Effective 28 Aug 2005
139.460. Collector-treasurer — school taxes, collection — apportioned and kept — school districts. — 1. The collector-treasurer shall be required to draw or procure a plat of each school district or fractional part thereof in the collector-treasurer's county, and shall keep a true and correct account of all school moneys collected by him or her in each school district or fractional part thereof; and when said collector pays the moneys so collected by him or her to the township treasurer or school district treasurer, he or she shall state the amount collected from each school district or fractional part thereof, and take duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he or she shall retain, and file the other with the township clerk.
2. As soon as the school funds are apportioned, the township treasurer shall apply to the county collector-treasurer for the school moneys belonging to each school district or fractional part thereof, in his or her township, and the county collector-treasurer shall pay over to him or her all of said school money, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he or she shall file with the township clerk and one of which shall be retained.
3. The township treasurer shall safely keep such money until paid out upon the order of the board of directors of the various school districts in his or her township.
4. When any school district is divided by township or county lines, the district shall be considered in the township or county in which the schoolhouse is located, and the township treasurer holding any money belonging to fractional parts of districts in which no schoolhouse is located shall pay over all such money to the township treasurer of the township in which the fractional part of the district having the schoolhouse is located, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be filed with the township clerk, and the township treasurer shall settle annually with the township board on or before the twentieth day of March in each year.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14017, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with S.B. 210)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12340; 1919 § 13253; 1909 § 11741
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