Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.385. Board to secure right-of-way. — Before said work is let under contract said board of directors shall procure the right-of-way over all lands belonging to private persons and right-of-way or roadbed of any railway corporation and any other private or public corporation, and in case they cannot get a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.390. Board to act with United States agencies. — Said board of directors is hereby authorized and empowered to treat, contract and negotiate with what is known as the Mississippi River Commission, heretofore created by an act of the Congress of the United States, or with any other agency of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.395. Board to publish statement of work done. — Said board of directors shall, at their first meeting after the expiration of one year from date of their organization, and annually thereafter make and publish in some newspaper published in the county composing the levee district, and when composed of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.455. Lands to be entered on book for that purpose. — Said lands shall be entered upon said book in convenient subdivisions, as surveyed by United States deputy surveyors, with appropriate columns, showing the names of resident owners, and nonresident owners when known, of said lands, and of any person […]
Effective – 12 Jul 1994 245.460. Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners. — Said assessment book shall be made out by the assessors of their respective counties in the levee district, and a fair copy thereof shall be returned to the president of the board of directors of the levee district […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 245.465. County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands. — The county board of equalization shall have and receive the same jurisdiction over the lands taxed for the purposes in sections 245.285 to 245.545, specified, as conferred by the general laws of the state in the assessment of property […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.470. Landowners to determine work to be done. — At such meeting the reports and estimates of the engineer and the assessment of the assessors shall be laid before the landowners present estimating the probable cost of said work, and the probable rate percent therefor on the valuation of the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.475. Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments. — If it shall be decided to do the said work, it shall be competent for the directors to order the rate percent agreed upon for the cost of said work, to be paid in annual installments, in […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.480. Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee. — Whenever the board of directors of any levee district shall ascertain that the levees constructed by said district are insufficient, from any cause, to afford complete protection from overflows, to the lands in said district, they may by resolution entered upon […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1957 245.483. Construction or improvement of levees to protect lands in other districts — procedure — costs, how paid. — Whenever the board of directors of any district organized under sections 245.285 to 245.545 shall determine that the levees constructed by the district are insufficient from any cause to afford complete […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.485. Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates. — If it is found, by the county commission, after examining the expenditures of the levee district, that the cost of constructing the work will exceed the estimates made by the engineer, the commission may call a meeting of the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 245.490. Board may borrow money. — The directors may borrow money, not exceeding in amount the assessments or annual installments unpaid at the time of borrowing, for the construction of any work which they may be authorized to construct, or for the payment of any indebtedness that they may have […]
