243.250. Lateral ditches--drains--may be connected--provisions--penalty for violation. - Missouri Statutes

Lateral ditches--drains--may be connected--provisions--penalty forviolation.

243.250. 1. Any person, persons or corporation shall bepermitted to construct lateral ditches or drains for the purposeof draining water into any of the ditches, drains, orwatercourses constructed by a district organized under theprovisions of this chapter, provided that such lateral ditch ordrain shall enter such ditches, drains or watercourses throughboxes or tiling to be placed at the intersection of such lateralditches or drains with the ditches, drains or watercoursesconstructed by a district organized under the provisions of thischapter. Such tiling or boxes shall be as large as the lateralditch constructed and at least fifteen feet in length.

2. All persons violating the provisions of this sectionshall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

(RSMo 1939 § 12442)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10852; 1919 § 4519; 1909 § 5625

(1958) To allow surface water collected by a private levee on owner's land to enter district watercourse, already receiving water from lateral No. 17 by means of steel tubing installed in road-levee, was not an unlawful change in the adopted plan of reclamation nor an expenditure of public funds for a private purpose. Rice v. Stoddard (A.), 312 S.W.2d 374.