Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 278

Soil Conservation

←278.090

Section 278.100.1

278.110→

August 28, 2015

Establishment of soil and water conservation districts.

278.100. 1. Whenever the state soil and water districts commission

shall receive from any county or any township or townships thereof a petition

declaring that the saving of the soil and water in that county or in the

specified township or townships is in their opinion a public necessity, said

petition being signed by not less than twenty-five land representatives in

each township or by fifty percent of the land representatives, if there are

less than fifty land representatives in any township in the area covered by

the petition, the soil and water commission, when satisfied that such

petition is valid, shall call for and conduct within the area described by

such petition, a public hearing of land representatives within that area, on

the question of establishing that area as a soil and water conservation

district. If from this hearing it shall appear to the soil and water

commission that there is a general desire for establishing as a soil and

water district the county or the specified township or townships, the

commission shall without delay determine by a survey of the conditions of

farm land in the county or specified township or townships whether the

establishment of that area as a soil and water conservation district is

actually necessary and administratively feasible. Upon reaching a favorable

conclusion on these matters, the commission shall call for and conduct, or

cause to be conducted, a referendum by ballot of land representatives within

that area, on the question of establishing the county or the specified

township or townships as a soil and water conservation district.



2. If a majority of all land representatives voting in this referendum,

do vote in favor of this establishment, and if in the judgment of the soil

and water commission the total number of votes cast does amount to a

substantial expression of opinion, the soil and water commission shall at once

declare the county or township, or townships thereof, as specified by the

referendum, to be established as a soil and water conservation district; but

if these provisions are not met, the soil and water commission shall at once

declare the question of establishment to have been lost, although another

referendum on this question may be called by the soil and water commission

for this area at any time after two years from the date of this declaration,

provided the commission meanwhile has received evidence of a more general

desire for the establishment of a soil and water district for this area.

Subsequent to the establishment of a township or townships as a soil and

water district any other township or townships in the same county may be added

to this soil and water district by the procedure used for the first

establishment.



(L. 1943 p. 839 § 4, A.L. 1961 p. 31)







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