242.220. Chief engineer and assistants--appointment--duties.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

242.220. Chief engineer and assistants--appointment--duties.

Chief engineer and assistants--appointment--duties.

242.220. 1. Within sixty days after organizing the board ofsupervisors shall appoint a competent civil engineer as chiefengineer, who may be an individual, copartnership or corporation,and who shall engage such assistants as the board of supervisorsmay approve. The chief engineer shall have control of theengineering work in said district. The chief engineer may, byand with the consent of the board of supervisors, consult anyeminent engineer or engineers and obtain his or their opinion andadvice concerning the reclamation of lands in said district.

2. The said engineer or engineers shall make all necessarysurveys of the lands within the boundary lines of said district,as described by the articles of association, and of all landsadjacent thereto that may or will be improved or reclaimed inpart or in whole by any system of drainage or levees that may beoutlined and adopted, and said engineer or engineers, shall makea report in writing to the board of supervisors with maps andprofiles of said surveys, which report shall contain a plan fordraining, leveeing and reclaiming the lands and propertydescribed in the articles of association or adjacent thereto fromoverflow of or damage by water; said maps and profiles shall alsoindicate, so far as necessary, the physical characteristics ofthe lands, and location of any public roads, railroads and otherrights-of-way, roadways and other property or improvementslocated on such lands.