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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.430 - Election of directors.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.430. Election of directors. —
On the expiration of terms of members of the first board of directors as set forth in section 247.350, elections shall be held as provided herein and directors elected by the voters of the district for a term of three years. Nominations may be filed with the secretary of the board. The candidates for the board members shall be elected on a nonpartisan ballot. The candidates receiving the most votes shall be elected. Any new member of the board shall qualify in the same manner as the members of the first board qualify.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 20, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.445 - Sewage treatment facilities, construction and operation — procedure to establish, petition to circuit court, content — user fee authorized.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
247.445. Sewage treatment facilities, construction and operation — procedure to establish, petition to circuit court, content — user fee authorized. —
1. The board of directors of any metropolitan water supply district may petition the circuit court of the county containing the major part of the acreage in the district for an amended decree of incorporation to allow that district to engage in the construction, maintenance and operation of common sewer treatment facilities which serve ten or more separate properties and are located wholly within the district and are not operated by another political subdivision or are not located within the certificated area of a sewer corporation as defined in chapter 386 or within a common sewer district as defined in chapter 204 and the operation and maintenance of all such existing sewer treatment facilities. The petition shall be filed by the board of directors and all proceedings shall be in the same manner as in an action for initial formation of a metropolitan water supply district except that no vote of the residents of the district shall be required.
2. If the decree is amended the district shall, within ninety days after the order amending the decree, begin operation of the existing facilities which it has acquired by gift or otherwise and shall establish and collect user charges to be determined and established in the same manner as water rates.
3. All applicable provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall apply to the construction, operation and maintenance of common sewer facilities in the same manner as they apply to like functions relating to water supply.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 747)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.450 - Levy taxes — collection.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.450. Levy taxes — collection. —
The board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes as provided in sections 247.230 to 247.670 on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand and to sue and collect any and all other taxes, contributions or allocations to which the district may be entitled.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.460 - Levy, how made — limitations on levy.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.460. Levy, how made — limitations on levy. —
To levy and collect taxes as herein provided, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tangible property within the district as shown by the last completed assessment, and with other revenues, will raise the amount required by the district annually to supply funds for paying the expenses of organization and the costs of acquiring, supplying and maintaining the property, works and equipment of the district, which rate of levy shall not exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars valuation unless approved by a vote of a majority of the voters of the district voting as provided herein, and which, in any event, shall not exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars valuation; and in addition thereto, shall make a levy to promptly pay in full when due all interest on and principal of general obligations of the district; and in the event of accruing defaults or deficiencies, an additional levy may be made as provided herein.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 23, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.470 - Certification of levy to county commission — election on increased rate.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.470. Certification of levy to county commission — election on increased rate. —
1. On or before the first day of May of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of the county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with directions that at the time and in the manner required by law for levy of taxes for county purposes such county commission shall levy a tax at the rate so fixed and determined upon the assessed valuation of all the taxable tangible property within the district, in addition to such other taxes as may be levied by such county commission.
2. If the board thereafter in any year fixes and determines by resolution of the board a rate of levy in excess of fifteen cents per one hundred dollars valuation or of the rate approved by a vote of the majority of the voters of the district voting thereon, as provided herein for general purposes, then the board shall order the submission of the question of levying a tax rate in such increased amount to the voters of the district in the same manner so far as practicable as is provided for the submission of the question to create a bonded indebtedness. Such resolution of the board shall also fix the date upon which the election is to be held.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ metropolitan water supply district be authorized to levy an annual rate of taxation not exceeding ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation for general operating purposes?
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 24, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.480 - Approval of rate at election — certification.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.480. Approval of rate at election — certification. —
If it shall appear to the board from the returns that a majority of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of such question, the board shall, on or before the first day of May and each year thereafter, certify to the county commission as provided in section 247.470 a rate of levy for general purposes of the district, which shall not be in excess of the rate so approved by the voters of the district as herein provided. If it shall appear to the board from the results that a majority of the voters voting thereon shall not have voted in favor of such question, then the board shall certify to the county commission at such time a rate not in excess of that previously approved by a vote of the majority of the voters of the district voting thereon, or not exceeding fifteen cents on one hundred dollars valuation, whichever is higher.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 25, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.490 - Rate to be sufficient to pay principal and interest on bonds.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.490. Rate to be sufficient to pay principal and interest on bonds. —
The board in certifying annual levies as herein provided shall take into account, in addition to the amounts necessary for general purposes as herein provided, the maturing indebtedness for the ensuing year as provided in its bonds and the interest on bonds, and deficiencies and defaults of prior years, and shall make ample provision for the payment thereof. In case the moneys produced from such levies, together with other revenues of the district are not sufficient to pay punctually the annual installments on its bonds and the interest thereon, and to pay any defaults and deficiencies, then the board shall provide for such additional levying of taxes as may be necessary to pay for all such, and notwithstanding any limitations, such taxes shall be continued to be levied until the indebtedness of the district shall be fully and currently paid.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 26)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.500 - Collection of taxes — interest and penalties — lien of taxes.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.500. Collection of taxes — interest and penalties — lien of taxes. —
It shall be the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within the county to levy the taxes provided in sections 247.230 to 247.670, and it shall be the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect such taxes at the time and in the form and manner and with like interest and penalties as other taxes are collected; and when collected, to pay the same to the district ordering its levy and collection or entitled to the same, and the payment of such collections shall be made monthly to the treasurer of the district and paid into the depositary thereof to the credit of the district. All taxes levied under sections 247.230 to 247.670, together with interest thereon and penalties for default in payment thereof, and all cost of collecting the same, shall until paid, constitute a lien on and against the property taxed, and such lien shall be on a parity with the tax lien of general taxes, and no sale of such property to enforce any general tax or other lien shall extinguish the lien of district taxes.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 27)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.510 - Collection of delinquent taxes.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.510. Collection of delinquent taxes. —
If the taxes levied are not paid as herein provided, then the delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest and penalties, in the manner provided by the statutes of the state of Missouri for selling property for the nonpayment of general taxes. If there are no bids at said tax sale for the property so offered, said property shall be struck off to the county or other agency provided by law, and the county or agency shall account to the district in the same manner as provided by law for accounting for school, town and city taxes. Delinquent personal property shall be distrained and sold as provided by general law.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 28)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.520 - Boundaries of district, how changed.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1976
247.520. Boundaries of district, how changed. —
1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 may be changed in the manner herein prescribed; but any change of boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges whatsoever, nor shall it affect or impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which it might be liable or chargeable had any change of boundaries not been made.
2. The owners of real property in a county contiguous with a metropolitan water supply district organized under sections 247.230 to 247.670 may file with a board a petition in writing praying that such real property be included within the district. The petition shall describe the property owned by the petitioners, and shall be deemed to give assent of the petitioners, to the inclusion in said district of the property described in the petition; and such petition must be acknowledged in the same manner that conveyances of land are required to be acknowledged.
3. The secretary of the board shall cause notice of the filing of such petition to be given and published in the county in which the property is located, which notice shall recite the filing of such petition, the names of the petitioners, the description of the lands sought to be included and the prayer of the petitioners; giving notice to all persons interested to appear at the office of the board at the time named in said notice and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted.
4. The board shall at the time and place mentioned, or at such time or times to which the hearing may be adjourned, proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause why said petition should not be granted. The failure of any person interested to show cause in writing why said petition shall not be granted shall be deemed as an assent on his part to the inclusion of said lands in the district.
5. If the petition is granted, the board shall make an order to that effect and file the same with the circuit clerk; and upon the order of the court having jurisdiction over the district, said property shall be included in the district, and thereafter a copy of the order of the board and the order of the court shall be filed with the county clerk and recorder. The circuit court having jurisdiction over the district shall proceed to make any such order including such additional property within the district as is provided in the order of the board, unless the court shall find that such order of the board was not authorized by law or that such order of the board was not supported by competent and substantial evidence.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 29, A.L. 1976 H.B. 1386)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.530 - Owner may petition for exclusion of property from district — procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.530. Owner may petition for exclusion of property from district — procedure. —
1. The owner or owners of any real or personal property contained within the boundaries of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such property be excluded and taken from said district. Such petition shall describe the property which the petitioners desire to have excluded; and must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as required in case of a conveyance of land, and be accompanied by a deposit of money sufficient to pay all costs of the exclusion proceedings.
2. The secretary of the board shall cause a notice of filing of such petition to be published in the county in which said property is located. The notice shall state the filing of such petition, the names of petitioners, description of the property mentioned sought to be excluded and the prayer of said petitioners; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at the office of said board at the time named in said notice, showing cause in writing why said petition should not be granted.
3. The board at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times at which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause as aforesaid, why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The filing of such petition shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all such petitioners to the exclusion from the district of the property mentioned in the petition, or any part thereof.
4. The board, if it deems it not for the best interests of the district that the property mentioned in the petition, or any portion thereof, shall be excluded from the district, shall order that said petition be denied, but if it deems it for the best interest of the district that the property mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, be excluded from the district, then the board may order the property mentioned in the petition or some portion thereof, excluded from the district. Upon allowance of such petition, the board shall file a certified copy of the order of the board making such changes with the circuit clerk; and upon order of the court said property shall be excluded from the district, and a copy of the order of the board and the order of the court shall be filed with the county clerk and recorder.
5. The circuit court having jurisdiction over the district, shall make any such order excluding the property from the district as provided in the order of the board, unless the court shall find that such order of the board was not authorized by law, or that such order of the board was not supported by competent and substantial evidence.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 30)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.540 - Certain property subject to taxes.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.540. Certain property subject to taxes. —
All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that after any real property shall have been excluded from a district, as provided in section 247.530, any buildings and improvements thereafter erected or constructed on said excluded real property, and all machinery and equipment thereafter installed or placed therein or thereon, and all tangible personal property not in said district at the time of the exclusion of said real property from said district which shall thereafter be situate on or used in connection with said real property, shall not be subject to any taxes levied by said district.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 31)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.550 - District may borrow money — procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.550. District may borrow money — procedure. —
1. Any district organized hereunder shall have power to borrow money for any of the purposes provided for in sections 247.230 to 247.670, and to issue bonds therefor. In such event the board of directors shall proceed substantially as follows:
(1) The board shall adopt a resolution reciting the necessity for the borrowing of money, the amount of money necessary to be raised, the purposes thereof, the amount and type or character of bonds to be issued.
(2) Such resolution shall also fix the date of an election to be held for the purpose of testing the sense of the voters of the district on the question to borrow money and issue bonds in evidence thereof.
(3) Such resolution may submit at such election a proposal to issue general obligation bonds or special revenue obligation bonds, or both. Districts organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 may issue either general obligation bonds or special revenue obligation bonds provided that the type or character of bonds to be issued shall be determined by the board of directors in advance of calling the bond election and shall be stated in the notice of election as herein provided.
2. If the question is to issue general obligation bonds, it must be assented to by two-thirds of the voters of the district voting on the question; if the question is to issue special revenue obligation bonds, it must be assented to by four-sevenths of the voters on the question.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 32, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.560 - General obligation bonds — tax levied before issue.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.560. General obligation bonds — tax levied before issue. —
General obligation bonds, within the meaning of sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be bonds issued within the limitations of indebtedness prescribed under Section 26 of Article VI of the Constitution of Missouri for payment of which, both principal and interest, a direct tax may be levied upon all taxable tangible property within the district. Before or at the time of issuing general obligation bonds, the board shall provide for the collection of an annual tax to be levied upon all taxable tangible property within the district sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the indebtedness as they fall due and to retire the same within twenty years from the date contracted. The net income and revenue arising from the operation of the water supply system of such district, after providing for costs of operation, maintenance, depreciation and necessary extensions and enlargements, shall be transferred to and become a part of the interest and sinking fund applicable to such general obligation bonds, unless or until such net revenues are pledged to the payment of special obligation bonds as herein provided.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 33)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.570 - Special revenue obligation bonds — revenues pledged before issue.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.570. Special revenue obligation bonds — revenues pledged before issue. —
Special revenue obligation bonds, within the meaning of sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be bonds payable, both as to principal and interest, wholly and only out of the net income and revenues arising from the operation of the water supply system of the district, after providing for costs of operation, maintenance, depreciation and necessary extensions and enlargements, and such bonds shall not be deemed to be indebtedness of the district within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation upon the incurring of indebtedness. Before or at the time of issuing any special revenue obligation bonds, the board shall pledge such net income and revenues to the payment of such bonds, both principal and interest, and shall covenant to fix, maintain and collect rates for water and water service supplied by such district so as to assure that such net income and revenues will be sufficient for the purpose herein required. The board may make such other covenants as may be appropriate for the purpose of protecting and safeguarding the revenues of the district and the payment of such special revenue obligation bonds.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 34)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.580 - Bonds, when payable — interest, execution — denomination.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.580. Bonds, when payable — interest, execution — denomination. —
All general obligation bonds, issued under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall be payable serially, beginning not more than five years after date they bear, and the last installment thereof shall be payable not more than twenty years after such date. All revenue bonds issued under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall be payable serially, beginning not more than five years after the date they bear, and the last installment thereof shall be payable not more than thirty years after such date. Such bonds shall bear a rate of interest not exceeding six percent per annum, payable semiannually, shall be executed by the president of the board, attested by the secretary of the board, under the seal of the district, and shall be of such denomination as the board of directors may determine.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 35)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.590 - Issuance of current revenue bonds, when — execution.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.590. Issuance of current revenue bonds, when — execution. —
During the period of time required to collect any tax or property within the district levied for general operating purposes the board may issue and sell current revenue bonds to bear interest at not to exceed six percent per annum to meet the current expenses of the district incurred in advance of the revenue to be derived from such tax levy, and to be paid out of such current revenue levied for general operating purposes when collected. Such bonds may be for six, nine or twelve months and shall not exceed in the aggregate one-half of the revenue for the fiscal year for which they are issued. The president of the board shall execute the bonds on behalf of the district and they shall be attested by the secretary with the seal of the district.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 36)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.600 - Elections in district.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.600. Elections in district. —
1. Regular elections shall be held on municipal election days.
2. Returns of elections, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be made to the board of directors, shall be canvassed by said board, and the results spread upon the records of the district.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 37, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.620 - Petition for dissolution of district, contents, where filed — submission of question.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.620. Petition for dissolution of district, contents, where filed — submission of question. —
Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall have been filed with the circuit court having jurisdiction over said district, setting forth all relevant facts pertaining to said district, and alleging that the further operation of said district is inimicable to the best interests of the inhabitants of said district, and that said district should, in the interest of the public welfare and safety, be dissolved, said circuit court shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question, which shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the ______ metropolitan water supply district be dissolved?
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 39, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.630 - Election on question of dissolution — effect — procedure if question approved.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
247.630. Election on question of dissolution — effect — procedure if question approved. —
1. If the court shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the question to the voters of the district.
2. Such election may be held only on municipal election days. Returns of said election shall be canvassed and certified to the court.
3. If the court finds that two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the question to dissolve said district, the court shall make a final order dissolving said district, and the decree shall contain a proviso that said district shall continue in full force for the purpose of paying all outstanding and lawful obligations and disposing of property of the district; but no additional costs or obligations shall be created except such as are necessary to pay such costs, obligations and liabilities theretofore incurred, or necessary to the winding up of the district.
4. If the court shall find that two-thirds of the voters of the district voting thereon shall not have voted favorably on the question to dissolve such district, then the court shall make a final order declaring such result dismissing the petition praying for the dissolution of said district; and the said district shall continue to operate in the same manner as though said petition asking for such dissolution had not been filed.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 40, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.640 - Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.640. Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee. —
No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon the district or person; and whenever the circuit court shall, under the provisions of section 247.630, dissolve any such district, the court shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the district dissolved, and such trustee before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court, to the use of such dissolved district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate the district under orders of the court.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 41)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.650 - Defective notice, when given.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.650. Defective notice, when given. —
In any and every case where a notice is provided for in sections 247.230 to 247.670, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice has been properly given in the first instance.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 42)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.660 - Cases involving validity of organization, when heard.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.660. Cases involving validity of organization, when heard. —
All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a district, or a question of the validity of any proceeding under sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be advanced on the docket as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard at the earliest practicable moment. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of sections 247.230 to 247.670.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 43)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 247 - Public Water Supply Districts › Section 247.670 - Sale of water outside district prohibited.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 247
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
247.670. Sale of water outside district prohibited. —
No metropolitan water supply district created under sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall sell water directly or indirectly to any area nor municipality or political subdivision not included in the legally constituted boundaries of said metropolitan water supply district.
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(L. 1949 p. 350 § 44)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.010 - Establishment of sanitary drainage districts — petition, by whom made — petition contents.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.010. Establishment of sanitary drainage districts — petition, by whom made — petition contents. —
1. Whenever the construction and maintenance of a common outlet or channel or of a system of drains or sewers for the drainage of any area in the state of Missouri shall become necessary to secure proper sanitary conditions for the preservation of the public health, if such area shall lie in part within and in part without the corporate limits of any city having a population of three hundred thousand or more, said area may be established and incorporated as a sanitary district under this chapter in the manner following, to wit: The mayor and assembly of the city or the county commission of the county within whose limits any part of such area may lie, or in case the area is situated in part in a city authorized to perform all the functions of a county and part in a county, both the mayor and assembly and the county commission may petition the circuit court or courts having jurisdiction for the appointment of commissioners as herein provided, and to take such further action as may be necessary to the submission to the legal voters resident in such area, of the question whether such area shall be organized and incorporated as a sanitary district under this chapter.
2. Such petition or petitions, which may be in the form of an ordinance of the city or order of the county commission, shall set forth a description in general terms of the territory to be embraced in, and suggest a name for, the proposed sanitary district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12476)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10886; 1919 § 4581; 1909 § 5687
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.020 - Sanitary district — commission to determine boundaries, general provisions.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.020. Sanitary district — commission to determine boundaries, general provisions. —
1. The circuit court or courts so petitioned are hereby authorized to appoint three disinterested persons, one of whom shall be a civil engineer or surveyor, as commissioners to lay out and define the boundaries of the proposed sanitary district.
2. Said commissioners may alter or amend the boundaries of the proposed district, as set forth in the petition or petitions, so that it may embrace all of the area capable of being efficiently drained by the common outlet or channel, or by the system of sewers or drains, or so as to exclude from the sanitary district any part of the natural drainage area which is so situated as not to be benefitted by the proposed sanitary drainage, and for this purpose they shall have power to have made all surveys and maps necessary to locate and describe the said boundaries.
3. Said commissioners shall qualify by taking oath to faithfully and impartially perform their duties, and when so qualified shall give notice by publication at least five times, in one or more newspapers having a general circulation in the proposed district, of the time and place where they will meet to consider and establish said boundaries. Said notice shall be given at least twenty days prior to the meeting and the meeting place shall be in the courthouse of the county, or city hall of the city.
4. At the meeting the commissioner first named in the order of appointment shall preside, and all persons residing or owning real property in such proposed district, or adjacent thereto, shall have the right to be heard as to the location of the boundaries of such proposed district; and the commissioners or a majority of them after such hearing shall fix and determine the boundaries of the proposed district.
5. The commissioners may adjourn from day to day until the hearing shall be complete, and for their services shall receive ten dollars per day each, for each day of actual service. They may employ a competent person as stenographer and clerk, whose compensation shall be five dollars per day.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12477)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.030 - Report of commissioners.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.030. Report of commissioners. —
The commissioners shall make their report, accompanied by a map or plan showing the boundaries of the proposed district, in relation to the property lines intersected or followed by them, also in relation to city or county boundaries, to the court or courts by which they were appointed. Said report and map, if approved by the court or courts, shall then be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county or counties, or city, in which the proposed district is situated, and copies of the map with the mayor of the city and with the county commission of the respective county or counties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12477)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.040 - Election on organization of sanitary district.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
248.040. Election on organization of sanitary district. —
1. It shall then be the duty of said mayor and county commission or courts to submit to the voters of the proposed district the question of the organization and incorporation of the proposed sanitary district, with boundaries as determined by the said commissioners and approved by the said court or courts, at an election.
2. The returns of the vote, certified to under oath by those who receive and count the vote, shall be made to the secretary of state of the state of Missouri, who shall ascertain and declare the result.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall a sanitary drainage district be organized and incorporated?
4. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of organization of the district, such proposed district shall thenceforth be deemed an organized sanitary district under this chapter.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12477, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.050 - General powers of district — judicial notice — costs of proceedings.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.050. General powers of district — judicial notice — costs of proceedings. —
1. When the board of trustees provided for in section 248.070 shall be appointed and organized, such sanitary district shall be considered in law and equity a body corporate and politic, known by the name and style of "The Sanitary District of ______", and by such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal.
2. All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this chapter.
3. If the proposition to establish the sanitary district is carried, the cost of all preliminary proceedings shall be borne by the district; if it is defeated, all costs of court, of commissioners and of the election shall be borne by the city and county, if of independent jurisdiction, each being liable for all expenses in regard to proceedings under its petitions. If its jurisdiction is single, the county commission shall pay for all said expenses.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12477)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.060 - Procedure where drainage area is in two counties — what court has jurisdiction.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.060. Procedure where drainage area is in two counties — what court has jurisdiction. —
When a natural drainage area includes territory lying in part in a county and in part in a city exercising the functions of a county, or in two or more counties, then the proceedings herein prescribed in sections 248.010 to 248.050 shall state that the proposition is to unite the parts so situated in independent jurisdictions into a single sanitary district; and if the proposition is carried by a majority vote in each of the parts, then the district shall be united and organized as described in said proceedings, and the circuit court having jurisdiction over the major part of the area included in the district so organized, shall have and is directed to exercise jurisdiction in all cases or questions arising out of the organization of the district, or from the acts of the board of trustees thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12477)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10887; 1919 § 4582; 1909 § 5688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.070 - Trustees — appointment — removal — employees.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.070. Trustees — appointment — removal — employees. —
1. The board of trustees for the sanitary district shall be constituted as follows: The county commission shall appoint one; the mayor of the city, with the approval of the higher branch of the legislative department of the city government, shall appoint one; and the court having jurisdiction over the whole or major part of the territory embraced in the district, as shown by the map thereof, shall appoint one, who shall be a civil engineer of good repute in his profession, and a recognized expert in matters of drainage. The appointee of the circuit court shall be the president of the board, and its executive officer.
2. For their services the trustees shall receive salaries proportioned to the actual services rendered the district; the amount of salaries in each case shall be fixed on a per diem basis by the circuit court which appoints the third member, as before provided.
3. If more than one sanitary district be organized with territory common to the same city and county or counties, the same persons may be appointed as trustees for any or all such districts.
4. The official, county commission or court appointing the trustee shall have the power to appoint a successor when any vacancy occurs by reason of death, resignation, or removal from office or expiration of term. He or it may also remove such appointee for cause.
5. The term of office of the first appointee of the circuit court shall be three years; that of the county commission two years, and that of the mayor one year. Subsequent terms shall all be for three years, always subject to the condition that the board of trustees may be abolished, as provided in section 248.180.
6. The board of trustees shall have power to elect a clerk, chief engineer and attorney, and to employ from time to time such other persons as may be necessary, and to remove and discharge them at its pleasure; to fix the compensation of such appointees or employees, and to require them to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties; provided, that no salary so paid, calculated on per diem basis, shall exceed the per diem allowed the president of the board.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12478)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10888; 1919 § 4583; 1909 § 5689
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 248 - Sanitary Drainage Districts — Cities Over 300,000 Inhabitants and Adjoining Counties › Section 248.080 - Powers of board.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 248
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
248.080. Powers of board. —
Said board of trustees shall have power to pass all necessary rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees, and of said corporation, and for the carrying into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12479)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10889; 1919 § 4584; 1909 § 5690