Section 233.245

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS

Chapter 233

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   

  233.245.  Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment. — 1.  The owner of any tract of land against which such special tax shall have been levied may, within thirty days after the date of said order, elect to pay all of said special tax in one installment on or before the date of payment of the first installment thereof, by filing with the clerk of the county commission his written election, signed by him, so to do, in which election he shall state the tract, or tracts, upon which he so elects to pay; and thereupon the clerk shall note the filing of said election and the date of such filing, on the tax record book opposite the description of such tract, or tracts, and forthwith make out and deliver to the county collector a tax bill payable in one installment, for the amount charged or chargeable against each of such tracts, with interest from the date of said order to the first day of April next after the first installment of the tax levied is payable.

  2.  All tax bills so issued shall constitute liens, be subject to penalties and interest and be collectible in the same manner as those payable in more than one installment; and they shall in all other respects conform to the provisions hereof, relating to the issue, effect, payment and collection of such installment tax bills.

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(RSMo 1939 § 8722)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 8073; 1919 § 10845