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

245.495. Board may issue warrants. — The board of directors may, at its option, in lieu of bonds, issue warrants on the county treasurer, payable out of the fund of the levee district, in payment of any indebtedness incurred, including the entire expenses of constructing the leve…

245.500. Form of warrants. — The warrant thus drawn shall be in the following form, and shall be signed by the president of the board of directors and countersigned by the secretary: ­ ­ ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12566) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10976; 1919 § 4668; 1909 § 5731

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 e…

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 direc…

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 actua…

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 wat…

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 re…

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 una…

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 spec…