Effective 28 Aug 1939

242.590. Drainage tax to constitute a lien — certification of drainage tax record. — 1. All drainage taxes provided for in sections 242.010 to 242.690, together with all penalties for default in payment of the same, all costs in collecting the same, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court and taxed as costs in the action brought to enforce payment, shall, from date of filing the certificate herein described in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county wherein the lands and properties are situate, until paid, constitute a lien, to which only the lien of the state for general state, county, school and road taxes shall be paramount, upon all the lands and other property against which such taxes shall be levied as is provided in said sections. Such lien shall be evidenced by a certificate substantially in the following form, to wit:

2. The certificate and tables specified in this section shall be prepared in a well-bound book and filed in the office of each of the recorders of the counties having lands in said district as the same may affect the land or other property in his county, where the same shall become a permanent record of the office. The said book or books shall be prepared by the secretary of the board of supervisors at the expense of the drainage district, shall be designated as the "Drainage Tax Record", and each recorder shall receive a fee of one dollar for filing said book and preserving the same.

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(RSMo 1939 § 12345)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10764; 1919 § 4399; 1909 § 5523