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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.614 - Bond requirements — deposit of district moneys.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.614. Bond requirements — deposit of district moneys. —
1. Such bonds shall be signed by the president of the board of trustees and attested by the signature of the secretary of the board of trustees with the seal of the district affixed, if the district has a seal. The interest coupons may be executed by affixing the facsimile signature of the secretary of the district.
2. The moneys of the reorganized common sewer district shall be deposited by the treasurer of the reorganized common sewer district in such bank or banks as shall be designated by order of the board of trustees. The secretary of the reorganized common sewer district shall charge the treasurer, and the moneys shall be drawn from the treasury upon checks or warrants issued by the reorganized common sewer district for the purposes for which the bonds were issued.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.616 - Powers of the board — industrial user defined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.616. Powers of the board — industrial user defined. —
1. The board of trustees of any reorganized common sewer district shall have power to pass all necessary rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of the board of trustees and the district, and for carrying into effect the objectives for which the reorganized common sewer district is formed.
2. The board of trustees of a reorganized common sewer district, subject to compliance with the exercise of lawful authority granted to or rules adopted by the clean water commission under section 644.026, may exercise primary authority to adopt, modify, and repeal, and to administer and enforce rules and regulations with respect to:
(1) The establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, operation, and maintenance of its sewer systems and treatment facilities;
(2) Industrial users discharging into its sewer systems or treatment facilities;
(3) The establishment, operation, administration, and enforcement of a publicly owned treatment works pretreatment program consistent with state and federal pretreatment standards, including inspection, monitoring, sampling, permitting, and reporting programs and activities.
­­The board of trustees may, in addition to any pretreatment standards imposed under this section, require of any user of its treatment facilities such other pretreatment of industrial wastes as it deems necessary to adequately treat such wastes.
3. The rules and regulations adopted by the board of trustees under subsection 2 of this section shall be applicable and enforceable by civil, administrative, or other actions within any territory served by its sewer systems or treatment facilities and against any municipality, subdistrict, district, or industrial user who shall directly or indirectly discharge sewage or permit discharge of sewage into the district's sewer system or treatment facilities.
4. The authority granted to the board by this section is in addition to and not in derogation of any other authority granted under the constitution and laws of Missouri, any federal water pollution control act, or the rules of any agency of federal or state government.
5. The term
"industrial user"
, as used in this section, shall mean any nondomestic source of discharge or indirect discharge into the district's wastewater system that is regulated under Section 307(b), (c), or (d) of the Clean Water Act, or any source listed in division A, B, D, E, or I of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, or any solid waste disposal operation such as, but not limited to, landfills, recycling facilities, solid or hazardous waste handling or disposal facilities, and facilities that store or treat aqueous wastes as generated by facilities not located on site and that dispose of these wastes by discharging them into the district's wastewater system.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.620 - Acquisition of real and personal property — use of public grounds, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.620. Acquisition of real and personal property — use of public grounds, when. —
1. The board of trustees may acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation or may lease or rent any real or personal property, and when condemnation is used, shall follow the procedure that is provided by chapter 523. All the powers may be exercised both within or without the district as may be necessary to exercise its powers or accomplish its purposes. The board of trustees also shall have the same authority to enter upon private lands to survey land or other property before exercise of the above condemnation powers, as granted under section 388.210 to railroad corporations.
2. The board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district, if it is necessary to cross, follow, or traverse public streets, roads, alleys, or grounds held or used as public parks or places, shall have the right to do so upon the following conditions: the board of trustees shall file with the county commission or mayor of the municipality having immediate jurisdiction over the street, road, alley, or public park or place, a map showing the location and extent of the proposed occupancy for sewerage purposes and a plan of the proposed facilities, which plan shall be so made and arranged as not to interfere with the ordinary and lawful use of the street, road, alley, public park, or place, except during a reasonable time for the construction of the necessary works.
3. The entire expense of the works and restoration of the ground occupied to its former condition, as near as may be, shall be borne by the reorganized common sewer district.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.622 - Treatment plants, contracts for — agreements for professional services.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.622. Treatment plants, contracts for — agreements for professional services. —
1. The board of trustees for the reorganized common sewer district shall let contracts for the construction of sewers and sewage treatment plants that will cost more than twenty-five thousand dollars, except in case of repairs or emergencies requiring prompt attention. Notice of the contract bid process shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the district. The board shall select the lowest responsible bidder in no less than twenty days following such publication. The board shall have the power and authority to reject any and all bids and readvertise the work.
2. The board of trustees also shall have the power to enter into agreements with persons or firms to provide professional services to the board, and the board shall adopt policies for procuring the services of such professionals. The provisions of sections 8.285 to 8.291 shall be applicable to the services of architects, engineers, and land surveyors unless the board of trustees adopts a formal procedure for the procurement of such services.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.624 - Costs, how met.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.624. Costs, how met. —
The cost of any reorganized common sewer district to acquire, construct, improve, or extend a sewerage system may be met:
(1) Through the expenditures by the common sewer district of any funds available for that purpose, including temporary or interim financing funds obtained through any federal or state loan program or from a local lending institution;
(2) From any other funds that may be obtained under any law of the state or of the United States or from any county or municipality for that purpose;
(3) From the proceeds of revenue bonds of the common sewer district, payable solely from the revenues to be derived from the operation of such sewerage system or from any combination of all the methods of providing funds;
(4) From the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the reorganized common sewer district, payable solely from voter-approved property taxes as provided for by law;
(5) From the proceeds of special obligation bonds of the reorganized common sewer district, payable solely from special fees or other revenues received by the district pledged for the purposes of payment of such bonds; or
(6) From the proceeds of user fees, charges, or other imposition for facilities and services provided by the district to its customers and users or the availability of services provided to persons, users, and customers within the district or who otherwise benefit from services provided by the district.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.626 - Issuance of revenue bonds, procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.626. Issuance of revenue bonds, procedure. —
1. A reorganized common sewer district may issue revenue bonds authorized by authority of a resolution adopted by the board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district unless, in addition, the decree or amended decree of incorporation shall require any such bonds to be approved by the voters of the district after an election called for that purpose. The resolution shall recite that an estimate of the cost of the proposed acquisition, construction, improvement, extension, or other project has been made and shall set out the estimated cost. It shall set out the amount of the bonds proposed to be issued, their purposes, their dates, denominations, rates of interest, times of payment, both of principal and of interest, places of payment, and all other details in connection with the bonds.
2. The bonds may be subject to such provision for redemption prior to maturity, with or without premium, and at such times and upon such conditions as may be provided by the board of trustees of the common sewer district.
3. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate in accordance with section 108.170 and shall mature over a period not exceeding thirty-five years from the date thereof.
4. The bonds may be payable to bearer, may be registered or coupon bonds, and if payable to bearer may contain such registration privileges as to either principal and interest, or principal only, as may be provided in the resolution authorizing the bonds.
5. The bonds and the coupons to be attached thereto, if any, shall be signed in such manner and by such officers as may be directed by resolution. Bonds signed by an officer who shall hold the office at the time the bonds are signed shall be deemed validly and effectually signed for all purposes, regardless of whether or not any officer shall cease to hold his office prior to the delivery of the bonds and regardless of whether or not any officer shall have held or shall not have held such office on the date ascribed to the bonds.
6. The bonds shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms as the board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district shall determine, subject to the provisions of section 108.170. The resolution may provide that certain bonds authorized shall be junior or subordinate in any or all respects to other revenue bonds authorized concurrently with, prior to, or after such bonds.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.628 - Fees or charges levied, when due.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.628. Fees or charges levied, when due. —
Any user fees or charges, connection fees, or other charges levied by the reorganized common sewer district to fund its general or special operations, maintenance, or payment of bonded indebtedness or other indebtedness shall be due at such time or times as specified by the reorganized common sewer district, and shall, if not paid by the due date, become delinquent and shall bear interest from the date of delinquency until paid. In addition to and consistent with any other provision of applicable law, if such fees or charges or other amounts due become delinquent, there shall be a lien upon the land, and a notice of delinquency shall be filed with the recorder of deeds in the county where the land is situated. The reorganized common sewer district shall file with the recorder of deeds a similar notice of satisfaction of debt when the delinquent amounts, plus interest and any recording fees or attorneys' fees, have been paid in full. The lien created may be enforced by foreclosure by power of sale vested in the reorganized common sewer district if the reorganized common sewer district adopts written rules for the exercise of power of sale consistent with the provisions of sections 443.290 to 443.325 which are recorded in the land records of the office of the recorder of deeds in each county in which the district is located. Otherwise, such lien shall be enforced by suit in the circuit court having jurisdiction against the property subject to the lien for judicial foreclosure and sale by special execution. Such suit may include a request for judgment against the persons responsible for payment of such delinquency as well as the person or persons owning the property to which services were provided, if different, including post-sale deficiency, and as a part of the relief, may include award of the district's reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other expenses reasonably incurred by the district for collection.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.630 - Revenue bonds, duties of district.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.630. Revenue bonds, duties of district. —
It shall be the mandatory duty of any reorganized common sewer district issuing any general or special revenue bonds under sections 204.600 to 204.640 to:
(1) Fix and maintain rates and make and collect charges for the use and services of the system, for the benefit of which revenue bonds were issued, sufficient to pay the cost of maintenance and operation;
(2) Pay the principal of and the interest on all revenue bonds issued by the reorganized common sewer district chargeable to the revenues of the system; and
(3) Provide funds ample to meet all valid and reasonable requirements of the resolution by which the revenue bonds have been issued.
­­From time to time, the rates shall be revised to meet fully the requirements of sections 204.600 to 204.640. As long as any bond issued or the interest thereon shall remain outstanding and unpaid, rates and charges sufficient to meet the requirements of this section shall be maintained and collected by the reorganized common sewer district that issued the bonds.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.632 - Revenue bonds, net revenues to be pledged.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.632. Revenue bonds, net revenues to be pledged. —
1. Whenever any reorganized common sewer district authorizes and issues revenue bonds under sections 204.600 to 204.640, an amount sufficient for the purpose of the net revenues of the sewerage system for the benefit of which the bonds are issued shall, by operation of sections 204.600 to 204.640, be pledged to the payment of the principal of and the interest on the bonds as the same shall mature and accrue.
2. The term
"net revenues"
means all income and revenues derived from the ownership and operation of the system less the actual and necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of the system.
3. It shall be the mandatory duty of the treasurer of the reorganized common sewer district to provide for the prompt payment of the principal and interest on any revenue bonds as they mature and accrue.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.634 - Resolution authorizing revenue bonds — accounts.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.634. Resolution authorizing revenue bonds — accounts. —
1. The resolution of the board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds under the authority of sections 204.600 to 204.640 may provide that periodic allocations of the revenues to be derived from the operation of the system for the benefit of which the bonds are issued shall be made into such accounts, separate and apart from any other accounts of the district, as shall be deemed to be advisable to assure the proper operation and maintenance of the system and the prompt payment of the indebtedness chargeable to the revenues of the system. The accounts may include, but shall not be limited to:
(1) An account to provide funds to operate and maintain the system;
(2) An account to provide funds to pay principal and interest on the bonds as they come due;
(3) An account to provide an adequate reserve for depreciation, to be expended for replacements of the system;
(4) An account for the accumulation of a reserve to assure the prompt payment of the bonds and the interest whenever and to the extent that other funds are not available for that purpose;
(5) An account to provide funds for contingent expenses in the operation of the system;
(6) An account to provide for the accumulation of funds for the construction of extensions and improvements to the system; and
(7) Such other accounts as may be desirable in the judgment of the board of trustees.
2. The resolution also may establish such limitations as may be expedient upon the issuance of additional bonds, payable from the revenues of the system, or upon the rights of the holders of such additional bonds. Such resolution may include other agreements with the holders of the bonds or covenants or restrictions necessary or desirable to safeguard the interests of the bondholder and to secure the payment of the bonds and the interest thereon.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.636 - Issuance of refunding bonds, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.636. Issuance of refunding bonds, when. —
For the purpose of refunding, extending, and unifying the whole or any part of any valid outstanding bonded indebtedness payable from the revenues of a sewerage system, any reorganized common sewer district may issue refunding bonds not exceeding in amount the principal of the outstanding indebtedness to be refunded and the accrued interest to the date of the refunding bonds. The board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district shall provide for the payment of interest which shall not exceed the same rate and the 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. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.638 - Grants or funds from state or federal government, trustees to accept.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.638. Grants or funds from state or federal government, trustees to accept. —
The board of trustees of the reorganized common sewer district may apply for and accept grants or funds and material or labor from the state and federal government in the construction of a sewerage system, as provided by sections 204.600 to 204.640, and may enter into such agreements as may be required of the state or federal laws, or the rules and regulations of any federal or state department, to which the application is made, and where the assistance is granted.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.640 - Courts and officers of political subdivisions to cooperate with district.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.640. Courts and officers of political subdivisions to cooperate with district. —
It shall be the duty of the mayors of cities, the circuit court, the governing bodies of counties, all political subdivisions, and all assessors, sheriffs, collectors, treasurers, and other officials in the state of Missouri to do and perform all the acts and to render all the services necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 204.600 to 204.640.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.652 - Improvements may be made — issuance of revenue bonds — assessments.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.652. Improvements may be made — issuance of revenue bonds — assessments. —
As an alternative to all other methods provided by law or charter, the governing body of any sewer district or reorganized sewer district organized and operated under this chapter or chapter 249 or any metropolitan sewer district organized under the constitution of this state, may make, or cause to be made, improvements that confer a benefit upon property within a sanitary sewer improvement area under sections 204.650 to 204.672. The governing body of such district may issue temporary notes and revenue bonds under sections 204.650 to 204.672 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 revenue bonds to pay all or part of the cost of the sanitary sewer improvement area's improvements, but separate funds or accounts shall be established within the records of the district for each improvement project as provided in sections 204.650 to 204.672. Such district shall make assessments and may impose user fees on the property located within the sanitary sewer improvement area, in addition to any other fees or charges imposed by the district to provide services or pay debt. The district shall use the moneys collected from such assessments and user fees from a sanitary sewer improvement area to reimburse the district for all amounts paid or to be paid by it as principal of and interest on its temporary notes and revenue bonds issued for the improvements made in the sanitary sewer improvement area.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.654 - Establishment of area, procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.654. Establishment of area, procedure. —
1. To establish a sanitary sewer improvement area, the governing body of the sewer district shall comply with the following procedure: the governing body of the district may create a sanitary sewer improvement area when a proper petition has been signed by the owners of record of four-sevenths of the property within the proposed sanitary sewer improvement area. The petition, in order to become effective, shall be filed with the district. A proper petition for the creation of a sanitary sewer improvement area shall set forth the project name for the proposed improvement, the general nature of the proposed improvement, the estimated cost of such improvement, the boundaries of the proposed sanitary sewer improvement area, the proposed method or methods of financing the project, including the estimated amount of and method for imposing user fees against the real property within the sanitary sewer improvement area to pay for the cost of the improvements and any bonds issued, a notice that the names of the signers may not be withdrawn later than seven days after the petition is filed with the district, and a notice that the final cost of such improvement and the amount of revenue bonds issued shall not exceed the estimated cost of such improvement, as stated in such petition, by more than twenty-five percent.
2. Upon filing a proper petition with the district, the governing body may, by resolution, determine the advisability of the improvement and may order that the area be established and that preliminary plans and specifications for the improvement be made. Such resolution shall state and make findings as to the project name for the proposed improvement, the nature of the improvement, the estimated cost of such improvement, the boundaries of the sanitary sewer improvement area, the proposed method or methods of imposing assessments and, if known, proposed estimated user fees within the district. The resolution also shall state that the final cost of such improvement within the sanitary sewer improvement area and the amount of revenue bonds issued shall not, without a new petition, exceed the estimated cost of such improvement by more than twenty-five percent.
3. The boundaries of the proposed area shall be described by bounds, streets, or other sufficiently specific description.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.656 - Costs apportioned against property.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.656. Costs apportioned against property. —
The portion of the cost of any improvement to be assessed or imposed against the real property in a sanitary sewer improvement area shall be apportioned against such property in accordance with the benefits accruing by reason of such improvement. Subject to the provisions of the farmland protection act, sections 262.800 to 262.810, the cost may be assessed equally by lot or tract against property within the area, or by any other reasonable assessment plan determined by the governing body of the district that results in imposing substantially equal burdens or share of the cost upon property similarly benefitted. The governing body of the district may from time to time determine and establish by resolution reasonable general classifications and formula for the methods of assessing or determining the benefits.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.658 - Assessments required, roll to be prepared.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.658. Assessments required, roll to be prepared. —
1. After the governing body has made the findings specified in sections 204.650 to 204.672 and plans and specifications for the proposed improvements have been prepared, the governing body shall by resolution order assessments to be made against each parcel of real property deemed to be benefitted by an improvement based on the revised estimated cost of the improvement or, if available, the final cost, and shall order a proposed assessment roll to be prepared.
2. The plans and specifications for the improvement and the proposed assessment roll shall be filed with the district and shall be open for public inspection. Such district shall, at the direction of the governing body, 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 sanitary sewer improvement area to be assessed, and that written or oral objections will be considered at the hearing. Not less than ten days before, the district shall mail to the owners of record of the real property in the sanitary sewer improvement area, at their last known post office address, a notice of the hearing and a statement of the cost proposed to be assessed against the real property so owned and assessed. The failure of any owner to receive such notice shall not invalidate the proceedings.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.662 - Court action, limitation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.662. Court action, limitation. —
No suit to set aside the assessments made under sections 204.680 to 204.730
*
, or to otherwise question the validity of the proceedings, shall be brought after the expiration of ninety days from the date the notice is mailed to the last known owners of record of the assessments required by subsection 3 of section 204.660.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
*Sections 204.680 to 204.730 do not exist.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.664 - Supplemental or additional assessments permitted, when — reassessment or new assessment required, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.664. Supplemental or additional assessments permitted, when — reassessment or new assessment required, when. —
1. To correct omissions, errors, or mistakes in the original assessment that relate to the total cost of an improvement, the governing body of the district may, without a notice or hearing, make supplemental or additional assessments on property within a sanitary sewer improvement area, except that such supplemental or additional assessments shall not, without a new petition as provided in sections 204.650 to 204.672, exceed twenty-five percent of the estimated cost of the improvement as set forth in the petition under the provisions of sections 204.650 to 204.672.
2. When an assessment is, for any reason whatsoever, set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction as to any property, or in the event the governing body finds that the assessment or any part thereof is excessive or determines on advice of counsel in writing that it is or may be invalid for any reason, the governing body may, upon notice and hearing as provided for the original assessment, make a reassessment or a new assessment as to such property.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.666 - Assessment to constitute a lien, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.666. Assessment to constitute a lien, when. —
An assessment authorized under sections 204.650 to 204.672, once determined and imposed, shall constitute a lien against such property until paid in full and shall not be affected by the existence or enforcement of any other liens or encumbrances, nor shall enforcement of an assessment lien have any effect on the validity or enforcement of any tax lien or lien established by mortgage or deed of trust. An assessment lien becomes delinquent when an assessment is not paid in full as prescribed by sections 204.650 to 204.672, or when one or more periodic installments imposed by the district for an assessment remain unpaid for a period of thirty days or more after notice of delinquency in payment is mailed to the last known owners of the property subject to assessment by regular United States mail and by certified mail, return receipt requested, at their last known address, provided by such owners to the district and to the occupant of property that is subject to assessment, if different from that of the owners. In the event any such user fee remains unpaid after thirty days of the mailing of any such notice, and in addition to any other remedy the district may have by statute or duly enacted regulation for the collection of delinquent amounts owed to the district, the district shall be entitled to petition the circuit court having jurisdiction to foreclose upon the assessment lien by special execution sale of the property subject to the assessment for the unpaid assessment plus reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable costs incurred by the district in collection. In any such suit, the district shall name all parties appearing of record to have or claim an interest in the property subject to the unpaid assessment and shall file a notice of lis pendens in connection with said action. In addition, the district may obtain a judgment against last known owners of the property for any deficiency in payment of the assessment and costs and fees made a part of the court's judgment.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.668 - Temporary notes authorized, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.668. Temporary notes authorized, when. —
After an improvement has been authorized under sections 204.650 to 204.672, the governing body of the district may issue temporary notes of the district to pay the costs of such improvement in an amount not to exceed the estimated cost of such improvement. Such temporary notes may be issued in anticipation of issuance of revenue bonds of the district. The district may participate in any governmentally sponsored bond pooling program or other bond program. Bonds may be issued and made payable from special assessments paid in the form of user fees under subsection 4 of section 204.660 and other revenues of the district.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.670 - Funds required.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.670. Funds required. —
A separate fund or account shall be created by the district 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 the district 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, may be held as contingent funds for future improvements or may 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 204.650 to 204.672, the amount of each such credit shall be refunded to the appropriate property owner. With respect to all other property owners, the amount of each such credit shall be transferred and credited to the district 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. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.672 - Cooperative agreements authorized, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.672. Cooperative agreements authorized, when. —
Any public sanitary sewer district or reorganized sewer district organized and operated under this chapter or chapter 249 and any metropolitan sewer district organized under the constitution of this state, may enter into a cooperative agreement with a city or county for the purpose of constructing sanitary sewer system improvements under the provisions of the neighborhood improvement district act, sections 67.453 to 67.475. Any such cooperative agreement, if approved by the governing bodies of the district and city or county, may include provisions for joint administration of projects for the issuance of temporary notes and general obligation bonds by district, city, or county, separately or jointly, and for the payment of such bonds by any source of funds or user fees in addition to funds from special assessments as provided for in sections 67.453 to 67.475 and general ad valorem taxes, so long as all terms, conditions, and covenants of any applicable bond resolution or ordinance are complied with and so long as said notes and bonds are issued in compliance with general applicable law.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.674 - Inapplicability.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
Effective - 28 Aug 2007
204.674. Inapplicability. —
The provisions of sections 204.600 to 204.672 shall not apply to the provisions in section 204.472, any city not within a county and any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, any sewer district created and organized under constitutional authority, any sewer district located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants that provides wholesale sewer service.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 204 - Common Sewer Districts in Certain Areas › Section 204.700 - No fee, charge, or tax to be assessed, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 204
• Effective - 28 Aug 2009
204.700. No fee, charge, or tax to be assessed, when. —
No person who owns real property that is used for residential purposes within the boundaries of any district created under Section 30 of Article VI of the Missouri Constitution shall be assessed any fee, charge, or tax for storm water management services if the district does not directly provide sanitary sewer services to such property and if the storm water runoff from such person's property does not flow, or is not otherwise conveyed, to a sewer maintained by such district.
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(L. 2009 H.B. 661 § 204.659)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.010 - Petition of voters — maximum tax rate — submission of question.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
205.010. Petition of voters — maximum tax rate — submission of question. —
Any county, subject to the provisions of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, may establish, maintain, manage and operate a public health center in the following manner: whenever the county commission shall be presented with a petition signed by at least ten percent or more of the voters of the county, as determined by the number of votes cast for governor at the preceding general election, asking that an annual tax not in excess of forty cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of property in the county, be levied for the establishment, maintenance, management and operation of a county health center and the maintenance of the personnel required for operation of the health center, or by majority vote of the county commission in any county of the first classification with more than eighty-two thousand but fewer than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants, or by majority vote of the county commission in any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than sixteen thousand six hundred but fewer than sixteen thousand seven hundred inhabitants, the county commission shall submit the question to the voters of the county at an election.
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(L. 1945 p. 969 § 1, A.L. 1951 p. 779, A.L. 1957 p. 690, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1985 S.B. 114, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1228, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged S.B. 210 merged with S.B. 258)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.020 - Form of ballot — vote necessary to adopt.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1985
205.020. Form of ballot — vote necessary to adopt. —
1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be a maximum tax of ______ per hundred dollars assessed valuation for a county health center and the maintenance and operation of same?
2. If a majority of the votes cast on the question shall vote in favor of such tax, the county commission shall proceed to levy and collect such tax and deposit same in the county treasury to the credit of the health center fund and such fund shall be expended as hereinafter provided.
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(L. 1945 p. 969 § 2, A.L. 1951 p. 779, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1985 S.B. 81)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.031 - Trustees, qualifications — appointment, election, terms — certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1986
205.031. Trustees, qualifications — appointment, election, terms — certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown). —
1. The county governing body shall appoint five trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such office, all voters of the county, not more than three of the trustees to be residents of the city, town or village in which the county health center is to be located, who shall constitute a board of trustees for the county health center.
2. The trustees shall hold their offices until the next following municipal election, when five health center trustees shall be elected who shall hold their offices, three for two years and two for four years. The county governing body shall by order of record specify the terms of the trustees.
3. At each subsequent municipal election the offices of the trustees whose terms of office are about to expire shall be filled by the election of health center trustees who each shall serve for a term of four years and notwithstanding any other law of this state to the contrary all elective officers in each city of the fourth class with a population of at least thirty thousand but no more than thirty-three thousand, and which is located within a county of the first class having a charter form of government and containing the greater part of a city with a population of four hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants, beginning with the first election after January 1, 1987, shall be elected every four years.
4. Any vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned by removal, resignation or otherwise shall be reported to the county governing body and be filled in like manner as original appointments, the appointee to hold office until the next following municipal election, when such vacancy shall be filled by election of a trustee to serve during the remainder of the term of his predecessor.
5. No trustee shall have a personal pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase of any supplies for the health center, unless the same are purchased by competitive bidding.
6. The filing and withdrawal of candidates shall be governed by the provisions of chapter 115, except that if the number of candidates is no greater than the number of directors to be elected, no election shall be held, and the candidates shall assume the responsibilities of their offices at the same time and in the same manner as if they had been elected.
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(L. 1951 p. 779 § 205.030, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1120, A.L. 1986 S.B. 553 & 775 merged with H.B. 1471, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.041 - Trustees, election, ballot — vacancies, how filled.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
205.041. Trustees, election, ballot — vacancies, how filled. —
1. Each candidate for the office of health center trustee shall file with the county election authority an announcement of candidacy in writing. The announcement shall indicate whether the individual is a candidate for a full or an unexpired term of a named predecessor. No filing fee shall be required to be paid upon the filing of any announcement. If announcements of a sufficient number of trustees are not filed, the county commission shall appoint such trustee or trustees as may be necessary to fill all vacancies on the board which result from the expiration of the term of any trustees and any such appointee shall serve until the next municipal election when a trustee shall be elected to fill the remainder of the unexpired term.
2. The ballots shall not contain any designation of the political party affiliation of any candidate for trustee. The ballots shall designate the number of trustees to be elected and shall state whether any of the trustees is to be elected for an unexpired term:
FOR HEALTH CENTER TRUSTEE
(Vote for ______)
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
FOR HEALTH CENTER TRUSTEE
For unexpired term ending ______
(Vote for ______)
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
☐
______
3. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the offices of trustee to be filled shall be declared elected by the county commission which shall issue commissions to the elected trustees.
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(L. 1951 p. 779 § 205.040, A.L. 1965 p. 345, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1993 H.B. 551 & 552)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.050 - Purpose of health center.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
205.050. Purpose of health center. —
The public health center is established, maintained and operated for the improvement of health of all inhabitants of said county or counties.
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(L. 1945 p. 969 § 11)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.060 - Limitations on use of facilities.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1951
205.060. Limitations on use of facilities. —
The board of county health center trustees shall not enter into contracts for the private practice of medicine, nor shall any of its personnel practice medicine nor dispense drugs, vaccines or serums for personal gain, nor shall its facilities be used for such purpose in any way except as it may be necessary and agreed upon between the board and county commission or commissions for the care of the indigent for whom the commission or commissions may be responsible, or except in furtherance of diagnostic and communicable disease control programs.
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(L. 1945 p. 969 § 13, A.L. 1951 p. 779)