SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 597
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JOHNSON.
Pre-filed December 10, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 12, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Economic Development.
Reported from the Committee February 2, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 16, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2672.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 52.275, RSMo 1994, relating to drainage districts, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 52.275, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 52.275, to read as follows:
52.275. The county and township collectors for collecting taxes for drainage and levee districts shall collect on behalf of the county and pay into the county general fund the following amounts: In counties of the first class, except first class counties with a charter form of government, one percent on current taxes; in counties of the second class having less than one hundred thousand inhabitants and in counties of the third class, one and one-half percent of the amount he collects on current taxes; in counties of the third class where the collector is required by law to maintain a branch office, two and one-fourth percent of the amount he collects on current taxes; in counties of the fourth class, two percent of the amount he collects on current taxes; and in counties of the second class having less than one hundred thousand inhabitants and in all counties of the third and fourth classes, two percent of the amount he collects on delinquent drainage and levee taxes.