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MO Rev Stat § 247.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.210 - Condemnation of property — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   247.210. Condemnation of property — procedure. — The proceedings for condemnation of property under powers conferred by sections 247.010 to 247.220 shall, as nearly as may be practicable, be the same as proceedings provided for condemnation of property by cities of the fourth class, except that proceedings shall be instituted and carried through by the board of directors. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12636)
MO Rev Stat § 247.227 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.227 - Real estate subdivision with approved installation of water line, certain districts not to refuse water (Jackson County).

Effective - 28 Aug 1991   247.227. Real estate subdivision with approved installation of water line, certain districts not to refuse water (Jackson County). — Any public water supply district located in a first class county with a charter form of government which contains part of a city with a population of four hundred thousand or more inhabitants and which has approved installation of water lines and hookups within a real estate subdivision shall not refuse to supply water for expansion or additions within the real estate subdivision. ­­-------- (L. 1991 H.B. 619 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 247.228 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.228 - Public water supply districts and cities owning a waterworks to be notified of water service inquiries, when, contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   247.228. Public water supply districts and cities owning a waterworks to be notified of water service inquiries, when, contents. — When an entity considering or proposing the construction of a multiresidential or commercial development, which is located within the city limits of a city owning a waterworks and also located within the boundaries of a public water supply district, makes an inquiry of the city administrator respecting the supply of water service to such construction project, the city shall notify the public water supply district of such inquiry. Such notification shall be within ten days of the initial inquiry of the city administrator, shall be by certified mail, and shall state the location of such construction project to the extent the city administrator is aware of such. ­­-------- (L. 2004 S.B. 987 § 1)  Transferred 2005; formerly 247.673
MO Rev Stat § 247.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.230 - Purpose of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1976   247.230. Purpose of law. — The purpose of sections 247.230 to 247.670 is to provide for the establishment of political subdivisions of this state within counties to be known as metropolitan water supply districts, the function of which shall be to secure a source of water on a scale larger than is feasible for public water supply districts and cities acting alone and to sell such water at wholesale to public water supply districts and cities, towns and villages. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 1, A.L. 1976 H.B. 1386)
MO Rev Stat § 247.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.240 - Metropolitan water supply districts, limits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1976   247.240. Metropolitan water supply districts, limits. — Metropolitan water supply districts may be of any size and may include all or any part of any county, or of two or more adjoining school districts, cities, towns, villages or public water supply districts or other political subdivisions within a county; no two metropolitan water supply districts shall overlap; no more than one metropolitan water supply district may be formed in any one county; provided however, that no city, town, village or public water supply district having a water supply or distribution system shall be included in a metropolitan water supply district, until said municipality shall consent to become included as evidenced by an ordinance or resolution passed by a majority vote of the governing body of such municipality; and provided further, that the territory within any metropolitan water supply district organized under sections 247.230 to 247.670 should be contiguous. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 2, A.L. 1976 H.B. 1386)
MO Rev Stat § 247.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.250 - Proceeding to incorporate, where filed — power of court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.250. Proceeding to incorporate, where filed — power of court. — The proceedings to incorporate a metropolitan water supply district shall be in the circuit court of the county in which the proposed district is located. The circuit court sitting in and for any such county is hereby vested with jurisdiction, power and authority as provided herein to establish such districts. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 247.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.260 - Organization of district, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.260. Organization of district, procedure. — The organization of a metropolitan water supply district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court vested with jurisdiction as provided in sections 247.230 to 247.670. The petition shall be signed by one hundred voters of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 3, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.270 - Contents of petition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.270. Contents of petition. — The petition shall set forth:  (1) The name of the proposed district consisting of a chosen name preceding the words "metropolitan water supply district";  (2) An estimate of the number of inhabitants and of the assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property of the district;  (3) A description of and an estimate of the cost of the proposed improvements;  (4) A suggested maximum rate of tax levy for general operating purposes not to exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollar valuation;  (5) A general description of the boundaries of the district or territory to be included therein, with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether or not his property is within the district;  (6) A list of the public water supply districts, cities, towns, villages and other political subdivisions within the bounds of the proposed district, an estimate of the number of water customers of such units and an estimate of the water consumption of said customers;  (7) The names of five voters of the district who shall constitute the first board of directors of the district;  (8) Such other data and information as may be useful to the court in determining the necessity for the organization of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 4, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.280 - Deposit for costs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.280. Deposit for costs. — There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to cover the payment of court costs. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 5)
MO Rev Stat § 247.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.290 - Hearing, when — notice by publication.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.290. Hearing, when — notice by publication. — Immediately after the filing of such petition or any amended petition changing the boundaries the court wherein such petition is filed or the judge thereof in vacation shall by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the circuit court shall cause notice by publication to be made of the filing of the petition and the pendency of the action and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The circuit clerk shall also forthwith cause a copy of said notice to be mailed by registered mail to the governing body of each public water supply district, city, town, village or other political subdivision having territory within the proposed boundaries of the proposed district, and to the county commission of the county affected. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 7)
MO Rev Stat § 247.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.300 - Exclusive jurisdiction of court — property-owning judge not disqualified.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.300. Exclusive jurisdiction of court — property-owning judge not disqualified. — The circuit court shall thereafter for all purposes of sections 247.230 to 247.670, except as herein otherwise provided, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all matters connected with or affected by said district. No judge of the circuit court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to perform any duty imposed by said sections by reason of ownership of property within the proposed district. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 8)
MO Rev Stat § 247.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.310 - Petition — effect of defect — amendment — supplemental petition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.310. Petition — effect of defect — amendment — supplemental petition. — No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the court may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts by correcting any errors in the description of the territory, or in any other particular, except that the boundaries of the district may not be enlarged by taking in additional territory, without notice to the voters thus affected, which notice may be made by publication or service of such pleadings and orders. Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district, revising the boundaries of the proposed districts, or recommending another chosen name for the district or recommending other voters for the first board of directors, or recommending a different maximum rate of levy for general operating purposes may be filed at any time before a hearing is had on the petition, and shall, together with the first petition, be regarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the court the same as though filed with the first petition placed on file. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 6, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.320 - Protesting petition, where filed, contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.320. Protesting petition, where filed, contents. — Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the circuit clerk, wherein the petition for the organization of such district is pending, protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such protesting petition shall be signed and filed by or on behalf of one or more voters of the district, and shall recite wherein the incorporation of the district will not promote the purposes as set forth in the original petition, or wherein sufficient facts have not been related to justify the incorporation of such district, and any other facts which may be useful to the court in determining whether or not such original petition shall be allowed. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 9, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 247.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.330 - Dismissal of petition, when — costs — no appeal — effect of dismissal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.330. Dismissal of petition, when — costs — no appeal — effect of dismissal. — Upon the said hearing if the court finds that the petition has not been signed, filed and presented in conformity with sections 247.230 to 247.670, or that the material facts are not as set forth in the petition filed, or that sufficient facts have not been presented to justify the incorporation of the district, it shall dismiss said proceedings and adjudge the costs against the signers of the petition, or petitions, in such proportion as it shall deem just and equitable. No appeal or writ of error shall lie from an order dismissing said proceedings; but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the filing of a subsequent petition, or petitions, for similar improvements or for a similar district, and the right so to renew such proceedings is hereby expressly granted and authorized. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 10)
MO Rev Stat § 247.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.340 - Declaration of district organization.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.340. Declaration of district organization. — Upon the said hearing if it shall appear that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented, as herein provided, in conformity with sections 247.230 to 247.670, and that the allegations of the petition are true, and that no protesting petition has been filed, or if one has been filed, that the facts adduced in behalf thereof at the hearing are insufficient to sustain such protesting petition, the court shall, by order duly entered of record, adjudicate all questions of jurisdiction, determine the original maximum rate of levy for general operating purposes to be voted only if said levy shall exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollar valuation, or as herein provided, declare the district organized, define the boundaries thereof, and give it a corporate name by which in all proceedings it shall thereafter be known, and thereupon the district, subject to the election provided in section 247.350, shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate with all the powers of like or similar corporations. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 11)
MO Rev Stat § 247.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.360 - Force of final order.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.360. Force of final order. — If a final order be entered establishing the district, such order shall be deemed final and conclusive, and no appeal or writ of error shall lie therefrom, and the entry of such order shall finally and conclusively establish the regular organization of said district against all persons except the state of Missouri, in an action in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, commenced by the attorney general within thirty days after said decree declaring such district finally organized as herein provided and not otherwise. The organization of such district shall not be directly or collaterally questioned in any suit, action or proceeding except as herein expressly authorized. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 13)
MO Rev Stat § 247.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.370 - Records relating to incorporation, where and how filed — fees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.370. Records relating to incorporation, where and how filed — fees. — Within thirty days after the final order of the circuit court which has declared the district a public corporation, the circuit clerk of said court shall transmit to the secretary of state and to the county clerk and the recorder of deeds in the county in which the district is located copies of the findings and decrees of the court incorporating said district. The same shall be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations and the recorder and clerk shall receive a fee of one dollar each for filing and preserving the same. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 14)
MO Rev Stat § 247.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.380 - Members of board — oath — bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.380. Members of board — oath — bond. — Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall qualify by filing with the circuit clerk their oath of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such board members shall also file with the circuit clerk corporate surety bonds to be furnished at the expense of the district in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars each, the form and amount thereof to be fixed and approved by the circuit court having jurisdiction, and said bonds to be conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as directors. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 15)
MO Rev Stat § 247.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.390 - Organization of board — seal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.390. Organization of board — seal. — After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and treasurer of the board and of the district, who may or may not be members of the board. The secretary and the treasurer may be one person. Such board shall adopt a seal, and the secretary shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all its proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees and a record of corporate acts, which shall be open to inspection of all owners of property in the district, as well as to all other interested parties. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 16)
MO Rev Stat § 247.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.400 - Treasurer — bond — financial statement — fiscal year.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.400. Treasurer — bond — financial statement — fiscal year. — The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the clerk of the court, at the expense of the district, a corporate fidelity bond in an amount to be determined by the board for not less than five thousand dollars, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of his office. He shall file in the office of the recorder of deeds a detailed financial statement for the preceding fiscal year of the district on behalf of the board during the month of January. The fiscal year of the board shall be the same as the calendar year. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 17)
MO Rev Stat § 247.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.410 - Board — compensation — removal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.410. Board — compensation — removal. — Each member of the board shall receive an attendance fee in the amount of five dollars for attending each regularly called board meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than two in any calendar month. Each member of the board shall be reimbursed for his actual expenditures in the performance of his duties on behalf of the district. The secretary and the treasurer shall be paid such a monthly salary as may be fixed by the board. The circuit court having jurisdiction over the district shall have power to remove directors or any of them for good cause shown upon a petition, notice and hearing. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 18)
MO Rev Stat § 247.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.420 - Meetings of board, quorum, vacancy — annual audit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   247.420. Meetings of board, quorum, vacancy — annual audit. — The board shall meet at the place to be designated by the board as often as the needs of the district require on notice to each member of the board. The board shall cause to be made an annual audit of the receipts and expenditures of the district, by a certified public accountant, the cost of said audit to be paid by the district. Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by the remaining member or members of the board, the appointee or appointees to act until the next regular election at which directors are elected as herein provided, when vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by election. If the board shall fail, neglect or refuse to fill any vacancy within thirty days after the same occurs, the court having jurisdiction shall fill such vacancy. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 19)
MO Rev Stat § 247.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts|Section 247.430 - Election of directors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   247.430. Election of directors. — On the expiration of terms of members of the first board of directors as set forth in section 247.350, elections shall be held as provided herein and directors elected by the voters of the district for a term of three years. Nominations may be filed with the secretary of the board. The candidates for the board members shall be elected on a nonpartisan ballot. The candidates receiving the most votes shall be elected. Any new member of the board shall qualify in the same manner as the members of the first board qualify. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 350 § 20, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)