Effective - 28 Aug 1939
243.200. Provisions for necessary construction or enlargement — when owned by corporation other than county — bridge to become part of highway, when. — 1. The county commission may, when the same is necessary for the public health, convenience or welfare, cause to be constructed or enlarged any bridge or culvert made necessary by the crossing of any ditch constructed by a district organized under the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that if such bridge or culvert shall belong to any corporation other than the county, the county clerk shall give such corporation notice by delivering to its agent the order of the commission declaring the necessity for constructing or enlarging such bridge or culvert. A failure to construct or enlarge such bridge or culvert within the time specified shall be taken as a refusal to do said work, and thereupon the county commission shall proceed to let the work of constructing or enlarging the same, and assess the corporation with the cost thereof, and the county clerk shall place such assessment on the tax book against said corporation, and it shall be a lien upon the property of the corporation, to be collected as taxes. But before the county commission shall let such work, they shall give to the agent of such corporation at least twenty days' actual notice of the time and place of letting such work.
2. When a bridge has been constructed across a drainage ditch that crosses any public highway in this state, that shall be adjudged sufficiently by the county commission of the county in which said drainage district is organized, such bridge shall become a part of such highway and shall thereafterwards be maintained, repaired or replaced by the authority authorized by law to maintain the road of which it becomes a part.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12427)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 10837; 1919 § 4505; 1909 § 5611
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.