Missouri Revised Statutes § 204.255 - Secretary to certify costs — board to levy tax — collection and remittance of tax

204.255. Secretary to certify costs — board to levy tax — collection and remittance of tax. — 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of trustees of the common sewer district, on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, to certify to the common sewer district board of trustees the amount of money that will be required during the next succeeding year to pay interest falling due on bonds issued and the principal of bonds maturing in such year, and the amount necessary to cover the estimated expenses of maintaining such sewer subdistrict system in good condition, or renting or leasing of existing sewer facilities and of maintaining the subdistrict with its necessary expenses. 2. On receipt of such certificate it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the common sewer district to levy such a rate of taxes upon all the taxable property in the sewer subdistrict as will produce a sum of money sufficient for the purposes aforesaid; provided, that the board of trustees of the common sewer district shall have no authority to levy such tax until the voters of the common sewer district or subdistrict shall have voted to incur such indebtedness. 3. On such order being made it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the common sewer district to cause such rate of taxation to be extended upon the tax books against all the taxable property in the sewer subdistrict and the same shall be collected and remitted to the board of trustees of the common sewer district by the collector of the revenue of the county at the time, in the manner, and by the same means as state, county, school and other taxes are collected and remitted. All of the laws, rights and remedies provided by the laws of this state for the collection of state, county, school and other taxes shall be applicable to the collection of taxes herein authorized to be collected. (L. 1992 H.B. 1803 § 5, A.L. 1993 S.B. 80, et al.)