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2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(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
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12559, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10969; 1919 § 4661; 1909 § 5724
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12584)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10994; 1919 § 4686; 1909 § 5749
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12580)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10990; 1919 § 4682; 1909 § 5745
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12590)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11000; 1919 § 4692; 1909 § 5755
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 245 - Levee Districts › Section 245.540 - Commissions may appropriate swamplands.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12593)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11003; 1919 § 4695; 1909 § 5758
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 245
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12594)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11004; 1919 § 4696; 1909 § 5759
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 2007, 2 histories
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.
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(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)
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12473)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10883; 1919 § 4578
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12468)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10878; 1919 § 4573
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12469)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10879; 1919 § 4574
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12471)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10881; 1919 § 45764
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12474)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10884; 1919 § 4579
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
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.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 213 § 1)
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
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.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 187 § 1)
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12614)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11025
2023 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.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12615, A.L. 1961 p. 463)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11026
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.100 - Tax anticipation warrants, contents.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.100. Tax anticipation warrants, contents. —
The board shall issue the tax anticipation warrants as authorized by order of the board, setting out the amounts, denomination, numbers, interest rate, the proceedings authorizing its action and embodying therein the amounts falling due each year, together with interest thereon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12616)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11027
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.110 - Form of tax anticipation warrants.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.110. Form of tax anticipation warrants. —
Upon making of the order provided for in section 246.100, it shall be the duty of the secretary to have printed tax anticipation warrants, with an interest coupon attached for each year same shall run, which shall be in the following form:
TAX ANTICIPATION WARRANT.
$_________  district No. _________ County _________ state of Missouri, Issued _________ Due _________
The treasurer of _________  district will pay at maturity, of the sum of _________  dollars and will pay at maturity of attached interest coupons, the amount of interest called for thereon, to _________  or the legal holder hereof, out of the maintenance fund of the district, upon due and proper endorsement and presentment.
(Seal)
_________  district.
__________________
President.
__________________
Secretary.
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Interest
Interest Coupon No._________
$_________
Tax anticipation warrant No._________
Principal amount $_________  issued _________ , 20_________ .
Interest coupon due _________ , 20_________ , at rate of _________  percent.
The treasurer of _________  district will pay to _________  or the legal holder of the tax anticipation warrant, upon due endorsement and presentment of this coupon, the sum of _________  dollars, out of the maintenance fund of the district.
(Seal)
_________  district.
__________________
President.
__________________
Secretary.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12617)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11028
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.120 - Secretary to keep record of warrants issued.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.120. Secretary to keep record of warrants issued. —
Said tax anticipation warrants shall be delivered to the payee or payees for the purposes enumerated herein, by an order of the board, in total or in part as necessary, and an appropriate record thereof kept by the secretary and a duly certified copy thereof by him delivered to the treasurer, who shall pay without further order of the board, upon due endorsement and presentment by the record holder thereof or said holder's legal transferee upon satisfactory proof being made to the treasurer thereof the said tax anticipation warrants and interest coupons as due, out of any maintenance fund of the district; provided, that in the event there is not sufficient funds to pay all or a part of such tax anticipation warrants and interest coupons upon presentment, and treasurer shall so note and said indebtedness shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from time of such presentment and notation until paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12618)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11029
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.130 - Board to levy maintenance tax to pay warrants.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 12 Jul 1994, see footnote
246.130. Board to levy maintenance tax to pay warrants. —
It shall be the duty of the board to levy a maintenance tax each year sufficient to pay such tax anticipation warrants and interest thereon, and an additional ten percent for emergencies and delinquent collections, in addition to the regular maintenance tax. All such levies shall be extended and collected as by law provided for the levy and collection of maintenance taxes.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12619, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11030
Effective 7-12-94
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.140 - District authorized to buy lands.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.140. District authorized to buy lands. —
1. Drainage or levee districts heretofore or hereafter incorporated under any of the drainage or levee laws of this state where lands are offered for sale for their own taxes or assessments due thereon, shall be and are hereby authorized to buy such lands at not to exceed the amount of such taxes, assessments, interest, penalties and costs. If such bid is the highest bid, the sheriff shall convey such lands to such district and they shall thereupon become the property of such district and may be held, disposed of, sold or conveyed by such district at such price and on such terms as may be determined by it to be to the best interest of such district, either free from or subject to all taxes or assessments or any part thereof due such district at the time of such resale; but such lands shall remain subject to all drainage or levee taxes, assessments or installments thereof becoming due after such resale; and the terms of resale may include the postponing by such district of one or more of the subsequent installments of the tax or assessment for such time, as may be agreed upon not exceeding three years; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as in any manner, enlarging or extending the now existing powers of any district to levy or assess any additional tax or assessment upon lands and other property situate in any such district by reason of the release of or postponement of any taxes or assessments upon any lands or other property sold for delinquent taxes or assessments.
2. Deeds or other conveyances made by such district shall be in such form and executed by such officers and in such manner as shall be determined by the governing body of such district.
3. Where the same land is subject to the lien of taxes or assessments of more than one district, such lands may, by agreement between such districts, be purchased at foreclosure sale by any such district in trust for all such districts. The interest of each district in lands purchased pursuant to such agreement, shall be at any given time in proportion to the total of the taxes or assessments due the respective districts at such time; provided, however, that the rights of any district failing, refusing or neglecting to enter into such agreement shall be determined and fixed by the district or districts entering such agreement or purchasing such lands; provided, however, that no district shall have power to make any expenditures or disbursements of any kind or character under the provisions of sections 246.140 to 246.170 out of any maintenance fund of such district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12609)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11020
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.150 - Lands to remain subject to district taxes.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.150. Lands to remain subject to district taxes. —
Any lands sold for delinquent state, county, school, road or other general taxes shall remain subject to any taxes, assessments or installments thereof, thereafter to become due to any levee or drainage district for years subsequent to the year for which such general taxes were delinquent and to satisfy which the lands were sold.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12610)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11021
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.165 - Investment of surplus funds, when — approved investments.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
246.165. Investment of surplus funds, when — approved investments. —
1. Any drainage or levee district organized under any law of this state may invest any funds not immediately needed for the purpose for which the money was received in the following:
(1) Bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness which are direct obligations of the United States or bonds or other indebtedness, the principal and interest of which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States;
(2) Accounts of any savings and loan association organized under the laws of this state or another state, or the United States, which holds a certificate of insurance from the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation;
(3) Savings accounts and time deposits, including time certificates of deposit in any banking institution which holds a certificate of insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
2. If a deposit in a savings and loan association or a banking institution is greater than the amount covered by the insurance provided for the account by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as the case may be, that portion of the deposit in excess of the amount covered by insurance shall be secured as provided by the provisions of sections 110.010 and 110.020.
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(L. 1971 H.B. 139 § 1)
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
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.170 - Districts may conform to federal law in refunding, extending time of payment.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.170. Districts may conform to federal law in refunding, extending time of payment. —
All drainage and levee districts heretofore or that may be hereafter organized under any law of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to do each and every act necessary to be by them performed in order to comply with or avail themselves of the provisions of any legislation now enacted or that may be hereafter enacted by the Congress of the United States of America, having for its purpose the refunding or extending the time of payment of the bonded indebtedness of any drainage or levee district or otherwise lightening the present burdens of taxation resting on the lands and property in such districts.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12612)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11023
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.180 - Prescribed duties enforced by mandamus.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.180. Prescribed duties enforced by mandamus. —
The performance of all duties prescribed in any existing, or future law of this state governing the organization and administration of drainage or levee districts may be enforced by mandamus at the instance of any person or corporation interested in any way in any such district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12475)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10885; 1919 § 4580
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.190 - Court to appoint guardian ad litem.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 1983
246.190. Court to appoint guardian ad litem. —
In all proceedings for the formation and administration of drainage and levee districts in Missouri under the provisions of any existing, future or special statute, the court shall appoint some reputable attorney as guardian ad litem to represent all infants and incapacitated persons interested in the organization or administration of such district. In case the interests of such infants or incapacitated persons shall appear to the court to be adverse to each other, then and in such case the court shall appoint as many different persons as guardians ad litem as the circumstances of the case may require. The persons so appointed shall appear for and represent their wards in all matters connected with the proceedings, and shall be paid such sum as the court may fix upon, out of the moneys in the funds of the districts, for their services.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12472, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10882; 1919 § 4577
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.200 - Supports for bridges, where placed — penalty for violation.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
246.200. Supports for bridges, where placed — penalty for violation. —
1. No person, corporation, county commission or other municipal corporation shall be permitted to sink, set, or drive any posts, pillars or piling in any of the ditches, drains or watercourses constructed by any district organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of erecting any bridge, trestle or covering over or across any such ditch, drain or watercourse. All supports for any such bridges, coverings or trestles shall be erected or placed on the banks of such ditches, drains or watercourses so as not to obstruct the flow of the water therein.
2. Any person, corporation, member of the county commission or municipal corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more then one thousand dollars, and if such violation as the conviction is for shall not be abated by the party so convicted within thirty days after such conviction, then the continuance of such obstruction or other violation of the provisions of this section after said period of thirty days shall for each and every day the same is continued constitute a separate offense, for which, on conviction thereof, the party so offending shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars.
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(RSMo 1939 12441, 12444, A. 1949 S.B. 1086)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 10851, 10854; 1919 §§ 4518, 4521; 1909 §§ 5624, 5630
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.260 - Penalty laws not to prevent construction of water gates.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
246.260. Penalty laws not to prevent construction of water gates. —
Nothing in sections 246.200 to 246.230 shall be construed so as to prevent the construction of water gates across drainage ditches, provided the same are built in such manner as not to retard the flow of water through the ditches nor in any way impair the usefulness of such ditches.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12608)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11019; 1919 § 4711
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.271 - County and city levee system to protect streets, roads and public facilities may be constructed and operated — bonds authorized.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 30 Sep 1993, see footnote
246.271. County and city levee system to protect streets, roads and public facilities may be constructed and operated — bonds authorized. —
1. Any county, city, town or village in this state may construct and operate a county or municipal levee system to protect the roads, streets and public facilities of such county, city, town or village, and to protect the life, safety and property of the residents of the county, city, town or village from damage and injury due to flood waters. Such a county, city, town or village may acquire property, rights-of-way and easements within the county, city, town or village through its power of eminent domain for the purpose of constructing, operating, repairing or maintaining levees, access roads and pumping sites, and acquiring suitable barrow
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and dredge material disposal areas for the county or municipal levee system.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section to the contrary, any city wholly contained in a county of the first classification without a charter form of government which contains a campus of the University of Missouri may exercise the powers provided in this section within ten miles of such city.
3. Pursuant to section 70.220, any city, town or village which constructs or operates a municipal levee system or any county may enter into contracts or agreements with or cooperate with other political subdivisions, or with any agency of the state or federal government, for the purpose of the construction, operation, repair or maintenance of such levee system.
4. Public improvement, as used in section 71.290, shall include a municipal levee system, as described in this section, and as such, any city, town or village may pay for the cost of acquiring property, rights-of-way and easement through condemnation or otherwise, and may pay for the cost of the labor and materials used in the construction, operation, repair and maintenance of such a municipal levee system out of its general revenue. In addition, construction and operation of a municipal levee system is a city purpose, as described in Section 26(c) of Article VI of the State Constitution, and any such city, town or village may issue general obligation bonds for the purposes described in this section, subject to the provisions of law governing the issuance of municipal general obligation bonds.
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(L. 1993 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 § 1)
Effective 9-30-93
*Word "borrow" appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.275 - Public levee district may be established by any county, procedure — powers of governing body — no power of taxation.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 30 Sep 1993, see footnote
246.275. Public levee district may be established by any county, procedure — powers of governing body — no power of taxation. —
The governing body of any county may designate and establish a public levee district within the county, if the governing body has received a petition signed by a majority of landowners within the proposed public levee district requesting the establishment of such a district. Any such public levee district shall have no powers of taxation. Once a public levee district is established and duly created by a majority vote of the governing body of the county, the governing body, on behalf of the public levee district, may receive and expend moneys for the purposes of repair and maintenance of the public levee district's levee and related appurtenances and such governing body shall have the powers of a levee district board of directors specified in sections 245.285 to 245.545, other than the power of taxation specified in section 245.445. The governing body of the county having established a public levee district pursuant to this section shall be considered the district's governmental sponsor.
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(L. 1993 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 § 2)
Effective 9-30-93
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.277 - Loans authorized for political subdivision located in disaster area of 1993 — terms.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 30 Sep 1993, see footnote
246.277. Loans authorized for political subdivision located in disaster area of 1993 — terms. —
1. The governing body of any political subdivision of this state located in a county which has been declared a major disaster area as provided in section 140.015 may, upon a vote of the majority of the members of the governing body, borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes and revenues for the current year or immediately following year. The amount of such loans shall at no time exceed the amount of revenue required to meet the estimated revenue requirements placed on such political subdivision as a result of the provisions of section 140.015. The governing body of such political subdivision, in accordance with this section, shall determine the amount and terms of such loans and of the terms of the political subdivision's obligation to repay the loan, but the payment of interest on such loan shall not exceed six percent per annum, and shall be payable within one year from the date of issuance.
2. The clerk or secretary of the governing body, or if none the presiding officer of the governing body, shall certify on the back of each note that the note is issued pursuant to authority granted in this section. All notes issued under this section shall be registered, without fee, in the office of the county treasurer of the county where the political subdivision lies. Upon payment and cancellation, the notes shall be submitted to the county treasurer who shall record the date of payment and cancellation in the record of registry.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to political subdivisions which, under the provisions of law existing prior to September 30, 1993, are authorized to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes and revenues.
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(L. 1993 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 3 § 3)
Effective 9-30-93
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.283 - Authority to cooperate with other entities to develop bike trails.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 12 Jul 1994, see footnote
246.283. Authority to cooperate with other entities to develop bike trails. —
Any district formed pursuant to the laws of this state shall have authority to cooperate with other entities, public and private, in the development of bikeways and bike trails; provided, however, that no power of condemnation of land shall be used by the district for the purpose of bike trails.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 633)
Effective 7-12-94
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 246 - Provisions Relating to All Drainage and Levee Districts › Section 246.285 - Approaches for roadway to be built, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 246
Effective - 12 Jul 1994, see footnote
246.285. Approaches for roadway to be built, when. —
In all places where a state highway has been located which crosses any levee constructed pursuant to chapter 245 and which is in use as a state highway before the levee is built, approaches shall be built for a roadway on each side of the levee to accommodate travel by the levee district. The roadway shall be reconstructed and repaved by the state highway department.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 633)
Effective 7-12-94