Missouri Revised Statutes Title XV. Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply § 243.030. Petition to be filed--bond required

(1) The necessity for the proposed improvement, as well as the starting point, route and terminus thereof;

(2) The boundary of the proposed district;

(3) The names of the owners of lands or other property within the boundary of said proposed district, together with a description of the said lands or other property owned by each; when the name of the owner of any of said land or other property is unknown the fact shall be stated in the petition.

There shall be filed, with such petition, a bond in the sum of not less than fifty dollars per mile, payable to the state of Missouri, signed by one or more of the petitioners, with two or more good and sufficient freehold sureties, to be approved by the county commission, conditioned for the payment of all costs and expenses if the prayer of the petition be not granted or the petition be from any cause dismissed. No landowner having signed a petition for the formation of a drainage district under this chapter shall have his name stricken from such petition without the written consent of the owners of a majority of the acreage represented by those signing said petition.