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MO Rev Stat § 244.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.070 - Limitation on improvements — dismissal of case, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   244.070. Limitation on improvements — dismissal of case, when. — 1. The word "tract" and "parcel" of land as used in this chapter shall include town lots or other subdivisions of land according to ownership. Persons desiring to drain or protect land under the provisions of this chapter shall not be limited to a single ditch, tile or levee, but two or more of each or all three may be constructed for the drainage or protection of the same tract of land.  2. If the report of the commissioners, as approved or as amended by the circuit court shows the total cost of the improvements, including value of the land used, the amount of the damages and cost of crossings, exceeds the total benefits accruing to all the land from the proposed improvement, the court shall dismiss the case and tax the court costs against the petitioners. Thereafter any one or more persons owning any portion of the wet, swamp, flat or overflowed land shall have the right to construct the ditch, tile or levee at his or their expense, but if constructed under such conditions the other owners of land that will be improved shall not be taxed for any of the costs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12465, A. 1949 S.B. 1084)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10875; 1919 § 4570
MO Rev Stat § 244.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.080 - Appeals from circuit court decision.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   244.080. Appeals from circuit court decision. — Any person may appeal from the decision or decree of the circuit court as provided by law in other civil actions. Such appeal shall not act as a supersedeas or delay construction of either the ditch or levee or laying of the tile, but before such work shall be begun the owners of the land to be drained or protected shall pay into the hands of the circuit clerk for the use of the parties whose land is taken or injured, the amount awarded to said party or parties by the circuit court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12461, A.L. 1945 p. 852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10871; 1919 § 4566
MO Rev Stat § 244.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.090 - Disagreement on manner of construction — petition circuit court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   244.090. Disagreement on manner of construction — petition circuit court. — 1. The owner or owners of the land benefitted shall have the right, without obtaining permission of the circuit court, to construct the ditch or levee or lay the tile or to arrange to have such constructed or laid, but the damages resulting, if any, from the construction of the same shall be paid in cash to the owner or owners of the land taken or damaged, or the sum awarded for such items shall be placed in the possession of the circuit clerk for the use of such persons, before such construction shall be begun.  2. In case the owners of the land benefitted are unable to agree among themselves as to the manner of constructing the ditch or levee or laying the tile or letting the contract for the same, the circuit court shall have the power, upon being petitioned by a majority of persons interested, after due notice has been given to other interested parties, to let the work of construction out to the lowest or best bidder, and after such costs have been determined, the circuit clerk, upon order of the circuit court, shall apportion the total cost to each tract or parcel of land according to ownership in proportion the benefits derived as ascertained and determined by the court, and such cost shall become a lien upon such land and remain the same until paid.  3. Such lien shall be enforced by suit brought on bills properly made out and certified to by the circuit clerk, such suit to be brought in the name of the state at the relation of the interested party or parties in any court of competent jurisdiction. All sums collected by such suit shall include the court cost incurred in bringing and conducting such suit and a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court hearing said cause. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12462, A.L. 1945 p. 852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10872; 1919 § 4567
MO Rev Stat § 244.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.100 - Rights of owners after construction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   244.100. Rights of owners after construction. — The owners of the land benefitted shall have the right at any time after the ditch, tile or levee has been completed, to go upon the land through or upon which such works shall have been built and repair the same, but no right to enlarge or change the location of the ditch, levee or tile is granted under this chapter without first obtaining consent of the owner or owners of land traversed, either by free gift or purchase, but the owner or owners of the land drained or protected shall have the right to petition for privilege from the circuit court to enlarge works already made or to make necessary additional improvements, and such petition shall be proceeded with in the same manner as is provided in sections 244.020 and 244.030 for original construction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12463, A.L. 1945 p. 852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10873; 1919 § 4568
MO Rev Stat § 244.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.110 - Compensation — appointment of special commissioners and surveyor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   244.110. Compensation — appointment of special commissioners and surveyor. — 1. The parties petitioning shall be liable for all costs incurred on account of any proceeding under this chapter. Each commissioner shall receive for his services two dollars for each day employed and necessary expenses incurred in addition thereto; any surveyor for services rendered while working under the direction of the commissioners shall be paid three dollars per day and all necessary expenses.  2. In case it becomes the duty of the circuit court to have the work constructed, as is provided for in section 244.090, said court shall have the right to appoint a special commissioner, who may or may not be a surveyor, and not owning land that is affected in any way by the works, to take charge of the construction and report to said court from time to time as to the progress of said construction and make a full report when the same has been completed. Such commissioner shall, upon completion of the work, make a final report to the court, and said court shall, if it finds said work performed according to contract, accept and confirm said report. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12464, A.L. 1945 p. 852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10874; 1919 § 4569
MO Rev Stat § 244.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.120 - Amendment of petition — rights of landowner.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   244.120. Amendment of petition — rights of landowner. — 1. The petition as signed and filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended at any time as other pleadings in other cases.  2. The owner or owners of land within or without any levee or drainage district organized under the laws of this state shall be permitted to connect a ditch, tile or levee constructed under the provisions of this chapter with any artificial ditch, drain or levee of any drainage or levee district on such terms as the board of supervisors of such drainage or levee district or the court, under which any such district has been organized, may prescribe.  3. A petition filed under the provisions of this chapter and any and all matters pertaining thereto may be heard and determined by the circuit court at any time at a regular, adjourned or special session. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12466, A.L. 1945 p. 852)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10876; 1919 § 4571
MO Rev Stat § 244.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 244 - Private Drainage Rights|Section 244.130 - Penalty for obstructing ditch — inspection of lands without owner's consent.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   244.130. Penalty for obstructing ditch — inspection of lands without owner's consent. — 1. Any person or persons, copartnership or corporation willfully filling up or obstructing or impairing the usefulness of any ditch, tile or levee constructed under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each and every offense, or such person or persons, or the agent or agents of the copartnership or corporation responsible for such damage or injury having been wrought, may be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months.  2. The owner or owners of the land desired to be drained shall have the right to go upon or send an engineer or surveyor upon the land through or upon which the ditch, tile or levee is to be built, without first obtaining consent from the owner or owners of such land, for the purpose of making measurements, running levels and obtaining other information to be used in forming conclusions pertaining to the slope of the land, length of the improvements and proper location of the same; provided, that notice of the purpose and intention of such act be first given in writing to the owner of the land through or across which the works are to be constructed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12467)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10877; 1919 § 4572; 1909 § 5670
MO Rev Stat § 245.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.010 - Definitions.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   245.010. Definitions. — 1. The term "levee districts" as used in sections 245.010 to 245.280, and all other terms or provisions of law contained in sections 245.010 to 245.280, which have heretofore been interpreted, as apply to said levee districts, shall be construed to include, authorize, provide for and be made applicable to all districts now organized or which may hereafter be organized for the purpose of establishing, constructing or causing to be constructed, levees, dikes, bank protections, current control or other protection or reclamation improvements contiguous or adjacent to or situate near any body of swamp, wet or overflowed land, or other property in the nature of individual or corporate franchises in this state, or land subject to overflow or inundation in or adjacent to any river or stream wholly within or bordering on the state of Missouri, property or land abutting, or situate near, which may be endangered or liable to be endangered through wash or bank erosion; provided, that whenever the proposed district is intended to include or does include lots, tracts, parcels or other subdivisions of land included in any third or fourth class city, town or village of this state, or in any city in this state under fifty thousand population operating under a special charter, the words "acre", "acreage" or "subdivision of land" as now used in sections 245.010 to 245.280, shall be held and construed to include and be used interchangeably with the words "area", "lot", "tract" or "parcel of land", so that a lot or other subdivision of land within such cities shall correspond to the word "acre" as used in sections 245.010 to 245.280, when the levee district is organized in a rural area.  2. The word "owner" as used in sections 245.010 to 245.280 shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen, trustees, or mortgagees, who shall not be counted and need not be notified by publication, or served by process, but shall be represented by the present owners of the freehold estate in any proceeding under sections 245.010 to 245.280. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 12493, 12531, A.L. 1974 V. II p. 226, A.L. 1965 p. 381, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 10903, 10941; 1919 § 4635  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 245.025 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.025 - Objections to incorporation heard — court decree filed with secretary of state and county recorder.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.025. Objections to incorporation heard — court decree filed with secretary of state and county recorder. — Any owner of real estate or other property as herein described in said proposed district, who may not have signed said articles of association objecting to the organization and incorporation of said levee district, may, within fourteen days after the date of publication pursuant to section 245.020, file his objection or objections why such levee district should not be organized and incorporated. Such objection or objections shall be limited to a denial of the statements in the articles of association, and shall be heard by the court in a summary manner, taking precedence over all matters except older matters of the same character, and in case all such objections are overruled, the circuit court shall, by its order duly entered of record, duly declare and decree said levee district a public corporation of this state, for a term not exceeding the time mentioned in said articles of association signed and filed. If the court finds that the land set out in said articles of association should not be incorporated into a levee district, it shall dismiss said proceedings and adjudge the costs against the signers of said articles of association in proportion to the acreage represented by each. Any person having signed the articles of association shall have no right to have said proceedings dismissed as to him without the written consent of the majority in acreage of the owners who signed said articles. The articles of association and petition may be amended as any other pleading. Within ten days after the said district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk thereof shall transmit to the secretary of state a certified copy of the findings and decree of the court incorporating said district, and the same shall be immediately filed in the office of the secretary of state in the same manner as articles of incorporation are now required to be filed under the general law concerning corporations. The secretary of state shall immediately send a certified copy to the U. S. Corp of Engineers District office where the levee district is located. A copy of said findings and decree, together with a plat of the district, shall also be filed in the office of the county recorder in each of the counties having land in said district, where the same shall become a permanent record, and each such recorder shall receive a fee of one dollar for filing and preserving the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12495, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10905; 1919 § 4599  Effective 7-12-94
MO Rev Stat § 245.035 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.035 - Time of corporate existence may be extended.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.035. Time of corporate existence may be extended. — Whenever the board of supervisors of any district organized under sections 245.010 to 245.280 or any previous enactment of the general assembly of the state of Missouri providing for the organization of levee districts by the circuit courts, finds that the time for which such districts has been incorporated should be extended in order to raise funds to complete "the plan for reclamation", pay for works already completed, pay bonds outstanding and interest thereon, or interest on the same, restore any works or construct new works, such board shall call a meeting of landowners of the district in the same manner as is provided for in section 245.060; the notice shall state the time, place and purpose of such meeting, and that if the majority of acres and mileage as herein provided represented at said meeting be cast in favor of such extension of the district's corporate existence a petition will be presented to the court organizing the district, asking for such extension of time. Such meeting shall be conducted in the same manner as is provided in section 245.060 for the election of supervisors, except that one member of the board of supervisors shall act as chairman of such meeting and the secretary of the board or his deputy shall act as clerk; and if a majority of the acreage represented at such meeting shall vote in favor of such extension the board of supervisors shall within forty-five days before the next term of the circuit court file a petition with the clerk of said court praying for the extension of the corporate existence of the district, and after the filing of such petition the same proceedings shall be had as is provided for in sections 245.020 and 245.025 relating to articles of association and incorporation of the district. If such petition be granted by the court, within twenty days thereafter the circuit clerk shall transmit a copy of the decree to the secretary of the board of supervisors, who shall transmit a copy of the same to the secretary of state and to the recorder of deeds of each county having land or other property in the district, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, and for such service he shall receive a fee of one dollar. In case the court shall find that such extensions should not be allowed, said petition shall be dismissed and the cost incurred in the case be paid by the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12537)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10947; 1919 § 4641
MO Rev Stat § 245.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.040 - Districts may reorganize.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.040. Districts may reorganize. — Any levee district of Missouri heretofore organized, in process of organization or that may hereafter be organized under the provisions of any previous or existing laws of this state, either general or special, other than sections 245.010 to 245.280, may elect in the manner herein provided to become and be reorganized under the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12540)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10950; 1919 § 4644
MO Rev Stat § 245.045 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.045 - Districts reorganized to receive all benefits — reorganization articles of association to be filed with circuit court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.045. Districts reorganized to receive all benefits — reorganization articles of association to be filed with circuit court. — Any levee district heretofore organized and any district that is now in process of organization or any levee district that may hereafter be organized under any previous or existing law of this state, either general or special, may organize under the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280, and after so organized shall be entitled to the benefits of all of the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280. The owners of a majority of acreage of any existing levee district may make and sign articles of association in which shall be stated: The name of the district which shall be the same as the name it bears when such articles of association are made, and the number of years such district is to continue, which shall in no event be for fewer years than the life of any of its existing obligations. Such articles shall also state that the boundaries of the district will be the same as the boundaries of the present organization and that the description of the land and other property and the owners thereof are such as are described in the present record of the district as now organized and said articles of association shall contain a petition, praying that the lands of said levee district be declared a levee district under the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280. After such articles of association have been so signed, the same shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such lands are situate, or if such lands be situate in two or more counties, then in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which there are situate more of said lands than in any other county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12541)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10951; 1919 § 4645
MO Rev Stat § 245.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.050 - Notice of reorganization hearing.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   245.050. Notice of reorganization hearing. — Immediately after such articles of association have been filed, the circuit clerk in whose office the same have been filed shall give notice in the manner and for the time specified in section 245.020, said notice to be in substantially the following form which shall be deemed sufficient for all the purposes of sections 245.010 to 245.280:   NOTICE FOR HEARING OF PETITION FOR    REORGANIZATION OF ______ LEVEE DISTRICT   Notice is hereby given to owners of land and other property in "______ levee district" of Missouri that articles of association have been filed in this office, asking that said levee district be reorganized under the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280, and that you, and each of you, are notified to appear before the court on the ______ day of ______, 20______, at ______ in ______ County, and show cause, if any there be, why said levee district as set forth in said articles of association should not be reorganized as a public corporation under this law.     __________________ ,   Clerk of the circuit court of ______ County.   ­­The circuit court of the county in which said articles of association have been filed shall thereafter maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries and limits of said district without regard to county lines, for all purposes of sections 245.010 to 245.280; provided, that where lands in different counties are sought to be incorporated in the same district, it shall not be necessary to include all of the lands in said proposed district in the notice published in the different counties, but only such lands and other property in the district as are situate in the respective counties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12542, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10952; 1919 § 4646  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 245.055 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.055 - Procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.055. Procedure. — After said notice has been so given the matter shall be proceeded with in the same manner as is provided for where articles of association for the formation of a levee district have been filed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12543)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10953; 1919 § 4647