Bunker R-III School District v. Hodge

CROW, Presiding Judge.

This is the second ease involving apportionment of “national forest reserve funds” among four school districts by the Shannon County Court. The first was Eminence R-1 School District v. Hodge, et al., 635 S.W.2d 10 (Mo.1982), hereafter “Hodge-1."

16 U.S.C. § 500, as amended Oct. 22, 1976, Pub.L. 94-588, § 16, 90 Stat. 2961,1 provides that 25 per cent of all moneys received by the United States government during any fiscal year from each national forest shall be paid to the state or territory in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the state or…