§ 245.010 Definitions
§ 245.015 Owners may form levee district, where — articles of incorporation to be ..
§ 245.020 Circuit clerk to give notice by publication — form of notice — mailing required
§ 245.025 Objections to incorporation heard — court decree filed with secretary of ..
§ 245.030 Adjacent districts may consolidate — petition, hearing and decree
§ 245.035 Time of corporate existence may be extended
§ 245.040 Districts may reorganize
§ 245.045 Districts reorganized to receive all benefits — reorganization articles of ..
§ 245.050 Notice of reorganization hearing
§ 245.055 Procedure
§ 245.060 Election of board of supervisors — term of office
§ 245.065 Improper election of board of supervisors — court to declare vacancies — ..
§ 245.070 Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election — owners of land ..
§ 245.075 Supervisors to take oath
§ 245.080 Organization of board — to make annual report — compensation
§ 245.085 County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to ..
§ 245.090 Secretary of board to be ex officio treasurer — board to audit books ..
§ 245.095 Powers and duties of supervisors
§ 245.100 Chief engineer appointed — duties
§ 245.105 Chief engineer to make report — supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental ..
§ 245.110 Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk — commissioners ..
§ 245.115 Organization of board of commissioners
§ 245.120 Commissioners to inspect district and assess benefits and damages — report ..
§ 245.125 Property owners notified of commissioners’ report by publication — form of ..
§ 245.130 Exceptions to commissioners’ report heard and determined
§ 245.135 Court to declare corporation dissolved if costs exceed benefits
§ 245.140 Plan of reclamation may be changed — procedure
§ 245.145 Damages assessed must be paid before appropriating land
§ 245.150 Board to construct works — may let contracts for construction
§ 245.155 Embankments on right-of-way to be raised at expense of owner to conform to ..
§ 245.160 Board to employ attorney
§ 245.165 Board to keep record of proceedings — open to inspection
§ 245.170 Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers
§ 245.175 Board to levy tax to pay cost of organization
§ 245.180 Board to levy tax, when — new tax authorized, when — tax, how levied — ..
§ 245.181 Additional bonds authorized, when — meeting, votes how cast — form of ..
§ 245.185 Annual installment of tax to be levied — when due — form of certificate of tax
§ 245.190 Board may make additional levy of tax
§ 245.195 Board may levy maintenance tax — unprotected lands not taxable
§ 245.196 Annual benefit fee, how levied, amount
§ 245.197 Readjustment of benefits, when — levy of new tax for carrying out ..
§ 245.198 Tax levy, when — emergency levy of ten percent
§ 245.199 Additional bonds authorized when — how issued
§ 245.200 County collector of revenue to collect levee tax — to give bond to board of ..
§ 245.205 Secretary of board to extend and certify levee tax to collector-treasurers ..
§ 245.210 Levee tax delinquent December thirty-first — penalty
§ 245.215 Levee tax to constitute a lien — how evidenced — acquisition of lands, duty ..
§ 245.220 Tax book to be prima facie evidence — suits for taxes brought in circuit court
§ 245.225 Suits and notices to be filed in recorder’s office against last record owners
§ 245.230 Board may issue bonds — how funds are to be used
§ 245.235 Unpaid warrants to draw interest
§ 245.240 Surety bonds to be made payable to district
§ 245.245 Board to appoint inspectors — duties and powers of inspectors
§ 245.250 County collectors — penalty for failure to pay over tax, fee for collection ..
§ 245.255 Change of venue
§ 245.260 Action not to abate by reason of death of party
§ 245.265 Appeal not to act as supersedeas
§ 245.270 Liability of reorganized district
§ 245.275 Procedure in dissolving levee district
§ 245.280 Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected
§ 245.285 Defining the term levee districts — applicable to districts now organized ..
§ 245.290 County commissions may establish levee districts
§ 245.295 Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body
§ 245.300 Notice to be given — mailing required
§ 245.305 Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district
§ 245.310 Extending levees and levee districts
§ 245.315 Existing levee districts may organize under this law
§ 245.320 Change of organization to be submitted to an election
§ 245.325 Simple majority to decide election
§ 245.330 Effect of reorganization of old districts
§ 245.335 Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission
§ 245.340 Oath of directors
§ 245.345 Board to organize
§ 245.350 Majority of board a quorum
§ 245.355 Duties of president and secretary
§ 245.360 Pay of directors
§ 245.365 Board to determine what work is necessary
§ 245.370 Work to be let to lowest bidder
§ 245.375 Contractors to give bond
§ 245.380 Board to supervise work
§ 245.385 Board to secure right-of-way
§ 245.390 Board to act with United States agencies
§ 245.395 Board to publish statement of work done
§ 245.400 Board may change location of levee
§ 245.405 Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees
§ 245.410 Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment
§ 245.415 Railroads to continue levee
§ 245.420 Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice ..
§ 245.430 Private roadways to have approaches
§ 245.445 Board to assess levee fund tax
§ 245.450 Assessment of overflowed lands
§ 245.455 Lands to be entered on book for that purpose
§ 245.460 Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners
§ 245.465 County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands
§ 245.470 Landowners to determine work to be done
§ 245.475 Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments
§ 245.480 Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee
§ 245.483 Construction or improvement of levees to protect lands in other districts — ..
§ 245.485 Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates
§ 245.490 Board may borrow money
§ 245.495 Board may issue warrants
§ 245.500 Form of warrants
§ 245.505 Sinking fund moneys may be invested
§ 245.515 County treasurer to be treasurer of board
§ 245.520 Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees
§ 245.525 Herding livestock on levee prohibited
§ 245.530 Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair
§ 245.540 Commissions may appropriate swamplands
§ 245.545 Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury

Terms Used In Missouri Laws > Chapter 245 - Levee Districts

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Heretofore: means any time previous to the day when the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • In vacation: includes any adjournment of court for more than one day whenever any act is authorized to be done by or any power given to a court, or judge thereof in vacation, or whenever any act is authorized to be done by or any power given to a clerk of any court in vacation. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • voter: is used in the laws of this state it shall mean registered voter, or legal voter. See Missouri Laws 1.035