FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 655
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MARBLE, BARTELSMEYER, HUNTER AND MOORE (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time February 6, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 52.250, RSMo 2000, relating to tax collection in certain counties, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 52.250, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 52.250, to read as follows:
52.250. The collectors in [third class] counties of the second classification shall collect a fee of one-fourth of one
percent, the collectors in counties of the third classification shall collect a fee of one-half of one percent and the
collectors in [fourth class] counties of the fourth classification shall collect a fee of one percent of all current taxes
collected, including current delinquent taxes, exclusive of all current railroad and utility taxes collected, as compensation
for mailing the statements and receipts. All fees collected pursuant to this section shall be collected on behalf of the county
and shall be paid into the county treasury. Collectors in counties of the second, third and fourth [class counties]
classification are entitled to collect such fees immediately upon an order of the circuit court [under] pursuant to section
139.031, RSMo. If the protest is later sustained and a portion of the taxes so paid is returned to the taxpayer the county
shall return that portion of the fee collected on the amount returned to the taxpayer.
Missouri House of Representatives