Effective – 28 Aug 2002 242.010. Owner defined — delegation of representation and voting rights. — 1. The word “owner” as used in sections 242.010 to 242.690 shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen, trustees, or mortgagees, who shall not be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.020. Formation of drainage districts. — 1. The owners of a majority of the acreage in any contiguous body of swamp, wet or overflowed lands, or lands subject to overflow, situate in one or more counties in this state, may form a drainage district for the purpose of having such […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 242.030. Notice of application — form. — 1. Immediately after such articles of association shall have been filed, the clerk in whose office the articles of association have been filed shall give notice by causing publication to be made once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.040. Objections — procedure. — 1. Any owner of real estate or other property in said proposed district, who may not have signed said articles of association, objecting to the organization and incorporation of said drainage district, shall, on or before the first day of the term of court at […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.050. Annexation of land to organize district. — 1. The board of supervisors of any drainage district organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, for and in its behalf, or the owners of a majority of the acres in any tract or tracts of swamp, wet or overflow […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 242.060. Consolidation of adjacent districts. — 1. Any two or more adjacent districts, whether incorporated in the same or different counties, may be united and consolidated in one district, and such new district and the board of supervisors thereof shall have the rights, powers and privileges of any districts organized […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.070. Reorganization of districts. — Any drainage district of Missouri heretofore organized, in process of organization or that may hereafter be organized under the provisions of any previous or existing laws of this state, either general or special, may elect in the manner herein provided to become and be reorganized […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.080. Reorganized districts — articles of association. — 1. Any drainage district heretofore organized and any district that is now in process of organization or any drainage district that may hereafter be organized under any previous or existing law of this state may organize under the provisions of sections 242.010 […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 242.090. Notice of reorganization hearing — form. — Immediately after such articles of association have been filed the circuit clerk in whose office the same have been filed shall give notice in the manner and for the time specified in section 242.030, said notice to be in substantially the following […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.100. Procedure after notice of reorganization. — After said notice has been so given the matter shall be proceeded with in the same manner as is provided for where articles of association for the formation of a drainage district have been filed. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 12382) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.110. Records and funds delivered to secretary of board. — Immediately after the election of the board of supervisors as provided for in section 242.100, and the election of a president and secretary, and the secretary has filed the necessary bond and it has been approved, he shall call upon […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.120. Liability of reorganized district — consolidation. — When an existing drainage district has been reorganized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 the board of supervisors will not be required to follow such steps or requirements of sections 242.010 to 242.690 as are inconsistent with or rendered unnecessary, by the work […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.130. Extending time of corporate existence. — 1. Whenever the board of supervisors of any district organized under sections 242.010 to 242.690 or any previous enactment of the general assembly of the state of Missouri providing for the organization of drainage districts by the circuit courts, finds that, in order […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 242.140. Drainage district may be dissolved, when. — 1. The incorporation of every drainage district, heretofore or hereafter incorporated under and by virtue of the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690, shall be dissolved if, at any time before bonds are issued and negotiated to construct the works and improvements […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.150. Election of board of supervisors. — Within thirty days after any drainage district shall have been organized and incorporated under the provisions of section 242.040 the circuit clerk of the county in which the articles of association have been filed shall, upon giving notice by causing publication to be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.160. Election of supervisors — electors. — In the same month of each year after the election of the first board of supervisors, the board of supervisors shall call a meeting of the owners of land and other property in the district, in the same manner as is provided for […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 242.170. Vacancy resulting from void election — how filled. — The provisions of section 245.065 relating to vacancies in office of members of the board of supervisors of levee districts resulting from improper election shall apply, insofar as practicable to drainage districts organized under the provisions of sections 242.010 to […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 242.180. Supervisors to take oath. — Each supervisor before entering upon his official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties devolving upon him in office as supervisor of the drainage […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1969 242.190. Supervisors — powers and duties. — 1. In order to effect the drainage, protection and reclamation of the land and other property in the district subject to tax, the board of supervisors is authorized and empowered to clean out, straighten, widen, change the course and flow, alter or deepen […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2002 242.200. Board to elect president and secretary — report — compensation. — 1. The board of supervisors immediately after their election shall choose one of their number president of the board, and elect some suitable person secretary, who shall serve until the secretary’s successor is elected and qualified, and who […]
