Title XV — LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY

243.490. County collector liable, when — penalty. — If any county collector of the revenue refuses, fails or neglects to make prompt payment of the tax or any part thereof collected under this chapter to the county treasurer as provided in said chapter, then he shall pay a penalt…

243.500. Validity of bonds issued unquestionable. — Hereafter when any bonds issued by any drainage district organized or incorporated under the laws of this state are sold for a sum or price allowed by law, and the proceeds of the sale thereof paid to the proper officer of the d…

243.510. Suits to be brought in name of state. — Suits on bonds for costs and the performance and completion of work on contract shall be brought in the name of the state of Missouri at the relation and to the use of the drainage district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12440) Prior rev…

243.520. Appeals — procedure. — The clerk of the circuit court shall docket any appeal, styling the appellant the plaintiff and the drainage district the defendant, and the cause shall stand for trial and be tried as other appeal cases are tried in the circuit court. After the tr…

243.530. Chapter declared remedial in character and purpose. — 1. The repeal of article 4, chapter 41, RSMo 1909, shall not have the effect of suspending, abating, abridging, impairing, vitiating, or nullifying any right, power, remedy, or lien heretofore given, created or confer…

243.540. Penalty for violation of provisions of chapter. — Any person, corporation, member of the county commission or municipal corporation, convicted of a misdemeanor as defined by this chapter shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, a…

243.550. Petition for reassessment of benefits, form — procedure for maintenance levy or for a new tax to pay costs of plan for reclamation. — Whenever the owners of twenty-five percent or more of the acreage of the lands in the district shall file a petition with the county comm…

243.551. County commission to appoint three viewers, qualifications, duties — report, procedure — readjustment of benefits limited to once a year — payment may be by installments. — Thereupon the county commission shall appoint three viewers, possessing the qualifications of view…

243.553. Installments payable, when. — 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…

243.560. Bond issues authorized, amount — rate — payable when — county treasurer to sell — cost, not obligation of county. — 1. The county commission may, on behalf of the district, issue bonds not to exceed ninety percent of the total amount of the assessments levied under the p…

243.561. County commission to appropriate money to pay principal and interest on bonds — money collected to be deposited in separate fund, purpose. — A sufficient amount of the assessment levied under the provisions of sections 243.550 to 243.553 shall be appropriated by the coun…

243.563. Proceeds of assessment insufficient to pay principal and interest on bonds, procedure — funds derived from bond sale, purpose. — 1. It shall be the duty of the county commission in making assessments, as provided in this chapter, to take into account the maturing bonds a…