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MO Rev Stat § 242.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.020 - Formation of drainage districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.020. Formation of drainage districts. — 1. The owners of a majority of the acreage in any contiguous body of swamp, wet or overflowed lands, or lands subject to overflow, situate in one or more counties in this state, may form a drainage district for the purpose of having such lands and other property reclaimed and protected from the effects of water, for sanitary or agricultural purposes, or when the same may be conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare, or of public utility or benefit, by drainage or otherwise, and for that purpose they may make and sign articles of association, in which shall be stated: The name of the district, and the number of years the same is to continue; the boundary lines of the proposed drainage district; the names of the owners of lands or other property in said district, together with a description of the lands and other property owned by each; when the name of the owner of any of said lands or other property is unknown, this fact shall be set out in said articles; said articles shall further state that the owners of real estate and other property within said district whose names are subscribed to said articles are willing to and do obligate themselves to pay the tax or taxes which may be assessed against their respective lands or other property to pay the expense of organizing and of making and maintaining the improvements that may be necessary to effect the reclamation of said lands and other property, so formed into a drainage district, and to drain and to protect the same from the effects of water, and said articles of association shall contain a prayer, praying that the lands and other property described therein be declared a drainage district under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690.  2. After said articles of association and petition have been so signed the same shall be filed in the office of the circuit clerk of the county in which such lands and other property are situate; or, if such lands and other property be composed of tracts or parcels situate in two or more different counties then in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which there are situate more of said lands and other property than in any other county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12324)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10743; 1919 § 4378; 1909 § 5496  (1953) Where articles of association did not describe easement owned by corporation and named its owner and notice described only servient land through which easement ran, assessment of benefits against easement held improper. Farmers Drainage Dist. v. Sinclair Refining Co. (Mo.), 255 S.W.2d 745.
MO Rev Stat § 242.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.030 - Notice of application — form.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   242.030. Notice of application — form. — 1. Immediately after such articles of association shall have been filed, the clerk in whose office the articles of association have been filed shall give notice by causing publication to be made once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which are situate lands and other property of the district, the last insertion to be made at least fifteen days prior to the first day of the next regular term of the circuit court at which said articles of association and petition are to be heard; said notice shall be substantially in the following form and it shall be deemed sufficient for all purposes of sections 242.010 to 242.690:    NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO FORM DRAINAGE DISTRICT.   Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the following described real estate and other property in ______ County of Missouri (here describe the property as set out in the articles of association) that articles of association asking that the foregoing lands and other property be formed into a drainage district under the provisions of chapter 242, and that the lands and other property as above described will be affected by the formation of said drainage district and be rendered liable to taxation for the purposes of paying the expenses of organizing and making and maintaining the improvements that may be found necessary to drain, protect and reclaim the lands and other property in said district, and you, and each of you, are hereby notified to appear at a session of this court to be held on the ______ day of ______, 20______, at ______ in ______ County, and show cause, if any there be, why said drainage district as set forth in the articles of association shall not be organized as a public corporation of the state of Missouri.     __________________    Clerk of the circuit court of ______ County.    2. 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 242.010 to 242.690; 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 and other property in said proposed drainage 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 § 12325, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 242.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.040 - Objections — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.040. Objections — procedure. — 1. Any owner of real estate or other property in said proposed district, who may not have signed said articles of association, objecting to the organization and incorporation of said drainage district, shall, on or before the first day of the term of court at which the cause is to be heard, file his objection or objections why such drainage 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, without unnecessary delay, and in case all such objections are overruled, the circuit court shall by its order, duly entered of record, duly declare and decree said drainage 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 property set out in said articles of association should not be incorporated into a drainage 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.  2. 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 may be amended as any other pleading.  3. Within sixty 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 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.  4. 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 lands and other property 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 § 12326)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10745; 1919 § 4380; 1909 § 5499
MO Rev Stat § 242.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.070 - Reorganization of districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.070. Reorganization of districts. — Any drainage 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, may elect in the manner herein provided to become and be reorganized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690; provided, that such reorganization shall not be required of districts heretofore organized or in process of organization at the time of passage of this law under the provisions of article 1, chapter 41, of the Revised Statutes of 1909, but all such districts shall have the right to proceed under the provisions of said sections. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12379)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10798; 1919 § 4428
MO Rev Stat § 242.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.080 - Reorganized districts — articles of association.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.080. Reorganized districts — articles of association. — 1. Any drainage district heretofore organized and any district that is now in process of organization or any drainage district that may hereafter be organized under any previous or existing law of this state may organize under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, and after so organized shall be entitled to the benefits of all of the provisions of said sections and any or all laws amendatory hereof.  2. The owners of a majority of acreage of any existing drainage 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 drainage district be declared a drainage district under the provisions of said sections.  3. 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 § 12380)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10799; 1919 § 4429
MO Rev Stat § 242.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.090 - Notice of reorganization hearing — form.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   242.090. Notice of reorganization hearing — form. — 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 242.030, said notice to be in substantially the following form, which shall be deemed sufficient for all the purposes of sections 242.010 to 242.690:   NOTICE FOR HEARING OF PETITION FOR REORGANIZATION OF ______ DRAINAGE DISTRICT.   Notice is hereby given to owners of land and other property in "______ drainage district" of Missouri that articles of association have been filed in this office, asking that said drainage district be reorganized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, and that you and each of you are notified to appear at a session of this court to be held on ______ day of ______, 20______, at ______ in ______ county and show cause, if any there be, why said drainage district as set forth in said articles of association should not be reorganized as a public corporation under said 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 said sections; 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 drainage 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 § 12381, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10800; 1919 § 4430  Effective 1-2-79
MO Rev Stat § 242.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.100 - Procedure after notice of reorganization.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.100. Procedure after notice of reorganization. — 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 drainage district have been filed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12382)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10801; 1919 § 4431
MO Rev Stat § 242.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.110 - Records and funds delivered to secretary of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.110. Records and funds delivered to secretary of board. — Immediately after the election of the board of supervisors as provided for in section 242.100, and the election of a president and secretary, and the secretary has filed the necessary bond and it has been approved, he shall call upon the county clerk or other person who may be in charge of the records of the district for all records, contracts, files, books, plats, maps and every article of record belonging to said district, and the county clerk or other person in charge of such records shall immediately deliver to said secretary of the district all such records and take the receipt of the secretary therefor. Said secretary shall also call upon the county treasurer or other person who has control of the funds of the district, for the transfer of all funds of the district to him and said treasurer or other person shall immediately transfer such funds, taking the receipt of the secretary for such funds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12383)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10802; 1919 § 4432
MO Rev Stat § 242.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.120 - Liability of reorganized district — consolidation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.120. Liability of reorganized district — consolidation. — When an existing drainage district has been reorganized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 the board of supervisors will not be required to follow such steps or requirements of sections 242.010 to 242.690 as are inconsistent with or rendered unnecessary, by the work that has already been done in the district; provided, that no such change of organization shall have the effect of in any way invalidating any indebtedness, liability, or contract of any nature incurred under its former organization, but all such indebtedness, liability or contract shall attach to and become the debt or liability of the new organization until the same is fully paid and discharged, and all debts owing to, and all rights and 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 organize under the provisions of said sections; provided further, that no right of action shall exist nor remedy be allowed against any such reorganized district by virtue of any contract or contracts made by, or on behalf of, any such reorganized district prior to its reorganization as herein provided for, which did not exist or was not allowed by statute against such district prior to the time of its reorganization as herein provided for; and provided further, that two or more drainage districts, whether located in the same or different counties, may unite in formulating and signing articles of association for the reorganization of such districts under the provisions of sections 242.070 to 242.120, 242.510 to 242.530, and sections 242.680 and 242.690 and the land and other property of such districts may be combined into one and the same district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12384)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10803; 1919 § 4433
MO Rev Stat § 242.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.130 - Extending time of corporate existence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.130. Extending time of corporate existence. — 1. Whenever the board of supervisors of any district organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 or any previous enactment of the general assembly of the state of Missouri providing for the organization of drainage districts by the circuit courts, finds that, in order to either 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 or for any other cause, the time for which any such drainage district has been incorporated should be extended, such board shall call a meeting of landowners of the district in the same manner as is provided for in section 242.150; the notice shall state the time, place and purpose of such meeting, and that if the majority of acres 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.  2. Such meeting shall be conducted in the same manner as is provided in section 242.150 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 proceeding shall be had as is provided for in sections 242.030 and 242.040 relating to articles of association and incorporation of the district.  3. 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 should 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 § 12373)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10792; 1919 § 4422
MO Rev Stat § 242.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.150 - Election of board of supervisors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.150. Election of board of supervisors. — Within thirty days after any drainage district shall have been organized and incorporated under the provisions of section 242.040 the circuit clerk of the county in which the articles of association have been filed shall, upon giving notice by causing publication to be made once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which lands of the district are situate, the last insertion to be at least ten days before the day of such meeting, call a meeting of the owners of real estate or other property situate in said district, at a day and hour specified in some public place in the county in which the district was organized, for the purpose of electing a board of five supervisors, to be composed of owners of real estate in said district, two of whom at least shall be residents of the county or counties in which such district is situate, or some adjoining counties; the landowners, when assembled, shall organize by the election of a chairman and secretary of the meeting who shall conduct the election; at such election each and every acre of land in the district shall represent one share, and each owner shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for every acre of land owned by him in such district, and the five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected as supervisors; and said supervisors shall immediately by lot determine the terms of their office, which shall be respectively one, two, three, four and five years, and they shall serve until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12327)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10746; 1919 § 4381; 1909 § 5507  (1955) Where acts of board in levying tax were acts of de facto officers, the validity of such acts may not be questioned in action to collect tax on ground supervisors were not legally elected. Ft. Osage Dr. Dist. v. Jackson Co. (Mo.), 275 S.W.2d 326.
MO Rev Stat § 242.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court|Section 242.160 - Election of supervisors — electors.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   242.160. Election of supervisors — electors. — In the same month of each year after the election of the first board of supervisors, the board of supervisors shall call a meeting of the owners of land and other property in the district, in the same manner as is provided for in section 242.150, and such owners shall meet at the time and place fixed by the board of supervisors and elect one supervisor therefor in like manner as prescribed in section 242.150, who shall hold his office for five years or until his successor is elected and qualified; and in case of a vacancy in any office of supervisors the remaining supervisors may fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting, when a successor shall be elected for the unexpired term; provided, that after the report of the commissioners has been confirmed by the court under the provisions of section 242.280, only the land and other property having benefits assessed against it shall be entitled to vote at the annual meetings held under the provisions of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12328)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10747; 1919 § 4382; 1909 § 5508