242.150. Election of board of supervisors. - Missouri Statutes

Election of board of supervisors.

242.150. Within thirty days after any drainage districtshall have been organized and incorporated under the provisionsof section 242.040 the circuit clerk of the county in which thearticles of association have been filed shall, upon giving noticeby causing publication to be made once a week for two consecutiveweeks in some newspaper published in each county in which landsof the district are situate, the last insertion to be at leastten days before the day of such meeting, call a meeting of theowners of real estate or other property situate in said district,at a day and hour specified in some public place in the county inwhich the district was organized, for the purpose of electing aboard of five supervisors, to be composed of owners of realestate in said district, two of whom at least shall be residentsof the county or counties in which such district is situate, orsome adjoining counties; the landowners, when assembled, shallorganize by the election of a chairman and secretary of themeeting who shall conduct the election; at such election each andevery acre of land in the district shall represent one share, andeach owner shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxyfor every acre of land owned by him in such district, and thefive persons receiving the highest number of votes shall bedeclared elected as supervisors; and said supervisors shallimmediately by lot determine the terms of their office, whichshall be respectively one, two, three, four and five years, andthey shall serve until their successors shall have been electedand qualified.

(RSMo 1939 § 12327)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10746; 1919 § 4381; 1909 § 5507

(1955) Where acts of board in levying tax were acts of de facto officers, the validity of such acts may not be questioned in action to collect tax on ground supervisors were not legally elected. Ft. Osage Dr. Dist. v. Jackson Co. (Mo.), 275 S.W.2d 326.