245.285. Defining the term levee districts--applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized. - Missouri Statutes

Defining the term levee districts--applicable to districts noworganized or which may be organized.

245.285. The term "levee districts" as used in sections245.285 to 245.545, and all other terms, or provisions of lawcontained in said sections 245.285 to 245.545, which haveheretofore been interpreted as applying to said levee districtsshall be construed 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 or 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.

(RSMo 1939 § 12549)

Prior revision: 1929 § 10959