249.450. Number of petitioners required--district created by county commission, corporate powers.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

249.450. Number of petitioners required--district created by county commission, corporate powers.

Number of petitioners required--district created by countycommission, corporate powers.

249.450. 1. In any county having not less than five hundredthousand and not more than seven hundred thousand inhabitants, inany county which adjoins or which contains a portion of a cityhaving more than four hundred thousand inhabitants, and in anycounty of the first class not having a charter form ofgovernment, whenever a petition signed by ten percent of thevoters of the proposed district is filed with the county clerk ofany such county, or whenever such county commission deems theconstruction of sewers necessary for sanitary or other purposes,such county commission after consultation with the sewer engineershall adopt a resolution to establish such sewer district ordistricts. The resolution shall describe generally the size andlocation of the proposed sewer district or districts.

2. In any county of classes two, three or four which are notsubject to subsection 1, the county commission of the county,upon the filing of a petition signed by ten percent of the votersof the proposed district, shall, after consultation with thesewer engineer, adopt a resolution to establish the sewerdistrict. The resolution shall describe generally the size andlocation of the proposed sewer district.

3. Any sewer district created by resolution of the countycommission in accordance with this section shall be a bodycorporate and a political subdivision of the state of Missouri,shall be capable of suing and being sued in contract in itscorporate name, and shall be capable of holding such real andpersonal property necessary for corporate purposes. The countycommission shall serve as the governing body of any sewerdistrict created in accordance with this section.