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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.220 - Issuance of patent, how.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.220. Issuance of patent, how. —
Whenever full payment shall be made for any of said land by the purchaser thereof, the county commission shall cause the clerk of said commission to issue to the purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs or assigns, a patent for the same, which patent shall be signed by the presiding commissioner of the county commission, countersigned by the clerk thereof, and recorded in the swamp land patent book, in the office of the county clerk.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12755)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11131; 1919 § 6995; 1909 § 7998
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.230 - Errors in description, how corrected.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.230. Errors in description, how corrected. —
The county commission of any county in this state, authorized by law to sell and make title to bona fide purchasers to any swamp and overflowed lands granted by the state to the county for the purposes of reclamation, shall, by an order of record, upon sufficient proof being made by the owner of any swamp and overflowed lands undertaken to be sold, that an error has been made in the description of such lands, correct such error or misdescription wherever it occurs, whether in record of entry, certificate of purchase, patent, or the record thereof; provided, such correction shall not prejudice the rights of other parties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12787)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11163; 1919 § 7027; 1909 § 8030
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.240 - Net proceeds of sales to county school fund.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
241.240. Net proceeds of sales to county school fund. —
The net proceeds of the sales of all such lands, after defraying the expenses of draining, reclaiming, surveying and selling the same, as provided in sections 241.010 to 241.280, shall be paid into the county treasury and become a part of the county school fund of the county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12756, A. 1949 S.B. 1081)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11132; 1919 § 6996; 1909 § 7999
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.250 - Drainage and reclamation commissioners, appointment, duties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1986
241.250. Drainage and reclamation commissioners, appointment, duties. —
As soon as the several county commissions shall be furnished with the proper description of lands contemplated in section 241.010, they may have said overflowed and swamp lands drained and reclaimed, so as to render them tillable, or otherwise subservient to the purposes of sections 241.010 to 241.280, and for that purpose may appoint one or more drainage and reclamation commissioners, who shall, under the direction of the county commission, superintend the draining and surveying of said lands.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12753, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1554 Revision)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11129; 1919 § 6993; 1909 § 7996
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.260 - County commissions may borrow money, how.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.260. County commissions may borrow money, how. —
To enable the county commissions to carry the provisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280 into effect, they shall have power to borrow money, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, in the manner and to the extent provided in Sections 26(e) and 27 of Article VI of the Constitution.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12762)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11138; 1919 § 7002; 1909 § 8005
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.290 - Abandoned riverbeds and islands granted counties for schools.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.290. Abandoned riverbeds and islands granted counties for schools. —
All lands belonging to the state, not otherwise appropriated under the laws thereof, which have been formed by the recession and abandonment of their waters of the old beds of lakes and rivers in this state, or by the formation of islands in the navigable waters of the state, are hereby granted and transferred to the respective counties in which such lands are located, to be held by such counties for school purposes.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12789)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11165; 1919 § 7029; 1909 § 8032
(1960) Evidence as to alleged island in Mississippi reviewed and held to establish that the land involved was an accretion and that it did not form out of the bed of the Mississippi River on property which was owned by the state. Low watermark of river held to be the boundary of the riparian owner's property and since river never separated the so-called island from bank of the river at the low watermark, there was no island. Conran v. Girvin (Mo.), 341 S.W.2d 75.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.291 - Mississippi and Missouri River islands to conservation commission or park board, exceptions — to county, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
241.291. Mississippi and Missouri River islands to conservation commission or park board, exceptions — to county, when. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 241.290 to 241.340, all lands belonging to the state, not otherwise appropriated, which have been formed by the formation of islands in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers within this state are hereby granted and transferred to the Missouri conservation commission for wildlife purposes. If the commission certifies that such islands have no present or potential value for wildlife use or recreation involving wildlife species, the islands shall then be transferred to the state park board for recreational purposes. If the park board certifies that the islands are of no present or potential value for recreational purposes, they shall be transferred to the respective counties in which they are located.
2. All islands formed in the Missouri and Mississippi rivers within this state after September 28, 1971, are the property of the state, and shall pass to the conservation commission or the state park board for wildlife or recreational purposes respectively in the same manner as provided in subsection 1 of this section for islands already formed, and if certified by both the conservation commission and the park board as having no value for wildlife or recreational purposes, they shall pass to the counties in which they are located, for the purpose and subject to the power of survey and sale, as provided in sections 241.291, 241.309 and 241.311.
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(L. 1971 H.B. 140 §§ 1, 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.300 - Future abandoned riverbeds and islands granted counties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.300. Future abandoned riverbeds and islands granted counties. —
All lands that may hereafter form by the recession from and abandonment of the bed of any lake or river, and islands which may hereafter form in the navigable waters of said state, which would otherwise have become the property of the state, shall pass in the same manner as in the case of such lands already formed, to the counties in which they are situated, for the purpose and subject to the power of survey and sale, as provided in sections 241.290 to 241.340.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12792)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11168; 1919 § 7032; 1909 § 8035
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.309 - Counties may sell land, how — proceeds, how used.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
241.309. Counties may sell land, how — proceeds, how used. —
All counties in which such islands are situated may, subject to the provisions of section 241.311, cause them to be appropriately surveyed and sell and convey them in the same manner as lands are sold under the provisions of section 241.310, and for the same purposes.
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(L. 1971 H.B. 140 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.310 - Lands may be sold, how — disposition of proceeds.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.310. Lands may be sold, how — disposition of proceeds. —
All counties in which any such lands are situated shall have the power to cause the same to be appropriately surveyed, and to sell and convey them in the same manner that the swamplands acquired under the act of congress of September 28, 1850, entitled "An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands in their limits", afterward donated to the counties in which they were situated, or conveyed; and the proceeds of all such sales shall become a part of the swampland school funds of the counties in which said lands are situated.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12790)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11166; 1919 § 7030; 1909 § 8033
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.311 - Land to be auctioned to highest bidder.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
241.311. Land to be auctioned to highest bidder. —
Any land sold under the provisions of sections 241.291, 241.309 and 241.311 or under the provisions of sections 241.290 to 241.340, shall be sold only at public auction to the highest bidder.
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(L. 1971 H.B. 140 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.320 - Lands to be surveyed, how.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.320. Lands to be surveyed, how. —
In surveying the lands and islands referred to in sections 241.290 to 241.340 the surveyor shall connect the survey thereof with some established section, quarter section, meander or other United States survey corner conveniently near or adjacent to the land or island to be surveyed; he shall meander islands and such lake and riverbed lands as may abut on a navigable river or lake; he shall subdivide such lands into sections and quarter sections by producing and extending the lines of the surveys made by the United States surveyors over such islands and lands from the shore from which said islands or lands may be surveyed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12793)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11169; 1919 § 7033; 1909 § 8036
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.330 - Limitation against counties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.330. Limitation against counties. —
No statute of limitations shall begin to run against the counties in which any such lands are situated to prevent them from recovering or acquiring such lands, for twenty years after the passage of this law; but after that date such counties, as to such lands, shall be subject to the same limitation laws as private individuals.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12791)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11167; 1919 § 7031; 1909 § 8034
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.340 - County commission may employ surveyors and attorneys.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.340. County commission may employ surveyors and attorneys. —
The county commission may employ surveyors to survey said lands and islands, and attorneys to represent them in any suits pertaining thereto, and shall pay such surveyors and attorneys reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of any funds arising out of the sale of such lands and islands, or out of the general revenue fund of the county as may be agreed upon at the time such surveyors and attorneys are employed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12803)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11179; 1919 § 7043; 1909 § 8046
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.010 - Owner defined — delegation of representation and voting rights.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
242.010. Owner defined — delegation of representation and voting rights. —
1. The word
"owner"
as used in sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen, trustees, or mortgagees, who shall not be counted and need not be notified by publication, or served by process, but shall be represented by the present owners of the freehold estate in any proceeding under said sections.
2. Owners of property, located in whole or in part within the drainage district and owned by a corporation, partnership, joint venture, or any other form of ownership other than individual ownership, may delegate through procedures allowed as provided by the laws of this state an individual to exercise representation and voting on behalf of the corporation, partnership, joint venture, or other entity in matters requiring public vote involving the drainage district. For purposes of drainage districts organized pursuant to the laws of this state, any individual so recognized by the corporation, partnership, joint venture, or other entity as having the responsibilities of representing the property owner before the board of supervisors of the drainage district shall in all respects be treated by laws of this state as the owner of the property, and shall be entitled to all benefits and privileges allowed by law, including serving on the board of supervisors if so elected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12364, A.L. 2002 S.B. 941)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10783; 1919 § 4415
(1953) Corporate holder of an easement in land held to be owner within this section so as to be entitled to notice under §§ 242.020 and 242.030. Farmers Drainage Dist. v. Sinclair Refining Co. (Mo.), 255 S.W.2d 745.
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(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.
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
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.
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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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12325, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-2-79
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12326)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10745; 1919 § 4380; 1909 § 5499
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12379)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10798; 1919 § 4428
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12380)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10799; 1919 § 4429
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
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.
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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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12381, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10800; 1919 § 4430
Effective 1-2-79
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12382)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10801; 1919 § 4431
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12383)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10802; 1919 § 4432
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12384)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10803; 1919 § 4433
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12373)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10792; 1919 § 4422
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(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.
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12328)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10747; 1919 § 4382; 1909 § 5508
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.170 - Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
242.170. Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled. —
The provisions of section 245.065 relating to vacancies in office of members of the board of supervisors of levee districts resulting from improper election shall apply, insofar as practicable to drainage districts organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12498, A. 1949 S.B. 1082)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10908; 1919 § 4602
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.180 - Supervisors to take oath.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.180. Supervisors to take oath. —
Each supervisor before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him in office as supervisor of the drainage district in which he was elected, and that he will not neglect any of the duties imposed upon him by sections 242.010 to 242.690.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12329)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10748; 1919 § 4383; 1909 § 5509
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.200 - Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
242.200. Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation. —
1. The board of supervisors immediately after their election shall choose one of their number president of the board, and elect some suitable person secretary, who shall serve until the secretary's successor is elected and qualified, and who shall be a resident of the county or counties in which the district is situate or of an adjoining county and may or may not be a member of the board.
2. Such board shall adopt a seal with a suitable device, and shall keep a record of all its proceedings, which shall be open to the inspection of all owners of real estate and other property of the district, as well as to all other interested parties.
3. The board shall report to the landowners at the annual meeting held pursuant to the provisions of section 242.160 what work has been done, either by the engineers or otherwise.
4. At the annual meeting held pursuant to the provisions of section 242.160, the compensation to be received by the members of the board for their services while actually engaged in work for the district shall be determined.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12330, A.L. 1983 H.B. 236, A.L. 2002 S.B. 941)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10749; 1919 § 4384; 1909 § 5510
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.220 - Chief engineer and assistants — appointment — duties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.220. Chief engineer and assistants — appointment — duties. —
1. Within sixty days after organizing the board of supervisors shall appoint a competent civil engineer as chief engineer, who may be an individual, copartnership or corporation, and who shall engage such assistants as the board of supervisors may approve. The chief engineer shall have control of the engineering work in said district. The chief engineer may, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, consult any eminent engineer or engineers and obtain his or their opinion and advice concerning the reclamation of lands in said district.
2. The said engineer or engineers shall make all necessary surveys of the lands within the boundary lines of said district, as described by the articles of association, and of all lands adjacent thereto that may or will be improved or reclaimed in part or in whole by any system of drainage or levees that may be outlined and adopted, and said engineer or engineers, shall make a report in writing to the board of supervisors with maps and profiles of said surveys, which report shall contain a plan for draining, leveeing and reclaiming the lands and property described in the articles of association or adjacent thereto from overflow of or damage by water; said maps and profiles shall also indicate, so far as necessary, the physical characteristics of the lands, and location of any public roads, railroads and other rights-of-way, roadways and other property or improvements located on such lands.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12331)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10750; 1919 § 4385; 1909 § 5511
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.230 - Engineer's annual report — adoption of plan for reclamation — supplemental plans authorized.

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