233.385. Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills. - Missouri Statutes

Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills.

233.385. If any such special tax bills be unpaid on thefirst day of February after becoming payable, the commissionersshall cause suits to be instituted for foreclosure of the lienthereof. Such suits shall be instituted in the circuit court ofthe county by any attorney the commissioners may designate and towhom they shall order the county collector to deliver such unpaidspecial tax bills. The road district shall be plaintiff in suchsuits and any and all parties having an interest in the propertyto be affected thereby may be made defendants. In such suits,each special tax bill shall be prima facie evidence of a validlien in favor of the district, and upon the land describedtherein, for the amount stated therein. In every suit soinstituted there shall be taxed as costs, in the favor of theattorney instituting the suit, a reasonable attorney's fee, to befixed by the court.

(RSMo 1939 § 8848)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 8188; 1919 § 10949