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MO Rev Stat § 242.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.330 - Board of supervisors — powers, contracts — duties of chief engineer — state or federal aid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1976   242.330. Board of supervisors — powers, contracts — duties of chief engineer — state or federal aid. — 1. The board of supervisors of said district shall have full power and authority to build, construct, excavate and complete all or any works and improvements which may be needed to carry out, maintain and protect the plan for reclamation. To accomplish that end the said board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to employ men and teams and to purchase machinery, employ men to operate same and directly have charge of and construct the works and improvements, or by the use of other or more efficient means than provided for in the plans adopted.  2. They may, in their discretion, let the contract for such works and improvements either as a whole or in sections, and when such contract or contracts are let, they shall be advertised and let to the lowest and best bidder, who shall give a good and approved bond, with ample security, conditioned that he will well and promptly carry out the contract for such work and improvements, which contract shall be in writing and to which shall be attached and made a part thereof, complete plans and specifications of the work to be done and the improvements to be made under said contract, which plans and specifications shall be prepared by the chief engineer and shall be incorporated in and attached to the contract, which contract shall be prepared by the attorney for the district, and before the work is commenced shall be approved by the board of supervisors and signed by the president of the board and the contractor, and shall be executed in duplicate.  3. The chief engineer shall be the superintendent of all the works and improvements, and shall, whenever required, and at least once each year, make a full report to said board of all work done and improvements made and make such suggestions and recommendations to the board as he may deem proper. However, if and when the state of Missouri or the United States of America or any subdivision, department, division or agency thereof is willing to construct the works and improvements provided for in the plan for reclamation or any part thereof, the board of supervisors of the district is authorized to cooperate with the agency to the fullest extent and is hereby granted power and authority to accept any such work in aid of the project, irrespective of whether it be by way of grant of funds, labor, work, materials or otherwise and may, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, give such assurances as may be required to obtain the construction of the works and improvements provided for in the plan for reclamation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12339, A.L. 1976 S.B. 915)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10758; 1919 § 4393; 1909 § 5526
MO Rev Stat § 242.335 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.335 - District may contract with political subdivisions or other districts for outlets — costs determined, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971   242.335. District may contract with political subdivisions or other districts for outlets — costs determined, how. — Drainage districts organized or incorporated under this chapter may contract with each other, and with any political subdivision of this or any other state, and with districts organized or incorporated under any other law of this state or under the laws of any other state, for such outlets as the one may need and the other can furnish on such terms as may be deemed to be just and fair. The cost of obtaining the outlets shall be paid for as are other expenses of the district or political subdivision for making improvements. If the districts or district and political subdivision cannot agree upon the compensation to be paid for the outlet, the district supplying the outlet, by action in the circuit court of the county wherein the district or political subdivision for which the outlet is supplied is organized or located, may recover from the district or political subdivision fair and just compensation for supplying the outlet. Any compensation received by the district shall be applied to improving its ditches or levees or reducing taxation or indebtedness. ­­-------- (L. 1953 p. 546 § 242.195, A.L. 1959 S.B. 182, A.L. 1971 H.B. 137)
MO Rev Stat § 242.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.340 - Board of supervisors may amend plan for reclamation — limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.340. Board of supervisors may amend plan for reclamation — limitations. — 1. Whenever it shall appear to the board of supervisors, after the plan for reclamation has been filed with the clerk of the court organizing said district and work has progressed thereunder, that some of the ditches or other improvements called for in said plan are inadequate and are not affording or giving to the lands adjacent to such ditch or ditches or other improvements, substantially the same outlets for drainage or protection from overflow that are afforded other lands in the district equally taxed, the board of supervisors of said districts shall have the power, authority and right, upon the recommendation of its chief engineer, to enlarge or cause to be enlarged any ditches or other improvements set out in the plan for reclamation and to construct or cause to be constructed such additional ditches, levees, canals and other improvements that may be necessary to afford such lands substantially equal outlets for drainage and protection from overflow that are afforded the other lands in said district, equally taxed, as a whole.  2. A description of said additional ditches and improvements found to be necessary by the board of supervisors and its chief engineer shall be filed with the secretary of the board of supervisors and entered upon the record of said board, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court organizing said district, and thereafter shall be a part of the plan for reclamation.  3. The cost of said additional ditches and improvements shall be paid for out of the benefits assessed against all the lands in said district as finally confirmed by the circuit court organizing said district, in the same proportion and in the same manner as is provided for in the constructing of ditches, levees and other improvements called for in the original plan for reclamation; provided however, that the cost of constructing the additional ditches and other improvements herein provided for, shall not be levied against lands that have been annexed or added to the district after it was organized, unless the additional ditches and other improvements to be constructed shall directly benefit the annexed lands. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12350)  Prior revision: 1929 § 10769
MO Rev Stat § 242.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.360 - Embankments to be raised at expense of owner.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.360. Embankments to be raised at expense of owner. — When any right-of-way has been obtained under sections 242.010 to 242.690, over any embankment belonging to any person, railroad, tramway or other corporation, it shall be the duty of the owner of such embankment to so raise at the expense of the owner, said embankment so that same will conform with the levee of said district, and if such person or corporation shall fail or refuse to raise such embankment in the manner herein provided, said district may within three months after it has finished the building of its own levee enter upon and raise the embankment of said person or corporation to conform with said district levee. And the cost for such construction shall be a first lien upon the property of said person or corporation and such cost may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12355)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10774; 1919 § 4407
MO Rev Stat § 242.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.370 - Existing drains may be connected.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.370. Existing drains may be connected. — 1. At the time of the construction, in any district incorporated under sections 242.010 to 242.690, of the plan for reclamation herein referred to, all ditches or systems of drainage already constructed in said district and all watercourses shall, if necessary to the drainage of any of the lands in said district, be connected with and made a part of the works and improvements of the plan of drainage of said district.  2. But no ditches, drains or systems of drainage constructed in said district after the completion of the aforesaid plan of drainage of said district, shall be connected therewith, unless the consent of the board of supervisors shall be first had and obtained, which consent shall be in writing and shall particularly describe the method, terms and conditions of such connection, and shall be approved by the chief engineer. Said connection, if made, shall be in strict accord with the method, terms and conditions laid down in said consent.  3. If the landowner or owners wishing to make such connection are refused by the board of supervisors or decline to accept the consent granted, the said landowner or owners may file a petition for such connection in the circuit court having jurisdiction in said district, and the matter in dispute shall in a summary manner be decided by said court which decision shall be final and binding on the district and landowner or owners.  4. No connection with the works or improvements of said plan of drainage of said district or with any ditch, drain or artificial drainage wholly within said district shall be made, caused or effected by any landowner or owners, company or corporation, municipal or private, by means of or with any ditch, drain, cut, fill, roadbed, levee, embankment or artificial drainage, wholly without the limits of said district, unless such connection is consented to by the board of supervisors, or in the manner herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12376)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10795; 1919 § 4425; 1909 § 5531
MO Rev Stat § 242.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.380 - Board may appoint overseers — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.380. Board may appoint overseers — duties. — 1. For the purpose of preserving any ditch, drain, dike, levee or other work constructed or erected under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, the board of supervisors shall have power to appoint an overseer or overseers of the district, who shall hold their positions at the will of the board.  2. It shall be the duty of such overseer or overseers to keep the ditches, drains, levees, dikes and other works of the district in good repair, and remove all obstructions from ditches, drains or watercourses within or without said district that may affect the works of the district. It shall be the further duty of said appointees to report at such times as the board may require the condition of the levees, drains and other works of the district assigned to each by the board; to make such examinations of all levees during high water periods as he may be directed by the board of supervisors; and upon any emergency or danger to levees or other works of the district, of which the overseer has charge, he may call out all able-bodied men over sixteen years of age and under fifty years within the district, and compel such persons to perform such work as said overseer may deem necessary to be made in order to protect the levees, grades or other works of the district.  3. Any person who shall refuse to perform such work assigned to him by said overseer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon affidavit made before any associate circuit judge of the county by the overseer or any other person, that the offender has defaulted in obeying such call or summons of said overseer, said associate circuit judge shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such offender, and upon conviction before said associate circuit judge, upon information or any other modes provided by law for trials of cases of misdemeanor, he shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the associate circuit judge. For each day's work any person shall perform under such requisition, he shall be paid the sum of one dollar and fifty cents out of the funds of the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12368)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10787; 1919 § 4417
MO Rev Stat § 242.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.390 - Board of supervisors to employ attorney — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.390. Board of supervisors to employ attorney — duties. — The board of supervisors within sixty days after organizing shall employ an attorney to act for the district and to advise said board. Such employment shall be evidenced by an agreement in writing, which, as far as possible, shall specify the exact amount to be paid to said attorney for all services and expenses. Such attorney shall conduct all legal proceedings and suits in court where the district is a party or interested, and shall in all legal matters advise the said board of supervisors, all officers, employees or agents of said district and board, and generally look after and attend to all matters of a legal nature for said board and district. When the said board may deem it necessary, they may, by and with the advice of said attorney, and under the like terms and conditions as above set forth, employ another attorney or attorneys. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12351)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10770; 1919 § 4403; 1909 § 5529
MO Rev Stat § 242.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.400 - Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.400. Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers. — The board of supervisors, except where otherwise provided shall, by resolution, at time of hiring or appointing, provide for the compensation for work done and necessary expense incurred by any officer, engineer, attorney or other employee and shall also pay the fees, per diem and necessary expenses of all court and county officers who may by virtue of sections 242.010 to 242.690 render service to said district. It is understood that the ordinary fee statute does not apply to services rendered under sections 242.010 to 242.690 by any county officer, but each such officer shall receive only a reasonable compensation for services actually rendered, the same to be fixed by the court in which the proceeding is pending, except where otherwise provided in sections 242.010 to 242.690; that said corporation or petitioners for corporations may prepare, write or print all copies of petitions, writs, orders and decrees or other papers, and furnish same to the clerk or other officer for his use, and in such event said officer shall be entitled to receive as compensation for issuing the said writs and copies of petitions, decrees, orders or other papers, only the reasonable value of the services actually rendered. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12363)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10782; 1919 § 4414; 1909 § 5527  CROSS REFERENCE:  Fees of county and circuit clerks, 246.020, 246.030
MO Rev Stat § 242.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.410 - Board may remove any officer or employee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.410. Board may remove any officer or employee. — The board of supervisors may at any time remove any officer, attorney or other employee appointed or employed by said board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12375)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10794; 1919 § 4424; 1909 § 5528
MO Rev Stat § 242.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.420 - Board to keep record of proceedings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.420. Board to keep record of proceedings. — The board of supervisors of any district organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall cause to be kept a well-bound book, entitled "Record of board of supervisors of ______ district", in which shall be recorded minutes of all meetings, proceedings, certificates, bonds given by all employees and any and all corporate acts, which record or records shall at all times be open to the inspection of anyone interested, whether taxpayer or bondholder. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12352)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10771; 1919 § 4404; 1909 § 5530
MO Rev Stat § 242.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.430 - Tax levied by board for cost of organization.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   242.430. Tax levied by board for cost of organization. — 1. The board of supervisors of any drainage district organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall, as soon as elected and qualified, levy a uniform tax of not more than eight dollars per acre upon each acre of land within such district, as defined by the articles of association to be used for the purpose of paying expenses incurred or to be incurred in organizing said district, making surveys of the same and assessing benefits and damages and to pay other expenses necessary to be incurred before said board shall be empowered by section 242.450 to provide funds to pay the total cost of works and improvements of the district.  2. In case the boundary lines of the district be extended under the provisions of section 242.050, so as to include lands and other property not described and contained in the articles of association, the same uniform tax shall be made on such lands and other property as soon as same shall have been annexed and included in the district.  3. Such tax shall be due and payable as soon as assessed and if not paid by December thirty-first of the year in which it has been levied, the same shall become delinquent. It shall become a lien on the land and other property against which it is assessed and shall be collected in the same manner as the annual installment of tax. In case the sum received from such assessment exceeds the total cost of items for which the same has been levied, the surplus shall be placed in the general fund of the district and used to pay cost of construction; provided, that if the corporation of the district be dissolved, as provided for in section 242.290, the amount of surplus, if there be any, shall be prorated and refunded to the landowners paying such uniform tax. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12333, A.L. 1959 H.B. 314, A.L. 2008 S.B. 939)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10752; 1919 § 4387; 1909 § 5538
MO Rev Stat § 242.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.440 - Cost of organization, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   242.440. Cost of organization, how paid. — Nothing in sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall authorize or be construed to authorize any uniform tax or any tax of any kind to pay any expenses mentioned or referred to in section 242.430, in addition to or in excess of the uniform tax of one dollar per acre upon each acre of land within such districts mentioned in said section 242.430. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 519 § 12362A, A.L. 1959 H.B. 314)
MO Rev Stat § 242.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.470 - Additional drainage tax levy, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.470. Additional drainage tax levy, when. — 1. Where the works set out in the plan for reclamation of any drainage district is found insufficient to reclaim in whole or in part any or all of the land and other property of the district the board of supervisors shall have the right to formulate new or amended plans containing new ditches, levees or other works, or providing for the enlargement of existing ditches, levees or other works, and additional assessments may be made in conformity with the provisions of section 242.260, the same to be made in proportion to the increased benefits accruing to the lands and other property because of the additional works.  2. If it should be found at any time that the amount of total tax levied under the provisions of section 242.450 is insufficient to pay cost of works set out in the plan for reclamation or additional work done under the provisions of this section the board of supervisors may make an additional levy to provide funds to complete the work; provided, the total of all levies of such tax does not exceed the total amount of benefits assessed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12374)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10793; 1919 § 4423; 1909 § 5505