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Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered and the county commission ascertains and recites in such order that the petitioners stated in their petition that they desire that the cost of the improvement be payable in more than one installment the special tax ordered assessed shall be payable in the number of installments, not exceeding fifteen, so found to be desired, which installments shall be equal, and each tract of land in the district shall be charged with interest which shall be apportioned against the lands in the district by the same rule of apportionment as the principal special tax.
2. The payments of such installments, and such interest charge and the payments thereof, shall be as follows:
(1) If such order is made on or after the first day of January and before the first day of November of any year, the first installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December following the date of such order, with interest on the principal of the tax, at the rate of six percent per annum, from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such installment becomes payable, and one installment shall become payable on the thirty-first day of each December thereafter with interest at such rate on the portion of the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December until the first day of the following April, until the entire tax is paid.
(2) If such order is made on or after the first day of November of any year, the first installment of such special tax shall be payable on the thirty-first day of December of the next year after the date of such order, with interest at such rate on the principal tax from the date of such order until the first day of April after the date such first installment becomes payable, and thereafter an installment shall be payable on the thirty-first day of each December, with interest at such rate on the principal tax then unpaid, from the thirty-first day of the previous December to the first day of the following April, until the entire principal of the tax is paid.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Missouri Revised Statutes Title XIV. Roads and Waterways § 233.375. Special tax payable in installments--interest--special assessments - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/mo/title-xiv-roads-and-waterways/mo-rev-st-233-375/
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