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MO Rev Stat § 247.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.590 - Issuance of current revenue bonds, when — execution.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.590. Issuance of current revenue bonds, when — execution. — During the period of time required to collect any tax or property within the district levied for general operating purposes the board may issue and sell current revenue bonds to bear interest at not to exceed six percent per annum to meet the current expenses of the district incurred in advance of the revenue to be derived from such tax levy, and to be paid out of such current revenue levied for general operating purposes when collected. Such bonds may be for six, nine or twelve months and shall not exceed in the aggregate one-half of the revenue for the fiscal year for which they are issued. The president of the board shall execute the bonds on behalf of the district and they shall be attested by the secretary with the seal of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 36)
MO Rev Stat § 247.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.600 - Elections in district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.600. Elections in district. — 1. Regular elections shall be held on municipal election days.  2. Returns of elections, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be made to the board of directors, shall be canvassed by said board, and the results spread upon the records of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 37, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.620 - Petition for dissolution of district, contents, where filed — submission of question.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.620. Petition for dissolution of district, contents, where filed — submission of question. — Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall have been filed with the circuit court having jurisdiction over said district, setting forth all 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 circuit court shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question, which shall be submitted in substantially the following form:  Shall the ______ metropolitan water supply district be dissolved? ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 39, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.630 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.630 - Election on question of dissolution — effect — procedure if question approved.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.630. Election on question of dissolution — effect — procedure if question approved. — 1. If the court 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 the voters of the district.  2. Such election may be held only on municipal election days. Returns of said election shall be canvassed and certified to the court.  3. If the court finds that two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the question to dissolve said district, the court shall make a final order dissolving said district, and the decree 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.  4. If the court shall find that two-thirds of the voters of the district voting thereon shall not have voted favorably on the question to dissolve such district, then the court shall make a final order declaring such result dismissing the petition praying for the dissolution of said district; and the said district shall continue to operate in the same manner as though said petition asking for such dissolution had not been filed. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 40, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.640 - Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.640. Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee. — No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon the district or person; and whenever the circuit court shall, under the provisions of section 247.630, dissolve any such district, the court shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the district dissolved, and such trustee before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court, to the use of such dissolved district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate the district under orders of the court. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 41)
MO Rev Stat § 247.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.650 - Defective notice, when given.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.650. Defective notice, when given. — In any and every case where a notice is provided for in sections 247.230 to 247.670, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice has been properly given in the first instance. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 42)
MO Rev Stat § 247.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.660 - Cases involving validity of organization, when heard.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.660. Cases involving validity of organization, when heard. — All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a district, or a question of the validity of any proceeding under sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be advanced on the docket as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard at the earliest practicable moment. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of sections 247.230 to 247.670. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 43)
MO Rev Stat § 247.670 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.670 - Sale of water outside district prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.670. Sale of water outside district prohibited. — No metropolitan water supply district created under sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall sell water directly or indirectly to any area nor municipality or political subdivision not included in the legally constituted boundaries of said metropolitan water supply district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 44)
MO Rev Stat § 248.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.010 - Establishment of sanitary drainage districts — petition, by whom made — petition contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.010. Establishment of sanitary drainage districts — petition, by whom made — petition contents. — 1. Whenever the construction and maintenance of a common outlet or channel or of a system of drains or sewers for the drainage of any area in the state of Missouri shall become necessary to secure proper sanitary conditions for the preservation of the public health, if such area shall lie in part within and in part without the corporate limits of any city having a population of three hundred thousand or more, said area may be established and incorporated as a sanitary district under this chapter in the manner following, to wit: The mayor and assembly of the city or the county commission of the county within whose limits any part of such area may lie, or in case the area is situated in part in a city authorized to perform all the functions of a county and part in a county, both the mayor and assembly and the county commission may petition the circuit court or courts having jurisdiction for the appointment of commissioners as herein provided, and to take such further action as may be necessary to the submission to the legal voters resident in such area, of the question whether such area shall be organized and incorporated as a sanitary district under this chapter.  2. Such petition or petitions, which may be in the form of an ordinance of the city or order of the county commission, shall set forth a description in general terms of the territory to be embraced in, and suggest a name for, the proposed sanitary district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12476)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10886; 1919 § 4581; 1909 § 5687
MO Rev Stat § 248.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.020 - Sanitary district — commission to determine boundaries, general provisions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.020. Sanitary district — commission to determine boundaries, general provisions. — 1. The circuit court or courts so petitioned are hereby authorized to appoint three disinterested persons, one of whom shall be a civil engineer or surveyor, as commissioners to lay out and define the boundaries of the proposed sanitary district.  2. Said commissioners may alter or amend the boundaries of the proposed district, as set forth in the petition or petitions, so that it may embrace all of the area capable of being efficiently drained by the common outlet or channel, or by the system of sewers or drains, or so as to exclude from the sanitary district any part of the natural drainage area which is so situated as not to be benefitted by the proposed sanitary drainage, and for this purpose they shall have power to have made all surveys and maps necessary to locate and describe the said boundaries.  3. Said commissioners shall qualify by taking oath to faithfully and impartially perform their duties, and when so qualified shall give notice by publication at least five times, in one or more newspapers having a general circulation in the proposed district, of the time and place where they will meet to consider and establish said boundaries. Said notice shall be given at least twenty days prior to the meeting and the meeting place shall be in the courthouse of the county, or city hall of the city.  4. At the meeting the commissioner first named in the order of appointment shall preside, and all persons residing or owning real property in such proposed district, or adjacent thereto, shall have the right to be heard as to the location of the boundaries of such proposed district; and the commissioners or a majority of them after such hearing shall fix and determine the boundaries of the proposed district.  5. The commissioners may adjourn from day to day until the hearing shall be complete, and for their services shall receive ten dollars per day each, for each day of actual service. They may employ a competent person as stenographer and clerk, whose compensation shall be five dollars per day. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12477)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
MO Rev Stat § 248.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.030 - Report of commissioners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.030. Report of commissioners. — The commissioners shall make their report, accompanied by a map or plan showing the boundaries of the proposed district, in relation to the property lines intersected or followed by them, also in relation to city or county boundaries, to the court or courts by which they were appointed. Said report and map, if approved by the court or courts, shall then be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county or counties, or city, in which the proposed district is situated, and copies of the map with the mayor of the city and with the county commission of the respective county or counties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12477)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
MO Rev Stat § 248.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.040 - Election on organization of sanitary district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   248.040. Election on organization of sanitary district. — 1. It shall then be the duty of said mayor and county commission or courts to submit to the voters of the proposed district the question of the organization and incorporation of the proposed sanitary district, with boundaries as determined by the said commissioners and approved by the said court or courts, at an election.  2. The returns of the vote, certified to under oath by those who receive and count the vote, shall be made to the secretary of state of the state of Missouri, who shall ascertain and declare the result.  3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall a sanitary drainage district be organized and incorporated?  4. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of organization of the district, such proposed district shall thenceforth be deemed an organized sanitary district under this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12477, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
MO Rev Stat § 248.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.050 - General powers of district — judicial notice — costs of proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.050. General powers of district — judicial notice — costs of proceedings. — 1. When the board of trustees provided for in section 248.070 shall be appointed and organized, such sanitary district shall be considered in law and equity a body corporate and politic, known by the name and style of "The Sanitary District of ______", and by such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal.  2. All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this chapter.  3. If the proposition to establish the sanitary district is carried, the cost of all preliminary proceedings shall be borne by the district; if it is defeated, all costs of court, of commissioners and of the election shall be borne by the city and county, if of independent jurisdiction, each being liable for all expenses in regard to proceedings under its petitions. If its jurisdiction is single, the county commission shall pay for all said expenses. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12477)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
MO Rev Stat § 248.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.060 - Procedure where drainage area is in two counties — what court has jurisdiction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.060. Procedure where drainage area is in two counties — what court has jurisdiction. — When a natural drainage area includes territory lying in part in a county and in part in a city exercising the functions of a county, or in two or more counties, then the proceedings herein prescribed in sections 248.010 to 248.050 shall state that the proposition is to unite the parts so situated in independent jurisdictions into a single sanitary district; and if the proposition is carried by a majority vote in each of the parts, then the district shall be united and organized as described in said proceedings, and the circuit court having jurisdiction over the major part of the area included in the district so organized, shall have and is directed to exercise jurisdiction in all cases or questions arising out of the organization of the district, or from the acts of the board of trustees thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12477)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
MO Rev Stat § 248.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.070 - Trustees — appointment — removal — employees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.070. Trustees — appointment — removal — employees. — 1. The board of trustees for the sanitary district shall be constituted as follows: The county commission shall appoint one; the mayor of the city, with the approval of the higher branch of the legislative department of the city government, shall appoint one; and the court having jurisdiction over the whole or major part of the territory embraced in the district, as shown by the map thereof, shall appoint one, who shall be a civil engineer of good repute in his profession, and a recognized expert in matters of drainage. The appointee of the circuit court shall be the president of the board, and its executive officer.  2. For their services the trustees shall receive salaries proportioned to the actual services rendered the district; the amount of salaries in each case shall be fixed on a per diem basis by the circuit court which appoints the third member, as before provided.  3. If more than one sanitary district be organized with territory common to the same city and county or counties, the same persons may be appointed as trustees for any or all such districts.  4. The official, county commission or court appointing the trustee shall have the power to appoint a successor when any vacancy occurs by reason of death, resignation, or removal from office or expiration of term. He or it may also remove such appointee for cause.  5. The term of office of the first appointee of the circuit court shall be three years; that of the county commission two years, and that of the mayor one year. Subsequent terms shall all be for three years, always subject to the condition that the board of trustees may be abolished, as provided in section 248.180.  6. The board of trustees shall have power to elect a clerk, chief engineer and attorney, and to employ from time to time such other persons as may be necessary, and to remove and discharge them at its pleasure; to fix the compensation of such appointees or employees, and to require them to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties; provided, that no salary so paid, calculated on per diem basis, shall exceed the per diem allowed the president of the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12478)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10888; 1919 § 4583; 1909 § 5689
MO Rev Stat § 248.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.080 - Powers of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.080. Powers of board. — Said board of trustees shall have power to pass all necessary rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees, and of said corporation, and for the carrying into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12479)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10889; 1919 § 4584; 1909 § 5690
MO Rev Stat § 248.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties|Section 248.090 - Surveys and plans — adoption thereof.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.090. Surveys and plans — adoption thereof. — 1. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make the necessary surveys, and to map out and define the several natural drainage areas in the district, and to lay out a general plan for the drainage thereof; besides the main outlet or outlets, the plan shall embrace branches or submains, necessary for a complete system of principal drains for the entire district. Branch or submains to be paid for out of the general revenue of the district shall not be extended beyond the point at which they will receive the drainage of an area of less than eight hundred acres. Outlets and the larger branches or submains may be open channels, whose general course shall be followed by intercepting sewers, to collect and convey sewage or polluted drainage. The board shall also subdivide the district into convenient subdistricts, not larger than one thousand acres in extent, within which the sewers or drains necessary to complete the drainage shall be constructed at the expense of the subdistrict, as provided in section 248.160.  2. When such plans are complete for a definite district or subdistrict, the board of trustees shall adopt them by ordinance, and such ordinance, when published in one or more newspapers having general circulation in the sanitary district, shall be binding upon all persons, corporations and municipalities; and nothing shall be done affecting the drainage of any part of the district, other than ordinary farm or agricultural drains, by any person, corporation or municipality inconsistent with such plans or without the permission of said board of trustees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12482)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10892; 1919 § 4587; 1909 5693  CROSS REFERENCES:  Contractual agreements between political subdivisions for common facilities or services, 70.210 to 70.320  County planning commission, approval of public improvements after adoption of plan, 64.010 to 64.295