Is the Election Date Legal?

...Such date shall be a Tuesday, and shall be not earlier than the eighth Tuesday from the issuance of the order, nor later than August fifteenth of the year the order is issued and shall not be on the same day as an election conducted under the provisions of chapter 115, RSMo.”

Missouri Revised Statutes Section 71-800 – Rate of tax–exception–abatement of certain tax benefits–new tax rate or special assessment, election, procedure, ballot forms –definitions–tax rate ceiling approved, effective when.

71-800.5) “The governing body of any city in which there is a special business district may order an election on the approval of a new tax rate ceiling or assessment limit for any tax imposed pursuant to subsections 1 to 3 of this section. All costs of any such election shall be borne by the district out of its existing levy. The order shall set forth the new tax rate ceiling or assessment limit proposed. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the tax rate ceiling may be increased or decreased, from any rate as revised under the provisions of section 137.073, RSMo, to any rate not in excess of eighty-five cents on the one-hundred-dollar assessed valuation. Such order shall specify a date on which ballots for the election shall be mailed. Such date shall be a Tuesday, and shall be not earlier than the eighth Tuesday from the issuance of the order, nor later than August fifteenth of the year the order is issued and shall not be on the same day as an election conducted under the provisions of chapter 115, RSMo.”