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MO Rev Stat § 242.620 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.620 - Protection of drainage district lien.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.620. Protection of drainage district lien. — 1. To protect said lien of said drainage taxes upon the lands and other property against which said taxes shall be levied, in any case where delinquent lands are offered for sale for such delinquent taxes, and the amount of the tax due, together with interest, cost, and penalties is not bid for the same, the board of supervisors shall have authority to bid or cause to be bid, not to exceed the whole amount due thereon, as aforesaid, in the name of the drainage district, and in case such bid is the highest bid, the sheriff shall sell and convey such lands to such drainage district, and such lands shall thereupon become the property of the drainage district, and may be held, disposed of, and conveyed by the board of supervisors at such price and on such terms, as in the discretion of the board of supervisors may be to the best interest of the district.  2. If such lands, or other property, are sold by the board of supervisors the purchasers thereof shall take the same subject to all said drainage taxes thereafter becoming due, the same as all other lands and other property in the district.  3. The board of supervisors shall also have authority to protect the lien of the drainage district for drainage taxes by paying the general, state, county, school and road taxes, and in case the lien of the state for such general, state, county, school and road taxes is foreclosed, and the land, or other property, sold for such general taxes, and the said drainage district is not made a party to the proceedings foreclosing the said lien for such general taxes, the said board of supervisors shall be authorized at any time within one year after said sale to redeem such lands, by paying not to exceed the whole amount of such taxes, together with penalties and costs accrued thereon. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12347)  Prior revision: 1929 § 10766  CROSS REFERENCE:  Delinquent taxes, drainage district may redeem lands, when, 140.380
MO Rev Stat § 242.630 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.630 - Unpaid warrants to draw interest.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   242.630. Unpaid warrants to draw interest. — Any warrant issued under sections 242.010 to 242.690 that is not paid when presented to the treasurer of the board of supervisors of the district, because of lack of funds in the treasury, such fact shall be endorsed on the back of such warrant, and such warrant shall draw interest thereafter at a rate of not more than twelve percent per annum, until such time as there is any money on hand to pay the amount of the warrant and the interest then accumulated, but no interest shall be allowed on warrants after such time when sufficient funds are in the treasury to pay the endorsed warrants and interest. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12356, A.L. 1985 H.B. 378)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10775; 1919 § 4408; 1909 § 5532
MO Rev Stat § 242.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.640 - Surety bonds payable to district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.640. Surety bonds payable to district. — All surety bonds required to be given by sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall be made payable to the district by its corporate name, in which name all suits shall be instituted and prosecuted. All penalties herein named shall be payable to and recoverable by said district. All bonds required by said sections shall cover defaults of deputies, clerks or assistants of the officers appointing them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12357)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10776; 1919 § 4409; 1909 § 5522
MO Rev Stat § 242.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.650 - Change of venue limitation.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   242.650. Change of venue limitation. — 1. No change of venue shall be allowed in any of the proceedings had under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, except where the judge of the court in which the articles of association have been filed shall be disqualified for any of the reasons stated in the statute of this state relating to the change of venue in civil cases.  2. If the judge of such court is disqualified or is charged by any person interested in the formation of said district with being disqualified for any of the reasons stated in the statutes, it shall be the duty of said judge to cause another judge to be transferred or assigned to hear the cause in the same manner as other civil cases. Such judge shall retain jurisdiction in such reclamation proceedings only until the disqualification of the regular judge of the circuit court shall have been removed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12358, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10777; 1919 § 4410  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 242.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.660 - Action not to abate by reason of death of party.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.660. Action not to abate by reason of death of party. — No action under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall abate by reason of the death or disability of any party to any proceeding, but upon suggestion of such death or disability the cause shall be immediately revived in the name of the heirs, devisees or their legal representatives, and summons shall be served on such heirs, devisees and legal representatives at least five days before the day set for hearing the cause, and said summons may be served in vacation or term time; if the heirs, devisees or legal representatives of the deceased party are nonresidents, notice by publication shall be given them in a manner and for the time provided for in section 242.360, and the cause shall then proceed in all respects as in case of the original parties being in court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12359)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10778; 1919 § 4411; 1909 § 5502
MO Rev Stat § 242.670 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.670 - Limited appeal from assessments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.670. Limited appeal from assessments. — No appeal from any action of the circuit court had under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall be permitted to act as supersedeas or to delay any action or the prosecution of any work begun under the provisions of this law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12360)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10779; 1919 § 4412
MO Rev Stat § 242.680 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.680 - Existing rights not affected by sections 242.010 to 242.690.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.680. Existing rights not affected by sections 242.010 to 242.690. — Where proceedings have been begun under the provisions of the sections repealed by the act of April 8, 1905, they may be proceeded with and completed under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690; provided, that all liens, remedies and processes for the collection of taxes provided for in said sections, shall, so far as applicable, be available for the collection of taxes levied and bonds issued under the sections thereby repealed; provided further, that in all cases where drainage districts have been incorporated under the said sections repealed and the work of drainage has been commenced or completed, in whole or in part, no rights or obligations incurred by district or individual shall be nullified, invalidated or for naught held. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12385)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10804; 1919 § 4434; 1909 § 5534
MO Rev Stat § 242.690 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.690 - Prior remedies not impaired by sections 242.010 to 242.690.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.690. Prior remedies not impaired by sections 242.010 to 242.690. — 1. The repeal of article 1 of chapter 41, RSMo 1909 and the repeal of an act amending and adding to said article 1, enacted in 1911 and found on pages 205 to 222 of the laws of Missouri of 1911, shall not have the effect of suspending, abating, abridging, impairing, vitiating or nullifying any right, power, remedy or lien heretofore given, created or conferred upon any drainage district heretofore organized or in process of organization at the time of passage of sections 242.010 to 242.690, under any law of this state, but all such rights, powers, remedies and liens are hereby directly preserved to all such drainage districts; nor shall the repealing of said article 1 as amended and added to by the 46th general assembly in 1911 have the effect of suspending, abridging, abating or nullifying any proceeding or proceedings now pending in any court of this state or of the United States; nor shall the repealing of existing laws have the effect of impairing, invalidating, discharging, changing, modifying or destroying any obligation, contract or undertaking, entered into by, or with any drainage district now organized and existing under any law in this state, but all such obligations, contracts and undertakings so entered into, shall be and remain inviolate.  2. All rights, powers, liens and remedies now existing in behalf of any drainage district of this state, may be enforced and made available in the manner and by the means and mode now provided by law, or such rights, powers, liens and remedies may be enforced and made available under the provisions of said sections, if applicable, at the election of the drainage district. Sections 242.010 to 242.690 are hereby declared to be remedial in character and purpose, and shall be liberally construed by the courts in carrying out this legislative intent and purpose. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12389)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10808; 1919 § 4438
MO Rev Stat § 242.692 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.692 - Major district and minor district defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   242.692. Major district and minor district defined. — The drainage district organized or reorganized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, which desires to annex itself to another drainage district also so organized, either for outlet or other purposes, including having the petitioning district become a part of the district to which the petition is addressed shall be hereinafter referred to as the "minor district". The drainage district to which petition is addressed shall hereinafter be known as the "major district". ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 444 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 242.694 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.694 - Petition for annexation by minor district — service.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   242.694. Petition for annexation by minor district — service. — The board of supervisors of any minor district may in behalf of said district and the landowners therein, file a petition praying to be annexed to a major drainage district organized under the same provisions of law, provided the major and the minor district either have a common outlet, or the major district does have an outlet for the minor district or they furnish same; the petition shall be headed in the name of the minor district and addressed to the major district and shall set out in plain language the desire of the minor district to be annexed to the major district; it shall state that the boundaries, owners of lands and other property in the minor district to be as set out in the organization and records of the minor district, and praying to be annexed to the major district. Said petition is to be filed in the office of the circuit clerk of the circuit court incorporating the major district, and the clerk shall cause a certified copy of said petition to be served upon the secretary of the major district at the office of the major district, wherever located. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 444 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 242.698 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.698 - Appeal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   242.698. Appeal. — Any owner of lands or other property in the minor district shall have the right to appeal the finding or decree of the court annexing minor district to major district, said appeal to be prosecuted in the same manner as provided for appeals under the civil code. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 444 § 7)
MO Rev Stat § 242.699 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.699 - Construction — applicability.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   242.699. Construction — applicability. — The provisions herein contained are declared to be remedial in character, shall be liberally construed by the courts promptly and shall apply to districts already organized, in process of reorganization or to be hereafter organized or reorganized by circuit courts of this state. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 444 § 8)
MO Rev Stat § 242.700 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.700 - Drainage district may be formed on land containing mineral deposits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.700. Drainage district may be formed on land containing mineral deposits. — The owners of a majority of the acreage in any contiguous body of lands or of lands having a common drainage, certified by the state geologist of this state to contain or probably contain valuable mineral deposits, situate in one or more counties of this state, may form a drainage district for the purpose of having such lands drained for mining purposes, and for that purpose they may make and sign articles of association and be incorporated and be and become a body corporate in all respects and in the same manner as is now provided for the organization, incorporation and government of associations for the drainage of swamps, etc., lands under sections 242.010 to 242.690, with all rights, powers, duties and obligations of drainage districts organized under said sections except as herein otherwise provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12390)
MO Rev Stat § 242.710 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.710 - Reclamation of mineralized lands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.710. Reclamation of mineralized lands. — In order more effectively to promote the drainage and reclamation of mineralized lands now organized or which may hereafter be organized hereunder, such districts shall have the power to purchase, construct, own or lease and operate a plant or plants for the pumping of water from the underground areas of such lands, and a custom concentrating plant or plants for crushing and cleaning ores and minerals; to prescribe, regulate and collect taxes or charges for the pumping of water and for the crushing and cleaning of such ores and minerals, and to acquire by lease, purchase, donation or condemnation, the necessary lands upon which to construct such pumping station or pumping stations, plant or plants, and rights-of-way and easements for the construction and maintenance of roads, railroads or other ways to and from such station or stations, plant or plants, including rights-of-way and easements for the flowage, impounding or disposal of water. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12391)
MO Rev Stat § 242.720 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.720 - Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.720. Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions. — 1. The chief engineer appointed by the board of supervisors of any mine drainage district, as provided in section 242.220, shall make a survey of the lands, both surface and underground, within the district, and of all mineralized lands adjacent thereto that may or will be benefitted by such system of drainage, and report thereon in writing to the board of supervisors, with maps and profiles of such survey, showing the shafts, drifts, drill holes, underground excavations and underground watercourses, with plans for draining, dewatering and reclaiming such lands for mining purposes, together with designs and plans for the construction of a custom concentrating plant or plants and all necessary facilities in connection therewith, including also an estimate of the amount of ores and minerals available for mining from such lands upon completion and execution of such plans. Such report, or any modification thereof approved by the chief engineer shall be adopted by the board of supervisors as the plan for reclamation as provided in section 242.230.  2. On the filing and adoption of the plan for reclamation, the board of supervisors shall, by resolution, provide for the levy and collection of the taxes and charges hereinbefore and hereinafter provided for, including provisions for the increase thereof as provided for in section 242.740, and shall give notice thereof by causing such resolution to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which the said district or any part thereof may be located.  3. Any owner of land within the district or adjacent thereto that may or will be benefitted by such plan for reclamation may, within ten days following the last day of publication of said notice, file with the secretary of the board of supervisors, exceptions to such tax levies or charges.  4. Thereupon the board of supervisors shall, within five days after the filing of such exceptions, hear and determine the same, and in case any such landowner is not satisfied with the determination of such exceptions by such board, he may file his exceptions in the form of a petition in the circuit court by which the district was organized, and such court shall hear and determine the same as provided in section 242.280.  5. The chief engineer shall keep a complete record of the drainage of said district and the lands affected thereby and of the operation of such concentrating plant or plants, and shall file a written report thereon from time to time as may be requested by the board of supervisors, but at least once each year. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12392)
MO Rev Stat § 242.740 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.740 - Issuance and registration of bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.740. Issuance and registration of bonds. — 1. The board of supervisors of any such mine drainage district may issue the bonds of such district as provided in section 242.480, except that in lieu of the basis of the issuance thereof as provided in section 242.450, the total amount of bonds so issued shall not exceed seventy-five percent of the income of such district from all sources for the number of years for which such bonds are to be outstanding, such income to be estimated by the board of supervisors upon the basis of the report of the chief engineer of the district provided for in section 242.720, and it shall be the duty of said board, in making the levy of the pumping tax or royalty and in prescribing the tax or charge for crushing and cleaning ores or minerals by such concentrating plant or plants, to take into account the maturing principal and accruing interest on all bonds of the district at any time outstanding, and to make ample provision for the payment thereof, and, to that end, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors at any time, and from time to time, when it becomes apparent that such taxes or charges theretofore fixed will not produce the sums required for the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon and the operating and maintenance expenses of the district, to increase such taxes or charges so as to produce fully the sums required, as aforesaid; provided, however, that such pumping tax shall not exceed the limitation herein provided.  2. The board of supervisors, in order to secure the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, shall have power and authority to pledge, mortgage or convey the property of such district, both real and personal, the proceeds to be derived from all such taxes or charges, after deducting therefrom the sum or sums required to pay the operating expenses of the district and to provide an adequate reserve fund for maintenance, depreciation and contingencies.  3. Before such bonds shall be negotiated, they shall be presented to the state auditor of Missouri for registration as provided in section 108.240 and the board of supervisors may sell such bonds as provided in section 242.480, or may sell the same to any corporation, commission or agency created or authorized by the Congress of the United States to purchase such bonds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12394)
MO Rev Stat § 242.750 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.750 - Credit for additional pumping operations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.750. Credit for additional pumping operations. — In the event that the drainage operations conducted by any such drainage district shall not drain any tract of land therein to the depth of mining operations conducted on such tract, necessitating the operation by the owner of such tract or his agents or lessees or sublessees, of pumps additional to the pumps operated by such district, then the pumping tax or taxes levied against such tract shall be credited with the amount actually and necessarily spent in such additional pumping operations by such owners, his agents, lessees, or sublessees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12395)