Terms Used In Missouri Laws 247.620

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of sections 247.230 to 247.670 shall have been filed with the circuit court having jurisdiction over said district, setting forth all relevant facts pertaining to said district, and alleging that the further operation of said district is inimicable to the best interests of the inhabitants of said district, and that said district should, in the interest of the public welfare and safety, be dissolved, said circuit court shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question, which shall be submitted in substantially the following form:

Shall the ______ metropolitan water supply district be dissolved?

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