245.330. Effect of reorganization of old districts. - Missouri Statutes

Effect of reorganization of old districts.

245.330. The action taken by the county commission inreorganizing an old district under sections 245.285 to 245.545,when such organization shall have been ordered under theprovisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall have in all waysand respects the same force and effect in law, as would theorganization of a new district under the provisions of saidsections 245.300 and 245.335, and the new district thus formedfrom the old one which existed under a different, general, localor special law, shall thereafter have all of the rights,privileges and immunities, and shall be authorized to exercisethe same powers as would any new district originally organizedunder sections 245.285 to 245.545; provided, that such districtchanging its organization under the provisions of sections245.285 to 245.545, shall take up the work of building,maintaining and repairing levees, and other similar improvements,where the old organization stopped; and provided, that theprocedure of the new district thus formed shall after itsorganization proceed in conformity with the provisions ofsections 245.285 to 245.545 as to work and acts thereafter to bedone by the new district.

(RSMo 1939 § 12602)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11012; 1919 § 4704