235.040. Petition may be amended--filing fee. - Missouri Statutes

Petition may be amended--filing fee.

235.040. 1. No petition with the requisite signatures shallbe declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but thecounty commission may at any time permit the petition to beamended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors inthe description of the territory, or in any other particular.Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition forthe organization of the same district, revising the boundaries ofthe proposed district, or recommending another chosen name forthe district, or recommending other voters for the first board ofdirectors, may be filed at any time before a hearing is had onthe petition, and shall, together with the first petition, beregarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the countycommission the same as though filed with the first petitionplaced on file.

2. There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, afiling fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to be used by thecounty commission to pay for publication notices in connectionwith the hearing and for the submission of the question.

(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 4, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)