may erect a dam across any watercourse, not being a navigable stream, if such person or corporation is the proprietor of the land through which the watercourse runs at the point where it is proposed to erect such dam, by proceeding as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10286)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9157; 1919 § 7399; 1909 § 5456   (1962) Civil rule prescribing condemnation procedure governs procedure to be followed in exercise of power of eminent domain granted by chapters 236 and 523, RSMo. Union Electric Co. v. Jones (Mo.), 356 S.W.2d 857.
MO Rev Stat § 236.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.020 - Owner of land on one side of stream may erect dam.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.020. Owner of land on one side of stream may erect dam. — Any person or corporation chartered and organized to construct, operate and maintain mills, electric power and light works, or other machinery, being the owner, in fee simple, of the land on one side of such watercourse, including a part of the bed of the stream, at a point where it is proposed to erect a dam, may, nevertheless, erect such dam by proceeding as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10287)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9158; 1919 § 7400; 1909 § 5457
MO Rev Stat § 236.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.030 - Petition to be filed in circuit court — contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.030. Petition to be filed in circuit court — contents. — In the case supposed in section 236.010, the person or corporation proposing to erect a dam shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which it is proposed to erect such mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery, in connection with the dam, and shall therein set forth:  (1) A description of the land and an abstract of the title thereto;  (2) The name of the watercourse, and a description of the point at which it is proposed to erect such dam;  (3) The altitude of the dam which it is proposed to erect; and  (4) The kind of mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery, which it is proposed to connect with the dam. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10288)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9159; 1919 § 7401; 1909 § 5458  (1961) This section was designed to promote the construction of mills and to protect the owners of land along watercourses and contemplated a permanent construction. It has no application to a temporary dam to enable the construction of a bridge. Rector v. Tobin Const. Co. (A.), 351 S.W.2d 816.
MO Rev Stat § 236.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.040 - Additional information to be set out.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.040. Additional information to be set out. — In the case supposed in section 236.020, the person or corporation proposing to erect a dam shall file a petition as provided in section 236.030, and in addition thereto shall set forth:  (1) The name and place of residence of the owner of the land on the other side of the watercourse whereon to abut such dam;  (2) On what side of the watercourse it is proposed to erect such mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery in connection with the dam; and  (3) A prayer that the title to one acre of the land on the opposite side of such watercourse, to include the place where to abut such dam, may be decreed to such person or corporation, and that the same may be set apart by metes and bounds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10289)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9160; 1919 § 7402; 1909 § 5459
MO Rev Stat § 236.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.050 - Petition, where filed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.050. Petition, where filed. — Such petition shall be filed in the circuit court of the county within which the petitioner proposes to erect such mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10290)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9161; 1919 § 7403; 1909 § 5460
MO Rev Stat § 236.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.060 - Writ of ad quod damnum.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.060. Writ of ad quod damnum. — Upon filing the petition, it shall be the duty of the court to cause a writ of ad quod damnum to be issued, under the seal of the court, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to summon twelve fit persons of his county to meet at the place where it is proposed to erect a dam, on a day to be named in the writ, then and there to inquire, by the said jury, touching the matters contained in the petition a copy of which shall accompany the writ. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10291)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9162; 1919 § 7404; 1909 § 5461
MO Rev Stat § 236.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.070 - Duty of sheriff in executing writ.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.070. Duty of sheriff in executing writ. — The sheriff shall attend the jury on the day and at the place appointed, and upon full examination, inquire by such jury:  (1) What damage each proprietor will sustain by reason of inundation consequent upon the erection of the dam, as proposed;  (2) Whether the mansion house of any such proprietor, or the outhouses, curtilages or gardens thereto immediately belonging, or orchard, will be overflowed thereby;  (3) Whether and to what extent ordinary navigation and the passage of fish will be obstructed by such erection, and whether and by what means the same may be prevented or diminished; and  (4) Whether the health of the neighborhood will be materially affected in consequence of such erection. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10292)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9163; 1919 § 7405; 1909 § 5462
MO Rev Stat § 236.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.080 - Acre of ground to be set apart, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.080. Acre of ground to be set apart, when. — In the case supposed in section 236.020, the sheriff shall further inquire by the jury the value of the acre of land mentioned in the prayer of the petition, and set apart the same by metes and bounds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10293)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9164; 1919 § 7406; 1909 § 5463
MO Rev Stat § 236.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.090 - Proprietor to be notified of the inquest.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.090. Proprietor to be notified of the inquest. — In such case the sheriff shall give the proprietor of the land whereof one acre is prayed for, a reasonable notice of the time and place when and where he will take the inquest of the jury, if such proprietor be in his county, and if not, he shall set up notice at the house of the tenant of such land, and if there be no actual tenant thereof, he shall set up such notice at some conspicuous place on the land. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10294)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9165; 1919 § 7407; 1909 § 5464
MO Rev Stat § 236.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.100 - Sheriff and jury may act in adjoining county.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.100. Sheriff and jury may act in adjoining county. — The sheriff and jury may enter and act in an adjoining county when necessary to the discharge of their duties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10295)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9166; 1919 § 7408; 1909 § 5465
MO Rev Stat § 236.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 236 - Dams, Mills and Electric Power|Section 236.110 - Inquest to be in writing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   236.110. Inquest to be in writing. — The inquest of the jury shall be reduced to writing, signed by each of the jurors, and returned by the sheriff, together with the writ and a statement of the manner in which he executed it, into the court whence it issued, without delay. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10296)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 9167; 1919 § 7409; 1909 § 5466