Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 242 – Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court | Midpage

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Chapter 242

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 242

Drainage Districts Organized in Circuit Court

242.010Owner defined — delegation of representation and voting rights 242.020Formation of drainage districts 242.030Notice of application — form 242.040Objections — procedure 242.050Annexation of land to organize district 242.060Consolidation of adjacent districts 242.070Reorganization of districts 242.080Reorganized districts — articles of association 242.100Procedure after notice of reorganization 242.110Records and funds delivered to secretary of board 242.120Liability of reorganized district — consolidation 242.130Extending time of corporate existence 242.140Drainage district may be dissolved, when 242.150Election of board of supervisors 242.160Election of supervisors — electors 242.170Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled 242.180Supervisors to take oath 242.190Supervisors — powers and duties 242.200Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation 242.220Chief engineer and assistants — appointment — duties 242.230Engineer's annual report — adoption of plan for reclamation — supplemental plans authorized 242.240Filing of reclamation report — appointment of commissioners 242.250Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors 242.260Commissioners to inspect district and assess benefits and damages — file report 242.270Notice of commissioners' report — form — publication 242.280Exceptions heard and determined by circuit court — procedure 242.290Court to declare corporation dissolved — costs not to exceed benefits 242.300Decree or order of court may be amended or changed 242.320Assessed damages paid before appropriating land 242.330Board of supervisors — powers, contracts — duties of chief engineer — state or federal aid 242.335District may contract with political subdivisions or other districts for outlets — costs determined, how 242.340Board of supervisors may amend plan for reclamation — limitations 242.350Bridges over drainage works — how built or enlarged 242.360Embankments to be raised at expense of owner 242.370Existing drains may be connected 242.380Board may appoint overseers — duties 242.390Board of supervisors to employ attorney — duties 242.400Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers 242.410Board may remove any officer or employee 242.420Board to keep record of proceedings 242.430Tax levied by board for cost of organization 242.440Cost of organization, how paid 242.450Organization of commissioners — duties of secretary of board of supervisors — additional tax levy, when 242.470Additional drainage tax levy, when 242.480Issuance and payment of bonds — treasurer, duties 242.490Levy of maintenance tax — procedure 242.492Processing fee authorized for certain assessed tracts, amount 242.502Supervisors to levy tax on readjusted benefits — levy, how determined 242.504Supervisors may issue bonds, limitation on 242.506Supervisors may levy new tax — procedure 242.510Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — tax levy 242.520Districts organized prior to April 8, 1905 — limitation on indebtedness 242.530Districts formed prior to April 8, 1905, may proceed as heretofore 242.540Collection of drainage tax 242.550Collector — failure to pay tax, penalty 242.560Current and delinquent taxes — collection — procedure 242.570Payment of drainage tax — procedure 242.580Drainage tax, when delinquent — penalty 242.600Suits for taxes — evidence — procedure 242.610Action instituted against whom — notice filed, effect 242.620Protection of drainage district lien 242.630Unpaid warrants to draw interest 242.640Surety bonds payable to district 242.650Change of venue limitation 242.660Action not to abate by reason of death of party 242.670Limited appeal from assessments 242.680Existing rights not affected by sections 242.010 to 242.690 242.690Prior remedies not impaired by sections 242.010 to 242.690 242.692Major district and minor district defined 242.694Petition for annexation by minor district — service 242.696Acceptance or rejection of petition — notice — objections, hearing, decree — transfer of records and property 242.698Appeal 242.699Construction — applicability 242.700Drainage district may be formed on land containing mineral deposits 242.710Reclamation of mineralized lands 242.720Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions 242.730Pumping tax — levy, collection and use — contracts with landowners 242.740Issuance and registration of bonds 242.750Credit for additional pumping operations