2015 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE X TAXATION AND REVENUE (135-155)
Chapter 137 Assessment and Levy of Property Taxes
Section 137.565 Election for tax--petition--duty of county commission.

137.565. Whenever ten or more voters residing in any general or special road district in any county in this state shall petition the county commission of the county in which such district is located, asking that such commission submit the question in such district for the purpose of voting for or against the levy of the tax provided for in the second sentence of the first paragraph of Section 12 of Article X of the Constitution of Missouri, it shall be the duty of the county commission, upon the filing of such petition, to submit the question. The petition so filed shall set out the duration of the tax to be levied in a period of one, two, three, or four years and the ballot to be used for voting shall specify the number of years duration of the tax levy, but in no event shall the duration of the tax levy be for a period of more than four years. Such submission shall be made by an order entered of record setting forth the date and the rate of tax the commission will levy, which rate shall not exceed thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation on all taxable real and tangible personal property in the district.

(L. 1945 p. 1478 § 8529, A.L. 1949 p. 555, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)