245.030. Adjacent districts may consolidate--petition, hearing and decree.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

245.030. Adjacent districts may consolidate--petition, hearing and decree.

Adjacent districts may consolidate--petition, hearing and decree.

245.030. 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 all the rights, powers andprivileges of any district organized under sections 245.010 to245.280.

2. In order to effect such consolidation, the board ofsupervisors of each of the original districts shall call anelection in the same manner as election 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 landis located, accompanied with a complete return of said election,in which petition shall be stated the name of the originaldistrict, when incorporated, the names of the owners of the landsand the boundaries of the district.

3. When said petition has been filed, the circuit clerkshall give notice of such filing in the manner provided forgiving notice in section 245.020, said notice to state thecontents of said petition and the objects sought and the date onwhich said matter is to be heard.

4. Any person owning land in either of said districts, onor before the date set out in the notice on which said matter isset to be heard, may file objections to the regularity orsufficiency of any of the proceedings had in the premises, and ifsuch objections are overruled, or if no objections are made, thecourt shall make an order that any two or more of the severaldistricts so asking to be united shall be united and consolidatedas one district, under some appropriate designation, with all therights, powers and privileges of districts organized undersections 245.010 to 245.280 and except as hereinafter providedthe 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 lands is located, and also with thesecretary of state, who shall immediately send a certified copyto the U. S. Corp of Engineers District office where the leveedistrict is located, and said recorder shall receive a fee of onedollar for filing and preserving such certificates; provided,however, that if any district included in any consolidateddistrict shall have issued bonds which are outstanding at thetime of such consolidation, the taxes levied to pay such bondsand the interest thereon shall be an obligation of only theproperty within such component district.