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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.245 - Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.245. Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment. —
1. The owner of any tract of land against which such special tax shall have been levied may, within thirty days after the date of said order, elect to pay all of said special tax in one installment on or before the date of payment of the first installment thereof, by filing with the clerk of the county commission his written election, signed by him, so to do, in which election he shall state the tract, or tracts, upon which he so elects to pay; and thereupon the clerk shall note the filing of said election and the date of such filing, on the tax record book opposite the description of such tract, or tracts, and forthwith make out and deliver to the county collector a tax bill payable in one installment, for the amount charged or chargeable against each of such tracts, with interest from the date of said order to the first day of April next after the first installment of the tax levied is payable.
2. All tax bills so issued shall constitute liens, be subject to penalties and interest and be collectible in the same manner as those payable in more than one installment; and they shall in all other respects conform to the provisions hereof, relating to the issue, effect, payment and collection of such installment tax bills.
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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 233.250 - Special assessment bonds to be issued.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.250. Special assessment bonds to be issued. —
1. After the expiration of thirty days from the date of said order, the commissioners of such district shall issue special assessment bonds of the district as follows: If no election to pay in full the tax so ordered shall have been filed with the county clerk, as herein provided, said bonds shall be for an amount not exceeding ninety percent of the total amount of the tax so ordered; and, if such an election or elections shall have been so filed, then said bonds shall be for an amount not exceeding ninety percent of the total amount of the tax so ordered, after deducting the amount assessed against any and all tracts, the owners of which shall have filed an election to pay in one installment as herein provided, said bonds to be in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars, having some convenient date, and bearing interest from such date at a rate not to exceed six percent per annum. The interest of such bonds shall be payable on the first day of each April and October after said date, until all of such bonds are paid.
2. Said bonds shall be payable in the same number of installments, which need not be equal, as the special tax so ordered; one of which shall become due and payable on the first day of April after each installment of such tax becomes payable. Both principal and interest shall be payable at some convenient banking house or trust company's office to be named in said bonds.
3. Said bonds shall be signed by the president of the road district and attested by the county clerk, who shall, before the delivery thereof, register the same in a suitable book for that purpose. After such bonds are so registered, they shall be presented to the state auditor for registration, who shall register the same as bonds mentioned in sections 108.240 to 108.300 are required by law to be registered, and the provisions of said sections shall be applicable to bonds issued pursuant to sections 233.170 to 233.315, the same as to bonds mentioned in said sections.
4. Such bonds, after being so registered by the state auditor, shall be deposited with the county treasurer in whose custody they shall remain until disposed of as authorized by sections 233.170 to 233.315, and such bonds after being so registered by the state auditor, shall be eligible as good and lawful securities for any and all purposes that bonds issued under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 and sections 243.010 to 243.540 are made so eligible for by sections 108.240 to 108.300 and county commission of this state may invest school funds or other trust funds that may be under their control, in said bonds at their par value.
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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 233.260 - Cost of improvements — estimate.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.260. Cost of improvements — estimate. —
Whenever the issuing of special tax bills, or bonds, as herein provided, shall have been delayed for any cause for a period of at least six months subsequent to the estimate made therefor, and it shall be made to appear to the road commissioners of any such road district that the estimate of the cost of proposed improvements in said road district is excessive, or more than is needed for that purpose, they may appear before the county commission at any regular or adjourned term of said county commission, and ask for an order of the county commission authorizing the state transportation department to make and file with said county commission a new or revised estimate of the cost of such proposed improvements, and all tax bills, or bonds issued thereafter in said road district for such improvements shall be based upon the new or revised estimate so made and filed by said state transportation department, less state and federal aid, if any, and shall in all respects be the legal estimate of the cost of such proposed improvements.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8723)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8074
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.265 - Partial payments of special tax bills — correction of errors.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.265. Partial payments of special tax bills — correction of errors. —
1. County treasurers and collectors may receive and receipt for partial payments of special tax bills they may have for collection, but not cancel any such tax bills until receiving full payment thereof.
2. Whenever the owner of any tract of land against which a special tax has been ordered desires to divide, or has divided, such tract into two or more tracts, the county commission shall, upon his application, make an apportionment of the special tax against the entire tract, against the tracts into which it is divided, and when special tax bills are thereafter issued, a separate bill shall issue, in accordance with such apportionment, against each of the tracts into which such tract is divided.
3. Special tax bills issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall not be void by reason of errors therein, but shall be valid for such amount and to such an extent as they should have been issued for, and the county clerk may at any time correct any error that may be found in any such special tax bills.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8724)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8075; 1919 § 10846
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.270 - Contracts for improvement.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.270. Contracts for improvement. —
1. Whenever an order for improvement is made, the special road district commissioners of the district shall, in the name of the district, enter into a written contract with the lowest and best bidder for making such improvement in compliance with such order. Such contract shall require that the work be completed within a certain time, and shall provide a penalty for each day beyond said time said work remains uncompleted, and said commissioners shall require said contractor to enter into a bond, to be approved by the commissioners, for the full performance of said contract, and payment for all labor and material used or employed in the performance of such contract.
2. Said special road district commissioners may advertise for bids for such contract in any manner they may choose; and the contract shall in no case be let to any special road district commissioner, nor shall any special road district commissioner, directly or indirectly, have any pecuniary interest therein other than the performance of his official duties as herein required.
3. Said contract shall in no case provide for the payment of a sum in excess of the estimated cost of the work, as found by the county commission, plus ten percent thereof; and shall not provide for payment of exceeding eighty percent of the value of the work actually performed and materials furnished until the entire improvement is completed.
4. As payments to the contractor become payable by the terms of the contract, the commissioners shall cause warrants to be drawn on the county treasurer therefor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8725)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8076; 1919 § 10847
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.275 - Title to lands — how considered.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
233.275. Title to lands — how considered. —
If it shall appear that any land within a district so incorporated has been conveyed by mortgage or deed of trust, the mortgagor or owner of the equity of redemption, or if any land shall be owned by a minor, his conservator, or if any land shall have been conveyed or devised to a trustee to be held by him for the use or benefit of another for a number of years or during the life of such other, the trustee, or if any land shall be held by any surviving spouse as a homestead, then the surviving spouse and adult heirs, shall be deemed and held to be the owner of such land within the meaning of this section.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8726, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8077; 1919 § 10848
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.280 - Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of road districts.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 2012
233.280. Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of road districts. —
1. County collectors shall receive for collecting special tax bills authorized by sections 233.170 to 233.315 the same compensation as if collected as county taxes.
2. Clerks of county commissions shall receive for issuing and attesting each special tax bill issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315, six cents; for recording an abstract or description of each such tax bill, five cents; for making the record of a special tax payable in installments, four cents for each tract of land against which such tax is assessed; for attesting special assessment bonds issued under sections 233.170 to 233.315, and registering the same, twenty cents for each bond; for any other services performed under sections 233.170 to 233.315, such compensation as may be fixed by law, and if not fixed by law, such as may be fixed by the county commission.
3. Commissioners of road districts incorporated under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall receive such compensation for their services as a majority of the road district commissioners shall fix from time to time, not to exceed one hundred dollars per month, provided the compensation of a commissioner shall not change during the time for which he or she was elected or appointed. In addition to the compensation for their services, commissioners of road districts incorporated under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be paid any and all expenses they incur in transacting business of the district, including reasonable attorney's fees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8728, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1037)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8079; 1919 § 10850
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.290 - Dissolution of road district — not to affect validity of bonds, levy or collection of special taxes.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
233.290. Dissolution of road district — not to affect validity of bonds, levy or collection of special taxes. —
Whenever any owner of land within any road district organized under the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall file with the county commission of the county in which such district may be located a petition verified by an affidavit stating that such road district has no special road district commissioners and has failed to elect special road district commissioners or that such road district has ceased to perform the functions for which it was created, the county commission shall cause five notices to be posted in conspicuous places in said district, giving notice of the filing of such petitions, and that unless cause be shown to the said county commission on a day to be named in said notices, not less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the time of posting such notices, why the said road district should not be dissolved, that the same will be dissolved; and if on the day named in such notices no party in interest shall appear and show that the said road district is performing the functions for which it was created or that it has special road district commissioners or that good cause exists why the said road districts should not be dissolved, the county commission shall, on the next meeting of the county commission make its order of record that such road district be dissolved; provided, that if any party in interest shall appear and show cause as herein provided, the county commission shall proceed to hear evidence on the matter, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the county commission that no good cause exists why such road district should not be dissolved, it shall enter its order of record that such road district be dissolved, and if contrary appear, the said petition shall be dismissed; provided further, that nothing in sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall affect the validity of any bonds that may have been issued by such road district or affect the levy or collection of any special taxes that may have been
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levied or assessed against any lands within such district; provided further, after the dissolution of any such special road district the land therein shall be divided into road districts under the provisions of sections 231.010 to 231.030, 231.050 to 231.100 and 137.555 to 137.575, and any money that may be on hand to the credit of such special road district that shall not be needed to satisfy any liabilities of such special road district shall, by order of the county commission, be turned over to such new road districts in proportion to the number of acres allotted to each such new district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8730, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8081; 1919 § 10852
*Word "been" does not appear in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.297 - Dissolution of a special road district, procedure — ballot language — land assigned to common road district, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008
233.297. Dissolution of a special road district, procedure — ballot language — land assigned to common road district, when. —
1. In lieu of the modes of dissolution set forth in section 233.290 or in section 233.295, a special road district may be dissolved by election. The dissolution procedure established under this section shall only apply to the dissolution of special road districts in counties of the fourth classification.
2. Upon presentation of a petition signed by fifty registered voters of the special road district, the county commission shall make an order that the dissolution of the special road district order that the question of dissolving the special road district shall be submitted to a vote of the people of the special road district. However no such petition may be presented until the expiration of four years from the date of establishment of the special road district or from the date of the last election seeking to expand or dissolve the special road district.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ Special Road District be dissolved?
4. 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.
5. The dissolution of the road district shall not affect the validity of any bonds issued by the road district and all levies related to such bonds shall remain in effect until such bonds are paid. Likewise, the dissolution of the road district shall not affect the validity of any special assessments or taxes levied against particular parcels or the validity of any unpaid taxes previously levied against a particular parcel.
6. Upon dissolution of a special road district pursuant to this section, the land therein shall be assigned to a new or existing common road district pursuant to chapter 231. If after payment of all debts of the special road district, there are funds left in the possession of the special road district, such funds shall be allocated proportionately to the common road districts to which the land within the former special road district were assigned based on the acreage assigned to each common road district. To the extent that funds are paid subsequent to such original allocation, other than funds connected with bond obligations under subsection 5 of this section, based on obligations assigned to particular parcels or property, such funds shall be allocated to the common road district in which such parcels or property is located.
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(L. 2008 S.B. 896)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.300 - Contracts not affected by disincorporation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.300. Contracts not affected by disincorporation. —
No dissolution of such road district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such road district or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such road district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8732)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8083; 1919 § 10854
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.305 - Appointment of trustee.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.305. Appointment of trustee. —
Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such road district, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the road district so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security to be approved by the county commission, to the use of such disincorporated road district, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8733)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8084; 1919 § 10855
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.310 - Trustee, duties of.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.310. Trustee, duties of. —
The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the road district, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to such road district, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and generally to do all acts requisite to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the road district, and for that purpose, under the order and direction of the county commission, to exercise all the powers given by law to said road district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8734)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8085; 1919 § 10856
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.315 - Final settlement of trustee.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.315. Final settlement of trustee. —
When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the road district, and shall have paid all debts due by said road district, he shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his hands, and take receipt therefor, and deliver to the clerk of such county commission all books, papers, records and deeds belonging to the dissolved road district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8735)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8086; 1919 § 10857
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.317 - Expansion or extension of a road district, procedure — ballot language.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
Effective - 28 Aug 2008
233.317. Expansion or extension of a road district, procedure — ballot language. —
1. In addition to any other mechanism established by law for the expansion or extension of a road district established under sections 233.170 to 233.315, such road district may be extended by election. The provisions of this section shall only apply to the extension of special road districts in counties of the fourth classification.
2. Upon presentation of a petition signed by not less than thirty-five registered voters in the old district and by the lesser of thirty-five registered voters or fifty percent of the registered voters in the area to be added to the road district to the county commission, the county commission shall make an order of record that the proposed extension of said road district under the provisions of this section, describing the same by its title and the date of its approval, and describing the boundaries of the district as proposed to be extended, be submitted to the voters of such proposed road district.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ Special Road District be extended?
4. If the majority of the votes cast for and against the expansion of the road district be for its expansion, the commission shall declare the result of the vote thereon by an order of record, and shall make an order of record declaring that the road district shall be expanded to include the territory covered by the petition. If the majority of the votes be against the expansion, the territory shall remain as it was prior to the vote. Any order pursuant to this section shall take effect ten days after its entry.
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(L. 2008 S.B. 896)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.320 - Special road districts — organized how — by whom.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.320. Special road districts — organized how — by whom. —
1. In counties now operating or which may hereafter operate under township organization, whenever it is proposed to form a special road district within the limits of one or more incorporated townships, such proposed district shall be organized in the manner herein prescribed.
2. The county commission shall divide the territory within their respective counties into road districts in the manner herein prescribed, and every such district organized according to the provisions of sections 233.320 to 233.445 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a public corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled "______ special 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 233.320 to 233.445, or of which it may be rightfully possessed at the time of the passage of sections 233.320 to 233.445, and of contracting and of being contracted with as herein provided.
3. 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 commission shall not have power to divide the territory within the corporate limits of a city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand into such road district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8836)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8176; 1919 § 10937
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.330 - Commissioners of special road district, how selected — term — qualifications — vacancies, how filled.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
233.330. Commissioners of special road district, how selected — term — qualifications — vacancies, how filled. —
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 special road district commissioners, who shall be voters of the district who shall hold their office until the second Tuesday in April thereafter. The voters of the district, at an hour and place to be fixed by said commissioners, shall elect three special road district commissioners, 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 special road district commissioner 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 who is not a voter of the district. Any vacancy caused by resignation, death, removal from the district of a special road district commissioner or sale of all land owned by him in the district shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining special road district commissioners of the district. All special road district commissioners 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 according to law.
3. If for any reason the board of commissioners herein mentioned shall fail to call an annual election to fill a vacancy or vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of any one or more of the special road district commissioners, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to call an election to fill said vacancy.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8838, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8178; 1919 § 10939
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.332 - Commissioners of special road districts in certain counties of the third classification — vacancies, how filled.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
233.332. Commissioners of special road districts in certain counties of the third classification — vacancies, how filled. —
Notwithstanding any provisions of section 233.330 to the contrary, in any county of the third classification with a population according to the most recent federal decennial census in excess of four thousand nine hundred and not in excess of six thousand one hundred, if a special road district commissioner resigns, dies, is no longer eligible to serve as a commissioner or the commissioner's term of office expires, then the county commission may by ordinance appoint a person to fill the vacancy or in the alternative hold an election to fill such vacancy pursuant to section 233.330. No person shall be elected or appointed who is not an eligible voter in the special road district. Any person appointed pursuant to this section shall serve a term equal in duration to that of the previous special road district commissioner replaced by such person. The county commission may appoint a county commissioner to fill such vacancy.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 609 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.335 - Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.335. Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how. —
1. The special road district 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 said special road district commissioners any person not a member of said board may be chosen secretary. Meetings of said 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.
2. The treasurer of said board shall be appointed by the special road district commissioners and before he shall enter upon the duties of his office he shall give bond in double the amount of all moneys likely to come into his hands by virtue of his office. Said bond shall be payable to the special road district, approved by the special road district commissioners, and filed with the secretary of the special road district commission, and he shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful keeping of all moneys deposited with him by reason of sections 233.320 to 233.445.
3. The president of the board shall preside at all meetings thereof; he shall sign the minutes and records of the board, and all 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 said district, and exercise a general supervising control over the work of such commissioners and in a general way may do all acts and things that the said board may empower him 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 herein conferred upon the president.
4. The secretary shall carefully keep a true record of all warrants drawn on the treasurer, and all written contracts that may be entered into on behalf of the district, shall attest such warrants and the execution of such contracts, keep minutes of meetings of the board, and perform such other duties as the law may require.
5. All money paid to the treasurer of the special road district shall be placed to the credit of the district and shall be paid out only on 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 § 8839)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8179; 1919 § 10940
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.340 - Tools and machinery, delivery 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
233.340. Tools and machinery, delivery to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. —
1. The township board of trustees shall, upon the organization of such special road district commissioners, cause all tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts and parts of 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 receipt, and such commissioners shall keep and use such tools and machinery for constructing and improving public roads and bridges.
2. The township boards shall also cause the township treasurer to pay over to the treasurer of the special road district all moneys in his hands belonging to the district or districts that have been merged into the special road district whenever the board of special road district commissioners of such special road district shall make demand therefor.
3. Except as provided in subsection 4 of this section, the special road district commissioners shall have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways, bridges and culverts, other than those 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 special road district commissioners may have such road work, or bridge or culvert work, or any part thereof, done by contract, under such regulations as the special road district commissioners may prescribe.
4. 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 § 8840, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8180; 1919 § 10941
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.345 - 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
233.345. Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot. —
1. The special road district commissioners of 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.
2. Whenever the board of special road district commissioners of such road district propose to issue such bonds, they shall order the question to be submitted to the voters of the district. 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 bonds in the amount of ______ dollars?
5. The board of special road district commissioners shall not sell the bonds for less then ninety-five percent of the par value thereof and the proceeds shall be paid over to the treasurer of the special road district 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 § 8843, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8183; 1919 § 10944
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.360 - Special tax — how apportioned.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.360. 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 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 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 land 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 § 8846)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8186; 1919 § 10947
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.365 - Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.365. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. —
In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land for 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 purpose of sections 233.320 to 233.445, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of 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 one 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 § 8852)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8192; 1919 § 10953
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.375 - Special tax payable in installments — interest — special assessments.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.375. Special tax payable 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 desire that the cost of the 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 § 8848)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.380 - Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.380. 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 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 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 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 land described therein, for the amount thereof and all interest and penalties that may accrue thereon and all cost in collecting the same, including reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in any 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 payment of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid. Whenever any of such tax bills have 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 treasurer of the special road district all money collected on said special tax bills and the treasurer of the special road district 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 § 8848)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 233 - Incorporated Road Districts › Section 233.385 - Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 233
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
233.385. 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 commissioners may designate and to whom they shall order the county collector to deliver such unpaid special tax bills. 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 the favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8848)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949