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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.105 - Board of commissioners of special road district may improve certain highways, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.105. Board of commissioners of special road district may improve certain highways, when. —
1. Said boards may repair, grade, gravel, macadamize, pave or otherwise improve to the distance of fifteen miles from any line of such special road district, any highway outside of such district if the same be a prolongation of an improved street or highway in said district and if liberal contributions toward such improvements be made in money, material or labor by the inhabitants interested in such improvements or the county commission or any special road district organized under the laws of this state, or the state highway board, or the United States government, or by any one or more of the foregoing.
2. Or in lieu of doing such work in the improvement of such roads such boards may, under the same conditions as would authorize them to do such construction work under this section, contribute toward the repair, grading, graveling, macadamizing, paving or otherwise improving any such highway such an amount as the said board of commissioners of the special road district may determine, providing the other contributions from any one or more of the sources herein mentioned are liberal contributions toward such improvements and together with the contribution of such board will be sufficient to make and complete such improvement; and provided, also, that such work shall be done under plans and specifications and estimate of cost prepared by some competent engineer and approved by such board of commissioners and such contribution of such board shall be paid from time to time only as the work is done or the improvement constructed in compliance with said plans and specifications and on certificate of some competent engineer designated by such board of commissioners and the payments on the work completed shall be in the same proportion as the total contribution of said board bears to the estimated cost of the entire job, and said certificate of the engineer shall show the work completed and the proportional amount of contribution to be paid thereon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8685)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8036; 1919 § 10812; 1909 § 10588
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.110 - Board may plant shade trees — erect signboards.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.110. Board may plant shade trees — erect signboards. —
Said board may plant, protect and cultivate ornamental and shade trees along the sides of roads within its district, and erect and keep erected and repaired such signboards in its district at places it may deem proper therefor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8697)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8048; 1919 § 10824; 1909 § 10602
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.115 - Board may build bridges.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.115. Board may build bridges. —
Said board may, by contract or otherwise, under such regulations as the board shall prescribe, build, repair and maintain, or cause to be built, repaired, or maintained all bridges and culverts needed within said district; provided, however, that the county commission of the county in which said special road district is located may, in its discretion, out of the funds available to it for that purpose, construct, maintain, or repair, any bridge, or bridges, or culvert or culverts in such road district, or districts, or it may, in its discretion, appropriate out of the funds available for that purpose money to aid and assist the commissioners of said special road district, or districts, which shall be expended by the commissioners of said special road district, or districts, as above provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8688)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8039; 1919 § 10815; 1909 § 10591
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.120 - Disposition of proceeds from certain city licenses.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.120. Disposition of proceeds from certain city licenses. —
One-fourth of all the pool or billiard table licenses collected by any city within any such special road district shall be set apart as collected by the city council for the improvement of the roads by the board of commissioners of such district, and the council shall, on demand of the board of commissioners, draw warrants upon the city treasurer, payable to the treasurer of said board, for the full amount of one-fourth of such licenses, or the board may issue its orders on the council from time to time, which shall be honored by the council drawing warrants upon the city treasurer for such amounts as may be required, to the full amount of one-fourth of all such licenses collected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8690)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8041; 1919 § 10817; 1909 § 10593
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.125 - Disposition of proceeds from certain county licenses.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
233.125. Disposition of proceeds from certain county licenses. —
In all counties in this state where a special road district, or districts, has or have been organized, or where a special road district, or districts, may be organized under sections 233.010 to 233.165, and where money shall be collected for road and bridge purposes under the provisions of section 137.555 upon property within such special road district, or districts, or where money shall be collected for pool or billiard table licenses upon any business within such special road district, or districts, the county commission shall, as such taxes or licenses are paid and collected, apportion and set aside to the credit of such special road district, or districts, from which said taxes were collected, four-fifths of such part or portion of said road and bridge tax so arising from and collected and paid upon any property lying and being within any such special road district, or districts, and also one-half of the amount collected for pool and billiard table licenses so collected from such business carried on or conducted within the limits of such special road district; and the county commission shall, upon application by said commissioners of such special road district, or districts, draw warrants upon the county treasurer, payable to the commissioners of such special road district, or districts, or the treasury thereof, for four-fifths of such part or portion of said road and bridge tax so collected upon property lying and being within such special road district, or districts, and also one-half of the amount collected for pool and billiard table licenses so collected from such business carried on or conducted within the limits of such special road district, or districts.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8691, A.L. 1945 p. 1494)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8042; 1919 § 10818; 1909 § 10594
(1956) Where special road district was confined geographically to city limits of fourth class city, it was not entitled to declaratory judgment that §§ 233.095 and 233.100 are inapplicable to it or that the county court is required to pay it four-fifths of road and bridge taxes collected in the district. Gladstone Special Rd. Dist. v. County Court of Clay County (Mo.), 293 S.W.2d 351.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.130 - Commissioners may use moneys refunded by state highways and transportation commission.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.130. Commissioners may use moneys refunded by state highways and transportation commission. —
In all cases in which the state highways and transportation commission may have refunded, or shall refund any moneys to any special road district organized and existing under the laws of this state, the commissioners of such special road district are hereby authorized and empowered to use and apply the moneys so refunded, or such part thereof as may be necessary, to pay and retire any outstanding bonds of such special road district or to pay any interest that has accrued or may accrue on such bonds.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8709)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8060
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.135 - Issuance of check warrants.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
233.135. Issuance of check warrants. —
Such board may issue check warrants on the treasurer of the board in payment of the expenses and obligations which the board is authorized to incur in behalf of such special road districts and such check warrants may be issued in anticipation of the income and revenue provided for the year for which the debt or obligation for which the check warrant is issued was incurred; but such districts or such board on behalf thereof shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any one year the income and revenue provided for such year; provided, however, that this shall not prevent the incurring of indebtedness under bond issue as is or may be provided by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8702, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8053
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.140 - Check warrant shall bear interest if not paid when presented for payment.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
233.140. Check warrant shall bear interest if not paid when presented for payment. —
No treasurer of the districts shall pay any check warrant drawn on such treasurer unless such check warrant is presented for payment by the person in whose favor it is drawn or by the person's assignee, endorsee, executor or administrator and when presented for payment if there is no money in the treasury for that purpose the treasurer shall so certify on the back of the check warrant and shall date and subscribe the same and such check warrant shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from such date until such check warrant is paid or until the money to pay such check warrant is in the hands of the treasurer. The treasurer shall keep a record of the check warrants presented and shall pay the same or set aside money for the payment of the same in the order in which they are issued.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8703, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8054
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.145 - Records of board.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.145. Records of board. —
Said board shall keep a full and complete record of all moneys received, showing from whom and on what account any moneys are received, giving the amount received on each particular item; and also of all moneys disbursed, to whom any moneys are paid, and for what purpose it is paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8684)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8035; 1919 § 10811; 1909 § 10587
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.150 - Annual report of receipts and disbursements.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
233.150. Annual report of receipts and disbursements. —
1. The said board shall make an annual settlement with the county commission during the month of August in each year, which settlement shall contain a full and correct itemized statement of all moneys received and from what sources received and for what purpose the same has been expended, giving each particular item, and shall be subscribed and sworn to by at least two members of said board before some officer authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths, a copy of which settlement shall be filed with the county clerk, and may be published in some newspaper published in said road district in the discretion of the city council, the expenses of which shall be paid out of the city treasury.
2. Should any such board fail to make the annual settlement required herein during the month of August in each year, then the county, or its treasurer, shall not be authorized until such report be filed to pay out any sum, or sums, of money which may be due to said road district, or which may be set aside and placed to the credit of said road district. The board shall send a copy of such annual settlement to the state highways and transportation commission at Jefferson City at the time of the filing.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8699, A.L. 1945 p. 1494)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8050; 1919 § 10826; 1909 § 10604
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.160 - Dissolution of special road district — procedure.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
233.160. Dissolution of special road district — procedure. —
1. If any district has adopted the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165, the question may be resubmitted after the expiration of four years upon the petition of fifty voters of that district at an election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the special road district be dissolved?
3. If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the dissolution, the district shall be disincorporated and the operation of the law shall cease in that district. In all other respects the election, and the results thereof, are governed by sections 233.010 to 233.165.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8706, A.L. 1973 S.B. 253, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1839)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8057; 1919 § 10831; 1909 § 10609
(1957) Special road district was disincorporated at time when it was indebted on contract for road improvements. In action against county by contractor for balance due, on theory of unjust enrichment, no recovery could be had in absence of showing that taxes levied and collected on property in district were not used on roads in such district. Midwest Precote Co. v. Clay Co. (Mo.), 303 S.W.2d 90.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.165 - Dissolved district — tax levy to pay indebtedness.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.165. Dissolved district — tax levy to pay indebtedness. —
1. Whenever any special road district heretofore or hereafter organized and incorporated under and by virtue of sections 233.010 to 233.165, shall have been or may hereafter be disorganized, disincorporated or abolished, and which such district shall, at the time of disorganization, disincorporation or dissolution, have any bonds outstanding and unpaid, it shall be the duty of the state auditor of the state of Missouri, on or before the first day of May of each year, to ascertain and certify to the county commission or county commissions the necessary amount of money that will be required by such district to pay the principal and interest on its bonds coming due and maturing in the next succeeding year.
2. It shall be the duty of the county commission of each county having lands in such district, upon receipt of such certificate and at the time it is required by law to determine and levy the rate of taxation for county, school and road taxes, to determine and levy upon the taxable property in such district, by order, such a rate of taxation as will produce the amount of money required for the next succeeding year.
3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commission, or commissions, at the time of making up the county tax books, to extend thereon such rate of taxation against the taxable property in such district, and when so extended it shall be the duty of the collector of the revenue of such county or counties, at the time demand is made for payment of other taxes, to demand and collect the taxes herein required to be levied and collected, and when so collected the same shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county having the largest number of acres of land in the district, and thereupon such county treasurer shall deposit the moneys received by him in the bank, trust company or other place where the principal of and the interest on the bonds of the district are payable.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8707)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8058
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.170 - County commissions may form districts.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.170. County commissions may form districts. —
1. County commissions of counties not under township organization may divide the territory of their respective counties into road districts, and every such district organized according to the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a public corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled "______ road district of ______ County", and in that name shall be capable of suing and being sued, of holding such real estate and personal property as may at any time be either donated to or purchased by it in accordance with the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315, or of which it may be rightfully possessed at the time of the passage of sections 233.170 to 233.315, and of contracting and being contracted with as herein provided.
2. Districts so organized may be of any dimensions that may be deemed necessary or advisable, except that every district shall be included wholly within the county organizing it and shall contain at least six hundred and forty acres of contiguous territory; provided, that the county commissions shall not have power to divide the territory within the corporate limits of a city having a population of one hundred fifty thousand into such road district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8710)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8061; 1919 § 10833; 1909 § 10611
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.172 - Certain counties may form road benefit districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay County).

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
233.172. Certain counties may form road benefit districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay County). —
1. In any county of the first classification without a charter form of government having a population of at least one hundred fifty thousand and either containing a portion of a city with a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand or bordering a city not within a county, the county commission may, by resolution, submit the question of creating a road benefit district pursuant to sections 233.170 to 233.316, encompassing the unincorporated areas of such county to all of the qualified voters residing within such district at a general or special election called for that purpose. Such resolution shall set forth the name of the proposed road benefit district, its boundaries and a proposed road and bridge benefit district tax levy in an amount not to exceed twenty cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation. The ballot upon which the question of creating a road benefit district is submitted to the qualified voters residing within the proposed district shall contain a question in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ County, be authorized to create a road benefit district within the following boundaries, to-wit: ______ (set forth boundaries of proposed road benefit district) and assess a levy not to exceed ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation upon all property within the boundaries of said road benefit district the proceeds of which levy shall be placed in a "road benefit district fund" and used solely for the improvement, maintenance, construction and repair of roads and bridges within the boundaries of the road benefit district?
2. If the ballot question is approved by a majority of the qualified voters residing within the boundaries of the proposed district, the governing body of the county shall be authorized to assess and collect a levy in an amount not to exceed the amount specified on the ballot, in which event the sums so collected shall be placed in a separate "road district benefit fund" and used only for the purposes specified on the ballot within the boundaries of the road benefit district.
3. Notwithstanding section 233.170, to the contrary, a district established pursuant to this section may contain less than six hundred forty acres and may contain territories that are not contiguous.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 523 § 1 merged with S.B. 371 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.177 - Election to establish road district, procedure — ballot language.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008
233.177. Election to establish road district, procedure — ballot language. —
1. In lieu of the mode of establishment set forth in section 233.175, a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 may be established by election. The election procedures established by the provisions of this section shall only apply to proposed special road districts within a county of the fourth classification.
2. Whenever fifty voters, who are voters of any such proposed special road district, shall file a petition with the county commission, asking the commission to submit sections 233.170 to 233.315 to a vote of the people of such proposed road district for their adoption, the county commission shall make an order of record that sections 233.170 to 233.315, describing the same by its title and the date of its approval, be submitted to the voters of such proposed road district at an election.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ Road District be established?
4. If the majority of the votes cast for and against the adoption of sections 233.170 to 233.315 be for its adoption, the commission shall declare the result of the vote thereon by an order of record, and shall make an order of record declaring sections 233.170 to 233.315 to be the law in such special road district, the same to take effect and be in force from and after a day to be named in such order within ten days.
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(L. 2008 S.B. 896)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.180 - Commissioners of the special road district, how selected.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 2017, 2 histories
233.180. Commissioners of the special road district, how selected. —
1. At the term of the county commission in which such order is made, or at any subsequent term thereafter, the county commission shall appoint three commissioners of the special road district, who shall be voters of the district and owners of land within the district, who shall hold their office until the second Tuesday in April thereafter. The voters of the district shall elect three commissioners of the special road district, one of whom shall serve one year, one for two years and one for three years, and on municipal election days each year thereafter they shall elect a commissioner of the special road district to take the place of the one whose term is about to expire, who shall serve three years.
2. No person shall be elected or appointed commissioner of the special road district who is not a voter of the district or a registered voter from the county in which the district is located and an owner of land in the district. Any vacancy caused by resignation, death, removal from the district of a commissioner of the special road district or sale of all land owned by the commissioner in the district shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining commissioners of the special road district. All commissioners of the special road district shall qualify by taking, subscribing and filing with the county clerk the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that they will faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge their duties as commissioners of the special road district according to law.
3. If for any reason the board of commissioners of the special road district herein mentioned shall fail to fill a vacancy or vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of any one or more of the commissioners of the special road district, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to appoint a person to fill the vacancy. In the event that two consecutive elections pass without any candidates for a special road district commissioner in municipal elections, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to appoint commissioners of the special road district for three-year terms thereafter with no further elections being held.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8712, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 2017 S.B. 283)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8063; 1919 § 10835; 1909 § 10613
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.185 - Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
233.185. Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how. —
1. The commissioners so appointed and qualified shall meet at such a time and place within such district as may be fixed by the county commission at the time of appointing them, or as they may in writing agree upon, and shall organize by electing one of their number president, another vice president and another secretary; provided, that by a unanimous vote of such commissioners any person not a member of such board may be chosen secretary.
2. Meetings of the special road district commissioners shall be held thereafter at such time and place as they may agree upon in writing, or the president or vice president may order. The president of the board shall preside at all meetings thereof; the president shall sign the minutes and records of the board, and all check warrants that may be drawn upon the treasury for the payment of any money out of the treasury on account of the funds belonging to such district, and exercise a general supervising control over the work of such commissioners, and in a general way may do all the acts and things that the board may empower the president to do, and such others as may be authorized by law. During absence of the president from the county, or from any meeting of the board, the vice president shall perform the duties conferred upon the president.
3. The secretary shall carefully keep a true record of all check warrants drawn on the treasurer and all written contracts that may be entered into on behalf of the district, shall attest such check warrants and the execution of such contracts, keep minutes of meetings of the board, and perform such other duties as the law may require. All money paid to the county treasurer and placed to the credit of the district shall be paid out only on check warrants signed by the president or vice president and attested by the secretary, except as may be otherwise authorized by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8713, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8064; 1919 § 10836; 1909 § 10614
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.187 - Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties — check warrants, how paid, interest.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
233.187. Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties — check warrants, how paid, interest. —
1. The county treasurer may be the treasurer of the special road district board unless another person is appointed by the board of commissioners. The board shall fix the amount of the treasurer's bond and prescribe the treasurer's duties. The bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission. If the county treasurer is acting as the treasurer of the road district, the county treasurer's bond pursuant to section 54.070 shall cover the treasurer's duties as road district treasurer and no additional bond shall be required.
2. The board may issue check warrants on the treasurer of the board in payment of the expenses and obligations which the board is authorized to incur on behalf of such special road district and such check warrants may be issued in anticipation of the income and revenue provided for the year for which the debt or obligation for which the check warrant is issued was incurred; but such districts or such board on behalf of the district shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any one year the income and revenue provided for such years; provided, however, that this shall not prevent the incurring of indebtedness under bond issue as is or may be provided by law.
3. No treasurer of a district shall pay any check warrant drawn on such treasurer unless such check warrant is presented for payment by the person in whose favor it is drawn or by the person's assignee, endorsee, executor or administrator and when presented for payment if there is no money in the treasury for that purpose, the treasurer shall so certify on the back of the check warrant and shall date and subscribe the same and such check warrant shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from such date until such check warrant is paid or until the money to pay such check warrant is in the hands of the treasurer. The treasurer shall keep a record of the check warrants presented and shall pay the same or set aside money for the payment of the same in the order in which they are issued.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 813, A.L. 1998 S.B. 550)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.190 - Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
233.190. Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. —
1. The county commission shall, upon the organization by
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such commissioners of the special road district, cause all tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts formerly existing and composed of territory embraced within the incorporated district to be delivered to the special road district commissioners, for which such commissioners shall give a receipt, and such commissioners shall keep and use such tools and machinery for constructing and improving public roads and bridges.
2. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, the commissioners shall have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than roads controlled by the highways and transportation commission, within the district, to construct, improve and repair such highways, bridges and culverts, and shall have all the power, rights and authority conferred by law upon road overseers, and shall at all times keep such roads, bridges and culverts in as good condition as the means at their command will permit, and for such purpose may employ competent people and road equipment at such compensation as they shall agree upon; rent, lease or buy road equipment, implements, tools and machinery; all kinds of motor power, and all things needed to carry on such work, except that the commissioners may have such road work, or bridge or culvert work, or any part thereof, done by contract, under such regulations as the commissioners may prescribe.
3. Any special road subdistrict established under the provisions of sections 233.500 to 233.520 shall have concurrent control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than those controlled by the highways and transportation commission, within the boundaries of the special road subdistrict with any special road district containing land within the boundaries of the special road subdistrict. The special road subdistrict may contract with the special road district to use the tools and machinery described in subsection 1 of this section.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8714, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8065; 1919 § 10837
Effective 5-30-90
*Word "of" appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.195 - Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay and Platte counties).

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1974
233.195. Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay and Platte counties). —
1. County commissions shall cause to be set aside and placed to the credit of each road district so incorporated four-fifths of such part or portion of the tax arising from and collected and paid upon any property lying and being within any such district, by authority of section 137.555. All revenue so set aside and placed to the credit of any such incorporated district shall be used by the commissioners thereof for constructing, repairing and maintaining bridges and culverts within the district, and working, repairing, maintaining and dragging public roads within the district and paying legitimate administrative expenses of the district, and for such other purposes as may be authorized by law.
2. In any county of the first class not having a charter form of government or of the second or third class containing all or part of a city having a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more, the revenue set aside and credited to a road district as provided in subsection 1 may, with the consent of the city, be expended within any incorporated city, town or village located within the district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8715, A.L. 1945 p. 1496, A.L. 1963 p. 185, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1733)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8066; 1919 § 10838
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.200 - Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
233.200. Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot. —
1. The commissioners of such districts so incorporated shall have power to issue road and bridge bonds for and on behalf of their respective districts, payable out of funds derived from taxation of all property taxable therein to an amount including existing indebtedness payable out of funds so derived not exceeding five percent of the assessed valuation of such property to be ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for state and county purposes. Such bonds to be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars, or some multiple thereof, to bear interest at not exceeding the rate per annum permitted by law, and to become due in not exceeding twenty years after the date of such bonds. Whenever the board of commissioners of any such road district propose to issue such bonds, they shall submit the question to the voters in the district.
2. The notice of election shall state the amount of bonds to be issued.
3. The result of the submission of the question shall be entered upon the records of the district. If it shall appear that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters voting on the question shall have voted in favor of the issue of the bonds, the commissioners shall order and direct the execution of the bonds for and on behalf of such district and provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in the district sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds so authorized as they respectively become due.
4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ special road district of ______ County issue road and bridge bonds in the amount of ______ dollars?
5. The board of commissioners shall not sell the bonds for less than ninety-five percent of the par value thereof, and the proceeds shall be paid over to the county treasurer, and disbursed on warrants drawn by the president or vice president of the board of commissioners and attested by the secretary. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be used for the purpose only of paying the cost of holding such election, and constructing, repairing and maintaining bridges and culverts within the district, and working, repairing, maintaining and dragging public roads within the district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8717, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8068; 1919 § 10840
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.215 - Special tax — how apportioned.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.215. Special tax — how apportioned. —
Such special tax shall be apportioned against the lands in the district in the following manner: For the purpose of such apportionment, lands appearing by said list of lands as approved by the county commission to be within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, shall be given the valuation thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one-half mile from and within one mile of said public road or part of a public road, seventy-five percent of the valuations thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one mile and within one and one-half miles, fifty percent, and all over one and one-half miles, twenty-five percent of such valuations thereof; and the amount of the special tax assessed against each tract of said lands shall be such that the ratio between the amount assessed against each tract and the amount assessed against all of such tracts shall be the same as between the value so given each tract and the aggregate of the values so given all tracts in the district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8720)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8071; 1919 § 10843
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.220 - Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.220. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. —
In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land of forty acres, according to a government survey, and each of the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfully platted and each separate tract of less than forty acres, shall, for the purposes of this section, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of a public road, if the major portion thereof is within one-half mile; and over one-half mile and less than a mile, if the major portion thereof is over one-half mile and less than a mile; and over one mile and less than one and one-half miles, if the major portion thereof is over one mile and less than one and one-half miles; and over one and one-half miles if the major portion thereof is over one and one-half miles.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8727)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8078; 1919 § 10849
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.230 - Special tax may be paid in installments — interest — special assessments.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.230. Special tax may be paid in installments — interest — special assessments. —
1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered and the county commission ascertains and recites in such order that the petitioners stated in their petition that they desired that the cost of improvement be payable in more than one installment, the special tax ordered assessed shall be payable in the number of installments, not exceeding fifteen, so found to be desired, which installments shall be equal, and each tract of land in the district shall be charged with interest which shall be apportioned against the lands in the district by the same rule of apportionment as the principal special tax.
2. The payments of such installments, and such interest charge and the payments thereof shall be as follows:
(1) If such order is made on or after the first day of January and before the first day of November of any year, the first installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December following the date of such order, with interest on the principal of the tax, at the rate of six percent per annum, from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such installment becomes payable, and one installment shall become payable on the thirty-first day of each December thereafter, with interest at such rate on the portion of the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December until the first day of the following April, until the entire tax is paid.
(2) If such order is made on or after the first day of November of any year, the first installment of such special tax shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December of the next year after the date of such order, with interest at such rate on the principal tax from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such first installment becomes payable, and thereafter an installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of each December, with interest at such rate on the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December to the first day of the following April, until the entire principal of the tax is paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8722)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.235 - Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.235. Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection. —
1. The clerk of the county commission, after such order is made, shall procure a suitable special tax record book and therein charge each tract of land in the district, as shown in the list of lands prepared and filed by the commissioners of the district, with the special tax chargeable against it and the charges as interest, and indicate therein the date each installment becomes payable, and the amount of each installment, and the date each charge as interest becomes payable and the amount thereof.
2. Thereafter he shall make out and deliver to the county collector for collection, not less than thirty days before any installment becomes payable, a separate special tax bill against each tract of land in the district, on which the tax has not been paid in full, as herein provided, for the amount of the installment charged or chargeable against it and so becoming payable and the amount payable as interest with such installment. Each of such special tax bills shall be in favor of such road district, shall be numbered, and shall state the date of the order of the county commission ordering the assessment, and describe, using abbreviations, the tract of land against which it is issued. Each of such special tax bills shall constitute a lien upon the land described therein, for the amount thereof, and all interest and penalties that may accrue thereon and all cost in collecting the same, including a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the county commission and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment; which lien shall be paramount to all other liens except of the state for general state, county, school and road taxes. Each of such special tax bills as are not paid on the day they become payable, shall have added thereto a penalty equal to two percent of the total amount payable thereon, and thereafter a like penalty, on the first day of each month, until paid.
3. The county collector shall receive payments of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and of the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid. Whenever any of such tax bills has been so cancelled by the county collector and is exhibited to the clerk of the county commission, or the county collector reports payment of any such tax bills to the clerk of the county commission, he shall note the payment thereof in such special tax record book.
4. The county collector shall pay to the county treasurer all money collected on said special tax bills and the county treasurer shall give such district credit therefor on a special account kept with said district on account of collections on said tax bills, indicating therein the amount paid as principal, and the amount paid as interest and penalties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8722)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.240 - Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.240. Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills. —
If any such special tax bills be unpaid on the first day of February after becoming payable, the commissioners shall cause suits to be instituted for foreclosure of the lien thereof. Such suits shall be instituted in the circuit court of the county by any attorney the special road district commissioners may designate and order the county collector to deliver such unpaid special tax bills to. The road district shall be plaintiff in such suits and any and all parties having an interest in the property to be affected thereby may be made defendants. In such suits, each special tax bill shall be prima facie evidence of a valid lien in favor of the district, and upon the land described therein, for the amount stated therein. In every suit so instituted, there shall be taxed as costs, in favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8722)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845