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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.240 - Filing of reclamation report — appointment of commissioners.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
242.240. Filing of reclamation report — appointment of commissioners. —
1. Within twenty days after the adoption of the plan of reclamation the secretary of the board of supervisors shall prepare and transmit a certified copy thereof to the circuit clerk of the court organizing the drainage district, and at the same time the board of supervisors shall file with the circuit clerk a petition asking the judge of the court to appoint commissioners to appraise the lands within and without the district to be acquired for rights-of-way, holding basins and other drainage works of the district, and to assess benefits and damages accruing to all lands in the district and other property by reason of the execution of the plan of reclamation.
2. Within thirty days after the filing of such petition the court shall, by an order, appoint three commissioners, who shall be persons residing within the state of Missouri, and who shall not be landowners in the district nor of kin within the fourth degree of consanguinity to any person owning land in the district. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum and shall control the action of the board on all questions.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12334, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10753; 1919 § 4388; 1909 § 5514
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.250 - Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.250. Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors. —
1. Said circuit clerk upon the filing of said order of appointment shall notify each of said commissioners of his appointment by written or printed notice, and in the same he shall state the time and place for the first meeting of said commissioners.
2. The secretary of the board of supervisors or his deputy shall attend such meeting, and shall furnish to said commissioners a complete list of lands, all corporate and other property described in the articles of association or adjacent thereto that will be affected by carrying out and putting into force the plan for reclamation, and the names of the owners of such property, as were contained in the articles of association, at the date of the decree of the court incorporating the district. Said secretary shall also furnish said commissioners a copy of the plan for reclamation, with maps and profiles in his office.
3. The commissioners at said meeting, or within ten days thereafter, shall each take and subscribe to an oath that they will faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as such commissioners and make a true report of the work done by them. The said commissioners shall also at said meeting elect one of their own number chairman, and the secretary of the board of supervisors, or his deputy, shall be ex officio secretary of said board of commissioners during their continuance in office.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12335)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10754; 1919 § 4389; 1909 § 5515
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.270 - Notice of commissioners' report — form — publication.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.270. Notice of commissioners' report — form — publication. —
Upon the filing of the report of the commissioners, the clerk of said circuit court shall give notice thereof by causing publication to be made once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper, published in each county in the district. It shall not be necessary for said clerk to name the parties interested, but it shall be sufficient to say:
NOTICE OF FILING OF COMMISSIONERS' REPORT FOR ______ DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the following described land and property in ______ County (or counties) Missouri (here describe land and property) included within "______ drainage district" that the commissioners heretofore appointed to assess benefits and damages to the property and lands situate in said drainage district and to appraise the cash value of the land necessary to be taken for rights-of-way, holding basins and other works of said district within or without the limits of said district, filed their report in this office on the ______ day of ______, 20______, and you and each of you are hereby notified that you may examine said report and file exceptions to all or any part thereof, as provided by law,
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Clerk of the circuit court of ______ County, Missouri.
­­provided, that where lands in different counties are contained in said report, the said notice shall be published in some newspaper in each county in which such lands so affected are situate, and it shall not be necessary to publish a list of all of said lands in each county, but only that part of same situate in the respective counties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12337)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10756; 1919 § 4391; 1909 § 5517
(1953) Where notice of organization of drainage district to holder of easement required by §§ 242.020 and 242.030 was not given, the notice and opportunity for hearing on commissioner's report afforded by § 242.270 was ineffectual to comply with due process of law. 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 242.290 - Court to declare corporation dissolved — costs not to exceed benefits.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.290. Court to declare corporation dissolved — costs not to exceed benefits. —
If, after determining the objections made to the commissioners' report, the court shall find that the estimated costs of works and improvements as reported by the board of commissioners, or as amended by the court, exceed the estimated benefits, the court shall then render its decree, declaring the incorporation of the district to be dissolved as soon as all costs incurred, which shall include court costs and all obligations and expenses incurred in behalf of the district by the board of supervisors shall have been paid, and if the uniform tax levied under the provisions of section 242.430 be found insufficient to pay all such costs, the board of supervisors shall make such additional uniform tax levies as will be necessary to pay such deficiency; provided, that in estimating the cost of constructing the works and improvements of the district the amount of interest that might accrue upon bonds that may be issued by the board of supervisors under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall not be considered as a part of the cost of construction.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12362)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10781; 1919 § 4413
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.300 - Decree or order of court may be amended or changed.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
242.300. Decree or order of court may be amended or changed. —
1. Any decree or order of the court organizing any drainage district, confirming the report of commissioners, extending or changing the boundary lines of the district, reorganizing a district or otherwise pertaining to any procedure of the district may be amended or changed at any time by the court, by correcting the names of the landowners, by adding or amending any such names, or by adding, amending or correcting the description of any lands within the district, or that are alleged to be within the boundary of such district, or any other way amend or change any decree of the court pertaining to the district that may be deemed necessary to better carry out and fulfill the objects and designs of the drainage district without impairing the obligations of the district and without relieving the security of any obligations executed by or in behalf of any such districts.
2. When any such amendments are desired, the board of supervisors shall present a petition to the court organizing the district, in which shall be set forth the amendments or changes desired with the names of the owners and description of lands to be affected by the proposed amendments, changes or corrections; each owner of such lands not a party to the original proceedings shall be served, if a resident of this state, in the manner provided for by section 506.150, and if a nonresident, in the manner now provided by subsection 6 of section 506.160, or by publication as provided by section 242.030; if unknown, service shall be by publication in the manner provided for in section 242.030; any landowner objecting to the petition may file objections within fifteen days after the last publication of the notice or if personal service is had, within fifteen days after service is had.
3. The matters in said petition and all objections if any be filed shall be heard and determined by the court in a summary manner and as speedily as possible. Any number of amendments or corrections may be included in one petition, and any such amendments or corrections may be allowed or rejected as may be found just and right by the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12366, A. 1949 S.B. 1082)
Prior revision: 1929 § 10785
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.320 - Assessed damages paid before appropriating land.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.320. Assessed damages paid before appropriating land. —
1. The board of supervisors of drainage districts organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall not have the right to enter upon or appropriate any land for rights-of-way, holding basins or other works of the districts, until the prices awarded to the owners of such land shall have been paid to such owners or into the hands of the circuit clerks of the courts organizing such districts for the use of such owners; and if the sums awarded be not so paid within five years from the date of filing the commissioners' reports, all proceedings as to the taking of such property for rights-of-way, holding basins and other works not so paid for shall abate at the cost of said district. Whenever any land is acquired by any district under the provisions of said sections and the price of such property has been paid the owner by the district, the title, use, possession and enjoyment of such property shall pass from the owner and be vested in the district, and subject to its use, profit, employment and final disposition.
2. The price awarded for all land acquired by any district for rights-of-way, holding basins, or other works and the amount of damages assessed by the board of commissioners and confirmed by the court to any tract or parcel of land or other property in the district, shall be paid in cash to the owner thereof or to the clerk of the court for the use of such owner, and that portion of any tract or parcel of land or other property not taken for use of the district shall be assessed for the benefits accruing in accordance with the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12353)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10772; 1919 § 4405
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.330 - Board of supervisors — powers, contracts — duties of chief engineer — state or federal aid.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1976
242.330. Board of supervisors — powers, contracts — duties of chief engineer — state or federal aid. —
1. The board of supervisors of said district shall have full power and authority to build, construct, excavate and complete all or any works and improvements which may be needed to carry out, maintain and protect the plan for reclamation. To accomplish that end the said board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to employ men and teams and to purchase machinery, employ men to operate same and directly have charge of and construct the works and improvements, or by the use of other or more efficient means than provided for in the plans adopted.
2. They may, in their discretion, let the contract for such works and improvements either as a whole or in sections, and when such contract or contracts are let, they shall be advertised and let to the lowest and best bidder, who shall give a good and approved bond, with ample security, conditioned that he will well and promptly carry out the contract for such work and improvements, which contract shall be in writing and to which shall be attached and made a part thereof, complete plans and specifications of the work to be done and the improvements to be made under said contract, which plans and specifications shall be prepared by the chief engineer and shall be incorporated in and attached to the contract, which contract shall be prepared by the attorney for the district, and before the work is commenced shall be approved by the board of supervisors and signed by the president of the board and the contractor, and shall be executed in duplicate.
3. The chief engineer shall be the superintendent of all the works and improvements, and shall, whenever required, and at least once each year, make a full report to said board of all work done and improvements made and make such suggestions and recommendations to the board as he may deem proper. However, if and when the state of Missouri or the United States of America or any subdivision, department, division or agency thereof is willing to construct the works and improvements provided for in the plan for reclamation or any part thereof, the board of supervisors of the district is authorized to cooperate with the agency to the fullest extent and is hereby granted power and authority to accept any such work in aid of the project, irrespective of whether it be by way of grant of funds, labor, work, materials or otherwise and may, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, give such assurances as may be required to obtain the construction of the works and improvements provided for in the plan for reclamation.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12339, A.L. 1976 S.B. 915)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10758; 1919 § 4393; 1909 § 5526
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.335 - District may contract with political subdivisions or other districts for outlets — costs determined, how.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1971
242.335. District may contract with political subdivisions or other districts for outlets — costs determined, how. —
Drainage districts organized or incorporated under this chapter may contract with each other, and with any political subdivision of this or any other state, and with districts organized or incorporated under any other law of this state or under the laws of any other state, for such outlets as the one may need and the other can furnish on such terms as may be deemed to be just and fair. The cost of obtaining the outlets shall be paid for as are other expenses of the district or political subdivision for making improvements. If the districts or district and political subdivision cannot agree upon the compensation to be paid for the outlet, the district supplying the outlet, by action in the circuit court of the county wherein the district or political subdivision for which the outlet is supplied is organized or located, may recover from the district or political subdivision fair and just compensation for supplying the outlet. Any compensation received by the district shall be applied to improving its ditches or levees or reducing taxation or indebtedness.
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(L. 1953 p. 546 § 242.195, A.L. 1959 S.B. 182, A.L. 1971 H.B. 137)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.340 - Board of supervisors may amend plan for reclamation — limitations.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.340. Board of supervisors may amend plan for reclamation — limitations. —
1. Whenever it shall appear to the board of supervisors, after the plan for reclamation has been filed with the clerk of the court organizing said district and work has progressed thereunder, that some of the ditches or other improvements called for in said plan are inadequate and are not affording or giving to the lands adjacent to such ditch or ditches or other improvements, substantially the same outlets for drainage or protection from overflow that are afforded other lands in the district equally taxed, the board of supervisors of said districts shall have the power, authority and right, upon the recommendation of its chief engineer, to enlarge or cause to be enlarged any ditches or other improvements set out in the plan for reclamation and to construct or cause to be constructed such additional ditches, levees, canals and other improvements that may be necessary to afford such lands substantially equal outlets for drainage and protection from overflow that are afforded the other lands in said district, equally taxed, as a whole.
2. A description of said additional ditches and improvements found to be necessary by the board of supervisors and its chief engineer shall be filed with the secretary of the board of supervisors and entered upon the record of said board, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court organizing said district, and thereafter shall be a part of the plan for reclamation.
3. The cost of said additional ditches and improvements shall be paid for out of the benefits assessed against all the lands in said district as finally confirmed by the circuit court organizing said district, in the same proportion and in the same manner as is provided for in the constructing of ditches, levees and other improvements called for in the original plan for reclamation; provided however, that the cost of constructing the additional ditches and other improvements herein provided for, shall not be levied against lands that have been annexed or added to the district after it was organized, unless the additional ditches and other improvements to be constructed shall directly benefit the annexed lands.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12350)
Prior revision: 1929 § 10769
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.360 - Embankments to be raised at expense of owner.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.360. Embankments to be raised at expense of owner. —
When any right-of-way has been obtained under sections 242.010 to 242.690, over any embankment belonging to any person, railroad, tramway or other corporation, it shall be the duty of the owner of such embankment to so raise at the expense of the owner, said embankment so that same will conform with the levee of said district, and if such person or corporation shall fail or refuse to raise such embankment in the manner herein provided, said district may within three months after it has finished the building of its own levee enter upon and raise the embankment of said person or corporation to conform with said district levee. And the cost for such construction shall be a first lien upon the property of said person or corporation and such cost may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12355)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10774; 1919 § 4407
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.370 - Existing drains may be connected.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.370. Existing drains may be connected. —
1. At the time of the construction, in any district incorporated under sections 242.010 to 242.690, of the plan for reclamation herein referred to, all ditches or systems of drainage already constructed in said district and all watercourses shall, if necessary to the drainage of any of the lands in said district, be connected with and made a part of the works and improvements of the plan of drainage of said district.
2. But no ditches, drains or systems of drainage constructed in said district after the completion of the aforesaid plan of drainage of said district, shall be connected therewith, unless the consent of the board of supervisors shall be first had and obtained, which consent shall be in writing and shall particularly describe the method, terms and conditions of such connection, and shall be approved by the chief engineer. Said connection, if made, shall be in strict accord with the method, terms and conditions laid down in said consent.
3. If the landowner or owners wishing to make such connection are refused by the board of supervisors or decline to accept the consent granted, the said landowner or owners may file a petition for such connection in the circuit court having jurisdiction in said district, and the matter in dispute shall in a summary manner be decided by said court which decision shall be final and binding on the district and landowner or owners.
4. No connection with the works or improvements of said plan of drainage of said district or with any ditch, drain or artificial drainage wholly within said district shall be made, caused or effected by any landowner or owners, company or corporation, municipal or private, by means of or with any ditch, drain, cut, fill, roadbed, levee, embankment or artificial drainage, wholly without the limits of said district, unless such connection is consented to by the board of supervisors, or in the manner herein provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12376)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10795; 1919 § 4425; 1909 § 5531
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.380 - Board may appoint overseers — duties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.380. Board may appoint overseers — duties. —
1. For the purpose of preserving any ditch, drain, dike, levee or other work constructed or erected under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, the board of supervisors shall have power to appoint an overseer or overseers of the district, who shall hold their positions at the will of the board.
2. It shall be the duty of such overseer or overseers to keep the ditches, drains, levees, dikes and other works of the district in good repair, and remove all obstructions from ditches, drains or watercourses within or without said district that may affect the works of the district. It shall be the further duty of said appointees to report at such times as the board may require the condition of the levees, drains and other works of the district assigned to each by the board; to make such examinations of all levees during high water periods as he may be directed by the board of supervisors; and upon any emergency or danger to levees or other works of the district, of which the overseer has charge, he may call out all able-bodied men over sixteen years of age and under fifty years within the district, and compel such persons to perform such work as said overseer may deem necessary to be made in order to protect the levees, grades or other works of the district.
3. Any person who shall refuse to perform such work assigned to him by said overseer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon affidavit made before any associate circuit judge of the county by the overseer or any other person, that the offender has defaulted in obeying such call or summons of said overseer, said associate circuit judge shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such offender, and upon conviction before said associate circuit judge, upon information or any other modes provided by law for trials of cases of misdemeanor, he shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the associate circuit judge. For each day's work any person shall perform under such requisition, he shall be paid the sum of one dollar and fifty cents out of the funds of the district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12368)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10787; 1919 § 4417
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.390 - Board of supervisors to employ attorney — duties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.390. Board of supervisors to employ attorney — duties. —
The board of supervisors within sixty days after organizing shall employ an attorney to act for the district and to advise said board. Such employment shall be evidenced by an agreement in writing, which, as far as possible, shall specify the exact amount to be paid to said attorney for all services and expenses. Such attorney shall conduct all legal proceedings and suits in court where the district is a party or interested, and shall in all legal matters advise the said board of supervisors, all officers, employees or agents of said district and board, and generally look after and attend to all matters of a legal nature for said board and district. When the said board may deem it necessary, they may, by and with the advice of said attorney, and under the like terms and conditions as above set forth, employ another attorney or attorneys.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12351)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10770; 1919 § 4403; 1909 § 5529
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.400 - Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.400. Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers. —
The board of supervisors, except where otherwise provided shall, by resolution, at time of hiring or appointing, provide for the compensation for work done and necessary expense incurred by any officer, engineer, attorney or other employee and shall also pay the fees, per diem and necessary expenses of all court and county officers who may by virtue of sections 242.010 to 242.690 render service to said district. It is understood that the ordinary fee statute does not apply to services rendered under sections 242.010 to 242.690 by any county officer, but each such officer shall receive only a reasonable compensation for services actually rendered, the same to be fixed by the court in which the proceeding is pending, except where otherwise provided in sections 242.010 to 242.690; that said corporation or petitioners for corporations may prepare, write or print all copies of petitions, writs, orders and decrees or other papers, and furnish same to the clerk or other officer for his use, and in such event said officer shall be entitled to receive as compensation for issuing the said writs and copies of petitions, decrees, orders or other papers, only the reasonable value of the services actually rendered.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12363)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10782; 1919 § 4414; 1909 § 5527
CROSS REFERENCE:
Fees of county and circuit clerks, 246.020, 246.030
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.410 - Board may remove any officer or employee.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.410. Board may remove any officer or employee. —
The board of supervisors may at any time remove any officer, attorney or other employee appointed or employed by said board.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12375)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10794; 1919 § 4424; 1909 § 5528
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.420 - Board to keep record of proceedings.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.420. Board to keep record of proceedings. —
The board of supervisors of any district organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall cause to be kept a well-bound book, entitled "Record of board of supervisors of ______ district", in which shall be recorded minutes of all meetings, proceedings, certificates, bonds given by all employees and any and all corporate acts, which record or records shall at all times be open to the inspection of anyone interested, whether taxpayer or bondholder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12352)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10771; 1919 § 4404; 1909 § 5530
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.430 - Tax levied by board for cost of organization.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008
242.430. Tax levied by board for cost of organization. —
1. The board of supervisors of any drainage district organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall, as soon as elected and qualified, levy a uniform tax of not more than eight dollars per acre upon each acre of land within such district, as defined by the articles of association to be used for the purpose of paying expenses incurred or to be incurred in organizing said district, making surveys of the same and assessing benefits and damages and to pay other expenses necessary to be incurred before said board shall be empowered by section 242.450 to provide funds to pay the total cost of works and improvements of the district.
2. In case the boundary lines of the district be extended under the provisions of section 242.050, so as to include lands and other property not described and contained in the articles of association, the same uniform tax shall be made on such lands and other property as soon as same shall have been annexed and included in the district.
3. Such tax shall be due and payable as soon as assessed and if not paid by December thirty-first of the year in which it has been levied, the same shall become delinquent. It shall become a lien on the land and other property against which it is assessed and shall be collected in the same manner as the annual installment of tax. In case the sum received from such assessment exceeds the total cost of items for which the same has been levied, the surplus shall be placed in the general fund of the district and used to pay cost of construction; provided, that if the corporation of the district be dissolved, as provided for in section 242.290, the amount of surplus, if there be any, shall be prorated and refunded to the landowners paying such uniform tax.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12333, A.L. 1959 H.B. 314, A.L. 2008 S.B. 939)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10752; 1919 § 4387; 1909 § 5538
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.440 - Cost of organization, how paid.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
242.440. Cost of organization, how paid. —
Nothing in sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall authorize or be construed to authorize any uniform tax or any tax of any kind to pay any expenses mentioned or referred to in section 242.430, in addition to or in excess of the uniform tax of one dollar per acre upon each acre of land within such districts mentioned in said section 242.430.
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(L. 1943 p. 519 § 12362A, A.L. 1959 H.B. 314)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.470 - Additional drainage tax levy, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.470. Additional drainage tax levy, when. —
1. Where the works set out in the plan for reclamation of any drainage district is found insufficient to reclaim in whole or in part any or all of the land and other property of the district the board of supervisors shall have the right to formulate new or amended plans containing new ditches, levees or other works, or providing for the enlargement of existing ditches, levees or other works, and additional assessments may be made in conformity with the provisions of section 242.260, the same to be made in proportion to the increased benefits accruing to the lands and other property because of the additional works.
2. If it should be found at any time that the amount of total tax levied under the provisions of section 242.450 is insufficient to pay cost of works set out in the plan for reclamation or additional work done under the provisions of this section the board of supervisors may make an additional levy to provide funds to complete the work; provided, the total of all levies of such tax does not exceed the total amount of benefits assessed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12374)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10793; 1919 § 4423; 1909 § 5505
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.485 - Additional bond issue authorized, when — form of ballot.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
242.485. Additional bond issue authorized, when — form of ballot. —
1. The board of supervisors may, if in their judgment it seems best, issue additional bonds which do not exceed ninety percent of the amount of new taxes levied pursuant to paragraph 2 of section 242.450. The funds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be used only to pay the costs of replacing, repairing, and reconstructing the drainage works and improvements called for and completed pursuant to the plan for reclamation originally adopted by the board of supervisors.
2. The board of supervisors shall issue such additional bonds only if, at a meeting called for such purpose, the issuance of the bonds obtains the approval of the owners of two-thirds of the acreage in the district having benefits assessed against it. The owners of property within the district shall vote at such meeting in the manner provided in sections 242.150 and 242.160.
3. Notice for the meeting referred to in paragraph 2 shall be in substantially the following form:
NOTICE OF MEETING OF ______ DRAINAGE DISTRICT
Notice is hereby given to owners of land and other property in ______ drainage district of Missouri that a meeting will be held on ______, 20______, at ______ o'clock at ______ in ______ County for the purpose of approving the issuance of bonds to finance the cost of replacing, repairing and reconstructing the drainage works and improvements called for and contemplated in the plan for reclamation originally adopted by the board of supervisors, and transacting such further business as may come before said meeting. The meeting will be open to the public.
Done by order of the Board of Supervisors this ______ day of ______, 20______.
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Secretary of the Board of Supervisors
4. The secretary shall cause the notice of the meeting to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which lands of the district are situated, the last insertion to be at least ten days before the day of such meeting.
5. The bonds shall be issued in all other respects pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of section 242.480.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.490 - Levy of maintenance tax — procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
242.490. Levy of maintenance tax — procedure. —
1. To maintain and preserve the ditches, drains, levees or other improvements made pursuant to sections 242.010 to 242.690 and to strengthen, repair and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the district, the board of supervisors may, upon the completion of such improvements and on or before the first day of September in each year thereafter, levy a tax upon each tract or parcel of land and upon corporate property within the district to be known as a "maintenance tax". The maintenance tax shall be apportioned upon the basis of the net assessments of benefits accruing for original construction or subsequently adjusted reassessments, shall not exceed twenty percent thereof in any one year and shall be certified to the collector of the revenue of each county in which lands of the district are situated in the same book in like manner and at the same time as the annual installment tax is certified, but in a separate column, under the heading "maintenance tax".
2. The collector shall demand and collect the maintenance tax and make return thereof and shall receive the same compensation therefor and be liable for the same penalties for failure or neglect so to do as is provided in this section for the annual installment tax, except that after all annual installments of the total tax have become due, and thereafter it is only desired and necessary to levy and collect such maintenance tax, the board of supervisors of such drainage districts may, by resolution, provide that in the tax books containing the maintenance tax, it shall be sufficient if the several governmental lots, forty-acre tracts or other subdivisions of land as they appear in the decree of the circuit court organizing the district, be conveniently combined and described together, if contiguous, according to each ownership, and the names of the owners thereof as they may appear in the deed records, may be used in such tax book, and the certificate thereof, as provided by section 242.460 may conform thereto. The amount of the maintenance tax levied against such combined tracts shall be the same as the aggregate of the tax if levied against each separate tract and errors in the combined descriptions of such lands or in the names of the owners thereof, or in the amount of such maintenance tax as they appear in such book, shall not affect the validity of such tax or the lien thereof, and any such errors may at any time be corrected by resolution of the board of supervisors of such drainage district.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12370, A.L. 1990 S.B. 777)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10789; 1919 § 4419
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.492 - Processing fee authorized for certain assessed tracts, amount.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006
242.492. Processing fee authorized for certain assessed tracts, amount. —
In addition to any maintenance tax imposed under section 242.490, the board of supervisors may set an annual processing fee for assessed tracts when the board determines that the costs of preparation and processing of the district's maintenance tax statement for such tracts exceed the amount of tax imposed. The amount of the fee shall be determined by the board of supervisors at the meeting in which the board sets the maintenance tax under section 242.490. Such fee shall be used solely to reimburse the district for the costs associated with processing annual maintenance statements.
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(L. 2006 S.B. 1002)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.502 - Supervisors to levy tax on readjusted benefits — levy, how determined.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
242.502. Supervisors to levy tax on readjusted benefits — levy, how determined. —
1. If the board of supervisors deem it necessary, the board shall, without unnecessary delay, levy a tax of such portion of said readjusted assessed benefits on all lands, railroad and other property in the district to which benefits have been assessed, as may be found necessary by the board of supervisors to pay the costs of the completion of the proposed works and improvements as shown in the supplemental plan for reclamation adopted by the board of supervisors pursuant to section 242.230 and in carrying out the objects of said district, and plus ten percent of said total amount for emergencies. The tax levied pursuant to this section shall be apportioned to and be levied on each tract of land or property in said district in proportion to the readjusted assessed benefits, provided that the amount of such tax levied pursuant to this section, when added to any taxes previously levied and remaining unpaid at the time of the levy provided for in this section, shall not exceed the total amount of the readjusted assessed benefits.
2. The tax shall be levied in the manner provided in sections 242.450 and 242.460.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.504 - Supervisors may issue bonds, limitation on.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
242.504. Supervisors may issue bonds, limitation on. —
1. The board of supervisors may, if in their judgment it seems best, issue bonds which, when added to the bonded indebtedness then outstanding, do not exceed ninety percent of the total amount of taxes levied pursuant to section 242.502. The funds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be used to pay the costs of drainage works and improvements as shown in the supplemental plan for reclamation adopted by the board of supervisors pursuant to section 242.230 and to refund outstanding protested warrants.
2. The bonds shall be issued pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of section 242.480.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.506 - Supervisors may levy new tax — procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
242.506. Supervisors may levy new tax — procedure. —
1. Notwithstanding the limitations of sections 242.280 and 242.290 or any tax levy limitation contained in this chapter, the board of supervisors, having levied a tax pursuant to section 242.502, may levy a new tax and, if necessary, issue additional bonds whenever it is found necessary by the board of supervisors to pay the cost of replacing, repairing and reconstructing the drainage works and improvements called for and completed pursuant to the supplemental plan for reclamation adopted by the board of supervisors. Any tax levied pursuant to this section shall be apportioned to and levied on each tract of land or property in said district in proportion to the readjusted assessed benefits. The tax authorized by this section shall be levied in the manner provided by sections 242.450 and 242.460.
2. The additional bonds authorized in paragraph 1 of this section shall be issued pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of sections 242.480 and 242.485, provided that the additional bonds do not exceed ninety percent of the amount of new taxes levied pursuant to this section.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.510 - Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — tax levy.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.510. Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — tax levy. —
In all cases where drainage districts have been organized under proceedings in any circuit court of the state, prior to April 8, 1905, the board of supervisors, instead of having commissioners appointed to assess benefits or damages, may, for the purpose of constructing drainage works in their district, as well as for purpose of maintaining and keeping same in repair, and for paying principal and interest upon bonds, if any are issued, levy each year, so long as necessary, a level rate of taxation, not exceeding one dollar in any one year, upon each acre of the lands in said district, and which levy shall be made and certified by such board to the collector of revenue of the proper county not later than the first day of September of each year, and which shall by the clerk be extended upon the tax books of the county for that year and collected by the collector in the same manner as other taxes.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12386)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10805; 1919 § 4435; 1909 § 5535
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 242 - Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court › Section 242.520 - Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — limitation on indebtedness.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 242
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
242.520. Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — limitation on indebtedness. —
1. In drainage districts so making level assessments, the board of supervisors thereof may, with the consent of the owners of not less than three-fifths of the lands embraced in such districts, given at an election held in the district for that purpose, upon a notice, the same as required for the election of supervisors, for the purpose of constructing new works or of repairing or extending old ones, as well as for making surveys and acquiring rights-of-way, borrow upon the credit of the district a sum or sums the principal of which shall at no time exceed six dollars for each acre in the district. In voting at such an election, or at any election by the landowners, any landowner, not present, may vote by written proxy.
2. Loans negotiated under this section shall not run longer than twenty years nor bear more than six percent semiannual interest, nor shall the bonds be sold for less than ninety cents on the dollar clear to the district. Upon negotiating any such loan, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to make a levy of such sum, not exceeding fifty cents per acre in any one year, as will be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on such bonds as they mature.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12387)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10806; 1919 § 4436; 1909 § 5536