245.280. Sections construed--existing rights not to be affected. - Missouri Statutes

Sections construed--existing rights not to be affected.

245.280. The repealing of existing laws shall not have theeffect of suspending, abating, abridging, impairing, vitiating ornullifying any right, power, remedy or lien heretofore given,created or conferred upon any levee district heretofore organizedor in process of organization at the time of passage of sections245.010 to 245.280, under any law of this state, either specialor general, but all such rights, powers, remedies and liens arehereby directly preserved to all such levee districts; nor shallthe repealing of existing laws have the effect of suspending,abridging, abating or nullifying any proceeding or proceedingsnow pending in any court of this state or of the United States;nor shall the repealing of existing laws have the effect ofimpairing, invalidating, discharging, changing, modifying ordestroying any obligation, contract or undertaking, entered intoby or with any levee district now organized, and existing underany law in this state, either special or general, but all suchobligations, contracts and undertakings so entered into, shall beand remain inviolate. All rights, powers, liens and remedies nowexisting in behalf of such levee district of this state, may beenforced and made available in the manner and by the means andmode now provided by law, or such rights, powers, liens andremedies may be enforced and made available under the provisionsof sections 245.010 to 245.280, if applicable, at the election ofthe board of supervisors of the levee district. Sections 245.010to 245.280 are hereby declared to be remedial in character andpurpose, and shall be liberally construed by the courts incarrying out this legislative intent and purpose, and itsprovisions shall be construed to apply to levee districts alreadyorganized or in process of organization at the time of thepassage of sections 245.010 to 245.280.

(RSMo 1939 § 12546)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10956; 1919 § 4650