242.060. Consolidation of adjacent districts. - Missouri Statutes

Consolidation of adjacent districts.

242.060. 1. Any two or more adjacent districts, whetherincorporated in the same or different counties, may be united andconsolidated in one district, and such new district and the boardof supervisors thereof shall have the rights, powers andprivileges of any districts organized under sections 242.010 to242.690.

2. In order to effect such consolidation, the board ofsupervisors of each of the original districts shall call anelection in the same manner as elections for supervisors, statingthe time, place and object of such election. If a majority ofthe acreage voting in each district vote in favor of theproposition to unite and consolidate such districts, the board ofsupervisors of each district shall present a petition to thecircuit court of the county in which the greatest amount of theland is located, accompanied with a complete return of saidelection, in which petition shall be stated the name of theoriginal district, when incorporated, the names of the owners ofthe lands and the boundaries of the district.

3. When said petition has been filed the circuit clerk shallgive notice of such filing in the manner provided for givingnotice in section 242.030, said notice to state the contents ofsaid petition and the objects sought and the date on which saidmatter is to be heard.

4. Any person owning land in either of said districts, on orbefore the date set out in the notice on which said matter is setto be heard may file objections to the regularity or sufficiencyof any of the proceedings had in the premises, and if suchobjections are overruled, or if no objections are made, the courtshall make an order that any two or more of the several districtsso asking to be united shall be united and consolidated as onedistrict, under some appropriate designation, with all therights, powers and privileges of such districts organized undersections 242.010 to 242.690 and, except as hereinafter provided,the lands so included in the new district shall be subject to allliens, liabilities and obligations of the original districts, anda new board of supervisors shall be elected, as is now providedin case of election of supervisors, and all orders made in regardto extension of time, boundaries or uniting districts shall bespread on the records of the circuit court, and a certified copythereof shall be filed with the recorder of deeds of each countyin which any of such land is located, and also with the secretaryof state, and said recorder shall receive a fee of one dollar forfiling and preserving such certificate; provided, however, thatif any district included in any consolidated district shall haveissued bonds which are outstanding at the time of suchconsolidation, the taxes levied to pay such bonds and theinterest thereon shall be an obligation of only the propertywithin such component district.

(RSMo 1939 § 12372, A.L. 1959 H.B. 312)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10791; 1919 § 4421; 1909 § 5501

CROSS REFERENCE:

Consolidation of adjoining districts and reorganization under Chap. 242, RSMo 243.450