Section 257.440 – Performance of duties compelled by mandamus.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.440. Performance of duties compelled by mandamus. — The performance of all duties prescribed in this chapter concerning the organization, administration and operation of the district may be enforced against any officer or against any person or public corporation refusing to comply with any order of the board by mandamus […]
Section 257.450 – Disincorporation, procedure — approval at election — appointment of receiver, duties.
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 257.450. Disincorporation, procedure — approval at election — appointment of receiver, duties. — 1. Disincorporation of a conservancy district may be accomplished by a vote therefor on the submission of the question to the voters of the district. The submission is initiated as follows: (1) When the board determines the […]
Section 257.460 – Defective notice of any proceeding, effect.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.460. Defective notice of any proceeding, effect. — In any case of a proceeding before the court where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in […]
Section 257.200 – Powers of board, limits.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.200. Powers of board, limits. — 1. In order to accomplish the purposes of the conservancy district, the board of trustees may: (1) Sue and be sued by its corporate name. (2) Clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen or change the course or terminus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, […]
Section 257.210 – Board and agents may enter lands for surveys — interference, penalty.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.210. Board and agents may enter lands for surveys — interference, penalty. — The board of trustees of a district, or their employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, may enter upon lands or premises within or without the district in order to make surveys and examinations to accomplish […]
Section 257.220 – Condemnation of land by board.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.220. Condemnation of land by board. — The board may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within the district not previously acquired or condemned by order or judgment of the court, according to the procedure provided by law for the appropriation of land or other […]
Section 257.230 – Cemetery lands, procedure on taking or damaging.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.230. Cemetery lands, procedure on taking or damaging. — Whenever it is necessary for the purposes of a district to take or damage any cemetery, the district shall appraise the cost of such taking or easement in the same manner as appraisals are made for other property. The board of […]
Section 257.240 – Board to make regulations, violation, misdemeanor, enforcement by civil process.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.240. Board to make regulations, violation, misdemeanor, enforcement by civil process. — 1. In order to secure the best results from the execution and operation of the plans and facilities of the district, the board of trustees, after due publication and public hearings, and subject to appeal to and decree […]
Section 257.250 – Contracts, procedure for letting — concessions, how granted.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.250. Contracts, procedure for letting — concessions, how granted. — Whenever the board of trustees lets contracts for necessary works or concessions, it shall be governed as follows: (1) Contracts let for necessary works may be either as a whole or in parts, except that for works costing over five […]
Section 257.260 – Concessions to be reappraised each twenty years.
Effective – 28 Aug 1959 257.260. Concessions to be reappraised each twenty years. — Assignments, leases or permissions by the board of trustees for periods of greater than twenty years, shall have the rates therefor reappraised or redetermined by the board every twenty years. ——– (L. 1959 S.B. 199 § 26)