Terms Used In Missouri Laws 321.470

  • 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.

The order of the circuit court having jurisdiction, as well as finding and determining the votes of the election, shall direct the clerk of the court to transmit to the county clerk and to the recorder of deeds of each county in which the consolidated district is located a certified copy of such order, to be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations, and each recorder and each clerk shall each receive, for such filing, a fee of one dollar, to be charged as costs in the proceeding.