Effective - 28 Aug 1978
235.040. Petition may be amended — filing fee. — 1. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the county commission may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors in the description of the territory, or in any other particular. Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district, revising the boundaries of the proposed district, or recommending another chosen name for the district, or recommending other voters for the first board of directors, may be filed at any time before a hearing is had on the petition, and shall, together with the first petition, be regarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the county commission the same as though filed with the first petition placed on file.
2. There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to be used by the county commission to pay for publication notices in connection with the hearing and for the submission of the question.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 4, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIV - Roads and Waterways
Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts
Section 235.010 - Street light maintenance districts (first class counties).
Section 235.020 - Purpose of district — location.
Section 235.030 - Petition for organization, contents.
Section 235.040 - Petition may be amended — filing fee.
Section 235.050 - Notice to be published, when.
Section 235.060 - Protesting petition.
Section 235.080 - County commission findings and orders to be filed, where.
Section 235.090 - Board members to qualify, how — bonds.
Section 235.100 - Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary.
Section 235.110 - Treasurer's bond — financial statement.
Section 235.120 - Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal.
Section 235.130 - Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled.
Section 235.140 - Election of new board members, when.
Section 235.150 - Powers — authority and privileges of board.
Section 235.160 - Power of taxation.
Section 235.170 - Board to fix rate of taxation.
Section 235.175 - Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate.
Section 235.180 - Board to certify rate of levy to county commission.
Section 235.190 - Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes.
Section 235.200 - Property to be sold for delinquent taxes — manner.
Section 235.220 - Boundaries may be altered to exclude certain territory, how.
Section 235.230 - Property subject to taxation.
Section 235.240 - Annexation of district by municipality.
Section 235.250 - Dissolution of district, election for, when required — form of ballot.
Section 235.260 - Dissolution of district, when — procedure.
Section 235.270 - Appointment of trustee to liquidate district.