Section 245.400 – Board may change location of levee.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.400. Board may change location of levee. — In case any emergency should arise rendering it necessary, or in case the board of levee directors deem it expedient to change the location of the levee first agreed upon, or at any time to extend the same for a short distance […]
Section 245.405 – Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.405. Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees. — Said board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to contract upon terms of reasonable compensation with any railroad corporation for the use and occupancy of levees of the district for the roadbed of such […]
Section 245.410 – Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.410. Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment. — Whenever the right-of-way shall be obtained as provided in section 245.385 over any right-of-way of any railroad, tramway or embankment, either by voluntary relinquishment of the same or by condemnation proceedings, it shall be the duty of such railway company […]
Section 245.415 – Railroads to continue levee.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.415. Railroads to continue levee. — Whenever a railroad passes over or along land in this state subject to overflow by any river or creek and such land is protected, or may be hereafter protected, by levees constructed to protect such land from overflows and such levees abut on or […]
Section 245.420 – Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.420. Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given. — In case any person or corporation owning or operating any such railroad as mentioned in section 245.415 shall fail to continue and connect any such levee constructed by the abutting landowner within ninety […]
Section 245.430 – Private roadways to have approaches.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.430. Private roadways to have approaches. — No private road shall be permitted to cross any levee built under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, until the persons interested in and benefitted by said road shall build sufficient approaches on each side of said levee to permit the travel […]
Section 245.445 – Board to assess levee fund tax.
Effective – 12 Jul 1994 245.445. Board to assess levee fund tax. — As soon as any levee district shall have been organized, as aforesaid, and in order to defray the expenses of surveys and estimates of levees or other works and costs thereof, maintain and repair the same, and pay such officers, agents, servants […]
Section 245.450 – Assessment of overflowed lands.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.450. Assessment of overflowed lands. — After the formation of any levee district under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, the county commission of the county in which such district lies, or when it lies in two or more counties, the county commission of each county in said district, […]
Section 245.340 – Oath of directors.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.340. Oath of directors. — Said directors shall, before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that they will faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge their duties as directors, according to law, which oath shall be filed in the office of […]
Section 245.345 – Board to organize.
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.345. Board to organize. — The directors appointed under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall call a meeting of their body at such time and place as may be designated by the directors of the county in which the larger part of the levee district may lie. Said […]