Terms Used In Missouri Laws 321.410

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • fire protection district: is a political subdivision which is organized and empowered to supply protection by any available means to persons and property against injuries and damage from fire and from hazards which do or may cause fire, and which is also empowered to render first aid for the purpose of saving lives, and to give assistance in the event of an accident or emergency of any kind. See Missouri Laws 321.010
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

The dissolution of a fire protection district shall not invalidate or affect any right accruing to such fire district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such fire protection district or person; and whenever the circuit court shall, under the provisions of section 321.400, dissolve a fire protection district, the said court shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the fire protection district so dissolved and such trustee before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court to the use of such dissolved fire protection district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate the district under orders of the court, including the levying of any taxes provided for in this chapter.

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