Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 233

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 233
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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.010 Organization of special road districts - not applicable to what counties - ...

233.010. Organization of special road districts — not applicable to what counties — special road district exemption. — 1. Territory not exceeding eight miles square, wherein is located any city, town or village, may be organized as herein set forth into a special road district; provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to counties under township organization or to class one counties except any first class county without a charter form of government which contains all or part of a city with a population greater than four hundred thousand and any first class county with a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants which does not adjoin another first class county and which contains a campus of the University of Missouri; however, any county of the second class which had within its boundaries, prior to January 1, 1989, a special road district already organized and existing under this section and which second class county becomes a first class county without a charter form of government under the laws of this state, such change in classification shall in no way affect the existing status, nor the right to exist, nor the legality of the organization nor the right to remain organized of any such prior existing special road district nor shall it in any way affect, alter or change the right of said special road district so existing prior to the change in classification of the second class county to function and to lawfully continue to function under this section and section 233.165 , in the same manner as such special road district functioned prior to the change in classification of the second class county. However, no city, town, or village containing more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may be included within the territory of a special road district organized under sections 233.010 to 233.165 . 2. The eight square-mile territorial restriction provided for in subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to any special road district organized under the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 within a county of the fourth classification. (RSMo 1939 § 8673, A.L. 1945 p. 1494, A.L. 1987 H.B. 116, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1189 merged with S.B. 868, A.L. 2008 S.B. 896) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8024; 1919 § 10800; 1909 § 10576

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.015 Adoption of special road district law - election.

233.015. Adoption of special road district law — election. — 1. Sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall be in force and take effect only in such prescribed territory as shall adopt the same by a majority of the voters who shall vote for and against its adoption at such election. Whenever fifty voters, who are voters of any such proposed special road district, shall file a petition with the county commission of any county, asking the commission to submit sections 233.010 to 233.165 to a vote of the people of such proposed road district for their adoption, the county commission of such county shall make an order of record that sections 233.010 to 233.165 , describing the same by its title and the date of its approval, be submitted to the voters of such proposed road district at an election. 2. If the majority of the votes cast for and against the adoption of sections 233.010 to 233.165 be for its adoption, the commission shall declare the result of the vote thereon by an order of record, and shall make an order of record declaring sections 233.010 to 233.165 to be the law in such special road district, the same to take effect and be in force from and after a day to be named in such order within ten days. (RSMo 1939 § 8704, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8055; 1919 § 10829; 1909 § 10607

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.025 Powers of special road districts.

233.025. Powers of special road districts. — Every such district organized under the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled "______ special road district of ______ County", as may be designated by the county commission by order of record, and in that name shall be capable of suing and being sued and of contracting and being contracted with. (RSMo 1939 § 8674) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8025; 1919 § 10801; 1909 § 10577

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.030 General road law - exceptions.

233.030. General road law — exceptions. — The general road law in force in such county shall remain in force in such districts, except wherein the provisions thereof shall be in conflict with the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 . (RSMo 1939 § 8701) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8052; 1919 § 10828; 1909 § 10606

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.035 Duty of county clerk after adoption.

233.035. Duty of county clerk after adoption. — The county clerk of any county in which said special road district may be organized shall, within five days after the adoption of the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 by the voters of any such special road district, notify the mayor and members of the city council of any city within such special road district and the commissioners of the county commission of such fact, and call them to meet in the commission meeting room at a specified time within five days from such notice, for the purpose of appointing special road district commissioners as above provided. (RSMo 1939 § 8676, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1554 Revision) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8027; 1919 § 10803; 1909 § 10579

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.040 Commissioners of special road district - appointment - term - ...

233.040. Commissioners of special road district — appointment — term — qualifications — election, when — oaths. — 1. The mayor and members of the city council of any city or town within any special road district thus organized, together with the members of the county commission of the county in which said district is located, at a meeting to be held in the meeting place of the county commission, at which meeting the presiding commissioner of the county commission shall preside and the county clerk shall act as clerk, within two weeks after the voters within the territory of such proposed district shall adopt the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 , shall, by order of record to be kept by the county clerk, appoint a board of commissioners composed of three persons, designating one to serve for three years, one for two years and one for one year, and in February every year thereafter one special road district commissioner shall be appointed as above specified, to serve for three years. However, beginning in 1994, the commissioner whose appointment will expire in February, 1994, shall serve until the first Tuesday in April of that year at which time a commissioner shall be elected to hold office for three years and until a successor is elected, commissioned, and qualified. Those commissioners whose terms expire in 1995 or 1996 shall serve until the first Tuesday in April in 1995 or 1996, respectively, at which time a commissioner shall be elected to hold office for three years and until a successor is elected, commissioned, and qualified to replace each commissioner. All subsequent commissioners shall be elected at the appropriate election held on the first Tuesday in April for three-year terms. An appointee shall be eligible to file for election as commissioner. The nominations and elections shall be governed by the provisions of law relating to the nomination and election of persons on a nonpartisan basis at such elections. All such commissioners shall be resident taxpayers of the district, and shall serve until their successors are appointed or elected and qualified, with vacancies to be filled by the county commission. Resignations shall be to the county clerk. Removal from the district shall create a vacancy. 2. Such commissioners, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take oath of office, to be administered by the clerk of the county commission. (RSMo 1939 § 8675, A.L. 1993 S.B. 236) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8026; 1919 § 10802; 1909 § 10578

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.050 Board of commissioners of special road district to organize.

233.050. Board of commissioners of special road district to organize. — Such special road district commissioners shall, within ten days, meet and organize by selecting one of their number as chairman and one as clerk. The clerk shall keep full and accurate record of the proceedings of the board, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by the board. (RSMo 1939 § 8678, A.L. 1993 S.B. 236) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8029; 1919 § 10805; 1909 § 10581

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.055 Treasurer of board.

233.055. Treasurer of board. — Said board may appoint a treasurer and fix the amount of his bond and prescribe his duties, which said bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission. (RSMo 1939 § 8679) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8030; 1919 § 10806; 1909 § 10582

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.060 Compensation of board.

233.060. Compensation of board. — Said board shall serve without compensation, but actual, necessary expenses, actually paid, shall be repaid to them. (RSMo 1939 § 8680) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8031; 1919 § 10807; 1909 § 10583

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.065 Board to meet monthly - proceedings.

233.065. Board to meet monthly — proceedings. — Said board shall meet once a month, at such stated times as it may designate, to hear complaints or reports of defective and broken bridges, to order needed repairs, and to transact such other business as may be authorized by sections 233.010 to 233.165 ; and in case of emergency, the president of the board may have such repairs made, and such meeting may be adjourned from time to time, and called meetings may be held, but only such business as the president may specify in the call can be transacted. (RSMo 1939 § 8689) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8040; 1919 § 10816; 1909 § 10592

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.070 Board's powers and duties - concurrent jurisdiction with special road ...

233.070. Board's powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. — 1. The board shall: (1) Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways within its district outside the corporate limits of any city or village therein, other than those controlled by the highways and transportation commission, to construct, improve and repair such highways, and shall remove all obstructions from such highways, and for the discharge of these duties shall have all the power, rights and authority conferred by general statutes upon road overseers; (2) At all times keep the public roads under its charge in as good repair as the means at its command will permit, and for this purpose may employ competent people at such compensation as they shall agree upon, and may rent, lease or buy road equipment, implements, tools and machinery, all kinds of motor power, and all things needful to carry on such road work, or the board may have such road work or any part of such work done by contract, under such regulations as the board may prescribe; and (3) Have authority to enter into contracts with any city, town or village within its district relating to the improvement of the streets, roads or highways, or any bridge thereon, located in the city, town or village. 2. 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8682, A.L. 1957 p. 724, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8033; 1919 § 10809; 1909 § 10585 Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.075 Powers of board.

233.075. Powers of board. — Such board may buy all material which may be used, directly or indirectly, in constructing, improving or repairing any public highway or bridge in its district, and is authorized to do and perform all acts within its district for which any authority is given to road overseers under the general road law of this state. (RSMo 1939 § 8687) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8038; 1919 § 10814; 1909 § 10590

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.080 Board to make and file plat of roads.

233.080. Board to make and file plat of roads. — Said board shall make and keep on file with the clerk of the board and the clerk of the county commission correct plats of all the roads in its district, and duly sectionalized maps of such district, and such sections duly subdivided. (RSMo 1939 § 8698) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8049; 1919 § 10825; 1909 § 10603

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.085 Tools, machinery, delivered to board.

233.085. Tools, machinery, delivered to board. — The county commission shall, upon the organization of the board of commissioners of such special road district, deliver to such board all the tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts formerly existing within the territory embraced in such special district, taking a receipt from the board for the same, and such board shall keep and use such tools and machinery for constructing and improving public roads. (RSMo 1939 § 8681) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8032; 1919 § 10808; 1909 § 10584

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.090 Board may sell property of district.

233.090. Board may sell property of district. — Said board shall sell any property of such district, on such terms as it may deem proper, when same can no longer be profitably used for road work. (RSMo 1939 § 8686) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8037; 1919 § 10813; 1909 § 10589

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.095 Expenditures on municipal streets within district - amounts - conditions.

233.095. Expenditures on municipal streets within district — amounts — conditions. — Said board shall have authority to expend not more than one-fourth of the revenue which may now or which may hereafter be paid into its treasury for the purpose of grading and repairing any roads or streets within the corporate limits of any city within said special road district in conformity with the established grade of said roads and streets in said cities and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining macadam, gravel, rock or paved roads or streets within the corporate limits of any city within the said special road district in conformity with the established grade of said roads and streets in said city; provided, that no part of the revenue of any special road district in this state be expended outside of the county in which such special road district is situated. (RSMo 1939 § 8683) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8034; 1919 § 10810; 1909 § 10586

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.100 May repair, grade, gravel, pave or macadamize any road in district.

233.100. May repair, grade, gravel, pave or macadamize any road in district. — Said boards may repair, grade, gravel, macadamize or pave any road in its district but nothing herein shall be taken or construed as enlarging the powers of the boards to expend money upon roads and streets within the corporate limits of any city within said special road district as limited by section 233.095 . (RSMo 1939 § 8700) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8051; 1919 § 10827; 1909 § 10605

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.103 No limit on amounts spent within cities (Clay and Platte counties).

233.103. No limit on amounts spent within cities (Clay and Platte counties). — 1. The limitations on amounts which may be expended upon roads and streets within the corporate limits of any city, as provided in sections 233.095 and 233.100 , shall be inapplicable in a county of the first class not having a charter form of government or of the second class which contains all or part of a city having a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more. 2. In such a county, the revenue set aside and credited to a road district may, with the consent of a city, town or village located within the district, be expended within such incorporated city, town or village. (L. 1965 p. 369 § 1, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1733)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.105 Board of commissioners of special road district may improve certain ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.110 Board may plant shade trees - erect signboards.

233.110. Board may plant shade trees — erect signboards. — Said board may plant, protect and cultivate ornamental and shade trees along the sides of roads within its district, and erect and keep erected and repaired such signboards in its district at places it may deem proper therefor. (RSMo 1939 § 8697) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8048; 1919 § 10824; 1909 § 10602

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.115 Board may build bridges.

233.115. Board may build bridges. — Said board may, by contract or otherwise, under such regulations as the board shall prescribe, build, repair and maintain, or cause to be built, repaired, or maintained all bridges and culverts needed within said district; provided, however, that the county commission of the county in which said special road district is located may, in its discretion, out of the funds available to it for that purpose, construct, maintain, or repair, any bridge, or bridges, or culvert or culverts in such road district, or districts, or it may, in its discretion, appropriate out of the funds available for that purpose money to aid and assist the commissioners of said special road district, or districts, which shall be expended by the commissioners of said special road district, or districts, as above provided. (RSMo 1939 § 8688) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8039; 1919 § 10815; 1909 § 10591

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.120 Disposition of proceeds from certain city licenses.

233.120. Disposition of proceeds from certain city licenses. — One-fourth of all the pool or billiard table licenses collected by any city within any such special road district shall be set apart as collected by the city council for the improvement of the roads by the board of commissioners of such district, and the council shall, on demand of the board of commissioners, draw warrants upon the city treasurer, payable to the treasurer of said board, for the full amount of one-fourth of such licenses, or the board may issue its orders on the council from time to time, which shall be honored by the council drawing warrants upon the city treasurer for such amounts as may be required, to the full amount of one-fourth of all such licenses collected. (RSMo 1939 § 8690) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8041; 1919 § 10817; 1909 § 10593

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.125 Disposition of proceeds from certain county licenses.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.130 Commissioners may use moneys refunded by state highways and transportation ...

233.130. Commissioners may use moneys refunded by state highways and transportation commission. — In all cases in which the state highways and transportation commission may have refunded, or shall refund any moneys to any special road district organized and existing under the laws of this state, the commissioners of such special road district are hereby authorized and empowered to use and apply the moneys so refunded, or such part thereof as may be necessary, to pay and retire any outstanding bonds of such special road district or to pay any interest that has accrued or may accrue on such bonds. (RSMo 1939 § 8709) Prior revision: 1929 § 8060

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.135 Issuance of check warrants.

233.135. Issuance of check warrants. — Such board may issue check warrants on the treasurer of the board in payment of the expenses and obligations which the board is authorized to incur in behalf of such special road districts and such check warrants may be issued in anticipation of the income and revenue provided for the year for which the debt or obligation for which the check warrant is issued was incurred; but such districts or such board on behalf thereof shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any one year the income and revenue provided for such year; provided, however, that this shall not prevent the incurring of indebtedness under bond issue as is or may be provided by law. (RSMo 1939 § 8702, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813) Prior revision: 1929 § 8053

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.140 Check warrant shall bear interest if not paid when presented for payment.

233.140. Check warrant shall bear interest if not paid when presented for payment. — No treasurer of the districts shall pay any check warrant drawn on such treasurer unless such check warrant is presented for payment by the person in whose favor it is drawn or by the person's assignee, endorsee, executor or administrator and when presented for payment if there is no money in the treasury for that purpose the treasurer shall so certify on the back of the check warrant and shall date and subscribe the same and such check warrant shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from such date until such check warrant is paid or until the money to pay such check warrant is in the hands of the treasurer. The treasurer shall keep a record of the check warrants presented and shall pay the same or set aside money for the payment of the same in the order in which they are issued. (RSMo 1939 § 8703, A.L. 1997 H.B. 813) Prior revision: 1929 § 8054

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.145 Records of board.

233.145. Records of board. — Said board shall keep a full and complete record of all moneys received, showing from whom and on what account any moneys are received, giving the amount received on each particular item; and also of all moneys disbursed, to whom any moneys are paid, and for what purpose it is paid. (RSMo 1939 § 8684) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8035; 1919 § 10811; 1909 § 10587

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.150 Annual report of receipts and disbursements.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.155 Extension of special district boundaries - procedure - special road ...

233.155. Extension of special district boundaries — procedure — special road district exemption. — 1. Whenever the inhabitants of any special road district already formed under sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall desire to extend the boundaries of such district to take in territory not included in the original district, and shall present a petition to the county commission of the county in which such district is located, or if the proposed district is to include portions of more than one county, then to the county commissions of each of such counties, signed by not less than thirty-five voters in the old district and not less than the lesser of thirty-five voters or fifty percent of the voters in the territory proposed to be taken into said district, asking the county commission or commissions of such county or counties to submit the proposition of the proposed extension of such road district to a vote of the people of such proposed district for their adoption or rejection, the county commission of such county, or if the proposed district shall include parts of more than one county, the county commissions of all such counties, shall each 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. 2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the special road district be extended? 3. If the territory of more than one county be included in said special road district, the county commission of each county in said district shall, as soon as the returns are in from said election, cause a certificate to be made out stating the number of votes cast for and against said proposition in said county, and cause such certificate to be filed with the county clerk of the county commission of every other county which shall form a part of said special road district. If it shall appear from the returns of said county and from said certificate that a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition in the whole proposed district be in favor of the extension of said road district, the county commission or county commissions in said proposed district shall declare the result of the vote thereon in said proposed district by an order of record, and shall make an order of record that the above specified road district laws shall extend to and be the law in such special road district, including the extension thereof, setting out the boundaries of said district as extended, the same to take effect and be in force from and after a day to be named in such order, said day to be not more than twenty days after said election. 4. If any territory added to any such original district be in any county outside of the county of such original district, each county outside of such original district may appoint one road commissioner to act with the commissioners appointed in the county of the original district. Such commissioners so appointed outside of the county of the original district shall serve for a term of three years from the date of such appointment. Such commissioners shall be voters of such added territory in such county of their appointment. Except as herein provided, such commissioners shall be governed by sections 233.010 to 233.165 . No change shall be made in the number of commissioners appointed by the county of the original district or in the manner of their appointment. In any special road district located in two counties with an additional fourth commissioner appointed by the county outside of the original district as provided in this subsection, a fifth commissioner may be appointed by the same county that appointed the fourth commissioner. Except as herein provided, a fifth commissioner shall be governed by sections 233.010 to 233.165 , shall serve for a term of three years from the date of the appointment and until the fifth commissioner's successor shall be appointed and qualified, and shall be a voter of the county of appointment. 5. If a majority of the votes of the proposed district, as extended, be cast in favor of such extension, then the territory of such district, as extended, shall be governed by sections 233.010 to 233.165 . But if such extension proposition shall not receive a majority of the votes of said district, as extended, then said special road district shall remain as it was before said petition was filed. Any special road district extended under the provisions of this section may be extended so that after such extension it shall not be more than seventeen miles square. The seventeen mile-square restriction shall not apply to any special road district extended within a county of the fourth classification. (RSMo 1939 § 8708, A.L. 1959 H.B. 445, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 2008 S.B. 896 merged with S.B. 930 & 947) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8059; 1919 § 10832; 1909 § 10610

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.160 Dissolution of special road district - procedure.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.165 Dissolved district - tax levy to pay indebtedness.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.170 County commissions may form districts.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.172 Certain counties may form road benefit districts - special provisions in ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.175 Petitions - notice - remonstrances, order of county commission.

233.175. Petitions — notice — remonstrances, order of county commission. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land within a district proposed to be organized, and setting forth the proposed name of the district, and giving the boundaries thereof and the number of acres owned by each signer of such petition, and the whole number of acres embraced therein, and the names of other owners of land within such boundaries so far as known, and the number of acres owned by each so far as known, and praying for the organization of a public road district in accordance with sections 233.170 to 233.315 , shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission thirty days before the beginning of the next regular term of said commission, the said clerk shall give notice by at least three publications in some weekly newspaper printed in the county and by at least five handbills put up at public places within the district of the presentation of said petition, and of the date of the beginning of the next regular term of the county commission at which the same may be heard. Said notices shall contain the names of at least three signers of said petition and set out the boundaries of said proposed district, and shall notify all owners of land in the then existing district who may desire to oppose the formation thereof to appear on the first day of such regular term of the county commission and file their written remonstrance thereto. 2. All landowners owning land in the then existing district may join in one remonstrance, or each such owner may file his separate remonstrance, and each remonstrance shall be in writing, and shall state specifically and separately the objection or objections of the remonstrators to the formation of such proposed road district, and shall be filed in said county commission with the clerk thereof on or before the first day of said regular term. 3. On the first day of said term of the county commission, or as soon thereafter as its business will permit, the county commission shall hear such petition and remonstrance, and shall make any change in the boundaries of such proposed district as the public good may require and make necessary, and if after such changes are made it shall appear to the county commission that such petition is signed or in writing consented to by the owners of a majority of all the acres of land within the district as so changed, the county commission may, if in its discretion it finds that the public good will be benefitted, make an order incorporating such public road district, and such order shall set out the boundaries of such district as established. If no remonstrance shall have been filed, or all remonstrances filed are overruled by the county commission, the commission shall determine whether such petition has been signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land in the district, and if so, shall make an order incorporating the district with the boundaries given in the petition, or with such boundaries as may be set forth in an amended petition signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land affected thereby; and such amended petition may be filed at any time before the making of the order establishing a road district, but the boundaries proposed for the district shall not be so changed as to embrace any land not included in the notice given by the clerk unless the owner thereof shall in writing consent thereto, or shall appear at the hearing, and is notified in an open meeting of the county commission of such fact and given an opportunity to file or join in a remonstrance. 4. Whenever an order is so made incorporating a public road district such district shall thereupon become, by the name mentioned in such order, a political subdivision of the state for governmental purposes with all the powers mentioned in this section and such others as may be conferred by law. (RSMo 1939 § 8711, A.L. 1941 p. 529) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8062; 1919 § 10834; 1909 § 10612

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.177 Election to establish road district, procedure - ballot language.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.180 Commissioners of the special road district, how selected.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.185 Commissioners of special road district shall organize - when - how.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.187 Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties - ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.190 Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district - ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.195 Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts - special ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.200 Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds - election required ...

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.205 Petitions for road improvement - proceedings.

233.205. Petitions for road improvement — proceedings. — 1. Whenever, in any road district so incorporated, a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of the land in the district that is within one-half mile of a public road or a part of a public road in the district, is delivered to the president or secretary of the board of special road district commissioners of the district, praying that such public road or part of a public road be permanently improved and the cost of the improvement assessed against all lands in the district, and stating therein the points between which the improvement is desired, and the nature and kind of improvement desired, and stating the number of installments, not exceeding fifteen, in which they desire that such cost be payable, said commissioners shall procure, prepare, or cause to be prepared, a map of the district and have such public road or part of a public road indicated thereon, and shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a profile of such public road or part of a public road, and plans and specifications for the improvement of such road or part of a public road, and an estimate of the cost of making such improvement. 2. Such map, profile and plans and specifications, or a copy thereof, and such estimate shall, upon the completion thereof, be submitted to the state highway engineer for approval, who shall approve the same or so revise them that they will meet with his approval, or prepare such plans and specifications and estimate as will meet with his approval, and return to the commissioners said map and profile, or a copy thereof, and such plans and specifications and estimate of the cost of such improvement as he may prepare or approve of. 3. And said special road district commissioners shall fix a fair and impartial valuation on each tract of land within said district independent of the buildings thereon, and prepare a list of the lands within the district, and indicate in such list the valuation so fixed upon each tract of said land and what tracts lie within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one-half mile and less than one mile, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one mile and less than one and one-half miles, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one and one-half miles. If said commissioners cannot agree upon the valuation to be fixed upon any tract of land in the district, they shall arrive at the value thereof by adding together the valuation placed thereon independent of the buildings thereon by each of the commissioners and dividing the total thereof by three. 4. Said special road district commissioners, upon completion of such list of lands, shall annex a certificate thereto that they believe the same to be correct, and they shall acknowledge execution of such certificate as deeds of real estate are required to be acknowledged; and upon completion of such list of lands, and annexing such certificate thereto and so acknowledging execution of such certificate, and receiving from the state highway engineer plans and specifications prepared or approved by him for the improvement of said public road or part of a public road, and an estimate prepared or approved by him of the cost of such improvement, the commissioners shall file such petition and said list of lands, and said map and profile or a copy thereof, and the plans and specifications and estimate prepared or approved by the state highway engineer, with the clerk of the county commission, who shall thereupon give notice, by at least two publications in some weekly newspaper published in the county, that said commissioners have filed with him a petition, purporting to be signed by landowners of said district, for improvement of a public road or a part of a public road in said district, and plans and specifications for such improvement and an estimate of the cost thereof, and a list of the lands in the district in which is indicated the valuation fixed by them on each tract of said lands independent of buildings thereon, and such notice shall state a day, not less than two weeks later than the date of the first publication of such notice, upon which the county commission will be in session and will consider protests against such improvement and objections and exceptions to such petition and such list of lands and the valuations therein indicated. 5. Should the county commission fail for any cause to be in session on the day stated in such notice, the clerk shall give a new notice appointing some other day for the consideration of such protests, objections and exceptions. (RSMo 1939 § 8718) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8069; 1919 § 10841

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.210 Protests and objections considered by commission - order of commission.

233.210. Protests and objections considered by commission — order of commission. — 1. Anyone owning land in the district within one-half mile of such public road or part of a public road, may, at any time before the day the county commission, as stated in such notice, is to consider protests, objections and exceptions, file with the clerk of the county commission written protests against the improvement of said public road or part of a public road. Such protests shall be signed by the party protesting, and describe the land owned by him that is within such district and within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, and the number of acres thereof; and anyone interested in land in the district may show any reason there may be why such public road or part of a public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district. 2. The county commission, on said day or as soon thereafter as the business of the commission will permit, shall consider said petition and any such protests as may have been so filed to improving such public road or part of a public road; and any reason that may be shown why such public road or part of a public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district. Such petition shall be prima facie evidence of the allegations contained therein. 3. If any such protests have been so filed and the county commission finds after a hearing that such protests have been so filed by owners of a majority of the acres of land in the district that is within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road; or if sufficient reason should be shown to the county commission why such public road or part of a public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district, it shall ascertain the cost and expense incurred by the commissioners in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and shall dismiss such petition and render judgment against the petitioners for costs including such cost and expense incurred by said commissioners. 4. But if the county commission finds that such protests have not been so filed by owners of a majority of the acres of land in the district that is within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, and fails to find that sufficient reason has been shown why such public road or part of a public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district, and the county commission finds that such public road or part of a public road has been lawfully established as such, and that the clerk of the county commission gave notice as required by sections 233.170 to 233.315 of the filing with him of said petition, plans, specifications and estimate, and list of the lands in the district, the county commission shall consider said list of lands, and hear and consider any objections and exceptions that may be made thereto or to any valuations therein indicated. Such hearing may be continued from time to time as the ends of justice may require. 5. After consideration of all such objections and exceptions, if any, and hearing such evidence as may be offered, the county commission shall make any alterations and corrections in the list of lands and in the valuations fixed by the commissioners on any lands in the district, or fix such valuations on the lands in the district, as it may deem proper, and shall thereupon approve such list of lands, and order the clerk of the county commission to annex to said list of lands a certificate of such approval; and the county commission shall ascertain and declare the estimated cost of such improvement as appearing by the estimate prepared or approved by the state highway engineer, the cost and expense incurred by the commissioners in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee for such petitioners, and the probable working, administrative and incidental expenses that may be incurred in so improving said public road or part of a public road and procuring, collecting and paying the cost thereof, and shall order that a special tax for the aggregate amount thereof, plus ten percent of said aggregate amount for emergencies, be assessed against the lands in the district, and that such public road or part of a public road be improved in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission; and the commission shall ascertain and state in such order the number of installments stated in such petition, in which the petitioners desire that the cost of such improvement be payable. (RSMo 1939 § 8719) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8070; 1919 § 10842

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.215 Special tax - how apportioned.

233.215. Special tax — how apportioned. — Such special tax shall be apportioned against the lands in the district in the following manner: For the purpose of such apportionment, lands appearing by said list of lands as approved by the county commission to be within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, shall be given the valuation thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one-half mile from and within one mile of said public road or part of a public road, seventy-five percent of the valuations thereof indicated by said list, and lands more than one mile and within one and one-half miles, fifty percent, and all over one and one-half miles, twenty-five percent of such valuations thereof; and the amount of the special tax assessed against each tract of said lands shall be such that the ratio between the amount assessed against each tract and the amount assessed against all of such tracts shall be the same as between the value so given each tract and the aggregate of the values so given all tracts in the district. (RSMo 1939 § 8720) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8071; 1919 § 10843

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.220 Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

233.220. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. — In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land of forty acres, according to a government survey, and each of the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfully platted and each separate tract of less than forty acres, shall, for the purposes of this section, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of a public road, if the major portion thereof is within one-half mile; and over one-half mile and less than a mile, if the major portion thereof is over one-half mile and less than a mile; and over one mile and less than one and one-half miles, if the major portion thereof is over one mile and less than one and one-half miles; and over one and one-half miles if the major portion thereof is over one and one-half miles. (RSMo 1939 § 8727) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8078; 1919 § 10849

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.225 Special tax payable in one installment - special tax bills.

233.225. Special tax payable in one installment — special tax bills. — 1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered, and the county commission states in the order that the petitioners desire that the cost of the improvement be payable in one installment, the clerk of the county commission shall make out a separate special tax bill against each tract of land in the district for the amount so assessable against it. Each of such special tax bills shall be in favor of such road district, shall be numbered, and shall state the date of the order of the county commission pursuant to which the improvement is to be made, and describe the tract of land against which it is issued and state the amount so assessed against such tract of land, and shall be signed by the president or vice president of the district and be attested by the clerk of the county commission. 2. The clerk of the county commission shall procure and keep a suitable record book and record therein an abstract or description of each of said special tax bills, and shall deposit such special tax bills with the county treasurer, and cause notice to be given by one publication in a newspaper published in the county that special tax bills in favor of said road district have been issued pursuant to an order of the county commission, giving the date of such order, and delivered to the county treasurer to whom payment thereof may be made. Each of such special tax bills shall constitute a lien upon the land described therein, for the amount thereof and such interest as may accrue thereon, and all costs in collecting the same, including reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the county commission and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment; which lien will 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 at the expiration of thirty days after the date of such order, shall thereafter bear interest at the rate of eight percent per annum. 3. The county treasurer shall receive payments of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and of the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid, and shall give such district credit for the amount of each payment to him on a special account kept with said district of payments to him on account of such tax bills, indicating therein the amounts paid as principal of such special tax bills and the amount paid as interest. Whenever any of such tax bills has been cancelled by the county treasurer and is exhibited to the clerk of the county commission, or the county treasurer reports payment of any such special tax bills to the clerk of the county commission, he shall note the payment thereof in said record book. 4. If any such special tax bills be unpaid at the expiration of thirty days after the date of such order, the special road district commissioners may borrow money not exceeding the aggregate amount of such special tax bills as are then unpaid, and at a rate of interest not exceeding eight percent per annum, and as such unpaid special tax bills are paid, shall draw warrants on the county treasurer for the amount of such payments, to pay whatever may be so borrowed, with interest thereon; but neither the road district nor the commissioners shall be obligated to pay whatever may be so borrowed, or interest thereon, except out of the collections of such unpaid special tax bills. Money so borrowed shall be deposited with the county treasurer to the credit of such road district. 5. If any such special tax bills be unpaid at the expiration of six months after the date of such order, the commissioners may, and if any are unpaid at the expiration of twelve months after such date, they 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 order the county treasurer to deliver such unpaid special tax bills to. The road district shall be plaintiff in such suits and any or all parties having an interest in the property to be affected thereby may be made defendants. In all 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 all suits, so instituted, there shall be taxed as costs in favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court. 6. All money collected on special tax bills and all money the special road district commissioners may so borrow, and all interest that may accrue thereon while on deposit in any county depositary, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, for the following purposes only: To pay the cost and expense incurred by the special road district commissioners, as found by the county commission, in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee, as found by the commission, for such petitioners, and to pay the cost of improving said public road or part of a public road in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission, and such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided for by law, as may be incurred in making such improvement and in procuring, collecting and paying the cost of such improvement, and the balance, if any, shall be used in paying expenses of maintaining such improvement; but if any money should be borrowed by the special road district commissioners, it shall be repaid, with interest thereon, out of the collections of such special tax bills as were unpaid at the time such money was borrowed. (RSMo 1939 § 8721) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8072; 1919 § 10844

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.230 Special tax may be paid in installments - interest - special assessments.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.235 Special tax bills - issuance - form - collection.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.240 Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

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

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.245 Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8722) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.250 Special assessment bonds to be issued.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8722) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.255 Sale of bonds - payment - application of proceeds of bonds and special tax ...

233.255. Sale of bonds — payment — application of proceeds of bonds and special tax bills. — 1. The commissioners of the district may sell any of said bonds, at public or at private sale, for not less than ninety-five percent of their face value. 2. Such bonds shall be payable and collectible only out of moneys derived from such special tax bills and from the sale of such bonds, and interest that may accrue on funds so derived while on deposit with any county depositary, and the county treasurer shall hold in reserve, for payment of interest on such bonds, a sufficient amount of the money so derived that may come into his hands in excess of the amount then necessary to pay all bonds and interest then past due, to pay all interest that will become payable before the next installment of such special tax becomes payable, and three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due, and the county treasurer shall, whenever any of said bonds or interest thereon become due, apply such money as may be in his custody and applicable thereto, or that may thereafter come into his custody and be applicable thereto, to payment of such bonds and interest as may be due and unpaid. 3. All money derived from such special tax bills shall be used in paying said bonds and the interest thereon, except that money that may be collected on such tax bills in excess of the amount necessary to pay all bonds then past due and such bonds and interest as will become payable before another installment of such special tax becomes payable, may, less an amount equal to three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due be used for other purposes as herein authorized. 4. The county treasurer shall, as such bonds are sold, deliver them to the purchaser thereof upon being ordered to do so by the commissioners, and being paid the price therefor, and as such bonds are paid shall cancel them and deliver them to the clerk of the county commission. 5. All money derived from the sale of said bonds, except such portion thereof as is required to be reserved to meet interest payments, and all money collected on such special tax bills that may, as by this section authorized, be used for purposes other than the payment of such bonds and interest thereon, and all interest that may accrue on moneys so derived while deposited with any county depositary and not required to be used in paying said bonds or interest thereon, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, for the following purposes only: To pay the cost and expenses incurred by the special road district commissioners, as found by the county commission, in the preparation of said plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee, as found by the county commission, for such petitioners, and to pay the cost of improving said public road or part of a public road in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission, and such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided by law, as may be incurred in making such improvements, and the balance, if any, shall be used in paying expense of maintaining such improvement. (RSMo 1939 § 8722) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.260 Cost of improvements - estimate.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8723) Prior revision: 1929 § 8074

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.265 Partial payments of special tax bills - correction of errors.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8724) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8075; 1919 § 10846

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.270 Contracts for improvement.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8725) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8076; 1919 § 10847

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.275 Title to lands - how considered.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8726, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8077; 1919 § 10848

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.280 Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of road districts.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8728, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1037) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8079; 1919 § 10850

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.285 Law not to affect road districts incorporated prior to effective date.

233.285. Law not to affect road districts incorporated prior to effective date. — The repealing of the sections and law repealed by this law shall not have the effect of abating, nullifying, suspending or vitiating any public road district incorporated, or established by preliminary order, prior to the taking effect of this law or any proceedings by any such public road district; but any public road district finally incorporated, or established only by preliminary order, prior to the taking effect of this law, except districts established only by preliminary order in which there has been held a meeting of landowners of the district, in compliance with laws repealed by this law, at which owners of a majority of the acres of land in the district failed to vote in favor of the improvement of any road or roads proposed to be improved, shall, from and after the taking effect of this law, by the name mentioned in the preliminary order of the county commission establishing it, be a political subdivision of the state for governmental purposes with all the powers mentioned in sections 233.170 to 233.315 and such others as may from time to time be given by law, and shall, after the taking effect of sections 233.170 to 233.315 , proceed, and shall have and exercise, and the commissioners and landowners and voters thereof shall have and exercise, the same privileges, powers and duties as if such district was incorporated after the taking effect of sections 233.170 to 233.315 and under and in accordance with sections 233.170 to 233.315 ; except that valid contracts made or entered into before the taking effect of sections 233.170 to 233.315 , under laws hereby repealed, shall be complied with the same as if such laws were still in force; and except that any such district in which there has been a meeting of landowners of the district, in compliance with laws repealed by sections 233.170 to 233.315 , at which owners of a majority of the acres of land in the district voted that any road or roads therein be improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district, may proceed, and the commissioners thereof may proceed in making such improvement, and tax bills, or bonds may be issued and collected on account of such improvement, in the same manner as if the laws repealed by sections 233.170 to 233.315 were still in force and effect and sections 233.170 to 233.315 not yet in effect; but in case no contract for such improvement has been entered into, or tax bills or bonds issued by reason of such vote for such improvement, such district, and the commissioners and landowners thereof may, in making such improvement or issuing tax bills or bonds on account thereof, proceed as if such district had not been incorporated until after the taking effect of sections 233.170 to 233.315 , and was incorporated under and in compliance with sections 233.170 to 233.315 ; or said special road district commissioners may file with the clerk of the county commission the tabulated statement or statements of the lands in the district as prepared previous to such meeting, and, if they have not done so already, make out and file with the clerk of the county commission a report of the action of the landowners at such meeting, signed and acknowledged by them, and the clerk of the county commission, after such report and tabulated statement are so filed, shall give notice, by at least two publications in some weekly newspaper published in the county, that said special road district commissioners have filed with him a report of an election in such district, and a tabulated statement of the lands in the district, showing the valuations fixed by them on each tract thereof for the purposes of an assessment for road improvement voted upon at such meeting, and such notice shall state a day not less than two weeks later than the date of the first publication of such notice, upon which the county commission will be in session and will hear and consider exceptions and objections to such report and tabulated statement and to the valuations so fixed on any or all tracts of land in the district, and the county commission shall, upon said day or as soon thereafter as the business of the county commission will permit, hear and consider any objections or exceptions that may be made to such report, and at such hearing such report shall be prima facie evidence of the statements therein made, and the county commission, if no objections or exceptions are made to such report, or if it find, after considering and hearing any objections that may be so made, and any evidence that may be offered, that such special road district commissioners prior to such meeting, and at such meeting, proceeded in compliance with the law then in force, and called such meeting and gave notice thereof in compliance with the law then in force, and that the action of the landowners at such meeting was as stated in such report, the county commission shall hear and consider such objections and exceptions as may be made to such tabulated statement or to valuations fixed on lands in the district as in such tabulated statement indicated, and, after hearing and considering such objections and exceptions, and such evidence as may be offered, shall make any alterations and corrections of said tabulated statement, and of the valuations so fixed and indicated, or fix such valuations on any of such lands, as it may deem proper, and shall thereupon approve such tabulated statement, and the valuations indicated therein, and order the clerk of the county commission to annex to said tabulated statement a certificate of such approval, and thereafter such district, and the special road district commissioners thereof, and the clerk of the county commission, in making such improvement and contracting for the same, or in issuing tax bills to pay for the same, or issuing bonds or tax bills to pay such bonds, may proceed as if this law had not taken effect, and the laws hereby repealed still in effect, except that the special road district commissioners need not make out and certify to the county clerk a description of the lands in the district as required by laws hereby repealed, and the county clerk in apportioning against each tract of land in the district its share of the cost of the improvement or its share of the principal and interest on the bonds, shall use, for the purpose of making such apportionment, such tabulated statement as so approved by the commission. (RSMo 1939 § 8729) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8080; 1919 § 10851

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.290 Dissolution of road district - not to affect validity of bonds, levy or ...

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 * 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8730, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8081; 1919 § 10852 *Word "been" does not appear in original rolls.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.295 Dissolution of road district - petition - notice - disincorporation of ...

233.295. Dissolution of road district — petition — notice — disincorporation of district — combining of districts, procedure (Christian, Jasper and Barry counties). — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land within a road district organized under the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315 , shall be filed with the county commission of any county in which such district is situated, setting forth the name of the district and the number of acres owned by each signer of such petition and the whole number of acres in such district, the county commission shall have power, if in its opinion the public good will be thereby advanced, to disincorporate such road district. No such road district shall be disincorporated until notice is published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county where the district is situated for four weeks successively prior to the hearing of such petition. 2. In any county with a population of at least thirty-two thousand inhabitants which adjoins a county of the first classification which contains a city with a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants that adjoins no other county of the first classification, whenever a petition signed by at least fifty registered voters residing within the district organized under the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315 is filed with the county clerk of the county in which the district is situated, setting forth the name of the district and requesting the disincorporation of such district, the county clerk shall certify for election the following question to be voted upon by the eligible voters of the district: Shall the ______ incorporated road district organized under the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.315, RSMo, be dissolved? ☐ YES ☐ NO If a majority of the persons voting on the question are in favor of the proposition, then the county commission shall disincorporate the road district. 3. The petition filed pursuant to subsection 2 of this section shall be submitted to the clerk of the county no later than eight weeks prior to the next countywide election at which the question will be voted upon. 4. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section to the contrary, in any county of the first classification with more than one hundred four thousand six hundred but less than one hundred four thousand seven hundred inhabitants, any petition to disincorporate a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be presented to the county commission or similar authority. The petition shall be signed by the lesser of fifty or a majority of the registered voters residing within the district, shall state the name of the district, and shall request the disincorporation of the district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this section, and it is the opinion of the county commission that the public good will be advanced by the disincorporation after providing notice and a hearing as required in this section, then the county commission shall disincorporate the road district. This subsection shall not apply to any road district located in two counties. 5. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section to the contrary, in any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than thirty-four thousand but fewer than thirty-four thousand one hundred inhabitants, any petition to disincorporate a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be presented to the county commission or similar authority. The petition shall be signed by the lesser of fifty or a majority of the registered voters residing within the district, shall state the name of the district, and shall request the disincorporation of the district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this section, and it is the opinion of the county commission that the public good will be advanced by the disincorporation after providing notice and a hearing as required in this section, then the county commission shall disincorporate the road district. This subsection shall not apply to any road district located in two counties. 6. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section to the contrary, in any county of the second classification with more than fifty-four thousand two hundred but fewer than fifty-four thousand three hundred inhabitants, any petition to disincorporate a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be presented to the county commission or similar authority. The petition shall be signed by the lesser of fifty or a majority of the registered voters residing within the district, shall state the name of the district, and shall request the disincorporation of the district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this section, and it is the opinion of the county commission that the public good will be advanced by the disincorporation after providing notice and a hearing as required in this section, then the county commission shall disincorporate the road district. This subsection shall not apply to any road district located in two counties. 7. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section to the contrary, in any county, any petition to disincorporate a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be presented to the county commission or similar authority. The petition shall be signed by the lesser of fifty or a majority of the registered voters residing within the district, shall state the name of the district, and shall request the disincorporation of the district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this section, and it is the opinion of the county commission that the public good will be advanced by the disincorporation after providing notice and a hearing as required in this section, then the county commission shall disincorporate the road district. This subsection shall not apply to any road district located in two counties. 8. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section to the contrary, in any county, a petition to disincorporate a road district located in two counties organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 shall be presented to the county commission or similar authority in each county in which the road district is located. Each petition shall be signed by the lesser of fifty or a majority of the registered voters residing within the district and county, shall state the name of the district, and shall request the disincorporation of the district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this section, and it is the opinion of the county commission in each county in which the road district is located that the public good will be advanced by the disincorporation after providing notice and a hearing as required in this section, then the county commission in each county in which the road district is located shall disincorporate the road district. A road district located in two counties shall not be disincorporated until it is disincorporated in each county in which it is located. 9. (1) The county commission or similar authority shall have the power to combine two or more road districts organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 upon petition signed by a majority of the commissioners in each of the road districts seeking to be combined. (2) The petition presented to the county commission or similar authority shall set forth the request that the road districts desire to be consolidated and shall set forth the proposed name of the new road district. If a petition is submitted as authorized in this subsection, then the county commission or similar authority shall hold a public hearing at a place and time it designates after it has published notice of the hearing for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. (3) After such hearing, if it is the opinion of the county commission that the public good will be advanced by the consolidation of the districts, then the county commission or similar authority shall issue its order consolidating the districts and set the effective date of the consolidation in such order. (4) Upon consolidation, the county commission or similar authority shall appoint the three initial commissioners of the consolidated district: one for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years. (5) Upon consolidation, all assets and liabilities of the combined districts shall vest in the new consolidated district. In the event the tax levies of the combined districts are different, then the initial tax levy for the consolidated district shall be the lower of the districts that were combined until changed as provided by statute. (6) The county commission or similar authority shall have the power to make deeds, bills of sale, or other instruments transferring the assets of the districts combined to the new consolidated district and shall have all other powers necessary to effectuate the consolidation and transfer of all assets and liabilities to the consolidated road district. * (7) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any road district located in two counties. (RSMo 1939 § 8731, A.L. 1994 H.B. 940, A.L. 2004 H.B. 895 merged with S.B. 769, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with S.B. 210, A.L. 2017 S.B. 112) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8082; 1919 § 10853 *Word "; and" appears in original rolls.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.297 Dissolution of a special road district, procedure - ballot language - land ...

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. (L. 2008 S.B. 896)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.300 Contracts not affected by disincorporation.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8732) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8083; 1919 § 10854

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.305 Appointment of trustee.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8733) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8084; 1919 § 10855

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.310 Trustee, duties of.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8734) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8085; 1919 § 10856

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.315 Final settlement of trustee.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8735) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8086; 1919 § 10857

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.316 Boundary change certain counties, procedure - petition granted by board, ...

233.316. Boundary change certain counties, procedure — petition granted by board, when — land included within boundaries to be subject to taxation (Cass and Platte counties) — 1. The boundaries of any special road district in any county with a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants which contains all or part of a city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants may be changed in the manner prescribed in this section. A change of boundaries of the special road district shall not impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges; 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. Fifty percent of the owners of any territory or tract of land adjacent to the special road district who own not less than fifty percent of the real estate in such territory or tract of land may file with the commissioners of the special road district a petition in writing praying that such real property be included within the district. The petition shall describe the property to be included in the district and shall describe the property owned by the petitioners and shall be deemed to give assent of the petitioners to the inclusion in the district of the property described in the petition. 3. The clerk or secretary of the board of road district commissioners shall cause notice of the filing of any petition filed pursuant to this section to be given and published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the property is located, which notice shall recite the filing of such petition, the number of petitioners, a general description of the boundaries of the area proposed 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 the notice and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted. 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 the petition should not be granted. The failure of any person interested to show cause in writing why such petition shall not be granted shall be deemed as an assent on his part to the inclusion of such lands in the district as prayed for in the petition. 4. If the board deems it in the best interest of the district, it shall grant the petition, but if the board determines that some portion of the property mentioned in the petition cannot as a practical matter be served by the district, or if it deems it for the best interest of the district that some portion of the property in the petition not be included in the district, then the board shall not grant the petition. If the petition is granted, the board shall make an order to that effect and file the same with the circuit clerk; however, such order shall not be final unless and until the governing body of the county approves the boundary change. 5. The special road district shall maintain any public road located within the territory or tract of land included within the boundaries of a special road district under this section in the same manner as it maintains other roads under its jurisdiction, and in addition, such territory or tract of land so included in the district shall be subject to taxes levied by the district on all property located within the district. (L. 1992 H.B. 1240 § 1)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.317 Expansion or extension of a road district, procedure - ballot language.

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. (L. 2008 S.B. 896)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.320 Special road districts - organized how - by whom.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8836) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8176; 1919 § 10937

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.325 Petitions - notice - remonstrances - order of county commission.

233.325. Petitions — notice — remonstrances — order of county commission. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district proposed to be organized, and setting forth the proposed name of the district, and giving the boundaries thereof and the number of acres owned by each signer and the names of other owners of land residing within such boundaries so far as known, and the number of acres owned by each so far as known, and praying for the organization of a special road district in accordance with sections 233.320 to 233.445 , shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission thirty days before the beginning of the next regular term of said commission, the said clerk shall give notice by at least three publications in some weekly newspaper printed in the county, or by at least five handbills put up at public places within the district, of the presentation of said petition, and of the date of the beginning of the next regular term of the county commission at which the same may be heard. Said notices shall contain the names of at least three signers of said petition and set out the boundaries of said proposed district, and shall notify all resident owners of land in said proposed district, who may desire to oppose the formation thereof to appear on the first day of such regular term of the county commission and file their written remonstrance thereto. 2. All resident landowners owning land within the proposed district may join in one remonstrance, or each such owner may file his separate remonstrance, and each remonstrance shall be in writing and shall state specifically and separately the objection or objections of the remonstrators to the formation of such proposed road district, and shall be filed in said county commission with the clerk thereof on or before the first day of said regular term. 3. On the first day of said term of the county commission, or as soon thereafter as its business will permit, the county commission shall hear such petition and remonstrance, and may make any change in the boundaries of such proposed district as the public good may require and make necessary, and if after such changes are made it shall appear to the county commission that such petition is signed or in writing consented to by the owners of a majority of all the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district as so changed, the county commission shall make an order incorporating such public road district, and such order shall set out the boundaries of such district as established. 4. If no remonstrance shall have been filed, or all remonstrances filed are overruled by the county commission, the commission shall determine whether such petition has been signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district, and if so, shall make an order incorporating the district with the boundaries given in the petition, or such boundaries as may be set forth in an amended petition signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district, affected thereby; and such amended petition may be filed at any time before the making of the order establishing a road district, but the boundaries proposed for the district shall not be so changed as to embrace any land not included in the notice given by the clerk unless the owner thereof shall in writing consent thereto, or shall appear at the hearing, and is notified in an open meeting of the county commission of such fact and given an opportunity to file or join in a remonstrance. 5. Whenever an order is so made incorporating a public road district, such district shall thereupon become, by the name mentioned in such order, a political subdivision of the state for governmental purposes with all the powers mentioned in this section and such others as may be conferred by law. (RSMo 1939 § 8837) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8177; 1919 § 10938

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.330 Commissioners of special road district, how selected - term - ...

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8838, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8178; 1919 § 10939

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.332 Commissioners of special road districts in certain counties of the third ...

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. (L. 1997 H.B. 609 § 1)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.335 Commissioners of special road district shall organize - when - how.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8839) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8179; 1919 § 10940

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.340 Tools and machinery, delivery to commissioners of special road district - ...

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8840, A.L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8180; 1919 § 10941 Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.345 Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds - election required ...

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8843, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8183; 1919 § 10944

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.350 Petitions for road improvement - proceedings.

233.350. Petitions for road improvement — proceedings. — 1. Whenever, in any road district so incorporated a petition signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of the land owned by residents of the county residing within the district that is within one-half mile of a public road or a part of a public road in the district, is delivered to the president or secretary of the board of special road district commissioners of the district praying that such public road or part of a public road be permanently improved and the cost of the improvement assessed against all lands in the district, and stating therein the points between which the improvement is desired, and the nature and kind of improvement desired, and stating the number of installments, not exceeding fifteen, in which they desire that such cost be payable, said special road district commissioners shall procure, prepare, or cause to be prepared, a map of the district and have such public road or part of a public road indicated thereon, and shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a profile of such public road or part of public road, and plans and specifications for the improvement of such roads or parts of public roads and an estimate of the cost of making such improvements. Such map, profile and plan and specifications, or a copy thereof, and such estimate shall, upon the completion thereof, be submitted to the state highway engineer for approval, who shall approve the same or so revise them that they will meet with his approval, or prepare such plans and specifications and estimate as will meet with his approval, and return to the commissioners said map and profile, or a copy thereof, and such plans and specifications and estimate of the cost of such improvements as he may prepare or approve. 2. And said special road district commissioners shall fix a fair and impartial valuation on each tract of land within said district independent of the buildings thereon, and prepare a list of the lands within the district, and indicate in such list the valuation so fixed upon each tract of land and what tracts lie within one-half mile of said public road or a part of public road, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one-half mile and less than one mile, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one mile and less than one and one-half miles, and what tracts, if any, at a greater distance than one and one-half miles. 3. If said special road district commissioners cannot agree upon the valuation to be so fixed upon any tract of land in the district, they shall arrive at the value thereof by adding together the valuation placed thereon independent of the buildings thereon by each of the special road district commissioners and dividing the total thereof by three. 4. Said special road district commissioners, upon completion of such list of lands, shall annex a certificate thereto that they believe the same to be correct, and they shall acknowledge execution of such certificate as deeds of real estate are required to be acknowledged; and upon completion of such list of lands, and annexing such certificate and receiving from the state highway engineer plans and specifications prepared or approved by him for the improvement of said public roads or part of a public road, and an estimate prepared or approved by him of the cost of such improvements, the special road district commissioners shall file such petition and said list of lands, and said map and profile or copy thereof, and the plans and specifications and estimate prepared or approved by the state highway engineer, with the clerk of the county commission, who shall thereupon give notice, by at least two publications in some weekly newspaper published in the county, that said special road district commissioners have filed with him a petition, purporting to be signed by landowners residing within said district, for improvement of a public road or a part of a public road in said district, and plans and specifications for such improvements and an estimate of the cost thereof, and a list of the lands in the district in which is indicated the valuation fixed by them on each tract of said lands independent of buildings thereon, and such notice shall state a day, not less than two weeks later than the date of the first publication of such notice, upon which the county commission will be in session and will consider protests against such improvement and objections and exceptions to such petition and such list of lands and the valuation of therein indicated. Should the county commission fail for any cause to be in session on the day stated in such notice, the clerk shall give a new notice appointing some other day for the consideration of such protests, objections and exceptions. (RSMo 1939 § 8844) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8184; 1919 § 10945

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.355 Protests and objections to be considered by the county commission - order ...

233.355. Protests and objections to be considered by the county commission — order of the county commission. — 1. Anyone owning land within one-half mile of such public road or part of public road may, at any time before the day the county commission, as stated in such notice, is to consider protests, objections and exceptions, file with the clerk of the county commission written protest against the improvements of said public road or part of public road. Such protest shall be signed by the party protesting, and describe the land owned by him that is within such district and within one-half mile of said public road or part of public road, and the number of acres thereof; and anyone interested in land in the district may show any reason there may be why such public road or part of public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district. 2. The county commission on said day, or as soon thereafter as the business of the county commission will permit, shall consider said petition and any such protests as may have been so filed to improving such public road or part of public road; and any reason that may be shown why such public road or part of public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district. Such petition shall be prima facie evidence of the allegations contained therein. 3. If any protests have been so filed and the county commission finds after a hearing that such protests have been so filed by owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district that is within one-half mile of said public road or part of road; or if sufficient reason should be shown to the county commission why such public road or part of road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district, it shall dismiss said petition. But if the county commission finds that such protests have not been so filed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district within one-half mile of said public road or part of a public road, and fails to find that sufficient reason has been shown why such public road cannot be so improved and the cost thereof charged against the lands in the district, and the county commission finds that such public road or part of a public road has been lawfully established as such and that the clerk of the county commission gave notice as required by sections 233.320 to 233.445 of the filing with him of said petition, plans, specifications and estimate, and list of the lands in the district, the county commission shall consider said list of lands, and hear and consider any objection and exceptions that may be made thereto or to any valuations therein indicated. Such hearing may be continued from time to time as the ends of justice may require. 4. After consideration of all such objections and exceptions, if any, and hearing such evidence as may be offered, the county commission shall make any alterations and corrections in the list of lands and in the valuations fixed by the commissioners on any lands in the district, or fix such valuations on the lands in the district as it may deem proper, and shall thereupon approve such list of lands, and order the clerk of the county commission to annex to said list of lands a certificate of such approval; and the county commission shall ascertain and declare the estimated cost of such improvement as appearing by the estimate prepared or approved by the state highway engineer, the cost and expense incurred by the commissioners in the preparations of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee for such petitioners, and the probable working, administrative and incidental expenses that may be incurred in so improving said public road or part of a public road, and procuring, collecting, and paying the cost thereof, and shall order that a special tax for the aggregate amount thereof, plus ten percent of said aggregate amount for emergencies, be assessed against the lands in the district, and that such public road or part of public road be improved in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission, and the commission shall ascertain and state in such order the number of installments stated in such petition in which the petitioners desire that the cost of such improvement be payable. (RSMo 1939 § 8845) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8185; 1919 § 10946

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.360 Special tax - how apportioned.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8846) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8186; 1919 § 10947

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.365 Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8852) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8192; 1919 § 10953

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.370 Special tax payable in one installment - special tax bills.

233.370. Special tax payable in one installment — special tax bills. — 1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered, and the county commission states in the order that the petitioners desire that the cost of the improvements be payable in one installment, the clerk of the county commission shall make out a special separate tax bill against each tract of land in the district for the amount so assessable against it. Each of such special tax bills shall be in favor of such road district, shall be numbered, and shall state the date of the order of the county commission pursuant to which the improvement is to be made and describe the tract of land against which it is issued and state the amount so assessed against such tract of land, and shall be signed by the president or vice president of the district and be attested by the clerk of the county commission. 2. The clerk of the county commission shall procure and keep a suitable record book and record therein an abstract or description of each of said special tax bills and shall deposit such special tax bills with the district treasurer, and cause notice to be given by one publication in a newspaper published in the county, that special tax bills in favor of said road district have been issued pursuant to an order to the county commission, giving the date of such order, and delivered to district treasurer to whom payment thereof may be made. 3. Each of such special tax bills shall constitute a lien upon the land described therein, for the amount thereof and such interest as may accrue thereon, and all costs in collecting the same, including a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the county commission and taxed as costs in any action brought to enforce payment; which lien shall be paramount to all other liens except that of the state for general state, county, school and road taxes. Each of such special tax bills as are not paid at the expiration of thirty days after the date of such order, shall thereafter bear interest at the rate of eight percent per annum. 4. The district treasurer shall receive payment of such special tax bills and keep a record of each payment and of the name of the party making same, and shall cancel such special tax bills as they are paid, and shall give such districts credit for the amount of each payment to him on a special account kept with said district of payments to him on account of such tax bills, indicating therein the amounts paid as principal of such special tax bills and the amount paid as interest. Whenever any of such tax bills have been cancelled by the district treasurer and is exhibited to the clerk of the county commission, or the district treasurer reports payment of any such special tax bills to the clerk of the county commission, he shall note the payment thereof in said record book. 5. If any such special tax bills be unpaid at the expiration of thirty days after the date of such order, the special road district commissioners may borrow money not exceeding the aggregate amount of such special tax bills as are then unpaid, and at a rate of interest not exceeding eight percent per annum, and as such unpaid special tax bills are paid, shall draw warrants on the district treasurer for the amount of such payment to pay whatever may be so borrowed, with interest thereon; but neither the road district nor the special road district commissioners shall be obligated to pay whatever may be so borrowed, or interest thereon, except out of the collections of such unpaid special tax bills. Money so borrowed shall be deposited with the district treasurer to the credit of such road district. 6. If any such special tax bills be unpaid at the expiration of six months after the date of such order, the special road district commissioners may, and if any are unpaid at the expiration of twelve months after such date, they shall cause suits to be instituted for foreclosure of the lien thereof. Such suits shall be instituted in the circuit court of the county, by any attorney the special road district commissioners may designate and to whom they shall order the district treasurer to deliver such unpaid special tax bills. The road district shall be plaintiff in such suits and any or all parties having an interest in the property to be affected thereby may be made defendants. In all 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 all suits so instituted, there shall be taxed as costs in favor of the attorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court. 7. All moneys collected on special tax bills and all money the special road district commissioners may so borrow, and all interest that may accrue thereon while on deposit in any depositary, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, for the following purposes only: To pay the cost and expense incurred by the special road district commissioners, as found by the county commission, in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee, as found by the county commission, for such petitioners, and to pay the cost of improving said public road or part of public road in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission and such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided for by law, as may be incurred in making such improvement and in procuring, collecting and paying the cost of such improvement, and the balance, if any, shall be used in paying expenses of maintaining such improvement, but if any money should be borrowed by the special road district commissioners, it shall be repaid, with interest thereon, out of the collections of such special tax bills as were unpaid at the time such money was borrowed. (RSMo 1939 § 8847) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8187; 1919 § 10948

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.375 Special tax payable in installments - interest - special assessments.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8848) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.380 Special tax bills - issuance - form - collection.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8848) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.385 Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

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. (RSMo 1939 § 8848) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.390 Special assessment bonds to be issued.

233.390. Special assessment bonds to be issued. — 1. The commissioners of the special road district, after such order is made, shall issue special assessment bonds of the district for an amount not exceeding ninety percent of the total amount of the tax so ordered, 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 on such bonds shall be payable on the first days of each April and October after said date, until all of said bonds are paid. 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. 2. 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 are required by law to be registered. Such bonds after being so registered by the state auditor shall be deposited with the district treasurer in whose custody they shall remain until disposed of as authorized by sections 233.320 to 233.445 ; 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 and by sections 108.240 to 108.300 , and county commissions of this state may invest school funds or other trust funds that may be under their control in said bonds at their par value. (RSMo 1939 § 8848) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.395 Sale of bonds - payment - application of proceeds of bonds and special tax ...

233.395. Sale of bonds — payment — application of proceeds of bonds and special tax bills. — 1. The commissioners of the special road district may sell any of said bonds, at public or private sale, for not less than ninety-five percent of their face value. 2. Such bonds shall be payable and collectible only out of moneys derived from such special tax bills and from the sale of such bonds, and interest that may accrue on funds so derived, while on deposit with any depositary, and the district treasurer shall hold in reserve, for payment of interest on such bonds, a sufficient amount of money so derived that may come into his hands in excess of the amount then necessary to pay all bonds and interest then past due, to pay all interest that will become payable before the next installment of such special tax becomes payable, and three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due, and the district treasurer shall, whenever any of said bonds or interest thereon become due, apply such money as may be in his custody and applicable thereto or that may thereafter come into his custody and be applicable thereto to payment of such bonds and interest as may be due and unpaid. 3. All money derived from such special tax bills, shall be used in paying said bonds and the interest thereon, except that money may be collected on such tax bills, in excess of the amount necessary to pay all bonds then past due, and such bonds and interest as will become payable before another installment of such special tax becomes payable may, less an amount equal to three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due, be used for other purposes as herein authorized. 4. The district treasurer shall, as such bonds are sold, deliver them to the purchaser thereof upon being ordered to do so by the commissioners and being paid the price therefor, and as such bonds are paid shall cancel them and deliver them to the clerk of the county commission. 5. All money derived from the sale of said bonds, except such portion thereof as is required to be reserved to meet interest payments, and all money collected on such special tax bills that may, as by this section authorized, be used for purposes other than the payment of such bonds and interest thereon, and all interest that may accrue on moneys so derived while deposited with any depositary and not required to be used in paying said bonds or interest thereon, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, for the following purposes only: To pay the cost and expense incurred by the special road district commissioners, as found by the county commission, in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and said list of lands, and a reasonable attorney's fee, as found by the commission, for such petitioners, and to pay the cost of improving said public road or part of public road in accordance with plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission, and such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided by law, as may be incurred in making such improvement, and the balance, if any, shall be used in paying expenses of maintaining such improvement. (RSMo 1939 § 8848) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.400 Partial payments of special tax bills - correction of errors.

233.400. Partial payments of special tax bills — correction of errors. — 1. District 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 the tract is divided. 3. Special tax bills issued under sections 233.320 to 233.445 shall not be void by reason of errors therein, but shall be valid for such amount and to such 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8849) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8189; 1919 § 10950

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.405 Contracts for improvements.

233.405. Contracts for improvements. — 1. Whenever an order for improvement is made, the 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 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 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 district treasurer therefor. (RSMo 1939 § 8850) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8190; 1919 § 10951

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.410 Title of lands - how considered.

233.410. Title of lands — how considered. — If it shall appear that any land within the 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 lands shall be held by any widow as a homestead or dower, then the widow and adult heirs, shall be deemed and held to be the owner of such land within the meaning of sections 233.320 to 233.445 . (RSMo 1939 § 8851, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8191; 1919 § 10952

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.415 State roads - cost of improving and upkeep - how paid.

233.415. State roads — cost of improving and upkeep — how paid. — Whenever any road or highway in said special road district shall be designated and approved by the state transportation department as a state road, then the state shall pay at least one-half of the expense of constructing or improving said state road, and the procedure for obtaining such state aid shall be the same as is now or may hereafter be provided by law for the obtaining of state aid in other road districts of the state. (RSMo 1939 § 8853) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8193; 1919 § 10954

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.420 Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of special road ...

233.420. Compensation of collector, county clerk and commissioners of special road district. — 1. Township or county collectors shall receive for collecting special tax bills authorized by sections 233.320 to 233.445 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 233.320 to 233.445 , 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 233.320 to 233.445 and registering the same, twenty cents for each bond; for any other service performed under sections 233.320 to 233.445 , 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 district incorporated under sections 233.320 to 233.445 shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be paid any and all expense they may incur in transacting business of the district, including reasonable attorney's fees. (RSMo 1939 § 8854) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8194; 1919 § 10955

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.425 Dissolution of road district - petition - notice - dissolution vote, Bates ...

233.425. Dissolution of road district — petition — notice — dissolution vote, Bates County, when. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land owned by residents of the county residing within the district organized under the provisions of sections 233.320 to 233.445 , shall be filed with the county commission of any county in which such district is situated, setting forth the name of the district and the number of acres owned by each signer of such petition and the whole number of acres in such district, the county commission shall have power, if in its opinion the public good will be thereby advanced, to disincorporate such road district. No such road district shall be disincorporated until notice is published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county where the district is situated for four weeks successively prior to the hearing of such petition. 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any special road district located in any county with more than fifteen thousand seven hundred but fewer than seventeen thousand six hundred inhabitants and with a county seat with more than four thousand two hundred ten but fewer than six thousand inhabitants shall have placed on the ballot by no later than the general election in November 2026 whether to dissolve such special road district. If the voters approve such question to dissolve the special road district, the responsibilities and outstanding obligations of the district shall be transferred to the county. (RSMo 1939 § 8855, A.L. 1993 S.B. 194, A.L. 1994 H.B. 940, A.L. 2025 H.B. 199) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8195; 1919 § 10956

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.430 Contracts not affected by disincorporation.

233.430. 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; provided further, that nothing in sections 233.320 to 233.445 shall be construed to in any way interfere with the organization of special road districts now organized or being organized under the laws repealed by sections 233.320 to 233.445 . (RSMo 1939 § 8856) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8196; 1919 § 10957

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.435 Appointment of trustee.

233.435. 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8857) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8197; 1919 § 10958 (1960) Individual judges of county court held proper parties defendant in mandamus action to compel appointment of successor trustee to liquidate affairs of dissolved special road district. State ex rel. Heath v. County Court of New Madrid Co. (A.), 331 S.W.2d 289.

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.440 Trustee, duties of.

233.440. 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 money 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8858) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8198; 1919 § 10959

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.445 Final settlement of trustee.

233.445. 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. (RSMo 1939 § 8859) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8199; 1919 § 10960

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.450 Board of commissioners for special road district and county commissions for ...

233.450. Board of commissioners for special road district and county commissions for townships may issue bonds. — The board of commissioners of any special road district organized and incorporated under the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 , for and on behalf of such district, and the county commissions of the several counties under township organization on behalf of any township in their respective counties, are hereby authorized to issue road bonds to an amount, including existing indebtedness, not exceeding five percent of the value of the taxable tangible property of such special road district or township, as the case may be, as shown by the last completed assessment for state and county purposes. Such bonds shall be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars, or some multiple thereof, to bear interest at not exceeding six percent per annum, payable semiannually and to become due and payable at such times as the board of commissioners or county commissions shall determine by order of record, not exceeding twenty years from date of issue. (RSMo 1939 § 8609, A.L. 1945 p. 1499) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7960; 1919 § 10747 CROSS REFERENCE: Refunding of bonded indebtedness, procedure, 108.140 to 108.160

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.455 Election to be held, when - levy and collection of tax, procedure - ...

233.455. Election to be held, when — levy and collection of tax, procedure — applicability of other laws. — 1. Whenever the board of commissioners of any special road district proposes to issue bonds for road purposes, they shall order the submission of the question to the voters and whenever twenty voters of any township shall file with the clerk of the county commission wherein the township is located a petition in writing asking that bonds for road purposes be issued for and on behalf of such township, it shall be the duty of the county commission to order the submission of the question to the voters. 2. The notice of election, in either case, 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 such county commission or the board of commissioners. If it shall appear that two-thirds of the voters voting on said question shall have voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds, the board of commissioners of the special road district, or the county commission, as the case may be, shall order and direct the execution of the bonds for and on behalf of such special road district or township, and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property in said district or township sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds so authorized as they respectively become due. 4. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of commissioners on or before the first day of May in each year, or the state auditor immediately thereafter, in case the clerk of the board of commissioners should fail or neglect, on or before the first day of May of each year, so to do, to certify to the county commission of the county, or counties, wherein such road district is situated, the amount of money that will be required during the next succeeding year to pay interest falling due on bonds issued and the principal of bonds maturing during such year. 5. On receipt of such certificate it shall be the duty of the county commission, or commissions, at the time it makes the levy for state, county, school and other taxes, to, by order made, levy such a rate of taxation upon the taxable property in the road district, in such county or counties, as will raise the sum of money required for the purposes aforesaid. On such order being made it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commission, or commissions, to extend such rate of taxation upon the tax books, against all of the taxable property in the district in such county or counties, and the same shall be collected by the collector of the revenue at the time and in the manner, and by the same means as state, county, school and other taxes are collected. 6. At the time the county commission is required to determine and levy the rate of taxation for state, county, school and other taxes, to determine, order and levy such a rate of taxation upon the taxable property in any township in such county as may have outstanding bonds issued under this section as will be sufficient to pay interest and principal falling due during the next succeeding year. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commission to extend upon the tax books of the county such rate of taxation upon and against all of the taxable property in such township, and when so extended the same shall be collected by the collector of the revenue at the time, in the manner, and by the means that state, county, school and other taxes are collected. 7. All the laws, rights and remedies of the state of Missouri for the collection of state, county, school and other taxes, shall be applicable to the collection of taxes herein authorized to be collected. (RSMo 1939 § 8610, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7961; 1919 § 10748

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.460 Form of ballot.

233.460. Form of ballot. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ special road district of ______ (Name district or township) of ______ county issue road bonds in the amount of ______ dollars? (RSMo 1939 § 8611, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7962; 1919 § 10749

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.465 Bonds to be sold, when - how.

233.465. Bonds to be sold, when — how. — The board of commissioners on behalf of the special road districts, and the county commission on behalf of the townships, shall sell said bonds to the best advantage and the proceeds shall be paid over to the treasurer of the district or the county or township, as the case may be, and be by him disbursed, on the order of the board of commissioners or county commission, in payment of the cost of holding said election and in paying the cost of constructing or improving roads in such districts or townships, including bridges and culverts. (RSMo 1939 § 8612) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7963; 1919 § 10750

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.470 Certain sections not to apply, when.

233.470. Certain sections not to apply, when. — Sections 233.450 to 233.465 shall not apply to any township, the whole or any part of which is included in a special road district that has issued bonds, the whole or any part of which are outstanding and unpaid; nor shall said sections apply to any special road district which includes the whole or any part of any township which has issued bonds for road purposes, the whole or any part of which bonds are outstanding and unpaid, nor shall said sections apply to any special road district which includes the whole or any part of the territory of any other special road district which has incurred an indebtedness evidenced by an issue of bonds, the whole or any part of which are outstanding and unpaid. (RSMo 1939 § 8613) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7964; 1919 § 10751

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.500 Establishment authorized - boundaries of subdistrict.

233.500. Establishment authorized — boundaries of subdistrict. — 1. Within the boundaries of any special road district established under the provisions of section 233.015 , 233.170 or 233.320 , or in an area within a county which is not included in any special road district, the county commission may create a special road subdistrict in the manner prescribed in sections 233.500 to 233.520 . Any such subdistrict established shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a public corporation for public purposes, and shall be known as "______ Special Road Subdistrict 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 233.500 to 233.520 , and of contracting and being contracted with as provided in sections 233.500 to 233.520 . 2. Special road subdistricts so organized shall consist of a public road of one mile or more in length and the adjacent lands one-fourth of a mile or more on either side of such public road, including adjacent roads one-fourth of a mile or more from the public road, and any such special road subdistrict shall have an assessed valuation of at least one million dollars, according to the last available report of the state tax commission. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 1) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.503 Creation of, procedures - petition, objections, county commission to hold ...

233.503. Creation of, procedures — petition, objections, county commission to hold meeting — order incorporating, when issued, effect. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the majority of the owners of land within the subdistrict proposed to be organized, and setting forth the proposed name of the subdistrict, and giving the boundaries thereof and the number of signers and the names of other owners of land residing within such boundaries so far as known, and praying for the organization of a special road subdistrict in accordance with sections 233.500 to 233.520 , shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission thirty days before any meeting of the county commission, the clerk shall give notice by at least three publications in some weekly newspaper of general circulation in the county, and by at least five handbills put up at public places within the subdistrict, of the presentation of such petition, and of the date of such meeting of the county commission at which the same may be heard. Such notices shall contain the names of at least three signers of the petition and set out the boundaries of the proposed subdistrict, and shall notify all resident owners of land in the proposed subdistrict, who may desire to oppose the formation thereof to appear at such meeting of the county commission and file their written remonstrance thereto. 2. All resident landowners owning land within the proposed subdistrict may join in one remonstrance, or each such owner may file his separate remonstrance, and each remonstrance shall be in writing and shall state specifically and separately the objection or objections of the remonstrators to the formation of such proposed road subdistrict, and shall be filed with the clerk of the county commission on or before such meeting of the county commission. 3. At such meeting of the county commission, the county commission shall hear such petition and remonstrance, and may make any change in the boundaries of such proposed subdistrict as the public good may require and make necessary, and if after such changes are made it shall appear to the county commission that such petition is signed or in writing consented to by a majority of all the landowners residing within the subdistrict as so changed, the county commission shall make an order incorporating such special road subdistrict, and such order shall set out the boundaries of such subdistrict as established. 4. If no remonstrance shall have been filed, or all remonstrances filed are overruled by the county commission, the commission shall determine whether such petition has been signed by a majority of the owners of land within the subdistrict, and if so, shall make an order incorporating the subdistrict with the boundaries given in the petition, or such boundaries as may be set forth in an amended petition signed by a majority of the owners of land within the subdistrict affected by the amended petition. Such amended petition may be filed at any time before the making of the order establishing a special road subdistrict, but the boundaries proposed for the subdistrict shall not be so changed as to embrace any land not included in the notice given by the clerk unless the owner thereof shall in writing consent thereto, or shall appear at the hearing, and is notified in an open meeting of the county commission of such fact and given an opportunity to file or join in a remonstrance. 5. Whenever an order is so made incorporating a special road subdistrict, such subdistrict shall thereupon become, by the name mentioned in such order, a political subdivision of the state for governmental purposes with all the powers mentioned in sections 233.500 to 233.520 . (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 2) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.505 Commissioners, appointment of, terms - requirements - vacancies.

233.505. Commissioners, appointment of, terms — requirements — vacancies. — 1. At the meeting of the county commission in which such order is made, or at any subsequent meeting thereafter, the county commission shall appoint three special road subdistrict commissioners, who shall be voters of the subdistrict who shall hold their office until the second Tuesday in April thereafter. The voters of the subdistrict, at an hour and place to be fixed by the commissioners, shall elect three special road subdistrict 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 subdistrict commissioner to take the place of the one whose term is about to expire, who shall serve for three years. 2. No person shall be elected or appointed as a commissioner who is not a voter of the subdistrict. Any vacancy caused by resignation, death, removal from the subdistrict of a special road subdistrict commissioner or sale of all land owned by him in the subdistrict shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the remaining special road subdistrict commissioners of the subdistrict. All special road subdistrict 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 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 subdistrict commissioners, then the county commission is hereby authorized and required to call an election to fill such vacancy. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 3) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.507 Officers, election of, duties - meetings, conduct of.

233.507. Officers, election of, duties — meetings, conduct of. — 1. The commissioners so appointed and qualified shall meet at such a time and place within such subdistrict 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, except that by a unanimous vote of the commissioners, a person not a member of such board may be chosen secretary. 2. Meetings of the special road subdistrict commissioners shall be held thereafter at such time and place as they may agree upon in writing, or the president or vice president may order. The treasurer of the board shall be the county treasurer, and he shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful keeping of all moneys deposited with him by reason of sections 233.500 to 233.520 . 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 such subdistrict, and exercise a general supervising control over the work of such commissioners, and may do all the acts and things that the board may empower him to do, and such others as may be authorized by sections 233.500 to 233.520 . 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. 3. 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 subdistrict, 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. All money paid to the county treasurer and placed to the credit of the subdistrict 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. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 4) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.510 Tax for support of subdistrict, authorized - four-sevenths vote required - ...

233.510. Tax for support of subdistrict, authorized — four-sevenths vote required — levy and collection of, procedure. — 1. The commissioners of any special road subdistrict may levy, if four-sevenths of the voters of the subdistrict voting thereon approve, a tax on all taxable property in the subdistrict, the proceeds of which to be used for the support of the subdistrict, including the payment of bonds issued under section 233.513 . The proposition to levy the tax authorized by this section may be submitted by the commissioners at the next annual election of the members of the commission or at any regularly scheduled primary or general election or at a special election called for the purpose. A separate ballot containing the question shall read as follows: If four-sevenths of the qualified voters casting votes thereon be in favor of the question, the commissioners shall levy a tax in accordance with the provisions of this section, but if four-sevenths of the voters casting votes thereon do not vote in favor of the levy authorized by this section, no such tax shall be levied. 2. Any tax authorized pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be levied and collected as provided by law for the levy and collection of taxes for special road districts. Taxes authorized pursuant to this section shall be deposited with the county treasurer, who shall disburse the moneys only to the president or vice president of the subdistrict upon warrants signed by such officer and attested by the secretary of the subdistrict. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 5) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.513 Bonds, road and bridge, authorized - procedures - special tax bills, ...

233.513. Bonds, road and bridge, authorized — procedures — special tax bills, purpose — sale of bonds, requirements. — 1. The commissioners of such subdistricts so incorporated shall have power to issue road and bridge bonds for and on behalf of their respective subdistricts, 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 shall be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars, or some multiple thereof, and the provisions of section 108.180 to the contrary notwithstanding, such bonds may bear interest at a rate determined by the special road subdistrict commissioners, payable semiannually, and to become due in not exceeding twenty years after the date of the bonds. Whenever the board of commissioners of any such special road subdistrict propose to issue such bonds, they shall submit the question to the voters in the subdistrict. 2. The notice of election shall state the amount of bonds to be issued. 3. The question shall be submitted substantially in the following form: 4. The result of the submission of the question shall be entered upon the records of the subdistrict. If it shall appear that four-sevenths 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 subdistrict. 5. The board of commissioners shall not sell such bonds for less than ninety-five percent of the par value thereof, and the proceeds shall be paid over to the county treasurer, and disbursed on warrants drawn by the president or vice president of the board of commissioners and attested by the secretary. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be used for the purpose only of paying the cost of holding such election, and constructing, repairing and maintaining bridges and culverts within the subdistrict, paving and surfacing of new roads within the subdistrict, and working, repairing, maintaining and dragging public roads within the subdistrict. 6. Such bonds shall be payable and collectible only out of moneys derived from special tax bills and from the sale of such bonds, and interest that may accrue on funds so derived while on deposit with any county depositary, and the county treasurer shall hold in reserve, for payment of interest on such bonds, a sufficient amount of the money so derived that may come into his hands in excess of the amount then necessary to pay all bonds and interest then past due, to pay all interest that will become payable before the next installment of such special tax becomes payable, and three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due, and the county treasurer shall, whenever any of the bonds or interest thereon become due, apply such money as may be in his custody and applicable thereto, or that may thereafter come into his custody and be applicable thereto, to payment of such bonds and interest as may be due and unpaid. 7. All money derived from special tax bills shall be used in paying the bonds and the interest thereon, except that the money that may be collected on such tax bills in excess of the amount necessary to pay all bonds then past due and such bonds and interest as will become payable before another installment of such special tax becomes payable may, less an amount equal to three percent of the principal amount of the bonds not then due, be used for other purposes as herein authorized. 8. The county treasurer shall, as such bonds are sold, deliver them to the purchaser thereof upon being ordered to do so by the commissioners, and being paid the price therefor, and as such bonds are paid shall cancel them and deliver them to the clerk of the county commission. 9. All money derived from the sale of such bonds, except such portion thereof as is required to be reserved to meet interest payments, and all money collected on special tax bills, and all interest that may accrue on moneys so derived while deposited with any county depositary and not required to be used in paying such bonds or interest thereon, shall be used, and warrants drawn on the treasurer therefor, for the following purposes only: To pay the cost and expenses incurred by the special road subdistrict commissioners, as found by the county commission, in the preparation of such plans, specifications, estimate, map and profile, and such list of lands, and a reasonable attorneys fee, as found by the county commission, for such petitioners, and to pay the cost of improving such public road or part of a public road in accordance with the plans and specifications so filed with the clerk of the county commission, and such working, administrative and incidental expenses, not otherwise provided by law, as may be incurred in making such improvements, and the balance, if any, shall be used in paying the expense of maintaining such improvement. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 6) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.515 Contracts for road improvements, procedures - commissioners to take bids, ...

233.515. Contracts for road improvements, procedures — commissioners to take bids, requirements. — 1. Whenever an order for improvement is made, the special road subdistrict commissioners of the subdistrict shall, in the name of the subdistrict, enter into a written contract with the lowest and best bidder, in the same manner as the letting of public works contracts by the department of transportation, 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 the time the work remains uncompleted, and the commissioners shall require the contractor to enter into a bond, to be approved by the commissioners, for the full performance of the contract, and payment for all labor and material used or employed in the performance of such contract. 2. The special road subdistrict commissioners shall advertise and let bids in the same manner as the letting of public works contracts by the department of transportation, and the contract shall in no case be let to any special road subdistrict commissioner, nor shall any special road subdistrict commissioner, directly or indirectly, have any pecuniary interest in the contract other than the performance of his official duties as required by sections 233.500 to 233.520 . 3. The 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, and shall not provide for payment of over 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 for such payments. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 7) Effective 5-30-90

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.520 Disincorporation, petition required, contents - county commission to ...

233.520. Disincorporation, petition required, contents — county commission to appoint trustee, when — powers of trustee. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by a majority of the owners of land within a special road subdistrict organized under the provisions of sections 233.500 to 233.520 shall be filed with the county commission of any county in which the subdistrict is situated, setting forth the name of the subdistrict and the number of signers of such petition and the total number of landowners in the subdistrict, the county commission shall have power, if in its opinion the public good will be thereby advanced, to disincorporate such special road subdistrict. No such special road subdistrict shall be disincorporated until notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the subdistrict is situated for four successive weeks prior to the hearing of the petition. 2. No dissolution of such special road subdistrict shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such special road subdistrict or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such special road subdistrict. 3. Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such special road subdistrict, the county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the special road subdistrict 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 special road subdistrict, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty. 4. The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the special road subdistrict, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to such special road subdistrict, 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 special road subdistrict, and for that purpose, under the order and direction of the county commission, to exercise all the powers given by law to the special road subdistrict. 5. When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the special road subdistrict, and shall have paid all debts due by the special road subdistrict, 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 special road subdistrict. (L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 8) Effective 5-30-90
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