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MO Rev Stat § 242.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.170 - Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   242.170. Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled. — The provisions of section 245.065 relating to vacancies in office of members of the board of supervisors of levee districts resulting from improper election shall apply, insofar as practicable to drainage districts organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12498, A. 1949 S.B. 1082)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10908; 1919 § 4602
MO Rev Stat § 242.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.180 - Supervisors to take oath.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.180. Supervisors to take oath. — Each supervisor before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him in office as supervisor of the drainage district in which he was elected, and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by sections 242.010 to 242.690. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12329)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10748; 1919 § 4383; 1909 § 5509
MO Rev Stat § 242.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.200 - Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   242.200. Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation. — 1. The board of supervisors immediately after their election shall choose one of their number president of the board, and elect some suitable person secretary, who shall serve until the secretary's successor is elected and qualified, and who shall be a resident of the county or counties in which the district is situate or of an adjoining county and may or may not be a member of the board.  2. Such board shall adopt a seal with a suitable device, and shall keep a record of all its proceedings, which shall be open to the inspection of all owners of real estate and other property of the district, as well as to all other interested parties.  3. The board shall report to the landowners at the annual meeting held pursuant to the provisions of section 242.160 what work has been done, either by the engineers or otherwise.  4. At the annual meeting held pursuant to the provisions of section 242.160, the compensation to be received by the members of the board for their services while actually engaged in work for the district shall be determined. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12330, A.L. 1983 H.B. 236, A.L. 2002 S.B. 941)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10749; 1919 § 4384; 1909 § 5510
MO Rev Stat § 242.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.220 - Chief engineer and assistants — appointment — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.220. Chief engineer and assistants — appointment — duties. — 1. Within sixty days after organizing the board of supervisors shall appoint a competent civil engineer as chief engineer, who may be an individual, copartnership or corporation, and who shall engage such assistants as the board of supervisors may approve. The chief engineer shall have control of the engineering work in said district. The chief engineer may, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, consult any eminent engineer or engineers and obtain his or their opinion and advice concerning the reclamation of lands in said district.  2. The said engineer or engineers shall make all necessary surveys of the lands within the boundary lines of said district, as described by the articles of association, and of all lands adjacent thereto that may or will be improved or reclaimed in part or in whole by any system of drainage or levees that may be outlined and adopted, and said engineer or engineers, shall make a report in writing to the board of supervisors with maps and profiles of said surveys, which report shall contain a plan for draining, leveeing and reclaiming the lands and property described in the articles of association or adjacent thereto from overflow of or damage by water; said maps and profiles shall also indicate, so far as necessary, the physical characteristics of the lands, and location of any public roads, railroads and other rights-of-way, roadways and other property or improvements located on such lands. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12331)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10750; 1919 § 4385; 1909 § 5511
MO Rev Stat § 242.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.230 - Engineer's annual report — adoption of plan for reclamation — supplemental plans authorized.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   242.230. Engineer's annual report — adoption of plan for reclamation — supplemental plans authorized. — The chief engineer shall make a report in writing to the board of supervisors once every twelve months and more often if said board shall so require. Upon receipt of the final report of said engineer concerning surveys made of the lands and other property contained in the district organized, and plans for reclaiming the same, the board of supervisors shall adopt such report or any modification thereof approved by the chief engineer after consulting with the chief engineer or someone representing the chief engineer, and thereafter such adopted report shall be the plan for draining, leveeing or reclaiming such lands and other property from overflow or damage by water, and it shall after such adoption be known and designated as "the plan for reclamation", which plan shall be filed with the secretary of the board of supervisors and copied by the secretary into the records of the district. Supplemental plans for draining, leveeing, or reclaiming some or all of the lands and other property in the district from overflow or damage by water may be adopted by the board of supervisors from time to time as deemed necessary by the board of supervisors. The aforesaid supplemental plans may supplement, alter or modify the plan for reclamation and shall become a part thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12332, A.L. 1977 S.B. 2, A.L. 2008 S.B. 939)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10751; 1919 § 4386; 1909 § 5512
MO Rev Stat § 242.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.240 - Filing of reclamation report — appointment of commissioners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   242.240. Filing of reclamation report — appointment of commissioners. — 1. Within twenty days after the adoption of the plan of reclamation the secretary of the board of supervisors shall prepare and transmit a certified copy thereof to the circuit clerk of the court organizing the drainage district, and at the same time the board of supervisors shall file with the circuit clerk a petition asking the judge of the court to appoint commissioners to appraise the lands within and without the district to be acquired for rights-of-way, holding basins and other drainage works of the district, and to assess benefits and damages accruing to all lands in the district and other property by reason of the execution of the plan of reclamation.  2. Within thirty days after the filing of such petition the court shall, by an order, appoint three commissioners, who shall be persons residing within the state of Missouri, and who shall not be landowners in the district nor of kin within the fourth degree of consanguinity to any person owning land in the district. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum and shall control the action of the board on all questions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12334, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10753; 1919 § 4388; 1909 § 5514
MO Rev Stat § 242.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.250 - Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.250. Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors. — 1. Said circuit clerk upon the filing of said order of appointment shall notify each of said commissioners of his appointment by written or printed notice, and in the same he shall state the time and place for the first meeting of said commissioners.  2. The secretary of the board of supervisors or his deputy shall attend such meeting, and shall furnish to said commissioners a complete list of lands, all corporate and other property described in the articles of association or adjacent thereto that will be affected by carrying out and putting into force the plan for reclamation, and the names of the owners of such property, as were contained in the articles of association, at the date of the decree of the court incorporating the district. Said secretary shall also furnish said commissioners a copy of the plan for reclamation, with maps and profiles in his office.  3. The commissioners at said meeting, or within ten days thereafter, shall each take and subscribe to an oath that they will faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as such commissioners and make a true report of the work done by them. The said commissioners shall also at said meeting elect one of their own number chairman, and the secretary of the board of supervisors, or his deputy, shall be ex officio secretary of said board of commissioners during their continuance in office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12335)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10754; 1919 § 4389; 1909 § 5515
MO Rev Stat § 242.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.270 - Notice of commissioners' report — form — publication.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.270. Notice of commissioners' report — form — publication. — Upon the filing of the report of the commissioners, the clerk of said circuit court shall give notice thereof by causing publication to be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper, published in each county in the district. It shall not be necessary for said clerk to name the parties interested, but it shall be sufficient to say:   NOTICE OF FILING OF COMMISSIONERS' REPORT FOR ______ DRAINAGE DISTRICT.   Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the following described land and property in ______ County (or counties) Missouri (here describe land and property) included within "______ drainage district" that the commissioners heretofore appointed to assess benefits and damages to the property and lands situate in said drainage district and to appraise the cash value of the land necessary to be taken for rights-of-way, holding basins and other works of said district within or without the limits of said district, filed their report in this office on the ______ day of ______, 20______, and you and each of you are hereby notified that you may examine said report and file exceptions to all or any part thereof, as provided by law,      __________________     Clerk of the circuit court of ______ County, Missouri.   ­­provided, that where lands in different counties are contained in said report, the said notice shall be published in some newspaper in each county in which such lands so affected are situate, and it shall not be necessary to publish a list of all of said lands in each county, but only that part of same situate in the respective counties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12337)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10756; 1919 § 4391; 1909 § 5517  (1953) Where notice of organization of drainage district to holder of easement required by §§ 242.020 and 242.030 was not given, the notice and opportunity for hearing on commissioner's report afforded by § 242.270 was ineffectual to comply with due process of law. Farmers Drainage Dist. v. Sinclair Refining Co. (Mo.), 255 S.W.2d 745.
MO Rev Stat § 242.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.280 - Exceptions heard and determined by circuit court — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.280. Exceptions heard and determined by circuit court — procedure. — 1. The drainage district or any owner of land or other property in said district, may file exceptions to said report or to any assessment for either benefits or damages, within ten days after the last day of publication of the notice provided for in the preceding section. All exceptions shall be heard by the court and determined in a summary manner so as to carry out liberally the purposes and needs of the district, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the court, after having heard and determined all of said exceptions, that the estimated cost of constructing the improvement contemplated in the plan for reclamation is less than the benefits assessed against the land and other property in said district, then the court shall approve and confirm said commissioners' report as so modified and amended.  2. The court may at any time before final confirmation or approval refer the report back to the commissioners with or without instructions, and when the report is again filed, notice shall be given in the form and for the time provided in section 242.270. Exceptions to the second report shall be filed within ten days after the date of the last day of publication, and heard and determined in a summary manner.  3. The court shall adjudge and apportion the costs incurred by the exceptions filed and shall condemn any land or other property, within or without the boundary lines of the district, that is shown by the report of the commissioners to be needed for rights-of-way, holding basins and other works, or that may be needed for material to be used in constructing said works, following, as nearly as possible, the procedure that is now provided for by law for the appropriation of land and other property taken for telegraph, telephone and railroad rights-of-way.  4. The clerk of said circuit court shall transmit a certified copy of the court decree and copy of the commissioners' report, as confirmed or amended by the court, to the secretary of the board of supervisors of the district, who shall make and transmit a certified copy of the said decree and that part of the said report affecting land in each county to the recorder of each county having lands in the district, or affected by the said report, where the same shall become a permanent record and each such recorder shall receive a fee of one dollar for receiving, filing and preserving the same.  5. Any person may appeal from the judgment of the court, and upon such appeal there may be determined either or both of the following questions: First, whether just compensation has been allowed for property appropriated and, second, whether proper damages have been allowed for property prejudicially affected by the improvements. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12338)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10757; 1919 § 4392; 1909 § 5518
MO Rev Stat § 242.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.290 - Court to declare corporation dissolved — costs not to exceed benefits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.290. Court to declare corporation dissolved — costs not to exceed benefits. — If, after determining the objections made to the commissioners' report, the court shall find that the estimated costs of works and improvements as reported by the board of commissioners, or as amended by the court, exceed the estimated benefits, the court shall then render its decree, declaring the incorporation of the district to be dissolved as soon as all costs incurred, which shall include court costs and all obligations and expenses incurred in behalf of the district by the board of supervisors shall have been paid, and if the uniform tax levied under the provisions of section 242.430 be found insufficient to pay all such costs, the board of supervisors shall make such additional uniform tax levies as will be necessary to pay such deficiency; provided, that in estimating the cost of constructing the works and improvements of the district the amount of interest that might accrue upon bonds that may be issued by the board of supervisors under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall not be considered as a part of the cost of construction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12362)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10781; 1919 § 4413
MO Rev Stat § 242.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.300 - Decree or order of court may be amended or changed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   242.300. Decree or order of court may be amended or changed. — 1. Any decree or order of the court organizing any drainage district, confirming the report of commissioners, extending or changing the boundary lines of the district, reorganizing a district or otherwise pertaining to any procedure of the district may be amended or changed at any time by the court, by correcting the names of the landowners, by adding or amending any such names, or by adding, amending or correcting the description of any lands within the district, or that are alleged to be within the boundary of such district, or any other way amend or change any decree of the court pertaining to the district that may be deemed necessary to better carry out and fulfill the objects and designs of the drainage district without impairing the obligations of the district and without relieving the security of any obligations executed by or in behalf of any such districts.  2. When any such amendments are desired, the board of supervisors shall present a petition to the court organizing the district, in which shall be set forth the amendments or changes desired with the names of the owners and description of lands to be affected by the proposed amendments, changes or corrections; each owner of such lands not a party to the original proceedings shall be served, if a resident of this state, in the manner provided for by section 506.150, and if a nonresident, in the manner now provided by subsection 6 of section 506.160, or by publication as provided by section 242.030; if unknown, service shall be by publication in the manner provided for in section 242.030; any landowner objecting to the petition may file objections within fifteen days after the last publication of the notice or if personal service is had, within fifteen days after service is had.  3. The matters in said petition and all objections if any be filed shall be heard and determined by the court in a summary manner and as speedily as possible. Any number of amendments or corrections may be included in one petition, and any such amendments or corrections may be allowed or rejected as may be found just and right by the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12366, A. 1949 S.B. 1082)  Prior revision: 1929 § 10785
MO Rev Stat § 242.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.320 - Assessed damages paid before appropriating land.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.320. Assessed damages paid before appropriating land. — 1. The board of supervisors of drainage districts organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall not have the right to enter upon or appropriate any land for rights-of-way, holding basins or other works of the districts, until the prices awarded to the owners of such land shall have been paid to such owners or into the hands of the circuit clerks of the courts organizing such districts for the use of such owners; and if the sums awarded be not so paid within five years from the date of filing the commissioners' reports, all proceedings as to the taking of such property for rights-of-way, holding basins and other works not so paid for shall abate at the cost of said district. Whenever any land is acquired by any district under the provisions of said sections and the price of such property has been paid the owner by the district, the title, use, possession and enjoyment of such property shall pass from the owner and be vested in the district, and subject to its use, profit, employment and final disposition.  2. The price awarded for all land acquired by any district for rights-of-way, holding basins, or other works and the amount of damages assessed by the board of commissioners and confirmed by the court to any tract or parcel of land or other property in the district, shall be paid in cash to the owner thereof or to the clerk of the court for the use of such owner, and that portion of any tract or parcel of land or other property not taken for use of the district shall be assessed for the benefits accruing in accordance with the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12353)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10772; 1919 § 4405