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MO Rev Stat § 245.495 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.495 - Board may issue warrants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.495. Board may issue warrants. — The board of directors may, at its option, in lieu of bonds, issue warrants on the county treasurer, payable out of the fund of the levee district, in payment of any indebtedness incurred, including the entire expenses of constructing the levee, repairing or extending the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12556)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10966; 1919 § 4658; 1909 § 5721
MO Rev Stat § 245.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.500 - Form of warrants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.500. Form of warrants. — The warrant thus drawn shall be in the following form, and shall be signed by the president of the board of directors and countersigned by the secretary:    Office of levee district No. ______     $______ No. ______   To the treasurer of ______ County, Missouri:   Pay out of any money in the treasury belonging to said levee district, to ______, the sum of ______ dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of eight percent per annum from date of presentation to you for payment, until sufficient funds of said district are in the treasury to pay the same.   Done by order of the board of directors, this ______ day of ______, 20______.   ______, secretary. ______, president.   ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12566)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10976; 1919 § 4668; 1909 § 5731
MO Rev Stat § 245.505 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.505 - Sinking fund moneys may be invested.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.505. Sinking fund moneys may be invested. — Whenever there shall be any money belonging to any levee district set apart as a sinking fund for the payment of bonds, the board of directors of such district shall loan the same for the highest obtainable interest, not exceeding eight nor less than six percent per annum, and shall cause the same to be secured by mortgage or deed of trust on real estate, free from all liens and encumbrances, within the county, of the value of double the amount of the loan; and any other funds of said levee district may be deposited at the highest obtainable interest in some bank in the county wherein said district or any part thereof is situated, in the same manner as county school funds are deposited; provided, no such loan or deposit shall be made until the same shall be approved by the county commission of the county in which said district may be situated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12598)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11008; 1919 § 4700; 1909 § 5763  CROSS REFERENCES:  Bi-state development agency, bonds of, investment in authorized, 70.377  Multinational banks, securities and obligations of, investment in, when, 409.950  Savings accounts in insured savings and loan associations, investment in authorized, 369.194
MO Rev Stat § 245.515 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.515 - County treasurer to be treasurer of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   245.515. County treasurer to be treasurer of board. — The county treasurer of the county in which the greater part of any organized levee district lies shall be the treasurer of the levee fund of the district, until paid out upon the warrants issued by order of the board of directors of the levee district. Before receiving any funds belonging to the levee district, the treasurer shall give a separate bond, with sufficient security, in double the probable amount of the levee fund that shall come into his hands, payable to the state of Missouri, to be approved by the board of directors, conditioned for the faithful disbursement, according to law, of all such moneys as shall, from time to time, come into his hands to the credit of the levee fund of the levee district of which the county of which he is treasurer is part; and such bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission of the county in which said treasurer is appointed or elected. On the forfeiture of such bond, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commission in whose office such bond is filed to collect the same for the use of the levee district. If such clerk shall neglect or refuse to prosecute, any resident of the district may cause prosecution to be instituted. It shall be the duty of the board of directors in no case to permit the county treasurer having the custody of the levee funds of the district to have in his possession at any one time an amount of levee funds over one-half the amount of the security available in the bond. Such treasurer shall be allowed such compensation for his services as the board of directors deems advisable, not to exceed one-half of one percent of all levee funds disbursed by him, and to be paid out of the levee funds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12559, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10969; 1919 § 4661; 1909 § 5724
MO Rev Stat § 245.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.520 - Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.520. Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees. — The engineer appointed by the board of directors, under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall receive for his services a sum not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month for the time he is actually employed in field or other work, under contract with said board of directors. The salaries of all other officers, not otherwise fixed by the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, and the agents and employees of said board of directors, shall be fixed by said board, and such salaries, and all other necessary expenses incurred by said board of directors in carrying into effect the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall be paid out of the levee fund of the district, upon proper warrant issued by order of the board of directors. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12584)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10994; 1919 § 4686; 1909 § 5749
MO Rev Stat § 245.525 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.525 - Herding livestock on levee prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.525. Herding livestock on levee prohibited. — It shall be unlawful for the owner of any livestock to allow the same to use and run upon any levee erected under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, or to herd any livestock upon said levee during overflows or high water; and whenever in the judgment of the inspectors of the levee, any livestock are likely to endanger the levee under their charge, the inspector of the section of levee where such damage is threatened shall notify the owner of such livestock liable to do such damage, and require him to remove such livestock; and every such owner who, after such notice, shall neglect or refuse to confine his or her stock, and keep them off the levees, shall pay a fine not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every act of disobedience to such notice, to be recovered at the suit of the inspector or his successor in office, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and the amount recovered and collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the levee fund of the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12580)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10990; 1919 § 4682; 1909 § 5745
MO Rev Stat § 245.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.530 - Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.530. Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair. — Any overseer who shall willfully fail or neglect to keep the public road crossings of any levee in his road district in good repair, so as to insure the safety of the levee, or who shall fail to repair such crossing when notified by the levee inspector in writing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by indictment or upon information before an associate circuit judge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12590)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11000; 1919 § 4692; 1909 § 5755
MO Rev Stat § 245.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.540 - Commissions may appropriate swamplands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.540. Commissions may appropriate swamplands. — The county commission of any county in which a levee district or a part of a district may be organized under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545 may, for the purpose of constructing its levee, appropriate any of its unappropriated swamplands belonging to the county, and acquired under the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits", approved September 28, 1850, and an act of the general assembly of the state of Missouri, entitled "An act donating certain swamp and overflowed lands to the counties in which they lie", approved March 3, 1851, and subsequent acts said lands to be received by the contractor at a price of not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12593)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11003; 1919 § 4695; 1909 § 5758
MO Rev Stat § 245.545 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.545 - Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.545. Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury. — It shall be the duty of the judge of the circuit court in any county where levees have been constructed under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, to give the penal sections of this chapter in special charge to the grand jury of said county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12594)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11004; 1919 § 4696; 1909 § 5759
MO Rev Stat § 246.005 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.005 - Extension of time of corporate existence — reinstatement period for certain districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   246.005. Extension of time of corporate existence — reinstatement period for certain districts. — 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any drainage district, any levee district, or any drainage and levee district organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 or sections 245.010 to 245.280 which has, prior to April 8, 1994, been granted an extension of the time of corporate existence by the circuit court having jurisdiction, shall be deemed to have fully complied with all provisions of law relating to such extensions, including the time within which application for the extension must be made, unless, for good cause shown, the circuit court shall set aside such extension within ninety days after April 8, 1994.  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any drainage district, any levee district, or any drainage and levee district organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 or sections 245.010 to 245.280 shall have ten years after the lapse of the corporate charter in which to reinstate and extend the time of the corporate existence by the circuit court having jurisdiction, and such circuit court judgment entry and order shall be deemed to have fully complied with all provisions of law relating to such extensions. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1599 § 1, A.L. 1994 S.B. 600, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with H.B. 563 merged with S.B. 355, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
MO Rev Stat § 246.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.010 - Formation of subdistricts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.010. Formation of subdistricts. — Subdrainage and levee districts may be formed of lands in main districts organized in Missouri under any existing or future law, by the owners thereof for the purpose of obtaining and providing local or more complete drainage and protection for such lands; such subdistricts to be formed and administered in the same manner as is provided by statute for the formation and administration of main districts; provided, that lands in main districts may be united with swamp or overflowed lands, either within or without other districts in the formation of new districts for the purpose of securing more complete relief or protection for land. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12473)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10883; 1919 § 4578
MO Rev Stat § 246.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.020 - Officers and witnesses, compensation for services.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.020. Officers and witnesses, compensation for services. — That it is understood that the ordinary fee statute does not apply to services rendered by any county or township officer or witness in the organization, incorporation or administration of any drainage or levee districts heretofore organized, in process of organization at the time of passage of this section, or that hereafter may be organized under any general or special law of Missouri permitting the organization of drainage or levee districts, but that such officer or witness, except as is otherwise provided for in sections 246.030 to 246.050, shall receive only a reasonable compensation to be fixed by the courts for services actually rendered, that petitioners for formation or incorporation of drainage and levee districts and the officers of such districts after the same have been organized may prepare, write or print all copies of petitions, writs, orders and decrees of courts and other papers pertaining to such districts and furnish the same to the county and circuit clerks or other officers for their use, and in such event such officer shall be entitled to only a reasonable compensation for services actually rendered the districts in issuing such writs and copies of decrees, orders or other papers. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12468)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10878; 1919 § 4573
MO Rev Stat § 246.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.030 - Fees of county and circuit clerks.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.030. Fees of county and circuit clerks. — The county and circuit clerks, except as limited in section 246.020 and otherwise specified in statutes governing the organization and administration of drainage and levee districts, shall receive (in addition to the fees and deputy hire allowed by law) for filing each paper relating to a drainage or levee district, five cents; for issuing each subpoena, summons or notice, and for approving and filing each bond, twenty-five cents; for recording or copying each one hundred words and numbers, eight cents, any number consisting of more than three figures to be considered as two numbers. The fees of the sheriffs and witnesses shall be the same as allowed in section 246.020. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12469)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10879; 1919 § 4574
MO Rev Stat § 246.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.050 - Fees of county treasurer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.050. Fees of county treasurer. — County treasurers for receiving, receipting for, preserving and paying out funds of drainage and levee districts, shall receive one percent of sums paid out. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12471)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10881; 1919 § 45764
MO Rev Stat § 246.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.060 - County warrant laws apply to district warrants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.060. County warrant laws apply to district warrants. — The law of this state, under which county warrants are issued, sold, transferred, assigned, presented for payment, and paid, shall apply to all warrants issued by any drainage or levee districts in Missouri organized under any existing, special or future law of this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12474)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10884; 1919 § 4579
MO Rev Stat § 246.063 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.063 - Reduction or cancellation of assessed benefits where improvement nullifies benefits, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   246.063. Reduction or cancellation of assessed benefits where improvement nullifies benefits, procedure. — 1. Whenever any lands within a levee or drainage district organized under the laws of this state are so situated that subsequent improvements constructed within the district either by the district or by some other agency partially or wholly nullify the benefits accruing from improvements previously constructed by the district and for which benefits were assessed against the lands, the owner or owners may file a petition with the clerk of the court or county commission by which the district was organized setting out such facts with particularity and requesting that the benefits assessed against the lands for such previously constructed improvements be reduced for the purpose of making a more equitable basis for the levy of the maintenance tax, or that they be cancelled. In districts organized in the circuit court, the circuit clerk shall cause notice of the filing and hearing of the petition to reduce or cancel the assessed benefits to be served upon the president and secretary of the district at least thirty days prior to the hearing date. In districts organized in the county commission, the county commission, in its discretion, may order that notice of the filing and hearing of the petition be given to persons interested in the lands and property included within the district by publication or otherwise.  2. Upon hearing of the petition the court or county commission may reduce or cancel the assessed benefits or may deny the petition as it deems just. All costs of the hearing shall be borne by the petitioners whether they be successful or not. If the court or commission reduces or cancels the benefits assessed against the lands, thereafter the annual maintenance tax which may be levied shall apply to the benefits as reduced or cancelled.  3. No assessed benefits shall be reduced or cancelled under the provisions of this section while the district has outstanding bond obligations. ­­-------- (L. 1959 S.B. 213 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 246.067 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.067 - Cancellation of benefits against lands divided into city lots, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   246.067. Cancellation of benefits against lands divided into city lots, when. — When any lands, included in a drainage district or levee district organized under the laws of this state, are now or hereafter divided into lots in an incorporated city, town, or village, the county commission in the case of a county commission district organization, or the circuit court in which a district was organized in the case of a circuit court district organization, if in the opinion of said court or county commission the expense of extending and collecting the taxes levied on said lots make such extension and collection uneconomical, may by order of record cancel the benefits assessed against said lands, so that after such cancellation said lands will not be liable for drainage or levee taxes in such district; provided, however, no such benefits shall be cancelled while the district has outstanding unpaid bond obligations; provided, however, this section shall not be applicable to a drainage or levee district organized and existing wholly within a city or town of this state. ­­-------- (L. 1959 S.B. 187 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 246.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.080 - Limitation on tax anticipation warrants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   246.080. Limitation on tax anticipation warrants. — Tax anticipation warrants may be issued and sold or exchanged for or in payment of machinery, draglines, equipment or work used in maintenance and chargeable to maintenance; provided, that in no event shall the tax anticipation warrants so issued, together with interest thereon, exceed two and one-half percent of the assessed benefits for any year falling due. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12614)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11025
MO Rev Stat § 246.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts|Section 246.090 - Form of notice of meeting.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   246.090. Form of notice of meeting. — 1. Whenever the board of supervisors at a regular or special meeting deems it expedient and necessary for the best interest of the district that tax anticipation warrants be issued for the purposes stated in section 246.080, they shall enter in the minutes of the meeting an order setting forth the expediency and necessity directing the secretary to draw up a notice which shall be substantially in the following form:   Notice to landowners in ______ drainage district. All landowners in ______ drainage district are hereby notified that a meeting of such will be held on the ______ day of ______, 20______, ______ o'clock, at ______ for the purpose of voting on the proposition of authorizing the board of supervisors to issue tax anticipation warrants, bearing ______ percent interest. The warrants to be used for the purpose of ______ for ______ dollars, payable as follows: ______   By order of the board of supervisors.      __________________       Secretary.    2. The secretary shall cause the notice to be published by three weekly insertions in some newspaper in the county containing the district or the greatest portion thereof, or in some adjoining county if none in containing county, the last insertion to be not less than ten days before the date set. The publisher shall file proof of publication with the secretary before the day set for meeting. Upon filing of the proof by the secretary, the notice shall be conclusively deemed sufficient and legal notice of publication thereof. At the day set each landowner may cast one vote for each acre or fraction thereof owned by him for or against the proposition of issuing the warrants as set out in the notice. If two-thirds of the acres in the district are voted for the proposition, then the tellers shall so certify to the board, and the board shall make an order to the secretary to duly enter the results in the records of the district. Thereafter the board shall proceed to issue the authorized tax anticipation warrants as authorized. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12615, A.L. 1961 p. 463)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11026