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Section 245.300 – Notice to be given — mailing required.

Effective – 12 Jul 1994 245.300. Notice to be given — mailing required. — No such levee district shall be formed unless notice of an intention to apply therefor be first given by publication in some newspaper published in each county composing said proposed levee district, published once at least fifteen days before the commencement […]

Section 245.305 – Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district.

Effective – 12 Jul 1994 245.305. Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district. — Whenever the board of directors of any levee district shall, by petition, show to the county commission or other legislative body of the county in which said levee district is situated that there are lands in said county […]

Section 245.310 – Extending levees and levee districts.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.310. Extending levees and levee districts. — If at any time it becomes necessary or expedient to extend a levee, not exceeding ten miles, in levee districts already organized, or to enlarge any levee district for the purpose of extending any levee therein to be constructed, in order to better […]

Section 245.315 – Existing levee districts may organize under this law.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.315. Existing levee districts may organize under this law. — Any levee district now organized or existing under the provisions of any other law of this state either general, special or local law, may elect in the manner herein provided to be and become organized under the provisions of sections […]

Section 245.320 – Change of organization to be submitted to an election.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.320. Change of organization to be submitted to an election. — 1. Any such levee district now existing but not organized under sections 245.285 to 245.545 may become organized under sections 245.285 to 245.545, and when so organized hereunder, shall be entitled to the benefit of all of the provisions […]

Section 245.325 – Simple majority to decide election.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.325. Simple majority to decide election. — Should a majority of the votes of those voting upon the proposition be in favor of the change, the proposed change shall be deemed carried and the same shall be made, and the new district named and formed, and directors therefor appointed as […]

Section 245.330 – Effect of reorganization of old districts.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.330. Effect of reorganization of old districts. — The action taken by the county commission in reorganizing an old district under sections 245.285 to 245.545, when such organization shall have been ordered under the provisions of sections 245.285 to 245.545, shall have in all ways and respects the same force […]

Section 245.335 – Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.335. Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission. — At the term of the county commission at which said levee district may be laid off, or at any subsequent term thereof, the said commission shall appoint three directors of levees, who shall be landholders within the county for […]

Section 245.275 – Procedure in dissolving levee district.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.275. Procedure in dissolving levee district. — The incorporation of every levee district, heretofore or hereafter incorporated under and by virtue of the provisions of sections 245.010 to 245.280, shall be dissolved if, at any time before its board of supervisors has adopted a plan for reclamation, the owners, of […]

Section 245.280 – Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.280. Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected. — The repealing of existing laws shall not have the effect of suspending, abating, abridging, impairing, vitiating or nullifying any right, power, remedy or lien heretofore given, created or conferred upon any levee district heretofore organized or in process of […]