Missouri Chapter 245 — Levee Districts

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