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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.773 - Election of supervisors — terms — vacancies, how filled.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 20 May 1982, see footnote
249.773. Election of supervisors — terms — vacancies, how filled. —
On each municipal election day, the voters of the district shall elect one supervisor who shall hold his office for five years or until his successor is elected and qualified. Should a vacancy occur, the supervisors shall select a person to fill the vacancy who shall serve until the next regular election.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 6, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526)
Effective 5-20-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.774 - Board members for sewer districts, appointment, terms, vacancies.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1996
249.774. Board members for sewer districts, appointment, terms, vacancies. —
Following establishment of a sewer district with an appointed board, the chief executive officer of the city shall appoint two members and the county commission shall appoint three members to the sewer district board of directors. The board members shall serve without compensation for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified; provided, however, that of the initial appointments by the mayor one shall be for a term of one year and one shall be for a term of two years and of the initial appointments by the county commission, one shall be for one year, one for two years and one for three years. A vacancy shall be filled by the mayor or the county commission depending on who made the initial appointment.
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(L. 1996 S.B. 665)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.775 - Oath of supervisors.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.775. Oath of supervisors. —
Each supervisor before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him in office as supervisor of the sewer district in which he was elected and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by sections 249.760 to 249.810.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.780 - Organization of board, quorum, monthly meetings — officers and employees — annual audits.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
249.780. Organization of board, quorum, monthly meetings — officers and employees — annual audits. —
1. Within four days after the appointment or election, the board shall meet and organize by choosing one of its members as chairman and one as secretary. The chairman and secretary shall serve for one year and until their successors are selected and qualified. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum.
2. The board shall employ a treasurer and necessary professional, clerical and other personnel and determine their compensation. The treasurer may be either a member of the board or some other qualified individual. All employees shall serve at the will of the board.
3. The board shall hold regular monthly meetings and the president may call special meetings when it is deemed necessary.
4. All persons charged with handling funds shall be required to give bond in an amount fixed by the board but at the expense of the district.
5. The board shall employ a competent accountant to conduct an annual audit of the receipts, expenditures and fixed assets of the district.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 9, A.L. 1983 H.B. 371)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.783 - Duties of officers.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.783. Duties of officers. —
1. The chairman of the board shall preside at all meetings, and execute all contracts into which the district may enter. In the absence of the chairman the secretary shall assume his duties.
2. The secretary shall keep the official records of the meetings of the board, attest all official documents, make reports pertaining to the business of the district when requested to do so by the board, and perform all other duties imposed upon him by sections 249.760 to 249.810.
3. The treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and pay money out of the treasury only upon warrants drawn on the treasury. Warrants shall be signed by the secretary and countersigned by the chairman.
4. The board from time to time may make additional rules and regulations concerning the duties of its officers and other employees.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.785 - Charges for sewage disposal — delinquency — interest due when — lien on land authorized.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
249.785. Charges for sewage disposal — delinquency — interest due when — lien on land authorized. —
1. The board of supervisors may establish rates or charges for sewage disposal based upon the sums needed to retire the outstanding revenue bonded debt and pay the interest on these obligations. The board shall also take into consideration the need for extension of the system, repairs, replacements, overhead charges, operating expenses and the need for an operating fund out of which the district may make emergency expenditures and pay necessary incidental expenses. The board may differentiate between users in the rates charged on the basis of the different costs of treatment of the sewage of users or the capital contributions made by the several users. The board may adjust the rates charged to require the payment by users of the capital investment used to serve them.
2. Any charges made under this section shall be due at such time or times as specified by the board of supervisors, and shall, if not paid by the due date, become delinquent and shall bear interest from the date of delinquency until paid. If such charges become delinquent they shall be a lien upon the land charged, upon the board of supervisors filing with the recorder of deeds in the county where the land is situated a notice of delinquency. The board of supervisors shall file with the recorder of deeds a similar notice when the delinquent amounts, plus interest and any recording fees or attorneys' fees, have been paid in full. The lien hereby created may be enforced by suit or foreclosure.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 11, A.L. 1983 H.B. 371)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.787 - Estimate of expenses — tax levy, how collected.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.787. Estimate of expenses — tax levy, how collected. —
1. Before the tenth day of May of each year the board of supervisors of any district organized under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 shall make an estimate of the amounts required to defray the expenses of the district.
2. The estimates shall be certified by the secretary of the board and filed by the clerk of the county in which the district lies. Upon the basis of these estimates the county commission shall levy an ad valorem tax on all taxable real property within the district sufficient to provide the necessary funds.
3. The clerk of the county commission shall enter the levies on the tax books in the same manner as school district taxes are entered, for the use of the county collector. The taxes thus levied and extended upon the tax books shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the taxes levied for state and county purposes and the taxes when collected shall be remitted by the collector to the treasurer of the district.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.790 - Debt may be incurred, procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
249.790. Debt may be incurred, procedure. —
1. The board of supervisors of a sewer district organized under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 may borrow money either through the issuance of bonds or through other arrangements. In this event the board of supervisors shall proceed as follows: The board shall adopt a resolution indicating the reasons for borrowing money, the amount needed, the purpose for which it is to be used, and the arrangements for the loan or the amount and type of bonds to be issued.
2. The resolution may submit at the election a proposal to borrow money or to issue general obligation bonds, but the board of supervisors shall not have authority to borrow money or to issue bonds unless the constitutionally required percentage of the voters in the district voting on the question vote in the affirmative.
3. General obligation bonds shall be issued within the limits imposed by Section 26, Article VI, of the Constitution. Before, or at the time of, issuing general obligation bonds, the board of supervisors shall provide for the collection of an annual tax, levied on all taxable real property in the district, sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal within twenty years from the date of issuance, except that the net income and revenues arising from the operation of the sewer system after payment for costs of operation, maintenance, depreciation and necessary extensions and enlargements shall be transferred to the interest and sinking fund and applicable to the general obligation bonds issued under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810.
4. All bonds issued under the provisions of this section shall be executed by the chairman of the board of supervisors, attested by the secretary of the board, and shall be of such denomination, contain such terms and be payable in such medium as the board of supervisors may determine.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 13, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.793 - Board may issue current revenue bonds.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.793. Board may issue current revenue bonds. —
The board may issue and sell current revenue bonds to meet the current expenses of the district incurred in advance of the revenue to be derived from the property tax levy and to be paid out of the current revenue when accrued. The chairman of the board shall execute the bonds on behalf of the district and they shall be attested by the secretary.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 14)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.795 - Refunding bonds, how issued.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.795. Refunding bonds, how issued. —
1. Any sewer district organized under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 is authorized to refund all or any part of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the district including interest, without an election.
2. When the bonds being refunded are general obligation bonds, payable from ad valorem taxes, the refunding bonds shall also be payable from ad valorem taxes levied upon all the taxable real property in the district.
3. All refunding bonds of a sewer district shall be negotiable and may be issued and exchanged for existing bonds or coupons. The refunding bonds shall contain such terms and be in denominations and payable at the place or places designated by the board of supervisors.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.800 - Revenue bonds may be issued without election, when, notice, procedure — election required, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
249.800. Revenue bonds may be issued without election, when, notice, procedure — election required, when. —
The board of any district contemplating the issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 may give notice of its intention to issue the bonds without submitting the proposition to the voters of the district, the notice to state the maximum amount of bonds proposed to be issued and the general purpose of the bonds. The notice shall further state the right of the voters in the district to file their written protest against the issuance of the bonds as hereinafter provided. The notice shall be published twice in a newspaper published in the county in which the district is located. If within fifteen days after the date of the first publication of the notice there shall not be filed with the secretary of the district a written protest against issuance of such revenue bonds, signed by a number equal to twenty-five percent of the voters voting at the last preceding election of supervisors within the sewer district, the board of the district shall have power to issue the revenue bonds of the district to the amount and for the purpose specified in the notice without an election. If within fifteen days after the date of the first publication of the notice there is filed with the secretary of the district a written protest against the issuance of the revenue bonds signed by the requisite number of voters within the sewer district, the board of the district shall thereupon submit the proposed revenue bond issue to the voters of the district and, if a majority of the voters voting on the question shall vote in favor thereof, the proposed improvements may be made and the revenue bonds issued in payment of the cost thereof.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 17, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.803 - Owner and occupant both liable for sewerage charges.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.803. Owner and occupant both liable for sewerage charges. —
Sewerage services furnished by a sewer district created under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 shall be deemed to be furnished to both the occupant and owner of the premises receiving the services and the sewer district rendering the services shall have power to sue the occupant or owner, or both, of the real estate in a civil action to recover any sums due for the services, plus a reasonable attorney fee to be fixed by the court.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.805 - Refunding of revenue bonds.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
249.805. Refunding of revenue bonds. —
For the purpose of refunding, extending or unifying the whole or any part of any outstanding revenue bonds of the district, any district may issue its refunding revenue bonds not exceeding in amount the principal of the outstanding revenue bonds to be refunded, together with the accrued interest to the date of the refunding bonds, and the board of the district shall provide for the payment of the interest on and principal of the refunding bonds in the same manner and from the same source as was provided for the payment of interest on and principal of the bonds to be refunded.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 19)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.807 - Extension of boundaries of district, procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
249.807. Extension of boundaries of district, procedure. —
1. The boundaries of any sewer district formed under the provisions of sections 249.760 to 249.810 may be extended from time to time by filing a petition with the clerk of the circuit court having jurisdiction, signed by the board of supervisors and five or more owners of real estate situated within the territory to be annexed. The same proceeding shall then be followed as provided in sections 249.760 to 249.810 for the original organization of the district except that the proposition must be voted on affirmatively by a majority of the qualified voters voting on the proposition in the original district and the area to be annexed combined.
2. The costs incurred in the extension of the boundaries of the district shall be taxed to the district if the annexation is completed and otherwise against the petitioners, except that no costs shall be taxed to the board of supervisors.
3. Any owner of real estate that abuts upon a district once formed may petition the board of supervisors for the incorporation of the real estate in the district. If approval is granted by the board, the clerk of the board shall endorse his certificate of the fact of approval by the board upon the petition. The petition shall then be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the district is incorporated. It is then the duty of the court to amend the boundaries of the district by a decree incorporating the real estate in it. A certified copy of the decree shall then be filed in the office of the recorder and in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the real estate is located, and in the office of the secretary of state. The costs of the proceedings shall be borne by the petitioning property owners.
4. Any owner of land that has not been platted and such plat finally approved by the county planning commission, county zoning commission, county planning and zoning commission, or county governing body, that abuts upon a district previously formed or currently being formed, for which a trunk sewer has been condemned under chapter 523, shall not be compelled to join such district but may petition the board of supervisors of such district for incorporation of his land into such district under this section. All costs of proceedings conducted under this subsection shall be paid by the petitioning landowner.
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(L. 1961 p. 451 § 20, A.L. 1983 H.B. 371)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.900 - Sewer district may by amended decree construct, maintain and operate a public water supply, requirement, procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
Effective - 28 Aug 1993
249.900. Sewer district may by amended decree construct, maintain and operate a public water supply, requirement, procedure. —
1. The board of directors of any sewer district incorporated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may petition the circuit court of the county containing the major part of the acreage in the district for an amended decree of incorporation to allow that district to engage in the construction, maintenance and operation of common public water supply which serves ten or more separate properties and is located wholly within the district and is not operated by another political subdivision or is not located within the certificated area of a water corporation as defined in chapter 386 or within a public water supply district as defined in chapter 247 and the operation and maintenance of all such existing facilities. The petition shall be filed by the board of directors and all proceedings shall be in the same manner as in an action for initial formation of a sewer district except that no vote of the residents of the district shall be required.
2. If the decree is amended the district shall, within ninety days after the order amending the decree, begin operation of the existing facilities which it has acquired by gift or otherwise and shall establish and collect user charges to be determined and established in the same manner as sewer rates.
3. All applicable provisions of this chapter shall apply to the construction, operation and maintenance of water supply in the same manner as they apply to like functions relating to sewer facilities.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 197 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.927 - Sewage or storm water facility improvement district, certain city and counties may issue general obligation bonds, purpose — issue assessment against property to pay for improvements.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.927. Sewage or storm water facility improvement district, certain city and counties may issue general obligation bonds, purpose — issue assessment against property to pay for improvements. —
The governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, may make, or cause to be made, improvements which confer a benefit upon property within a sewage or storm water facility improvement district pursuant to sections 249.925 to 249.955. The governing body of such city or county of the first classification may incur indebtedness and issue temporary notes and general obligation bonds of such city or county pursuant to sections 249.925 to 249.955 to pay for all or part of the cost of such improvements. An improvement may be combined with one or more other improvements for the purpose of issuing a single series of general obligation bonds to pay all or part of the cost of such improvements, but separate funds or accounts shall be established within the records of the city or county for each improvement as provided in section 249.953. The temporary notes and general obligation bonds issued by the city or county shall be a debt of the sewage or storm water facility improvement district and such city or county shall assess assessments against each property deemed by the governing body of the city or county to be benefitted by each such improvement pursuant to sections 249.929 to 249.933. The city or county shall use the moneys collected from such assessments to reimburse such city or county for all amounts paid or to be paid by it as principal of and interest on its temporary notes and general obligation bonds issued for such improvements.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.931 - Boundaries of district, how set.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.931. Boundaries of district, how set. —
The boundaries of the proposed sewage or storm water facility improvement district shall be described by metes and bounds, streets or other sufficiently specific description. The area of the sewage or storm water facility improvement district finally determined by the governing body of the city or county to be assessed may be less than, but shall not exceed, the total area comprising such district.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 11 subsec. 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.933 - Maintenance costs, assessment may be levied and collected after period for assessment of property has expired.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.933. Maintenance costs, assessment may be levied and collected after period for assessment of property has expired. —
A sewage or storm water facility improvement district assessment may be levied and collected after the original period approved for assessment of property within the district has expired, with the proceeds thereof used solely for maintenance of the improvement, if the residents of the sewage or storm water facility improvement district vote to assess property within the district for the maintenance costs in the manner prescribed in subsection 2 of section 249.929.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 11 subsec. 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.935 - Assessment for cost of improvement, how calculated — governing bodies may establish by resolution methods for assessing benefits.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.935. Assessment for cost of improvement, how calculated — governing bodies may establish by resolution methods for assessing benefits. —
The portion of the cost of any improvement to be assessed against the property in a sewage or storm water facility improvement district shall be apportioned against such property in accordance with the benefits accruing thereto by reasons of such improvement. The cost may be assessed equally per front foot or per square foot against property within the district or by any other reasonable assessment plan determined by the governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of the county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, which results in imposing substantially equal burdens or share of the cost upon property similarly benefitted. The governing body of such city or county may from time to time determine and establish, by resolution, reasonable general classifications and formulae for the methods of assessing the benefits.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.937 - Plans and specifications, acceptance by governing body, resolution ordering assessment against property benefitted by improvement.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.937. Plans and specifications, acceptance by governing body, resolution ordering assessment against property benefitted by improvement. —
After the governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of the county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, has made the findings specified in sections 249.929 to 249.933 and plans and specifications for the proposed sewage or storm water facility improvements have been prepared, the governing body shall, by resolution, order assessments to be made against each property deemed to be benefitted by an improvement based on the revised estimated cost of the improvement or, if available, the final cost thereof, and shall order a proposed assessment roll to be prepared.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 13 subsec. 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.939 - Plans, specification and assessment role filed with city or county clerk — notice — publication, content — hearing to be held — notice mailed to assessed property owners.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.939. Plans, specification and assessment role filed with city or county clerk — notice — publication, content — hearing to be held — notice mailed to assessed property owners. —
The plans and specifications for the improvement and the proposed assessment roll shall be filed with the city or county clerk and shall be open for public inspection. Such clerk shall thereupon, at the direction of the governing body of the city or county, publish notice that the governing body will conduct a hearing to consider the proposed improvement and proposed assessments. Such notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation at least once, not more than twenty days and not less than ten days before the hearing, and shall state the project name for the improvement, the date, time and place of such hearing, the general nature of the improvement, the revised estimated cost or, if available, the final cost of the improvement, the boundaries of the sewage or storm water facility improvement district to be assessed, and that written or oral objections will be considered at the hearing. At the same time, the city or county clerk shall mail to the owners of record of the property made liable to pay the assessments, at their last known post-office address, a notice of the hearing and a statement of the cost proposed to be assessed against the property so owned and assessed. The failure of any owner to receive such notice shall not invalidate the proceedings.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 13 subsec. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.941 - Hearing held to consider proposals, plan may be amended — governing body may order, by resolution, improvement project.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.941. Hearing held to consider proposals, plan may be amended — governing body may order, by resolution, improvement project. —
At the hearing to consider the proposed improvements and assessments, the governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants or more which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of the county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, shall hear and pass upon all objections to the proposed improvements and proposed assessments, if any, and may amend the proposed improvements, and the plans and specifications therefor, or assessments as to any property, and thereupon by resolution the governing body of such city or county shall order that the improvement be made and direct that financing for the cost thereof be obtained as provided in sections 249.925 to 249.955. All assessments established in sections 249.925 to 249.955 may be appealed by the property owner to the county board of equalization and as further provided in chapter 138.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 14 subsec. 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.943 - Construction of improvement completed, final cost computed — governing body to assess final cost or amount of general obligation bonds.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.943. Construction of improvement completed, final cost computed — governing body to assess final cost or amount of general obligation bonds. —
After construction of the improvement has been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications therefor, the governing body of the city or county shall compute the final costs of the improvement and apportion the costs among the property benefitted by such improvement in such equitable manner as the governing body shall determine, charging each parcel of property with its proportionate share of the costs, and by resolution, assess the final cost of the improvement or the amount of general obligation bonds issued or to be issued therefor as assessments against the property described in the assessment roll.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 14 subsec. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.945 - City or county clerk's duty to mail notice to property owners of assessment — payment may be made in installments — first payment due, when — interest rate, limitation — how collected.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.945. City or county clerk's duty to mail notice to property owners of assessment — payment may be made in installments — first payment due, when — interest rate, limitation — how collected. —
1. After the passage or adoption of the resolution assessing the assessments, the city or county clerk shall mail a notice to each property owner within the district which sets forth a description of each parcel of real property to be assessed which is owned by such owner, the special assessment assigned to such property, and a statement that the property owner may pay such assessment in full, together with interest accrued thereon, from the effective date of such resolution, on or before a specified date determined by the effective date of the resolution, or may pay such assessment in annual installments as provided in subsection 2 of this section.
2. The assessments shall be assessed upon the property included therein concurrent with general property taxes, and shall be payable in substantially equal annual installments for a duration stated in the ballot measure prescribed in subsection 2 of section 249.929, and, if authorized, an assessment in each year thereafter levied and collected in the same manner with the proceeds thereof used solely for maintenance of the improvement, taking into account such assessments and interest thereon, as the governing body of the city or county determines. The first installment shall be payable after the first collection of general property taxes following the adoption of the assessment resolution, unless such resolution was adopted and certified too late to permit its collection at such time. All assessments shall bear interest at such rate as the governing body determines, not to exceed the rate permitted for bonds by section 108.170. Interest on the assessment between the effective date of the resolution assessing the assessment and the date the first installment is payable shall be added to the first installment. The interest for one year on all unpaid installments shall be added to each subsequent installment until paid.
3. Assessments shall be collected and paid over to the city or county treasurer in the same manner as taxes of the city or county are collected and paid.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 14 subsecs. 3 to 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.947 - Cause of action to set aside assessment, time limitation.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.947. Cause of action to set aside assessment, time limitation. —
No cause of action to set aside the assessments made under sections 249.925 to 249.955 or to otherwise question the validity of the proceedings relating thereto shall be brought after the expiration of ninety days from the date of mailing of notice to property owners of the assessments required by sections 249.941 to 249.945.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.949 - Assessment to be a lien on property.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.949. Assessment to be a lien on property. —
An assessment authorized under the provisions of sections 249.925 to 249.955 shall be a lien, from the date of the assessment, on the property against which it is assessed on behalf of the city or county assessing the same to the same extent as a tax upon real property.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 16)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.951 - Temporary notes may be issued by governing body to pay cost of improvements — general obligation bond shall be issued to pay off notes.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.951. Temporary notes may be issued by governing body to pay cost of improvements — general obligation bond shall be issued to pay off notes. —
After an improvement has been authorized pursuant to sections 249.929 to 249.933, the governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of the county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, may issue temporary notes of such city or county to pay the costs of such improvement in an amount not to exceed the estimated cost of such improvement. General obligation bonds of such city or county shall be issued and sold as provided in section 249.927 to refund, retire and pay off such temporary notes and any accrued interest thereon to the date of payment.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 17)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.953 - Separate account created for each project — balance in fund after project paid for, effect — refund to property owner, when — assessment reduced, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.953. Separate account created for each project — balance in fund after project paid for, effect — refund to property owner, when — assessment reduced, when. —
A separate fund or account shall be created in the city or county treasury for each improvement project and each such fund or account shall be identified by a suitable title. The proceeds from the sale of bonds and temporary notes and any other moneys appropriated thereto by the governing body of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county, or the governing body of the county of the first classification without a charter form of government that has a population of at least one hundred sixty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, or the governing body of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government as of August 28, 1995, that has a population of more than one hundred five thousand but less than one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants, shall be credited to such funds or accounts. Such funds or accounts shall be used solely to pay the costs incurred in making each respective improvement. Upon completion of an improvement, the balance remaining in the fund or account established for such improvement, if any, shall be credited against the amount of the original assessment of each parcel of property, on a pro rata basis based on the amount of the original assessment, and with respect to property owners that have prepaid their assessments in accordance with sections 249.941 to 249.945, the amount of each such credit shall be refunded to the appropriate property owner, and with respect to all other property owners, the amount of each such credit shall be transferred and credited to such city or county bond and interest fund to be used solely to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds or temporary notes and the assessments shall be reduced accordingly by the amount of such credit.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.955 - Amount of bonds and temporary notes, limitation not to exceed ten percent of assessed valuation of taxable tangible property.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.955. Amount of bonds and temporary notes, limitation not to exceed ten percent of assessed valuation of taxable tangible property. —
The total amount of city or county general obligation bond indebtedness incurred for improvements under sections 249.925 to 249.955, including temporary notes issued pursuant to sections 249.925 to 249.955, shall not exceed ten percent of the assessed valuation of all taxable tangible property, as shown by the last completed property assessment for state or local purposes, within the district.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 19)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.957 - Tax and special tax bills in certain sections applicable to sewer and storm water facility improvement districts.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
Effective - 28 Aug 1995
249.957. Tax and special tax bills in certain sections applicable to sewer and storm water facility improvement districts. —
The tax and special tax bills provided for in sections 249.430, 249.520, 249.530 and 249.580 to
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249.650 shall be applicable to the assessments detailed in sections 249.925 to 249.955.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 20)
*Word "through" appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 249 - Sewer Districts in Certain Counties › Section 249.1000 - Publicly owned sewer treatment works, responsible for whole sewer system, when — exceptions.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 249
Effective - 01 Jul 1997, see footnote
249.1000. Publicly owned sewer treatment works, responsible for whole sewer system, when — exceptions. —
A publicly owned treatment works that has ownership of interceptor and local sewers shall be responsible for the entire public sewer system, except that the operation and maintenance of any part of an individual user's pressure sewer system, including grinder or low pressure pumps and service lateral to the public or private pressure sewer system used for the purpose of collecting or conducting wastewater originating at a residence or individual commercial entity, shall be the responsibility of the owner of such residence or individual commercial entity unless the publicly owned treatment works has assumed such responsibility.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 709 § 1)
Effective 7-1-97