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

249.010. Sewer district organization — petition for. — Whenever the construction and maintenance of a system of sewers or the use of existing sewers for any contiguous area in the state of Missouri shall become necessary for the preservation of the public health or public welfare…

249.020. Determination of population. — The last preceding federal census shall be used as a basis and for the purposes of ascertaining and determining the population of the counties that may come within the provisions of sections 249.010 to 249.420. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12680…

249.030. Location of sewer district. — A sewer district may be established and incorporated under sections 249.010 to 249.420 partly within and partly without or wholly without or wholly within one or more cities, towns or villages. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12677)

249.040. Sanitary engineer — appointment, oath, duties, reports, contents. — Upon the filing of such petition and bond the circuit court is hereby directed, within ten days thereafter, to appoint a competent sanitary engineer who may be an individual, copartnership, or a corporat…

249.050. Notice of hearing. — Immediately after the report of the engineer has been filed it shall be the duty of the court to fix a time at which it will hear objections as provided in section 249.060 and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court to cause a notice t…

249.060. Objections heard and determined by court — may alter boundaries — costs to include what — effect of incorporation. — 1. On or before the time fixed by the court for hearing objections as herein provided any person owning property that will be affected by the organization…

249.070. Election on incorporation — notice. — 1. After the incorporation of the district aforesaid it shall be the duty of the court to order the election authority to call and hold an election; said election to be called and held in the manner herein provided, at which election…

249.080. Form of ballot for election to incur indebtedness. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the ______ sewer district incur indebtedness in the amount of ______ dollars and issue bonds in evidence thereof? ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12644…

249.090. Trustees — bonds issued — tax for interest and sinking fund. — The three candidates for office of trustee who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected trustees with terms as provided in section 249.140. If it appears that the constitutionally r…

249.1000. Publicly owned sewer treatment works, responsible for whole sewer system, when — exceptions. — A publicly owned treatment works that has ownership of interceptor and local sewers shall be responsible for the entire public sewer system, except that the operation and main…

249.110. Tax levy to be authorized by voters — election expenses, how paid. — The board of trustees shall have no power to levy or collect any taxes for the payment of any indebtedness incurred by said district unless and until the voters of the district shall have authorized the…

249.1100. Consolidation of sewer districts permitted, when, procedure. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in Section 30(a) of Article VI of the Missouri Constitution, regardless of being a sewer district pursuant to chapter 204 or this chapter, when the governing bodies of two or …

249.1103. Public hearing to be held prior to election for consolidation of sewer districts. — The governing body of the county receiving the proposal pursuant to section 249.1100 shall set a day for a public hearing prior to election for the creation of a consolidated sewer distr…

249.1106. Ballot language for consolidation of sewer districts — submission of question to voters in both districts simultaneously. — 1. The ballot upon which the question of creating a consolidated sewer district is submitted to the qualified voters residing within each existing…

249.1109. Combining of original districts after consolidation approved. — At the time of the effective date of the consolidation, all the property of the original districts shall be combined and administered as one unit, which shall be subject to the liens, liabilities and obliga…

249.1112. Board of directors, members, terms, vacancies, expenses. — 1. A sewer district created pursuant to sections 249.1100 to 249.1127 shall have a board of directors which shall consist of five members, appointed by the governing body of the county in which the consolidated …

249.1115. Powers, privileges and duties of original districts retained after consolidation. — The consolidated sewer district shall retain all the powers, privileges and duties therein conferred and provided upon each original individual sewer district pursuant to chapter 204, or…

249.1118. Dissolution procedure. — Dissolution of a sewer district created pursuant to section 249.1106 shall follow the procedures established in sections 67.950 to 67.955. ­­-------- (L. 2001 H.B. 501)

84.020. Board of police commissioners — members — officers. — 1. There is hereby created within any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than thirty-four thousand but less than thirty-four thousand one hundred inhabitants, any cou…

249.1155. Septic systems to be maintained or pumped every five years — proof submitted — fee. — After August 28, 2004, any county within a watershed improvement district may require that all septic systems be maintained or pumped every five years by a licensed provider. In the ev…

249.120. Bonds — denominations — interest — registry — deposit of funds. — 1. Such bonds shall be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars or some multiple thereof; shall be payable to bearer, not later than twenty years from their date; shall bear interest from their date …

249.130. Taxes levied, when and how. — 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of trustees of the incorporated sewer district on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year to certify to the county commission of the county wherein such incorporated district is s…

249.132. Extension of district boundaries, procedure — sanitary engineer appointed — report of findings. — 1. Whenever any sewer district shall have been organized as provided by sections 249.010 to 249.420, and it shall appear necessary, convenient or advisable to extend the bou…

249.134. Hearings on proposed extension, notice — election, when ordered — decree of extension entered. — 1. Immediately after the report of the engineer has been filed, the court shall fix a time at which it will hear such petition or any objections thereto and it shall be the d…

249.136. Indebtedness authorized — limitations — election required. — 1. Any sewer district organized under sections 249.010 to 249.420, or whose boundaries have been extended as provided, shall have the power to incur further indebtedness of the district and issue bonds of the d…

249.138. Resubmission of indebtedness question after rejection — second resubmission on order of court. — 1. In the event that any proposition for the incurring of indebtedness fails of adoption in the election provided in section 249.070 or provided in section 249.136, then, at …

249.140. Trustees, qualifications, election, term. — 1. Any candidate for the office of trustee in the district shall be an American citizen over the age of twenty-five years and shall have been a resident within the county within which the district is situated for more than four…

249.150. Biennial elections. — On the first Tuesday in April after the expiration of two years from the date of the election of the first board of trustees for respective terms of two, four and six years each, an election shall be called and held by the board of trustees and ever…

249.160. Organization of board of trustees. — The trustees within five days after their election and qualification shall meet and organize the board by selection from among their number one to act as president of the board, one to act as treasurer of the board, and one to act as …

[Repealed or reserved.]

249.180. Vacancies, how filled. — In the event of any vacancy in the office of trustee caused by death, resignation, refusal to act or in any wise, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment made by the remaining trustee or trustees. In the event the remaining trustees cannot ag…

249.190. Failure of trustee to qualify — compensation of trustees. — 1. In the event that any trustee elected or appointed under the provisions of sections 249.010 to 249.420 shall fail to qualify as such trustee or fail to take and subscribe his oath or affirmation of office wit…

249.200. Trustees to furnish bonds. — All trustees elected for any sewer district formed under the provisions of sections 249.010 to 249.420 shall furnish bond with good and sufficient sureties in favor of the district for the faithful accounting for all funds under their control…

249.210. Trustees shall maintain record of proceedings. — The board of trustees of any district corporation incorporated under sections 249.010 to 249.420 shall cause to be kept a well-bound book entitled "Record of Board of Trustees of ______ District", in which shall be recorde…

249.220. Trustees may promulgate rules and regulations. — The sewer district through its board of trustees may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations concerning the construction, maintenance and use of the sewer system or systems constructed and/or maintained by the district…

249.230. Trustees to employ an attorney. — The board of trustees shall within thirty days after organizing, employ an attorney to act for the district and to advise such board. Such employment shall be evidenced by an agreement, in writing, which shall, as far as possible, specif…

249.240. Trustees to provide for payment of salaries, fees. — The board of trustees, except where otherwise provided, shall by resolution, at the time of hiring or appointing, provide for the compensation for work done and necessary expenses incurred by any officer, engineer, att…

249.250. Unpaid warrants to draw interest. — Whenever any warrant issued under sections 249.010 to 249.420 is not paid when presented to the president of the board of trustees of the district, because of lack of funds in the treasury, such fact shall be endorsed on the back of su…

249.255. Public sewer district lien for unpaid charges — disconnection of services. — 1. Should a public sewer district created and organized pursuant to constitutional or statutory authority place a lien upon a customer's property for unpaid sewer charges, the lien, once properl…

249.260. Trustees to appoint engineer — adoption of sewer plan. — 1. Within thirty days after organizing, the board of trustees may appoint a competent sanitary engineer as chief engineer, who may be an individual, copartnership or corporation, and who shall engage such assistant…

249.270. Purchase of maps. — Should the board of trustees purchase any existing surveys, maps, profiles and/or plans from any sewer district in liquidation they shall pay to the person or persons liquidating said district the agreed price therefor and said amount shall be distrib…

249.290. Board may construct and maintain system — not limited to plan on estimates of engineer. — In order to provide a sewer system for the lands and other property and improvements in the district, the board of trustees is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maint…

249.300. Sewage disposal plants. — The authority of sanitary sewer districts to construct a system or systems of sanitary sewers as provided in sections 249.010 to 249.420 shall include the authority to construct sewerage disposal plant or plants for the disposal of sewage, and t…

249.310. Trustees charged with maintenance of system. — It shall be the duty of such board of trustees to supervise the maintenance of such sewer system constructed under its supervision, or as may hereafter under proper authority be placed under its supervision, and to see that …

249.320. Appropriation of land. — The board of trustees of sewer districts organized under sections 249.010 to 249.420 shall not have the right to enter upon or appropriate any lands for rights-of-way or other works of the district except by contract with the owner or owners, unt…

249.330. Bids for improvement contracts. — 1. The board of trustees is hereby authorized and empowered to construct the works and improvements provided for in the plan adopted, by letting a contract or contracts for such works and improvements either as a whole or in sections, an…

249.340. Contractual procedure and work specifications. — 1. Whenever it shall be ordered by the board of trustees of the sewer district that any sewer or system of sewers in the incorporated sewer district be constructed in accordance with the provisions of sections 249.010 to 2…

249.350. Payments on contract — inspection of work. — 1. The board of trustees shall order such amounts paid on the contract as may be certified by the chief engineer, and as may be provided in the contract covering such work, but full payment for any work to be performed by the …

249.360. Subdivision of district. — The board shall subdivide the district into convenient subdistricts not larger than one thousand acres in extent, and prescribe the boundaries thereof within which the sewers and drains necessary to complete the drainage shall be constructed at…

249.370. Powers of board of trustees after adoption of plans. — When the plans referred to in section 249.360 with reference to subdistricts have been adopted by the board of trustees and the resolution of adoption published as provided therein, the board of trustees shall have t…