Effective 28 Aug 1939

243.300. County commission to levy tax on benefits assessed — form of county clerk's schedule. — 1. Immediately after the approval and confirmation of the report of the viewers, the county commission shall, by order of record, levy a tax of such portion of said benefits on all lands and other property in the district, to which benefits have been assessed, as may be found necessary by the county commission to pay the cost of the completion of the proposed improvement and the payment of all expenses incident thereto plus ten percent of said total amount for emergencies.

2. The said tax shall be apportioned to and levied on each tract of land or other property in said district in proportion to the benefits assessed and not in excess thereof, and in case bonds are issued as provided in this chapter and hereafter, then the amount of the interest, as estimated by said county commission, which will accrue on such bonds shall be included and added to the said tax, but the interest to accrue on account of the issuing of said bonds shall not be construed as a part of the cost of construction in determining whether or not the expenses of making said improvements is or is not equal to or in excess of the benefits assessed.

3. If deemed advisable the county commission may, by its order of record, provide for the collection of the taxes levied hereunder in not more than twenty annual installments, and in such event it shall fix the number of installments and the amount to be collected each year. The said installments shall be payable and shall be collected in each year at the same time that state and county taxes are due and payable.

4. As soon as said total tax is levied, the county clerk shall, at the expense of the district, prepare a list and schedule of all taxes levied in substantially the following form:

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(RSMo 1939 § 12412)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10823; 1919 § 4491