Effective - 28 Aug 1939
47.320. Upon division — payment of indebtedness. — Whenever any new county is formed from territory taken from one or more older counties, or whenever any territory is taken from one county and attached to another, the new county so formed, or the territory so stricken off, shall be liable for its part of all the indebtedness or liabilities of the older county from which the same was detached, unless where, by contract between such new and old county, it is otherwise provided, and shall cause the same to be levied and collected as other taxes, and paid into the county treasury; and the county clerk of such county shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of his own county in favor of the treasurer of the old county from which the territory was taken for the amount so collected and paid in; and if any such detached territory shall fail to make provisions for paying the same, the county commission of the old county from which the same was taken shall cause the same to be levied and collected from the territory detached, in the same manner and to the same extent as if said detached territory had remained a part of the original county. In all cases where it is desired to strike territory from one county and attach the same to another, the county to which any such territory is to be attached may assume the payment of that portion of the indebtedness due to the older county, and which would otherwise have to be paid by the territory detached; but such fact shall be specified in the petition to the county commission and published in the notice of the election for the proposed change, and if not so stated in the notice, said county shall not be deemed to have assumed the payment of such liabilities, but the same shall be paid by the territory so detached as herein specified.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13698)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12039; 1919 § 9441; 1909 § 3662
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government
Chapter 47 - Townships, Removal of County Seats and Division of Counties
Section 47.010 - County may be subdivided into townships — changes.
Section 47.020 - Description of townships to be recorded — where.
Section 47.030 - Removal of county seat — vote of people.
Section 47.040 - County seat commissioners to be appointed if proposition adopted.
Section 47.050 - County seat commissioners — appointment — notice of meetings.
Section 47.060 - Meeting of commissioners to find new county seat.
Section 47.070 - Oath of county seat commissioners.
Section 47.080 - County seat commissioners to select new county seat, where.
Section 47.090 - May purchase land.
Section 47.100 - Donation of money or buildings may be accepted.
Section 47.110 - Deed to be executed.
Section 47.120 - Report of county seat commissioners to circuit court — proceedings thereon.
Section 47.130 - Purchase money, how paid.
Section 47.140 - Proceedings where title is not approved.
Section 47.150 - Vacancy in county seat commission, how filled.
Section 47.160 - Compensation of county seat commissioner.
Section 47.170 - On removal of county seat, commissioner to be appointed.
Section 47.180 - Bond, where deposited, recorded.
Section 47.190 - Town may be laid off into lots.
Section 47.200 - Sales and reservations of lots.
Section 47.210 - Purchase money of lots, how secured.
Section 47.220 - Commissioner for removal of the county seat to make deed, when.
Section 47.230 - Proceedings on default of payment for lots.
Section 47.240 - Prosecuting attorney to prosecute actions.
Section 47.250 - Forfeited lots, how redeemed.
Section 47.260 - Accounts to be kept by commissioner for removal of the county seat — settlements.
Section 47.270 - Purchase money from sales of lots, how applied.
Section 47.280 - County commission to supervise commissioner for removal of the county seat.
Section 47.290 - Compensation of commissioner to find new county seat.
Section 47.300 - Notice of the holding of courts at new county seat.
Section 47.310 - Proceedings for dividing counties.
Section 47.320 - Upon division — payment of indebtedness.
Section 47.330 - Actions — where and how prosecuted in case of division of county.
Section 47.340 - Personal representatives of estate — conservators, settlements, where made.