STATE STATUTES & CODES

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 245 Levee Districts

• 245.010. Definitions.
• 245.015. Owners may form levee district, where--articles of incorporation to be filed in circuit court.
• 245.020. Circuit clerk to give notice by publication--form of notice--mailing required.
• 245.025. Objections to incorporation heard--court decree filed with secretary of state and county recorder.
• 245.030. Adjacent districts may consolidate--petition, hearing and decree.
• 245.035. Time of corporate existence may be extended.
• 245.040. Districts may reorganize.
• 245.045. Districts reorganized to receive all benefits--reorganization articles of association to be filed with circuit court.
• 245.050. Notice of reorganization hearing.
• 245.055. Procedure.
• 245.060. Election of board of supervisors--term of office.
• 245.065. Improper election of board of supervisors--court to declare vacancies--new election called.
• 245.070. Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election--owners of land benefited entitled to vote.
• 245.075. Supervisors to take oath.
• 245.080. Organization of board--to make annual report--compensation.
• 245.085. County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to secretary of board.
• 245.090. Secretary of board to be ex officio treasurer--board to audit books annually and publish financial statement.
• 245.095. Powers and duties of supervisors.
• 245.100. Chief engineer appointed--duties.
• 245.105. Chief engineer to make report--supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental plans for reclamation.
• 245.110. Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk--commissioners appointed.
• 245.115. Organization of board of commissioners.
• 245.120. Commissioners to inspect district and assess benefits and damages--report to be filed.
• 245.125. Property owners notified of commissioners' report by publication--form of notice--mailing required.
• 245.130. Exceptions to commissioners' report heard and determined.
• 245.135. Court to declare corporation dissolved if costs exceed benefits.
• 245.140. Plan of reclamation may be changed--procedure.
• 245.145. Damages assessed must be paid before appropriating land.
• 245.150. Board to construct works--may let contracts for construction.
• 245.155. Embankments on right-of-way to be raised at expense of owner to conform to district levee.
• 245.160. Board to employ attorney.
• 245.165. Board to keep record of proceedings--open to inspection.
• 245.170. Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers.
• 245.175. Board to levy tax to pay cost of organization.
• 245.180. Board to levy tax, when--new tax authorized, when--tax, how levied--secretary to prepare levee tax record.
• 245.181. Additional bonds authorized, when--meeting, votes how cast--form of notice--notice, how given.
• 245.185. Annual installment of tax to be levied--when due--form of certificate of tax.
• 245.190. Board may make additional levy of tax.
• 245.195. Board may levy maintenance tax--unprotected lands not taxable.
• 245.196. Annual benefit fee, how levied, amount.
• 245.197. Readjustment of benefits, when--levy of new tax for carrying out supplemental plan--notice, how given--form of notice--lists, where filed.
• 245.198. Tax levy, when--emergency levy of ten percent.
• 245.199. Additional bonds authorized when--how issued.
• 245.200. County collector of revenue to collect levee tax--to give bond to board of supervisors.
• 245.205. Secretary of board to extend and certify levee tax to collector-treasurers--duties of collector-treasurer--county collector-treasurer to collect delinquent taxes.
• 245.210. Levee tax delinquent December thirty-first--penalty.
• 245.215. Levee tax to constitute a lien--how evidenced--acquisition of lands, duty to satisfy outstanding liens, limitation.
• 245.220. Tax book to be prima facie evidence--suits for taxes brought in circuit court.
• 245.225. Suits and notices to be filed in recorder's office against last record owners.
• 245.230. Board may issue bonds--how funds are to be used.
• 245.235. Unpaid warrants to draw interest.
• 245.240. Surety bonds to be made payable to district.
• 245.245. Board to appoint inspectors--duties and powers of inspectors.
• 245.250. County collectors--penalty for failure to pay over tax, fee for collection of tax.
• 245.255. Change of venue.
• 245.260. Action not to abate by reason of death of party.
• 245.265. Appeal not to act as supersedeas.
• 245.270. Liability of reorganized district.
• 245.275. Procedure in dissolving levee district.
• 245.280. Sections construed--existing rights not to be affected.
• 245.285. Defining the term levee districts--applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized.
• 245.290. County commissions may establish levee districts.
• 245.295. Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body.
• 245.300. Notice to be given--mailing required.
• 245.305. Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district.
• 245.310. Extending levees and levee districts.
• 245.315. Existing levee districts may organize under this law.
• 245.320. Change of organization to be submitted to an election.
• 245.325. Simple majority to decide election.
• 245.330. Effect of reorganization of old districts.
• 245.335. Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission.
• 245.340. Oath of directors.
• 245.345. Board to organize.
• 245.350. Majority of board a quorum.
• 245.355. Duties of president and secretary.
• 245.360. Pay of directors.
• 245.365. Board to determine what work is necessary.
• 245.370. Work to be let to lowest bidder.
• 245.375. Contractors to give bond.
• 245.380. Board to supervise work.
• 245.385. Board to secure right-of-way.
• 245.390. Board to act with United States agencies.
• 245.395. Board to publish statement of work done.
• 245.400. Board may change location of levee.
• 245.405. Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees.
• 245.410. Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment.
• 245.415. Railroads to continue levee.
• 245.420. Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs--notice to be given.
• 245.430. Private roadways to have approaches.
• 245.445. Board to assess levee fund tax.
• 245.450. Assessment of overflowed lands.
• 245.455. Lands to be entered on book for that purpose.
• 245.460. Levee assessment books returned to whom--meeting of landowners.
• 245.465. County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands.
• 245.470. Landowners to determine work to be done.
• 245.475. Board to order rate percent levee assessment--annual installment payments.
• 245.480. Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee.
• 245.483. Construction or improvement of levees to protect lands in other districts--procedure--costs, how paid.
• 245.485. Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates.
• 245.490. Board may borrow money.
• 245.495. Board may issue warrants.
• 245.500. Form of warrants.
• 245.505. Sinking fund moneys may be invested.
• 245.515. County treasurer to be treasurer of board.
• 245.520. Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees.
• 245.525. Herding livestock on levee prohibited.
• 245.530. Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair.
• 245.540. Commissions may appropriate swamplands.
• 245.545. Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury.

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