Section 246.090

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY

Chapter 246

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   

  246.090.  Form of notice of meeting. — 1.  Whenever the board of supervisors at a regular or special meeting deems it expedient and necessary for the best interest of the district that tax anticipation warrants be issued for the purposes stated in section 246.080, they shall enter in the minutes of the meeting an order setting forth the expediency and necessity directing the secretary to draw up a notice which shall be substantially in the following form:

Notice to landowners in ______ drainage district. All landowners in ______ drainage district are hereby notified that a meeting of such will be held on the ______ day of ______, 20______, ______ o'clock, at ______ for the purpose of voting on the proposition of authorizing the board of supervisors to issue tax anticipation warrants, bearing ______ percent interest. The warrants to be used for the purpose of ______ for ______ dollars, payable as follows: ______
By order of the board of supervisors.
		__________________
		Secretary.

  2.  The secretary shall cause the notice to be published by three weekly insertions in some newspaper in the county containing the district or the greatest portion thereof, or in some adjoining county if none in containing county, the last insertion to be not less than ten days before the date set.  The publisher shall file proof of publication with the secretary before the day set for meeting.  Upon filing of the proof by the secretary, the notice shall be conclusively deemed sufficient and legal notice of publication thereof.  At the day set each landowner may cast one vote for each acre or fraction thereof owned by him for or against the proposition of issuing the warrants as set out in the notice.  If two-thirds of the acres in the district are voted for the proposition, then the tellers shall so certify to the board, and the board shall make an order to the secretary to duly enter the results in the records of the district.  Thereafter the board shall proceed to issue the authorized tax anticipation warrants as authorized.

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(RSMo 1939 § 12615, A.L. 1961 p. 463)

Prior revision: 1929 § 11026