BRANSON MO NEWS: A legal dispute between Taney County and Branson over whether the city can require new sewer customers to be annexed into the city, now has a new judge. Or more accurately, the case got its old judge back.
Taney County and the Taney County Regional Sewer District filed a suit in May claiming that the city was in violation of its contract with the county because the city was requiring new sewer customers in the Bee Creek region to be annexed into the city in exchange for sewer service.
The agreement, signed in 2000 and then amended in 2006, concerns property owners in the Bee Creek watershed and the Emory Creek watershed — both just north of Branson along U.S. 65 — and the Table Rock Acres subdivision along Missouri 165, just east of the Welk Resorts. Those systems, funded by the Taney County Sewer District, connect to city treatment plants.
The city filed answers to the county’s suit, stating that the city was only obligated to accept existing customers without requiring them to annex into the city. The city claims the 2006 agreement only applied to users who had structures in Bee Creek as of Oct. 3, 2006.
The county’s attorney submitted a response …
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