Effective - 28 Aug 1939
243.030. Petition to be filed — bond required. — Before any county commission may organize, incorporate and establish a drainage district, or make any improvement as provided in this chapter, there must be filed with the clerk of the county commission a petition signed by one or more landowners, whose lands will be liable to be affected by or assessed for the construction of the improvements necessary to be made, which petition shall set forth the following:
(1) The necessity for the proposed improvement, as well as the starting point, route and terminus thereof;
(2) The boundary of the proposed district;
(3) The names of the owners of lands or other property within the boundary of said proposed district, together with a description of the said lands or other property owned by each; when the name of the owner of any of said land or other property is unknown the fact shall be stated in the petition.
There shall be filed, with such petition, a bond in the sum of not less than fifty dollars per mile, payable to the state of Missouri, signed by one or more of the petitioners, with two or more good and sufficient freehold sureties, to be approved by the county commission, conditioned for the payment of all costs and expenses if the prayer of the petition be not granted or the petition be from any cause dismissed. No landowner having signed a petition for the formation of a drainage district under this chapter shall have his name stricken from such petition without the written consent of the owners of a majority of the acreage represented by those signing said petition.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12399)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10810; 1919 § 4478; 1909 § 5579
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply
Chapter 243 - Drainage Districts Organized in County Commission
Section 243.010 - Definitions.
Section 243.020 - County commission authorized to organize drainage districts.
Section 243.030 - Petition to be filed — bond required.
Section 243.040 - County commission to appoint counsel.
Section 243.050 - County commission to appoint engineer and viewers — qualifications and duties.
Section 243.060 - Time of hearing to be published — form of notice.
Section 243.070 - Remonstrance may be filed — judgment, effect.
Section 243.075 - Dissolution of district, when, how.
Section 243.080 - Location of improvement — report to contain data as to cost.
Section 243.090 - Report to be filed, when — landowners may be heard — vacancies, how filled.
Section 243.100 - Limitations for assessment of benefits.
Section 243.110 - Notice of filing of report to be published — form.
Section 243.130 - Condemnation of additional land.
Section 243.140 - Lands lying outside district may be annexed, when — proceedings.
Section 243.150 - Taxes to be levied against county-owned swamplands, how paid.
Section 243.160 - Authority to complete improvements in county commission — powers of procedure.
Section 243.170 - District engineer to be appointed — duties — bond required.
Section 243.210 - Provisions of this chapter applicable to old channels or sloughs.
Section 243.230 - County commission procedure after hearing.
Section 243.240 - County commissions to maintain efficiency and have management and control.
Section 243.250 - Lateral ditches — drains — may be connected — provisions — penalty for violation.
Section 243.260 - Districts may contract with other districts for outlets — costs determined, how.
Section 243.270 - Drainage district may contract to furnish drainage for cities and towns.
Section 243.280 - Equipment may be leased or rented — provisions.
Section 243.290 - County commission to levy tax to pay preliminary expense.
Section 243.310 - Permanent drainage tax record shall be kept — method — additional levies.
Section 243.320 - Public roads and railroads to pay benefits.
Section 243.340 - Privilege to pay drainage tax in full.
Section 243.350 - Apportionment of annual installments — drainage tax book, form — taxes due, when.
Section 243.360 - Drainage tax — collector to furnish bond.
Section 243.380 - Surplus funds, how used.
Section 243.390 - Drainage district bonds — provisions for issuance.
Section 243.400 - County commission authorized to pledge bonds — manner.
Section 243.410 - County treasurer to be custodian of district funds — duties.
Section 243.420 - Fees for services.
Section 243.430 - Claims for fees, how paid.
Section 243.440 - Drainage proceedings to be recorded — method.
Section 243.460 - Notice to be published — form — jurisdiction of circuit court.
Section 243.470 - Objections to petition for consolidation may be filed — proceedings.
Section 243.480 - Failure or refusal of official to perform duty — penalty.
Section 243.490 - County collector liable, when — penalty.
Section 243.500 - Validity of bonds issued unquestionable.
Section 243.510 - Suits to be brought in name of state.
Section 243.520 - Appeals — procedure.
Section 243.530 - Chapter declared remedial in character and purpose.
Section 243.540 - Penalty for violation of provisions of chapter.