2016 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS (226-238)
Chapter 233 Incorporated Road Districts
Section 233.015 Adoption of special road district law--election.

233.015. 1. Sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall be in force and take effect only in such prescribed territory as shall adopt the same by a majority of the voters who shall vote for and against its adoption at such election. Whenever fifty voters, who are voters of any such proposed special road district, shall file a petition with the county commission of any county, asking the commission to submit sections 233.010 to 233.165 to a vote of the people of such proposed road district for their adoption, the county commission of such county shall make an order of record that sections 233.010 to 233.165, describing the same by its title and the date of its approval, be submitted to the voters of such proposed road district at an election.

2. If the majority of the votes cast for and against the adoption of sections 233.010 to 233.165 be for its adoption, the commission shall declare the result of the vote thereon by an order of record, and shall make an order of record declaring sections 233.010 to 233.165 to be the law in such special road district, the same to take effect and be in force from and after a day to be named in such order within ten days.

(RSMo 1939 § 8704, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 8055; 1919 § 10829; 1909 § 10607