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Title XV - Lands, Levees, D...
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Chapter 245 - Levee Districts
Chapter 245 - Levee Districts
Section 245.010 Definitions.
Section 245.015 Owners may form levee district, where — articles of incorporation to be filed in circuit court.
Section 245.020 Circuit clerk to give notice by publication — form of notice — mailing required.
Section 245.025 Objections to incorporation heard — court decree filed with secretary of state and county recorder.
Section 245.030 Adjacent districts may consolidate — petition, hearing and decree.
Section 245.035 Time of corporate existence may be extended.
Section 245.040 Districts may reorganize.
Section 245.045 Districts reorganized to receive all benefits — reorganization articles of association to be filed with circuit court.
Section 245.050 Notice of reorganization hearing.
Section 245.055 Procedure.
Section 245.060 Election of board of supervisors — term of office.
Section 245.065 Improper election of board of supervisors — court to declare vacancies — new election called.
Section 245.070 Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election — owners of land benefitted entitled to vote.
Section 245.075 Supervisors to take oath.
Section 245.080 Organization of board — to make annual report — compensation.
Section 245.085 County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to secretary of board.
Section 245.090 Secretary of board to be ex officio treasurer — board to audit books annually and publish financial statement.
Section 245.095 Powers and duties of supervisors.
Section 245.100 Chief engineer appointed — duties.
Section 245.105 Chief engineer to make report — supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental plans for reclamation.
Section 245.110 Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk — commissioners appointed.
Section 245.115 Organization of board of commissioners.
Section 245.120 Commissioners to inspect district and assess benefits and damages — report to be filed.
Section 245.125 Property owners notified of commissioners' report by publication — form of notice — mailing required.
Section 245.130 Exceptions to commissioners' report heard and determined.
Section 245.135 Court to declare corporation dissolved if costs exceed benefits.
Section 245.140 Plan of reclamation may be changed — procedure.
Section 245.145 Damages assessed must be paid before appropriating land.
Section 245.150 Board to construct works — may let contracts for construction.
Section 245.155 Embankments on right-of-way to be raised at expense of owner to conform to district levee.
Section 245.160 Board to employ attorney.
Section 245.165 Board to keep record of proceedings — open to inspection.
Section 245.170 Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers.
Section 245.175 Board to levy tax to pay cost of organization.
Section 245.180 Board to levy tax, when — new tax authorized, when — tax, how levied — secretary to prepare levee tax record.
Section 245.181 Additional bonds authorized, when — meeting, votes how cast — form of notice — notice, how given.
Section 245.185 Annual installment of tax to be levied — when due — form of certificate of tax.
Section 245.190 Board may make additional levy of tax.
Section 245.195 Board may levy maintenance tax — unprotected lands not taxable.
Section 245.196 Annual benefit fee, how levied, amount.
Section 245.197 Readjustment of benefits, when — levy of new tax for carrying out supplemental plan — notice, how given — form of notice — lists, where filed.
Section 245.198 Tax levy, when — emergency levy of ten percent.
Section 245.199 Additional bonds authorized when — how issued.
Section 245.200 County collector of revenue to collect levee tax — to give bond to board of supervisors.
Section 245.205 Secretary of board to extend and certify levee tax to collector-treasurers — duties of collector-treasurer — county collector-treasurer to collect delinquent taxes.
Section 245.210 Levee tax delinquent December thirty-first — penalty.
Section 245.215 Levee tax to constitute a lien — how evidenced — acquisition of lands, duty to satisfy outstanding liens, limitation.
Section 245.220 Tax book to be prima facie evidence — suits for taxes brought in circuit court.
Section 245.225 Suits and notices to be filed in recorder's office against last record owners.
Section 245.230 Board may issue bonds — how funds are to be used.
Section 245.235 Unpaid warrants to draw interest.
Section 245.240 Surety bonds to be made payable to district.
Section 245.245 Board to appoint inspectors — duties and powers of inspectors.
Section 245.250 County collectors — penalty for failure to pay over tax, fee for collection of tax.
Section 245.255 Change of venue.
Section 245.260 Action not to abate by reason of death of party.
Section 245.265 Appeal not to act as supersedeas.
Section 245.270 Liability of reorganized district.
Section 245.275 Procedure in dissolving levee district.
Section 245.280 Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected.
Section 245.285 Defining the term levee districts — applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized.
Section 245.290 County commissions may establish levee districts.
Section 245.295 Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body.
Section 245.300 Notice to be given — mailing required.
Section 245.305 Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district.
Section 245.310 Extending levees and levee districts.
Section 245.315 Existing levee districts may organize under this law.
Section 245.320 Change of organization to be submitted to an election.
Section 245.325 Simple majority to decide election.
Section 245.330 Effect of reorganization of old districts.
Section 245.335 Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission.
Section 245.340 Oath of directors.
Section 245.345 Board to organize.
Section 245.350 Majority of board a quorum.
Section 245.355 Duties of president and secretary.
Section 245.360 Pay of directors.
Section 245.365 Board to determine what work is necessary.
Section 245.370 Work to be let to lowest bidder.
Section 245.375 Contractors to give bond.
Section 245.380 Board to supervise work.
Section 245.385 Board to secure right-of-way.
Section 245.390 Board to act with United States agencies.
Section 245.395 Board to publish statement of work done.
Section 245.400 Board may change location of levee.
Section 245.405 Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees.
Section 245.410 Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment.
Section 245.415 Railroads to continue levee.
Section 245.420 Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given.
Section 245.430 Private roadways to have approaches.
Section 245.445 Board to assess levee fund tax.
Section 245.450 Assessment of overflowed lands.
Section 245.455 Lands to be entered on book for that purpose.
Section 245.460 Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners.
Section 245.465 County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands.
Section 245.470 Landowners to determine work to be done.
Section 245.475 Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments.
Section 245.480 Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee.
Section 245.483 Construction or improvement of levees to protect lands in other districts — procedure — costs, how paid.
Section 245.485 Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates.
Section 245.490 Board may borrow money.
Section 245.495 Board may issue warrants.
Section 245.500 Form of warrants.
Section 245.505 Sinking fund moneys may be invested.
Section 245.515 County treasurer to be treasurer of board.
Section 245.520 Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees.
Section 245.525 Herding livestock on levee prohibited.
Section 245.530 Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair.
Section 245.540 Commissions may appropriate swamplands.
Section 245.545 Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury.