Title XV — LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY

244.010. Drainage for agricultural or sanitary purposes. — The owner or owners of all or any part of any tract or parcel of swamp, wet, flat or overflowed land in this state, situated within or without any drainage or levee district organized under any laws of this state, shall h…

244.020. Disagreement on drainage methods — petition circuit court. — 1. When the owner or owners of the land to be drained or protected and the owner or owners of the land through or across which such improvements are to be built or constructed fail to agree as to the location o…

244.030. Filing of objections — hearing by court — appointment of commissioners. — 1. Such petition, as soon as so signed, shall be filed in the office of the circuit clerk of the county in which is situate the land that will be affected by the proposed improvements; each person …

244.040. Duties of commissioners. — Within twenty days after so qualifying, unless prevented by sickness or some other good cause, said commissioners shall proceed to view the premises and perform their duties. They shall be furnished by the clerk of the circuit court a copy of t…

244.050. Notification of commissioners' report — filing of objections. — Within ten days after the filing of the commissioners' report the clerk of the circuit court shall give notice of such filing to each landowner, and said notice shall state the hour and date at which the cir…

244.060. Confirmation or rejection of report — payment of costs. — Said circuit court shall hear all such objections in a summary manner and without unnecessary delay, and should it find that no objection should be sustained, the court shall approve and confirm said report, but i…

244.070. Limitation on improvements — dismissal of case, when. — 1. The word "tract" and "parcel" of land as used in this chapter shall include town lots or other subdivisions of land according to ownership. Persons desiring to drain or protect land under the provisions of this c…

244.080. Appeals from circuit court decision. — Any person may appeal from the decision or decree of the circuit court as provided by law in other civil actions. Such appeal shall not act as a supersedeas or delay construction of either the ditch or levee or laying of the tile, b…

244.090. Disagreement on manner of construction — petition circuit court. — 1. The owner or owners of the land benefitted shall have the right, without obtaining permission of the circuit court, to construct the ditch or levee or lay the tile or to arrange to have such constructe…

244.100. Rights of owners after construction. — The owners of the land benefitted shall have the right at any time after the ditch, tile or levee has been completed, to go upon the land through or upon which such works shall have been built and repair the same, but no right to en…

244.110. Compensation — appointment of special commissioners and surveyor. — 1. The parties petitioning shall be liable for all costs incurred on account of any proceeding under this chapter. Each commissioner shall receive for his services two dollars for each day employed and n…

244.120. Amendment of petition — rights of landowner. — 1. The petition as signed and filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended at any time as other pleadings in other cases. 2. The owner or owners of land within or without any levee or drainage district organized…

244.130. Penalty for obstructing ditch — inspection of lands without owner's consent. — 1. Any person or persons, copartnership or corporation willfully filling up or obstructing or impairing the usefulness of any ditch, tile or levee constructed under the provisions of this chap…