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

247.520. Boundaries of district, how changed. — 1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 may be changed in the manner herein prescribed; but any change of boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization…

247.530. Owner may petition for exclusion of property from district — procedure. — 1. The owner or owners of any real or personal property contained within the boundaries of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such property be excluded and taken from said…

247.540. Certain property subject to taxes. — All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however,…

247.550. District may borrow money — procedure. — 1. Any district organized hereunder shall have power to borrow money for any of the purposes provided for in sections 247.230 to 247.670, and to issue bonds therefor. In such event the board of directors shall proceed substantiall…

247.560. General obligation bonds — tax levied before issue. — General obligation bonds, within the meaning of sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be bonds issued within the limitations of indebtedness prescribed under Section 26 of Article VI of the Constitution of Missouri for p…

247.570. Special revenue obligation bonds — revenues pledged before issue. — Special revenue obligation bonds, within the meaning of sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be bonds payable, both as to principal and interest, wholly and only out of the net income and revenues arising …

247.580. Bonds, when payable — interest, execution — denomination. — All general obligation bonds, issued under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall be payable serially, beginning not more than five years after date they bear, and the last installment thereof shall…

247.590. Issuance of current revenue bonds, when — execution. — During the period of time required to collect any tax or property within the district levied for general operating purposes the board may issue and sell current revenue bonds to bear interest at not to exceed six per…

247.600. Elections in district. — 1. Regular elections shall be held on municipal election days. 2. Returns of elections, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be made to the board of directors, shall be canvassed by said board, and the results spread upon the records of the…

247.620. Petition for dissolution of district, contents, where filed — submission of question. — Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall have been filed with the circuit cou…

247.630. Election on question of dissolution — effect — procedure if question approved. — 1. If the court shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the…

247.640. Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee. — No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon the district or person; an…

247.650. Defective notice, when given. — In any and every case where a notice is provided for in sections 247.230 to 247.670, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the court shall in that case order due…

247.660. Cases involving validity of organization, when heard. — All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a district, or a question of the validity of any proceeding under sections 247.230 to 247.670, shall be advanced on the docket as …

247.670. Sale of water outside district prohibited. — No metropolitan water supply district created under sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall sell water directly or indirectly to any area nor municipality or political subdivision not included in the legally constituted boundaries o…

248.010. Establishment of sanitary drainage districts — petition, by whom made — petition contents. — 1. Whenever the construction and maintenance of a common outlet or channel or of a system of drains or sewers for the drainage of any area in the state of Missouri shall become n…

248.020. Sanitary district — commission to determine boundaries, general provisions. — 1. The circuit court or courts so petitioned are hereby authorized to appoint three disinterested persons, one of whom shall be a civil engineer or surveyor, as commissioners to lay out and def…

248.030. Report of commissioners. — The commissioners shall make their report, accompanied by a map or plan showing the boundaries of the proposed district, in relation to the property lines intersected or followed by them, also in relation to city or county boundaries, to the co…

248.040. Election on organization of sanitary district. — 1. It shall then be the duty of said mayor and county commission or courts to submit to the voters of the proposed district the question of the organization and incorporation of the proposed sanitary district, with boundar…

248.050. General powers of district — judicial notice — costs of proceedings. — 1. When the board of trustees provided for in section 248.070 shall be appointed and organized, such sanitary district shall be considered in law and equity a body corporate and politic, known by the …

248.060. Procedure where drainage area is in two counties — what court has jurisdiction. — When a natural drainage area includes territory lying in part in a county and in part in a city exercising the functions of a county, or in two or more counties, then the proceedings herein…

248.070. Trustees — appointment — removal — employees. — 1. The board of trustees for the sanitary district shall be constituted as follows: The county commission shall appoint one; the mayor of the city, with the approval of the higher branch of the legislative department of the…

248.080. Powers of board. — Said board of trustees shall have power to pass all necessary rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees, and of said corporation, and for the carrying into effect the objects for which such sa…

248.090. Surveys and plans — adoption thereof. — 1. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make the necessary surveys, and to map out and define the several natural drainage areas in the district, and to lay out a general plan for the drainage thereof; besides the main …

248.100. Right-of-way through private property — proceedings. — 1. If, in the judgment of the board of trustees, it is necessary to acquire rights-of-way or easements for drainage purposes through private property, it shall, by ordinance duly certified, call upon the authority of…

248.110. Bids for work contracts. — 1. The board of trustees for the sanitary district shall let contracts for all work to be done, excepting in case of repairs or emergencies requiring prompt attention, in the construction of channels, drains or sewers, under the authority of th…

248.120. Special drainage tax — drainage fund. — 1. To provide means to carry into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed, the lawful authorities in the city, and the county commission in counties, in which sanitary districts may wholly or in part be situat…

248.130. Issuance of bonds — sinking fund — appeal. — 1. If, in the judgment of the board of trustees, the construction of the whole or any part of the general plan adopted is an urgent sanitary measure, and the means provided under section 248.120 are insufficient to do the work…

248.140. Issuance of vouchers, for what purposes. — The board of trustees of sanitary districts shall have the power to issue vouchers payable by the treasurer of the city or of the county in which such sanitary district is wholly or in part situated, out of any funds in such tre…

248.150. Who may construct sewers and drains — plans approved by trustees. — The lawful authorities of any city or incorporated town or village, the county commission of any county, individual owners or associations of such owners, shall have the right to construct sewers or drai…

248.160. Sanitary drainage of subdistrict — special tax bills. — 1. When sewers are needed for the complete or sanitary drainage of a subdistrict, being a part of a sanitary district not exceeding one thousand acres in area, such sewers may be built by the board of trustees creat…

248.170. Trustees may accept sewers or drains constructed by private persons. — The board of trustees created by this chapter, or the authorities of the city, town or village, or the county commission, shall have the power to accept from private persons or corporations any sewers…

248.180. Board of trustees to cease to exist, when. — When the object for which a sanitary district was organized is accomplished by the completion of the main channel, drains or sewers, contemplated and adopted in the general plan, and when the areas of divided jurisdiction are …

248.190. Duties of certain public officers. — It is hereby made the duty of the secretary of state, the mayors of cities, the circuit court, the county commission of counties, and all assessors, sheriffs, collectors, treasurers and other officials in the state of Missouri, to do …

248.200. Construction of chapter. — Nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to constitute a contract or grant between the state of Missouri and any sanitary district formed under its provisions, or to prevent, debar or deprive the state of Missouri from, at any…

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…