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MO Rev Stat § 248.100 (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 248.100 - Right-of-way through private property — proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.100. Right-of-way through private property — proceedings. — 1. If, in the judgment of the board of trustees, it is necessary to acquire rights-of-way or easements for drainage purposes through private property, it shall, by ordinance duly certified, call upon the authority of the city or county having the right to cause the condemnation of private property for public use, to procure such rights-of-way or easements by due process of law; or said board may obtain the same by purchase, gift or otherwise. All costs of proceedings and damages allowed shall be paid out of the special drainage fund in the treasury of the city or county in which the property taken is situated.  2. The board of trustees of such drainage district, if it be necessary to cross, follow or traverse public streets, roads or alleys, or grounds held or used as public parks or places, shall have the right to do so upon the following conditions: The board of trustees shall file with the county commission or mayor of the city having immediate jurisdiction over the street, road, alley or public park or place, a map showing the location and extent of the proposed occupancy for drainage purposes and a plan of the proposed works, which plan shall be so made and arranged as not to interfere with the ordinary and lawful use of said street, road, alley, public park or place, except during a reasonable time for the construction of the necessary works said map and plan to be subject to approval by the county commission or mayor of the city.  3. The entire expense of the works and restoration of the ground occupied to its former condition, as near as may be, shall be borne by the sanitary district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12483)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10893; 1919 § 4588; 1909 § 5694
MO Rev Stat § 248.110 (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 248.110 - Bids for work contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.110. Bids for work contracts. — 1. The board of trustees for the sanitary district shall let contracts for all work to be done, excepting in case of repairs or emergencies requiring prompt attention, in the construction of channels, drains or sewers, under the authority of this chapter, the expense of which will exceed five hundred dollars, to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, upon not less than twenty days' notice of said letting, given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the district, and in the discretion of the said board, in one or more newspapers of general circulation among contractors. The said board shall have the power and authority to reject any and all bids, and readvertise the work.  2. The board of trustees shall also have the power to enter into agreements with persons, firms or corporations of known standing and competence for the execution and preparation of the surveys, maps and plans needed and required by the said board, and also for the laying out and superintendence of work to be constructed under the authority of this chapter; but no single agreement so made shall cover more than one piece or class of work. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12485)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10895; 1919 § 4590; 1909 § 5696
MO Rev Stat § 248.120 (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 248.120 - Special drainage tax — drainage fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.120. Special drainage tax — drainage fund. — 1. To provide means to carry into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed, the lawful authorities in the city, and the county commission in counties, in which sanitary districts may wholly or in part be situated, shall levy and assess upon all the lands lying within such sanitary district, exclusive of streets, roads and alleys duly opened to public use, a uniform special drainage tax, to be fixed by requisition and certified by ordinance of the board of trustees of such sanitary district. And the mayor and assembly of said city are hereby authorized and required to levy such special tax, in addition to the amount they may be authorized to levy for general municipal purposes by the charter of said city. And the county commission or commissions is hereby authorized and required to levy such special tax, in addition to the amount it may be authorized to levy for general county purpose. The amount of such special tax in any year shall not exceed one-half of one percent on the assessed and equalized valuation of such lands for that year. No lands, other than streets, roads and alleys, shall be exempt from said special tax, and if not valued and assessed for other purposes, shall be valued and assessed for this. Such special tax shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as provided for state and county taxes.  2. The amounts collected shall be paid into the treasury of the city and of the county or counties in which the collections are made, and be credited to a special fund, called "The Drainage Fund of the Sanitary District of ______", and shall be used for no other purpose than for the payment of vouchers, drawn under the authority vested in the board of trustees for the sanitary district, as specified in section 248.140. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12480)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10890; 1919 § 4585; 1909 § 5691
MO Rev Stat § 248.140 (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 248.140 - Issuance of vouchers, for what purposes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.140. Issuance of vouchers, for what purposes. — The board of trustees of sanitary districts shall have the power to issue vouchers payable by the treasurer of the city or of the county in which such sanitary district is wholly or in part situated, out of any funds in such treasurer's hands to the credit of the special fund of the sanitary district for the following named purposes, to wit:  (1) For the preliminary expenses incurred in organizing the district;  (2) For salaries and current expenses of the board, and salaries of its employees;  (3) For making surveys, plans and superintendence of work;  (4) For the payment of judgments for damages and costs, or the agreed price for right-of-way and easements;  (5) For payment of principal and interest of lawfully incurred indebtedness; and  (6) For work done or materials furnished for the construction or maintenance of channels, drains or sewers. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12481)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10891; 1919 § 4586; 1909 § 5692
MO Rev Stat § 248.150 (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 248.150 - Who may construct sewers and drains — plans approved by trustees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.150. Who may construct sewers and drains — plans approved by trustees. — The lawful authorities of any city or incorporated town or village, the county commission of any county, individual owners or associations of such owners, shall have the right to construct sewers or drains in sanitary districts, organized under this chapter, at their own expense, but plans for such sewers and drains must conform to the plans adopted by the board of trustees, and all such plans must be submitted to and be approved by said board of trustees before any construction work is done thereon. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12486)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10896; 1919 § 4591; 1909 § 5697
MO Rev Stat § 248.170 (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 248.170 - Trustees may accept sewers or drains constructed by private persons.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.170. Trustees may accept sewers or drains constructed by private persons. — The board of trustees created by this chapter, or the authorities of the city, town or village, or the county commission, shall have the power to accept from private persons or corporations any sewers or drains constructed by them before or after the organization of the sanitary district, and to allow an equitable credit for such sewers or drains; or to acquire the same by process of law if needed; provided, that the sewers or drains accepted, in plans, materials and construction, conform to the plans adopted and approved by the board for similar work done by said board; and provided, in the case of acceptance, that the amount allowed shall not exceed the amount assessable as a special tax against the property drained thereby, under section 248.160. The title to or ownership of such sewers or drains shall be considered as attaching to all lands actually drained thereby in proportion to the areas of such lands, and the credit shall be allowed to the owners of record. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12488)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10898; 1919 § 4593; 1909 § 5699
MO Rev Stat § 248.180 (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 248.180 - Board of trustees to cease to exist, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.180. Board of trustees to cease to exist, when. — When the object for which a sanitary district was organized is accomplished by the completion of the main channel, drains or sewers, contemplated and adopted in the general plan, and when the areas of divided jurisdiction are drained or otherwise provided for (which facts the circuit court for the district in which the whole or the major part of the territory embraced in the district shall determine), then the board of trustees of such sanitary district shall cease to exist at the expiration of sixty days after the date of the decree of court expressing such determination. But provision shall be made for the fulfillment of all contracts and obligations which have been made by said board of trustees, the responsibility therefor being assumed by the city or county directly interested. Provision shall also be made for the prompt payment of all outstanding bonds of the sanitary district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12489)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10899; 1919 § 4594; 1909 § 5700
MO Rev Stat § 248.190 (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 248.190 - Duties of certain public officers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.190. Duties of certain public officers. — It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state, the mayors of cities, the circuit court, the county commission of counties, and all assessors, sheriffs, collectors, treasurers and other officials in the state of Missouri, to do and perform all the acts and to render all the services necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and for such services they shall receive the fees, or other compensation allowed by law for similar services rendered to cities, counties or the state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12490)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10900; 1919 § 4595; 1909 § 5701
MO Rev Stat § 248.200 (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 248.200 - Construction of chapter.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   248.200. Construction of chapter. — Nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to constitute a contract or grant between the state of Missouri and any sanitary district formed under its provisions, or to prevent, debar or deprive the state of Missouri from, at any time in the future, altering, amending or repealing this chapter, or imposing any conditions, restrictions or requirements other, different or additional to any herein contained, upon any sanitary district formed hereunder. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12491)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10901; 1919 § 4596; 1909 § 5702
MO Rev Stat § 249.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.010 - Sewer district organization — petition for.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   249.010. Sewer district organization — petition for. — Whenever the construction and maintenance of a system of sewers or the use of existing sewers for any contiguous area in the state of Missouri shall become necessary for the preservation of the public health or public welfare or will be of public utility or benefit, if any such area shall lie within any county in the state of Missouri, now or hereafter having a population of not less than seven hundred thousand nor more than one million inhabitants, the area may be established and incorporated as a sewer district under sections 249.010 to 249.420 in the manner following: Twenty-five or more voters residing within the area may file with the circuit court having jurisdiction, a petition setting forth therein the reason or necessity for a sewer system; the boundary lines of the proposed district; the type and/or kind of sewers; the name of the proposed district, and the number of years the district is to continue; a request for the appointment of a sanitary engineer with duties as herein provided; and take any further action necessary to determine the question whether the area may be organized and incorporated as a sewer district under sections 249.010 to 249.420. There shall be filed with the petition a bond in a sum to be determined by the court but in no event more than five hundred dollars payable to the state of Missouri signed by one or more of the petitioners with good and sufficient surety or sureties to be approved by the court, conditioned for the payments of costs and expenses. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12639, A.L. 1953 p. 541, A.L. 1961 p. 448, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1239 & 1300, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  CROSS REFERENCE:  County planning commission, certain counties, to approve improvements, 64.050, 64.235
MO Rev Stat § 249.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.020 - Determination of population.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   249.020. Determination of population. — The last preceding federal census shall be used as a basis and for the purposes of ascertaining and determining the population of the counties that may come within the provisions of sections 249.010 to 249.420. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12680)  CROSS REFERENCE:  United States census, effective date of, 1.100
MO Rev Stat § 249.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.030 - Location of sewer district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   249.030. Location of sewer district. — A sewer district may be established and incorporated under sections 249.010 to 249.420 partly within and partly without or wholly without or wholly within one or more cities, towns or villages. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12677)
MO Rev Stat § 249.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.040 - Sanitary engineer — appointment, oath, duties, reports, contents.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   249.040. Sanitary engineer — appointment, oath, duties, reports, contents. — Upon the filing of such petition and bond the circuit court is hereby directed, within ten days thereafter, to appoint a competent sanitary engineer who may be an individual, copartnership, or a corporation, to lay out and define the boundaries of the proposed sewer district. The said engineer shall subscribe an oath to faithfully discharge his duties as such engineer and to make a true report of the work done and the facts ascertained by him. The said engineer may alter or amend the boundaries of the proposed district as set forth in the petition, so that the boundaries may embrace all of the area capable of being efficiently served or drained by the system of sewers, or so as to exclude from the sewer district any part of the natural drainage area which is so situated as not to be benefitted by the proposed system of sewers and for this purpose shall have power to make all surveys, maps, and do all things necessary to locate and describe said boundaries. If the engineer finds the proposed sewer system would be for the preservation of the public health or public welfare or will be of public utility or benefit he shall so report and in said report he shall state approximately the proper plan of and the location of the system of sewers and the probable cost of the improvement necessary to accomplish the objects of the petition. The engineer shall report his findings in writing, with such maps, profiles, drawings and other data as are necessary to advise the court in the premises and shall promptly file the same with the clerk of the circuit court. Said report shall be filed within thirty days after his appointment, unless, for good cause shown, the court shall extend the time. The engineer shall file with his report a statement that he has consulted with the department of health and senior services in connection therewith, and he shall also file with his report any statement in writing which may have been made to him by said department of health and senior services covering the matters contained in such report. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12640, A.L. 1951 p. 627, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 249.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.050 - Notice of hearing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   249.050. Notice of hearing. — Immediately after the report of the engineer has been filed it shall be the duty of the court to fix a time at which it will hear objections as provided in section 249.060 and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court to cause a notice thereof to be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the county wherein the proceedings are pending. Such notice shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks and shall be substantially as follows:   Notice is hereby given to all persons owning property within the district bounded as follows: (Here set out boundaries given in report of engineer.)   That there has been filed in this office a petition for the organization of a ______ sewer district (describing the type) under the provisions of (here name this act or the appropriate Revised Statute of Missouri); that the duly appointed engineer has made and filed his report in this office and that property within the above described boundaries will be affected by the formation of the proposed sewer district and be rendered liable to taxation for the purpose of paying the expenses of organizing and incorporating the district and making and maintaining the improvements that may be found necessary for the construction and maintenance of said sewer system, and you and each of you are hereby notified that you may examine said petition and report and file exceptions to all or any part thereof on or before the day set for the hearing being the ______ day of ______.   Clerk of the circuit court of ______ County,    Missouri.    ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12641)
MO Rev Stat § 249.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.070 - Election on incorporation — notice.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   249.070. Election on incorporation — notice. — 1. After the incorporation of the district aforesaid it shall be the duty of the court to order the election authority to call and hold an election; said election to be called and held in the manner herein provided, at which election the voters residing within the sewer district may vote for three persons who shall form the board of trustees for said district as herein provided.  2. In the order of such election the court shall also provide for submitting at such election a proposition to incur indebtedness by the district in an amount not greater than the estimate of the cost of constructing a system of sewers as provided in the report of the engineer.  3. The notice shall state the purpose of the election and the amount of indebtedness to be incurred. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12643, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 249.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.080 - Form of ballot for election to incur indebtedness.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   249.080. Form of ballot for election to incur indebtedness. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:  Shall the ______ sewer district incur indebtedness in the amount of ______ dollars and issue bonds in evidence thereof? ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12644, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 249.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties|Section 249.090 - Trustees — bonds issued — tax for interest and sinking fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   249.090. Trustees — bonds issued — tax for interest and sinking fund. — The three candidates for office of trustee who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected trustees with terms as provided in section 249.140. If it appears that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters of such district voting on the proposition of incurring indebtedness submitted at the election were in favor of incurring such indebtedness, the election authority shall make an order reciting the holding of such election and the results thereof, both for and against the proposition, and if the result of the election as certified shall be in favor of incurring the indebtedness and issuing the bonds, then the board of trustees for the district shall direct the issuance thereof to the amount of the debt authorized to be incurred, or any portion thereof, and shall either before or at the time of doing so provide for the collection of an annual ad valorem tax upon all of the taxable property within the district, which tax shall be sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due and also to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of contracting the same, such tax to be levied and collected as provided for in section 249.130. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12645, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)