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

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…

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…

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 f…

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 distric…

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 h…

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. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12471) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10881; 1919 § 45764

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 unde…

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…

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 c…

246.070. Drainage or levee districts may issue tax anticipation warrants, procedure. — 1. Whenever authorized by the owners of two-thirds of the acreage in any drainage or levee district heretofore or hereafter organized or reorganized under any of the drainage or levee laws of t…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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 addi…

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 authoriz…

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 subs…

246.160. Issuance of refunding bonds, general provisions. — 1. The board of supervisors of any drainage or levee district heretofore organized or that may be hereafter organized in any circuit court or the county commission of any drainage or levee district heretofore organized o…

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 certific…

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…

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 corpo…

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…

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 a…

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 th…

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, street…

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 si…

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 th…

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 …

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 …

246.300. Voting by representation authorized, when, certain districts. — In any levee district formed pursuant to the laws of this state having an assessed valuation of forty million dollars or greater, which is located in whole or in part in a county having over nine hundred tho…

246.305. Alternative levee district, certain counties — voting rights — apportionment of taxes, board may adopt procedure. — 1. In any levee or drainage district formed pursuant to the laws of this state having assessed valuation of real property of twenty-five million dollars or…

246.310. Inapplicability of certain law regarding abeyance of water and sewer assessments. — The provisions of section 262.802 shall not apply to any drainage district or levee district formed under and pursuant to the laws of this state. ­­-------- (L. 2010 H.B. 1316 merged with…

247.010. Formation of public corporations. — Sections 247.010 to 247.220 are intended to make possible, through public corporations, conveniences in the use of water, ample in quantity for all needful purposes and pure and wholesome in quality, furnished from common sources of su…

247.020. Districts to be political corporations, numbered. — The districts to be formed under sections 247.010 to 247.220 shall be known as public water supply districts of the counties in which districts are located, and shall be political corporations of the state of Missouri. …

247.030. Territory included in district, contiguous — boundaries of districts, how changed — extension or enlargement of district, how. — 1. Territory that may be included in a district sought to be incorporated or enlarged may be wholly within one or in more than one county, may…

247.031. Detachment from district, when — procedure — costs — petition form. — 1. Territory included in a district that is not being served by such district may be detached from such district provided that there are no outstanding general obligation or special obligation bonds an…

247.035. Sewer treatment facilities, construction and operation, when — procedure. — 1. The board of directors of any public water supply district may petition the circuit court of the county containing the major part of the acreage in the district for an amended decree of incorp…

247.040. Formation of public water supply district — procedure. — 1. Proceedings for the formation of a public water supply district shall be substantially as follows: a petition in duplicate describing the proposed boundaries of the district sought to be formed, accompanied by a…

247.050. Powers of public water supply districts. — The following powers are hereby conferred upon public water supply districts organized under the provisions of sections 247.010 to 247.220: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To purchase or otherwise acquire water for the necessities o…

247.060. Board of directors — powers, qualifications, appointment, terms, vacancies, how filled — elections held, when, procedure — attendance fee — suspension of members, when. — 1. The management of the business and affairs of the district is hereby vested in a board of directo…

247.070. Organization of board, when. — Within thirty days after appointment or election of the board, or on the date of the first regular meeting after appointment or election of the board, whichever is earlier, the board shall meet and organize, selecting one of its number pres…

247.080. Board — further powers. — 1. The exercise of the powers conferred upon the district by sections 247.010 to 247.220 shall be by its board of directors, acting as a board. 2. The board shall have power and it shall be its duty to employ necessary help and to contract for s…

247.085. Board may contract for water supply with city, when — publication of notice — sale of property, use of funds. — 1. The board of directors of any public water supply district shall have power to sell and convey part or all of the property of the district to any city, owni…