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MO Rev Stat § 245.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.060 - Election of board of supervisors — term of office.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   245.060. Election of board of supervisors — term of office. — Within thirty days after any levee district shall have been organized and incorporated under the provisions of section 245.025 the circuit clerk of the court organizing such district 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 located, 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 located in such district, including the authorized representative of any corporation which owns real estate or other property located in such 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 the district, which may include the authorized representative of any corporation which owns real estate or other property in the district, two of whom at least shall be residents of the county or counties in which the district is located, 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 and each and every mile of right-of-way of every corporation owning a franchise 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 or mile of right-of-way owned by him or her in such district, and the five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected as supervisors; and the 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; provided, that if the levee district be located wholly within a third or fourth class city of this state, or within any city in this state under fifty thousand population operating under a special charter then the owner of each lot, tract, parcel or subdivision thereof, as set forth in the final decree of the court creating and incorporating such levee district, shall be entitled to one vote, in person or by proxy, for each lot, tract, parcel or subdivision thereof, owned by him or her. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12496, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 226, A.L. 1999 H.B. 450, A.L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al. merged with H.B. 1207)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10906; 1919 § 4600; 1909 § 5705
MO Rev Stat § 245.065 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.065 - Improper election of board of supervisors — court to declare vacancies — new election called.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.065. Improper election of board of supervisors — court to declare vacancies — new election called. — If it is made to appear to the judge of the circuit court organizing the district, either in term time or vacation, by an application in writing made by any person or persons interested, that any meeting of landowners for the election of the board of supervisors or any member thereof, held under section 245.060, was improperly called or that the notice thereof improperly or insufficiently stated the time and place of such meeting, or that such notice was not published for the proper time or in the proper manner or was for any other reason insufficient, the circuit judge shall order the clerk of the court in which the district was organized to notify by summons the supervisor or supervisors to be affected thereby, setting forth a copy of the application filed and requiring such member or members to appear before the court at a time and place therein specified, which time shall be not less than five days from the receipt of said notice, and show cause why, if any there be, said office or offices shall not be declared vacant. If it appear to the court at the hearing of the objection or complaint that the said notice of landowners' meeting and election was for any reason insufficient, the court shall declare said office or offices vacant and he shall direct the clerk of the court organizing the district to call a meeting of the property owners for the purpose of electing other supervisors to fill the vacancy or vacancies, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said clerk to call and give notice of such new meeting, in the manner and for the time specified in section 245.060. The meeting of the property owners and the election of the supervisor or supervisors shall be conducted, in all particulars, as prescribed in section 245.060, and the supervisor or supervisors thus elected shall supersede the member or members previously elected, and upon qualifying as provided in sections 245.070 and 245.075, such supervisors shall thereupon become the true corporate authorities of the district for the unexpired term or terms of the de facto supervisor or supervisors whose offices have been vacated as herein provided; provided, that where such vacancy shall occur because of the insufficiency of notice of the annual landowners' meeting held under the provisions of section 245.070, the remaining qualified supervisors shall fill such vacancy by appointment, such appointed supervisor to hold office only until the next regular annual landowners' meeting, at which time a new supervisor shall be elected to fill out the remaining unexpired term. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12497)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10907; 1919 § 4601
MO Rev Stat § 245.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.070 - Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election — owners of land benefitted entitled to vote.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.070. Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election — owners of land benefitted entitled to vote. — 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 herein described in the district, in the same manner as is provided for in section 245.060, 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 245.060, 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 commissioner has been confirmed by the court under the provisions of section 245.130 only the land and other such property having benefits assessed against it shall be entitled to vote at the annual meetings held under the provisions of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12499)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10909; 1919 § 4603
MO Rev Stat § 245.075 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.075 - Supervisors to take oath.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.075. 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 levee district in which he was elected, and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by sections 245.010 to 245.280. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12500)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10910; 1919 § 4604
MO Rev Stat § 245.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.080 - Organization of board — to make annual report — compensation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1981   245.080. Organization of board — to make annual 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 his successor is elected, accepts the office and qualifies, and who may or may not be a member of the board. 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 herein described of the district, as well as to all other interested parties. The board shall report to the landowners at the annual meeting held under the provisions of section 245.070 what work has been done either by the engineers or otherwise. The members of the board shall receive, for attending to business for and on behalf of said district, actual transportation expenses, which shall be audited by the board before payment.  2. At the annual meeting called by the board of supervisors under the provisions of section 245.070, the owners shall set the compensation to be received by the members of the board for their services while actually engaged in work for the district; provided, however, that if the secretary be a member of the board he shall be compensated as provided for in section 245.090. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12501, A.L. 1981 H.B. 251)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10911; 1919 § 4605
MO Rev Stat § 245.085 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.085 - County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to secretary of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.085. County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to secretary of board. — Immediately after the election of the board of supervisors as provided for in section 245.055, and the election of a president and a 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 § 12544)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10954; 1919 § 4648
MO Rev Stat § 245.095 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.095 - Powers and duties of supervisors.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   245.095. Powers and duties of supervisors. — 1. In order to effect the leveeing, protection and reclamation of the land and other property in the district subject to tax, the board of supervisors is authorized and empowered to straighten, widen, change the course and line of any levee in or out of such district; to fill up any creek, drain, channel, river, watercourse or natural stream; and to divert or divide the flow of water in or out of the district; to construct and maintain sewers, levees, dikes, dams, sluices, revetments, drainage ditches, pumping stations, syphons and any other works and improvements deemed necessary to preserve and maintain the works in or out of the district; to construct roadways over levees and embankments; to construct any and all of such works and improvements across, through or over any public highway, railroad right-of-way, track, grade, fill or cut in or out of the district; to remove any fence, building or other improvements in or out of the district, and shall have the right to hold, control and acquire by donation or purchase, and if need be, condemn any land, easement, railroad or other right-of-way, sluice or franchise in or out of the district for right-of-way, or for any of the purposes herein provided, or for material to be used in constructing and maintaining such works and improvements for leveeing, protecting and reclaiming the lands in the district. The board shall also have the right to condemn for the use of the district any land or property within or without the district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the commissioners assessing benefits and damages and shall follow the procedure that is now provided by law for the appropriation of land or other property taken for telegraph, telephone and railroad rights-of-way.  2. In addition to the powers granted in subsection 1 of this section, in any levee district formed under the laws of this state having an assessed valuation of real property of twenty-five million dollars or greater and located, in whole or in part, in any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, the board of supervisors is authorized to construct and maintain water lines and any other works and improvements deemed necessary to preserve and maintain the works in or out of the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12519, A.L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al. merged with H.B. 1207)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10929; 1919 § 4623; 1909 § 5513
MO Rev Stat § 245.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.100 - Chief engineer appointed — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   245.100. Chief engineer appointed — duties. — 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 or protection of land in said district. 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 levees or bank protection 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 leveeing, draining, reclaiming or protecting the lands and property described in the articles of association or adjacent thereto from overflow of or damage by water; provided, that the chief engineer may in his discretion, accept, approve and adopt or amend any plan for leveeing, draining, reclaiming or protecting the lands and property described in the decree of the court incorporating said district, which may have been designed by either a state or federal department, division or agency, which has for its purpose the protection and reclamation of the land and property within the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12502, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 226)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10912; 1919 § 4606
MO Rev Stat § 245.105 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.105 - Chief engineer to make report — supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental plans for reclamation.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   245.105. Chief engineer to make report — supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental plans for reclamation. — The chief engineer shall make a report in writing to the board of supervisors when said board shall so require it. 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 or protecting 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 leveeing, protecting 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 term shall include leveeing, diking, bank protection, current control or other improvement, 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 leveeing, protecting 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 § 12503, A.L. 1977 S.B. 3, A.L. 2008 S.B. 939)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10913; 1919 § 4607
MO Rev Stat § 245.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.110 - Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk — commissioners appointed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   245.110. Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk — commissioners appointed. — Within twenty days after the adoption of the plan for 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 levee district, and at the same time the board of supervisors shall file with the circuit clerk a petition asking the judge of such court to appoint commissioners to appraise the lands within and without the district to be acquired for rights-of-way, holding basins and other 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 for reclamation. Within thirty days after the filing of such petition the judge of such court, either in term time or vacation, shall, by an order, appoint three commissioners, who shall be residents of 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 § 12505, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10915; 1919 § 4609
MO Rev Stat § 245.115 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.115 - Organization of board of commissioners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   245.115. Organization of board of commissioners. — 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 notice he shall state the time and place for the first meeting of said commissioners. 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 final 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. 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 § 12506)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10916; 1919 § 4610
MO Rev Stat § 245.125 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply|Chapter 245 - Levee Districts|Section 245.125 - Property owners notified of commissioners' report by publication — form of notice — mailing required.

Effective - 12 Jul 1994   245.125. Property owners notified of commissioners' report by publication — form of notice — mailing required. — 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 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 FOR FILING OF COMMISSIONERS' REPORT   For ______ Levee 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 "______ levee district" that the commissioners heretofore appointed to assess benefits and damages to the property and lands situated in said levee district and to appraise the cash value of the land necessary to be taken for rights-of-way, 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. The commissioners shall mail, by certified mail, a copy of the notice contained in this section to the parties contained in subsection 2 of section 245.020 within one week of filing the report. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12508, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 10918; 1919 § 4612  Effective 7-12-94