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MO Rev Stat § 245.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.280 - Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.280. Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected. — The repealing of existing laws 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 levee district heretofore organized or in process of organization at the time of passage of sections 245.010 to 245.280, under any law of this state, either special or general, but all such rights, powers, remedies and liens are hereby directly preserved to all such levee districts; nor shall the repealing of existing laws 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 levee district now organized, and existing under any law in this state, either special or general, but all such obligations, contracts and undertakings so entered into, shall be and remain inviolate. All rights, powers, liens and remedies now existing in behalf of such levee 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 sections 245.010 to 245.280, if applicable, at the election of the board of supervisors of the levee district. Sections 245.010 to 245.280 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, and its provisions shall be construed to apply to levee districts already organized or in process of organization at the time of the passage of sections 245.010 to 245.280. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12546)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10956; 1919 § 4650
MO Rev Stat § 245.285 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.285 - Defining the term levee districts — applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.285. Defining the term levee districts — applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized. — The term "levee districts" as used in sections 245.285 to 245.545, and all other terms, or provisions of law contained in said sections 245.285 to 245.545, which have heretofore been interpreted as applying 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 or 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. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12549)  Prior revision: 1929 § 10959
MO Rev Stat § 245.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.290 - County commissions may establish levee districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.290. County commissions may establish levee districts. — The county commissions of the several counties in this state containing contiguous bodies of lands subject to overflow or inundation or endangered or liable to be endangered by bank erosion or wash from rivers bordering upon or wholly within the state, may divide the territory of their respective counties subject to overflow or inundation or other damage into one or more districts, every such district of which, as well as those hereafter organized under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall be a body corporate, and possess the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, under the name and style of "levee district No. ______ of ______ County"; and in that name shall be capable of suing and being sued, of holding such real and personal property as may at any time be either donated to or purchased by them in accordance with the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, or of which they may be rightfully possessed at the time of the passage of this law, having reference to the locality of the land and the character of the riverfront, including in each of said districts, as near as possible, all the land subject to overflow or inundations, or endangered or liable to be endangered by bank erosion or wash from the same crevasses, bayous, draws or outflows from rivers, and in the same direction, and which can be protected by the same levee or system of levees or bank protection; provided, that when it shall be made to appear in any way that there shall be land in two or more counties subject to overflow or inundation from the same crevasses, bayous, draws or outflows from a river, and in the same direction, and which can be protected by the same levee or system of levees, either county, by and with the consent of the county commission of the other county or counties, duly entered of record, may lay off such territory of said county or counties into a levee district, in the same manner as herein provided for territory wholly within such county; provided, that in the event any work is to be done upon any navigable stream, the consent of the federal government shall be obtained to make such improvement or improvements before the actual work on the improvement shall be begun. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12548)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10958; 1919 § 4651; 1909 § 5714
MO Rev Stat § 245.295 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.295 - Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.295. Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body. — The county commission, or other legislative body if different from the county commission, of any county in this state forming a levee district wholly within its limits, whether of the whole county or a part of such county, may lay off such levee district at any regular meeting of such commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12550, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10960; 1919 § 4652; 1909 § 5715  Effective 7-12-94
MO Rev Stat § 245.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.300 - Notice to be given — mailing required.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.300. Notice to be given — mailing required. — No such levee district shall be formed unless notice of an intention to apply therefor be first given by publication in some newspaper published in each county composing said proposed levee district, published once at least fifteen days before the commencement of the meeting of the county commission to which said application shall be made, and provided that the commission shall mail, by certified mail, a copy of the notice of the intention to form a district to the names listed on the county assessor's records of the owners of land or other individual or corporate franchise property in the district, including all public entities owning land within the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12551, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10961; 1919 § 4653; 1909 § 5716  Effective 7-12-94
MO Rev Stat § 245.305 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.305 - Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.305. Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district. — Whenever the board of directors of any levee district shall, by petition, show to the county commission or other legislative body of the county in which said levee district is situated that there are lands in said county which are subject to overflow, and inundation from the same rivers, crevasses, or bayous as other lands included in said district, and which said lands are not included in said levee district, and asking that said lands be incorporated in said district, the county commission or other legislative body shall cause notice to be given to such landowners requiring them to appear at the next regular meeting of said commission or other legislative body and show cause why such lands should not be incorporated into said levee district, and at the next regular meeting the commission or other legislative body shall proceed to hear and determine the matter; and if it shall appear that such lands are subject to overflow and inundation from the same rivers, bayous and crevasses as the lands in said district, the commission or other legislative body shall make an order incorporating such lands into said levee district, and the assessor shall assess the benefits to said lands to be derived from the building of levees constructed or to be constructed by said levee district, in the same manner, and the board of equalization shall act upon the same in the same manner as heretofore provided in sections 245.285 to 245.545; provided, that if the owner of any such lands be a nonresident of the county, he may be notified by registered mail to the address used by the county assessor for tax purposes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12597, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11007; 1919 § 4699; 1909 § 5762  Effective 7-12-94
MO Rev Stat § 245.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.310 - Extending levees and levee districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.310. Extending levees and levee districts. — If at any time it becomes necessary or expedient to extend a levee, not exceeding ten miles, in levee districts already organized, or to enlarge any levee district for the purpose of extending any levee therein to be constructed, in order to better protect such district from overflow, and if a petition of not less than five landowners, of the district, be presented to the county commission, requesting the same, the said county commission shall call a meeting of the landowners of the district and of the landowners in the territory sought to be connected with the district, in accordance with the prayer of the petitioner, at some convenient point to the said territory, by giving due notice as required in section 245.460, and at such meeting an estimate of the costs of the proposed new work made by an engineer, must be laid before the meeting, and the landowners present shall then determine, by the majority of the votes cast, whether such proposed new territory shall be added, and also whether the proposed new work shall be done. But said vote may be cast by the landowners present, or by agent or proxy, representing them. And if it is determined to add the new territory or to extend the levee in districts already organized, there shall be a readjustment of the taxes for benefits, and the county assessor shall proceed to assess the benefits to all of the land in the district that will be benefitted by the proposed work; and the board of equalization shall act upon the same, and all the assessments, levying of taxes and the collecting of the same shall be proceeded with in the same manner as in the case of organizing a new district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12595)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11005; 1919 § 4697; 1909 § 5760
MO Rev Stat § 245.315 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.315 - Existing levee districts may organize under this law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.315. Existing levee districts may organize under this law. — Any levee district now organized or existing under the provisions of any other law of this state either general, special or local law, may elect in the manner herein provided to be and become organized under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545; provided, that no such election or change of organization shall have the effect to repudiate or to permit the repudiation of any indebtedness or liability of such levee district which was made or incurred under its former organization, but all such indebtedness or liability shall attach to and become the debt or liability of the new organization till the same is fully paid off and discharged and all debts owing to, and all rights, privileges and immunities held or enjoyed by the old district under its former organization, shall be held and enjoyed by the new district when the same shall reorganize under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12599)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11009; 1919 § 4701
MO Rev Stat § 245.325 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.325 - Simple majority to decide election.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.325. Simple majority to decide election. — Should a majority of the votes of those voting upon the proposition be in favor of the change, the proposed change shall be deemed carried and the same shall be made, and the new district named and formed, and directors therefor appointed as provided in sections 245.300 and 245.335. The notice required by law to be given by said section 245.300 when the laying out of a new district is sought to be had shall be made and given, with such changes therein, as the circumstances shall require. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12601)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11011; 1919 § 4703
MO Rev Stat § 245.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.330 - Effect of reorganization of old districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.330. Effect of reorganization of old districts. — The action taken by the county commission in reorganizing an old district under sections 245.285 to 245.545, when such organization shall have been ordered under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall have in all ways and respects the same force and effect in law, as would the organization of a new district under the provisions of said sections 245.300 and 245.335, and the new district thus formed from the old one which existed under a different, general, local or special law, shall thereafter have all of the rights, privileges and immunities, and shall be authorized to exercise the same powers as would any new district originally organized under sections 245.285 to 245.545; provided, that such district changing its organization under the provisions of sections 245.285 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 the procedure of the new district thus formed shall after its organization proceed in conformity with the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545 as to work and acts thereafter to be done by the new district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12602)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11012; 1919 § 4704
MO Rev Stat § 245.335 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.335 - Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.335. Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission. — At the term of the county commission at which said levee district may be laid off, or at any subsequent term thereof, the said commission shall appoint three directors of levees, who shall be landholders within the county for the levee district of which the county is the whole or part thereof, one of which directors shall hold his said office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified; and the said commission shall annually thereafter appoint one director to take the place of the director whose official term expires, possessing the same qualifications as the director first appointed, who shall hold his office for the term of three years. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12552)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10962; 1919 § 4654; 1909 § 5717
MO Rev Stat § 245.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.340 - Oath of directors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.340. Oath of directors. — Said directors shall, before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that they will faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge their duties as directors, according to law, which oath shall be filed in the office of the county in which said directors may be appointed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12553)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10963; 1919 § 4655; 1909 § 5718
MO Rev Stat § 245.345 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.345 - Board to organize.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.345. Board to organize. — The directors appointed under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall call a meeting of their body at such time and place as may be designated by the directors of the county in which the larger part of the levee district may lie. Said body shall be known and designated as the "board of directors of levee district No. _________ , lying in the counties of _________ ". Said board of directors shall organize by electing a president, vice president and secretary, all of whom shall be members of said board, and such other officers, agents and servants as said board of directors shall deem necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12554)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10964; 1919 § 4656; 1909 § 5719
MO Rev Stat § 245.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.350 - Majority of board a quorum.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.350. Majority of board a quorum. — A majority of said board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the board. All permanent vacancies in said board of directors, caused by death, resignation, removal from the county where appointed, or refusal to serve, shall be filled by the county commission of the county in which the vacancy occurs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12585)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10995; 1919 § 4687; 1909 § 5750
MO Rev Stat § 245.355 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.355 - Duties of president and secretary.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.355. Duties of president and secretary. — The president of the board of directors shall preside at all meetings thereof; he shall sign the minutes and record of the proceedings of the board, and all warrants that may be drawn upon the treasurer by order of the board of directors for the payment of any money out of the treasury upon account of the levee fund of the district, and in general may do all acts and things that the said board may empower and authorize him to perform; and in his absence from any of the meetings of said board, the vice president shall preside and perform all the duties which have been conferred upon the president. In the absence of both the president and vice president at any meeting of the board, said board shall appoint one of their number to preside at such meeting, and the person so appointed shall have the same power and authority as has been conferred by law and by order of the said board upon the president. The secretary of said board of directors shall make out and safely keep a true and complete record of the proceedings of said board, in a book to be furnished for that purpose. He shall draw and attest all warrants on the treasurer for all moneys ordered by the board of directors to be paid out of the levee fund, and perform such other acts and duties as may be prescribed by such board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12555)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10965; 1919 § 4657; 1909 § 5720
MO Rev Stat § 245.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.360 - Pay of directors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   245.360. Pay of directors. — Each director attending a meeting of said board of directors shall be entitled to receive for his services for each day actually engaged in holding meetings of said board, the same per diem and mileage as allowed by law to commissioners of county commissions for their services in holding county commission meetings. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12583, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1554 Revision)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10993; 1919 § 4685; 1909 § 5748
MO Rev Stat § 245.365 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.365 - Board to determine what work is necessary.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.365. Board to determine what work is necessary. — It shall be the duty of said board of directors to determine what work is necessary to be done, or levees to be constructed, to protect their district from overflow or inundations or from bank erosion, wash or cutting from rivers. Whenever said board of directors shall deem it necessary they shall cause accurate surveys, maps and profiles thereof to be made of levees or other works to be constructed or repaired, and estimates and calculation of the costs of such work to be made by some experienced, suitable and competent engineer, who shall make a written report of the same, showing the amount, character and kind of work to be done, the exact location and probable cost thereof, and return the same, with all plans and specifications, to the board of directors. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12560)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10970; 1919 § 4662; 1909 § 5725
MO Rev Stat § 245.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.370 - Work to be let to lowest bidder.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.370. Work to be let to lowest bidder. — If it shall be decided at said meeting in the manner aforesaid, to do said work, the directors shall proceed to let the same out to the lowest and best bidder; provided, however, that said directors shall have the right to reject all bids, if the same be deemed too high. No director shall, either directly or indirectly, become a contractor for the building or repairing of any levee or public work contemplated by sections 245.285 to 245.545, nor have any interest therein, present or remote; and any director so offending shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12568)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10978; 1919 § 4670; 1909 § 5733