245.010. Definitions. - Missouri Statutes

Definitions.

245.010. 1. The term "levee districts" as used in sections245.010 to 245.280, and all other terms or provisions of lawcontained in sections 245.010 to 245.280, which have heretoforebeen interpreted, as apply to said levee districts, shall beconstrued to include, authorize, provide for and be madeapplicable to all districts now organized or which may hereafterbe organized for the purpose of establishing, constructing orcausing to be constructed, levees, dikes, bank protections,current control or other protection or reclamation improvementscontiguous or adjacent to or situate near any body of swamp, wetor overflowed land, or other property in the nature of individualor corporate franchises in this state, or land subject tooverflow or inundation in or adjacent to any river or streamwholly within or bordering on the state of Missouri, property orland abutting, or situate near, which may be endangered or liableto be endangered through wash or bank erosion; provided, thatwhenever the proposed district is intended to include or doesinclude lots, tracts, parcels or other subdivisions of landincluded in any third or fourth class city, town or village ofthis state, or in any city in this state under fifty thousandpopulation operating under a special charter, the words "acre","acreage" or "subdivision of land" as now used in sections245.010 to 245.280, shall be held and construed to include and beused interchangeably with the words "area", "lot", "tract" or"parcel of land", so that a lot or other subdivision of landwithin such cities shall correspond to the word "acre" as used insections 245.010 to 245.280, when the levee district is organizedin a rural area.

2. The word "owner" as used in sections 245.010 to 245.280shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by thedeed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen,trustees, or mortgagees, who shall not be counted and need not benotified by publication, or served by process, but shall berepresented by the present owners of the freehold estate in anyproceeding under sections 245.010 to 245.280.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 12493, 12531, A.L. 1974 V. II p. 226, A.L. 1965 p. 381, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 10903, 10941; 1919 § 4635

Effective 1-2-79