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MO Rev Stat § 245.375 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.375 - Contractors to give bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.375. Contractors to give bond. — The contractors shall give bond to said board of directors, with good and sufficient security, in a sum sufficient to secure the prompt execution of their contract, conditioned to pay any damages which shall result to the landholders of said district from a failure to perform their said contracts, or by reason of negligent performance of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12574)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10984; 1919 § 4676; 1909 § 5739
MO Rev Stat § 245.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.380 - Board to supervise work.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.380. Board to supervise work. — Said work shall be done by said contractors under the supervision of said board of directors, or any engineer or engineers to be selected by them for that purpose, and when completed, if performed according to the terms of their contract and the plans and specifications submitted to said meeting of landholders, shall be received and accepted by said board of directors. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12575)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10985; 1919 § 4677; 1909 § 5740
MO Rev Stat § 245.385 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.385 - Board to secure right-of-way.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.385. Board to secure right-of-way. — Before said work is let under contract said board of directors shall procure the right-of-way over all lands belonging to private persons and right-of-way or roadbed of any railway corporation and any other private or public corporation, and in case they cannot get a gratuitous relinquishment of such right-of-way, or in case said board of directors or the engineer, attorney or agent of said board of directors are unable to agree with the owner of said lands as to the amount of compensation to be paid such owner for said right-of-way, they shall proceed to condemn such, and all lands necessary for a right-of-way for such levee, or any extension thereof, according to the provisions of chapter 523. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12570)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10980; 1919 § 4672; 1909 § 5735
MO Rev Stat § 245.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.390 - Board to act with United States agencies.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.390. Board to act with United States agencies. — Said board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to treat, contract and negotiate with what is known as the Mississippi River Commission, heretofore created by an act of the Congress of the United States, or with any other agency of the United States government, for the purpose of securing the construction, repair and maintenance of the levees within their levee district, or the aid, assistance or cooperation of said river commission or other agency in the construction, repair and maintenance of said levee or line of levee, or any part thereof, and to this end said board of directors may turn over to said Mississippi River Commission or other agency the use and control of any part of its line of levee or the whole of said line; may place its officers, servants and agents at the disposal of and under the direction of said Mississippi River Commission or other agency; may take in charge and superintend contracts for levee building and the building of the same, and generally shall have full power, authority and discretion to enter into any and all arrangements, contracts and agreements with said Mississippi River Commission or other agency of the United States government that will secure the construction of the levee and protection of the levee district from overflows and inundations from rivers, by said Mississippi River Commission or other agency, or their cooperation in such construction and protection. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12576)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10986; 1919 § 4678; 1909 § 5741
MO Rev Stat § 245.395 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.395 - Board to publish statement of work done.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.395. Board to publish statement of work done. — Said board of directors shall, at their first meeting after the expiration of one year from date of their organization, and annually thereafter make and publish in some newspaper published in the county composing the levee district, and when composed of two or more counties, then in each county lying in such district, a full and complete statement of the amount and kind of levee work done in the district, with amount of money collected and disbursed during the preceding year, showing from what officer and what account any money has been received, and to what individuals and on what account any money has been paid, and shall strike a balance showing a deficit, if any, or the balance in the treasury, if any. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12586)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10996; 1919 § 4688; 1909 § 5751
MO Rev Stat § 245.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.400 - Board may change location of levee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.400. Board may change location of levee. — In case any emergency should arise rendering it necessary, or in case the board of levee directors deem it expedient to change the location of the levee first agreed upon, or at any time to extend the same for a short distance to a location which they believe would furnish a better place of termination thereof, the said board of levee directors shall have power to make such changes or extensions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12579)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10989; 1919 § 4681; 1909 § 5744
MO Rev Stat § 245.405 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.405 - Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.405. Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees. — Said board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to contract upon terms of reasonable compensation with any railroad corporation for the use and occupancy of levees of the district for the roadbed of such railroad corporations; and it shall be lawful for such board of directors to contract with any railroad corporation, for the use of their roadbed for levee purposes, and upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the parties they may contract and agree that such railroad company may construct their embankments to a sufficient height to prevent inundations over such embankments. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12577)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10987; 1919 § 4679; 1909 § 5742
MO Rev Stat § 245.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.410 - Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.410. Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment. — Whenever the right-of-way shall be obtained as provided in section 245.385 over any right-of-way of any railroad, tramway or embankment, either by voluntary relinquishment of the same or by condemnation proceedings, it shall be the duty of such railway company or other person or corporation owning such embankment, to construct its roadbed or other embankment, as high as the top of such levee, without opening between the points connecting such levee and the railroad track, roadbed or other embankments, and in case any such person or corporation shall fail or refuse to so construct its embankment within six months after the building of such adjacent levee, such person or corporation shall be liable in damages for all injuries of every character sustained by such levee district, or any person by reason of its failure to so construct its embankment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12571)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10981; 1919 § 4673; 1909 § 5736
MO Rev Stat § 245.415 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.415 - Railroads to continue levee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.415. Railroads to continue levee. — Whenever a railroad passes over or along land in this state subject to overflow by any river or creek and such land is protected, or may be hereafter protected, by levees constructed to protect such land from overflows and such levees abut on or connect with the right-of-way of the railroad, it is hereby made the duty of any person, persons or corporations owning or operating railroads to continue and maintain the levee from the point where it approaches and abuts on the railroad right-of-way to the railroad embankment and to make the levee connect therewith. And such continuation of levee shall be on a level with the top of the levee of the landowner as it abuts on the railroad right-of-way. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12572)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10982; 1919 § 4674; 1909 § 5737
MO Rev Stat § 245.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.420 - Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.420. Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given. — In case any person or corporation owning or operating any such railroad as mentioned in section 245.415 shall fail to continue and connect any such levee constructed by the abutting landowner within ninety days after receiving written notice to do so, and after the landowner's levee has been constructed and completed to the right-of-way of the railroad for a period of twenty days, then the landowner shall have the right to enter upon the right-of-way of such railroad for the purpose of continuing and constructing the said levee over and across the right-of-way to a connection with the railroad track or grade. And such landowner having so continued and constructed such levee across said right-of-way to the railroad track or grade as above provided may recover by suit against the person or company owning or operating the said railroad the full amount of the actual cost of so continuing and constructing the said levee on and across the right-of-way of the railroad, together with interest thereon and costs, which costs shall include attorney fee for plaintiff in the sum of twenty-five dollars. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12573)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10983; 1919 § 4675; 1909 § 5738
MO Rev Stat § 245.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.430 - Private roadways to have approaches.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.430. Private roadways to have approaches. — No private road shall be permitted to cross any levee built under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, until the persons interested in and benefitted by said road shall build sufficient approaches on each side of said levee to permit the travel and use to which said road is subject without endangering said levee, and at the expense of such interested persons. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12588)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10998; 1919 § 4690; 1909 § 5753
MO Rev Stat § 245.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.450 - Assessment of overflowed lands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.450. Assessment of overflowed lands. — After the formation of any levee district under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, the county commission of the county in which such district lies, or when it lies in two or more counties, the county commission of each county in said district, shall cause the county assessor of their respective counties composing said levee district, at the first annual assessment to be made under the general revenue laws of the state, to assess the value of all lands in said levee district subject to overflow or inundation or endangered or liable to be endangered by bank erosion or wash from rivers, and to be benefitted by said work, having reference to the value of said lands without the work contemplated by sections 245.285 to 245.545, and shall assess the value thereof as improved by said work, in an assessment book to be provided for that purpose. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12561)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10971; 1919 § 4663; 1909 § 5726
MO Rev Stat § 245.455 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.455 - Lands to be entered on book for that purpose.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.455. Lands to be entered on book for that purpose. — Said lands shall be entered upon said book in convenient subdivisions, as surveyed by United States deputy surveyors, with appropriate columns, showing the names of resident owners, and nonresident owners when known, of said lands, and of any person or persons holding recorded liens or encumbrances, if known to the assessor; also, the number of acres cleared and uncleared, as nearly as said assessor can ascertain the same without actual measurement, the value thereof as assessed by him, without the work, and the value thereof as improved by the work; provided, that no error in the description of any of said lands shall invalidate such assessment, if sufficient description is given to ascertain where the lands are situated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12562)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10972; 1919 § 4664; 1909 § 5727
MO Rev Stat § 245.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.460 - Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.460. Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners. — Said assessment book shall be made out by the assessors of their respective counties in the levee district, and a fair copy thereof shall be returned to the president of the board of directors of the levee district in which the assessments have been made, at the same time assessors are required, under the general revenue laws of the state, to make out and return to the county commission a copy of the assessor's book for state and county taxes, and shall file the original assessment book in the office of the clerk of the county commission of the county in which the assessment is made. Upon the filing of the copy or copies of the assessment book, as required by this section, the board of directors shall call a meeting of the landowners of said levee district at some place convenient to some part of said work or contemplated work, and shall give at least thirty days' notice of the time and place of said meeting and the purpose thereof, by advertisement in some newspaper published in the county composing the levee district, and when lying in two or more counties, then in some newspaper published in each of said counties. At such meeting the board of directors shall submit the reports, specifications, surveys, maps, profiles and estimates made by the engineers, together with the assessments, as returned by the county assessors, to said meeting for action, and requiring the owners of said lands and the holders of any lien thereon to show cause at said meeting why said lands should not be assessed with their proportional part of said work. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12563, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10973; 1919 § 4665; 1909 § 5728  Effective 7-12-94
MO Rev Stat § 245.465 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.465 - County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   245.465. County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands. — The county board of equalization shall have and receive the same jurisdiction over the lands taxed for the purposes in sections 245.285 to 245.545, specified, as conferred by the general laws of the state in the assessment of property for the state and county purposes, and complaints of all persons who think themselves aggrieved by the assessment of their lands shall be made at the same time required by the general revenue laws of the state. All corrections made in the assessment of lands by the county board of equalization shall be certified to the board of directors by the clerk of the county commission where such corrections are made. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12569, A. 1949 S.B. 1085)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10979; 1919 § 4671; 1909 § 5734
MO Rev Stat § 245.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.470 - Landowners to determine work to be done.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.470. Landowners to determine work to be done. — At such meeting the reports and estimates of the engineer and the assessment of the assessors shall be laid before the landowners present estimating the probable cost of said work, and the probable rate percent therefor on the valuation of the said lands as increased by the said work, and a vote shall be taken whether or not the work shall be done; provided, that any landowner in the district to be benefitted by the work may be represented and his vote cast at such meeting by his agent or attorney, and in order to determine whether such work shall be done it shall require a majority of the votes of the landowners of the district present in person or by proxy casting a vote in favor of the work, and at all meetings held under sections 245.285 to 245.545, every landowner may be represented and his vote cast for or against the work by his agent, attorney or proxy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12564)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10974; 1919 § 4666; 1909 § 5729
MO Rev Stat § 245.475 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.475 - Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.475. Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments. — If it shall be decided to do the said work, it shall be competent for the directors to order the rate percent agreed upon for the cost of said work, to be paid in annual installments, in such amounts as may be convenient for the accomplishment of said work; otherwise the whole amount of said assessment of the rate percent shall be payable immediately upon the approval by the landowner of the agreed amount of rate percent, and shall be a lien upon the lands assessed within the district until paid, and shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed eight percent per annum until paid, and such interest may be collected and enforced as part of the assessment or annual installment; said assessment or annual installment shall be levied and collected in the same manner as provided in section 245.445. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12565)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10975; 1919 § 4667; 1909 § 5730
MO Rev Stat § 245.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.480 - Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.480. Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee. — Whenever the board of directors of any levee district shall ascertain that the levees constructed by said district are insufficient, from any cause, to afford complete protection from overflows, to the lands in said district, they may by resolution entered upon the record of said levee board call a meeting of the landowners of said levee district to be held at some convenient place on the line of said levee, for the purpose of determining whether said levee shall be enlarged and strengthened; and they shall give the same notice as required in the case of calling a landowners' meeting in the organization of a new district, as provided by section 245.460, and at such meeting they shall lay before the landowners present an estimate of the cost of the proposed work of enlarging and strengthening said levee, made by an engineer, and a vote shall be taken at such meeting, by the landowners present, voting either by themselves or by proxy, whether an additional tax shall be levied and an additional percent of the assessed benefits expended for such purpose, and if a majority of the votes cast are in favor of such additional work the board shall proceed to construct the same and the additional taxes may be levied and apportionment of benefits made as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12603)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11013; 1919 § 4705
MO Rev Stat § 245.485 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.485 - Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.485. Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates. — If it is found, by the county commission, after examining the expenditures of the levee district, that the cost of constructing the work will exceed the estimates made by the engineer, the commission may call a meeting of the landowners, upon giving the notice as before required in the case of organizing a new district; there shall be laid before them an estimate of the cost of the completion of the work, made by an engineer, and a vote shall be taken, at such meeting, by the landowners present, voting either by themselves or by proxy, whether an additional tax shall be levied for the purpose of completing the work, and if a majority of the votes cast are in favor of completing such work, the board shall proceed to complete the same and the additional taxes that may be levied and collected as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12596)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11006; 1919 § 4698; 1909 § 5761
MO Rev Stat § 245.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.490 - Board may borrow money.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.490. Board may borrow money. — The directors may borrow money, not exceeding in amount the assessments or annual installments unpaid at the time of borrowing, for the construction of any work which they may be authorized to construct, or for the payment of any indebtedness that they may have lawfully incurred under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, and may secure the same by notes or bonds bearing interest at not exceeding eight percent per annum, and not running longer than one year beyond the date of the payment of the assessment, or the last annual installment thereof, on account of which the money is borrowed; which notes or bonds shall not be held to make the directors personally liable for the money borrowed, but shall constitute a lien upon the assessments, or annual installments thereof, for the repayment of the principal and interest of said notes and bonds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12567)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10977; 1919 § 4669; 1909 § 5732  CROSS REFERENCES:  Bond issues, proceeds of and moneys for interest and sinking funds to be kept separate, 108.180 to 108.230  Refunding bonds authorized, payment of, 108.140 to 108.160