Section 235.190

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS

Chapter 235

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   

  235.190.  Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes. — It shall be the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within the county to levy the taxes provided in this law, and it shall be the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect such taxes at the time and in the form and manner and with like interest and penalties as other taxes are collected; and when collected, to pay the same to the district ordering its levy and collection or entitled to the same, and the payment of such collections shall be made monthly to the treasurer of the district and paid into the depositary thereof to the credit of the district.  All taxes levied under this law, together with interest thereon and penalties for default in payment thereof, and all costs of collecting the same, shall, until paid, constitute a perpetual lien on and against the property taxed, and such lien shall be on a parity with the tax lien of general taxes, and no sale of such property to enforce any general tax or other lien shall extinguish the perpetual lien of district taxes.

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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 19)