Effective - 28 Aug 1959
257.190. Secretary, duties — chief engineer and employees, duties, compensation — bonds — compensation of trustees — audits. — 1. The secretary shall be the custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal and shall assist the board in such particulars as it may direct in the performance of its duties. The secretary shall serve also as treasurer of the district, unless a treasurer is otherwise provided for by the board. The board shall also employ or retain a registered, professional engineer as chief engineer, and such other agents and persons as are needful; and may provide for their compensation, which, with all other necessary expenditures, shall be taken as a part of the cost of administration, of various improvements or facilities or the cost of maintaining or operating same. The chief engineer shall be superintendent of all the works, improvements and facilities, and shall make a full report to the board each year, or oftener if required, and may make such suggestions and recommendations to the board as he deems proper. Such authority in the chief engineer shall not exclude the board from delegating the authority to an acting chief engineer, who is also a registered, professional engineer, when the chief engineer is not able or present to assume his duties. Neither shall the board be excluded from the assignment of administrative and business responsibilities to other personnel.
2. The board shall require and pay for an adequate bond for the secretary-treasurer, or secretary and treasurer, and such other employees whose duties may require the bond.
3. The members of the board shall receive, for attending to the business for and on behalf of the district, actual travel expenses; and shall further receive not to exceed fifteen dollars per day for each day that the board sits in meeting.
4. A certified public accountant shall audit the books of the district at the end of each fiscal year and report thereof to the board which shall, by publication, issue the statement within thirty days thereafter.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 199 § 19)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development
Chapter 257 - Water Conservancy Districts
Section 257.020 - Definitions.
Section 257.030 - Organization — proceedings in circuit court — disqualification of judge.
Section 257.050 - Bond for expenses.
Section 257.060 - Secondary or tributary drainage area, recommendation of state agency.
Section 257.090 - Court to call election — contents of call.
Section 257.100 - Form of ballot.
Section 257.110 - Vote required to approve district.
Section 257.120 - Costs, how paid and taxed, counties reimbursed, when.
Section 257.130 - District established, when — status and powers.
Section 257.150 - Copies of decree recorded, where, sent to agency designated by governor.
Section 257.170 - Election of trustees, procedure.
Section 257.180 - Oath of trustees — organization — seal, records, meetings, quorum.
Section 257.200 - Powers of board, limits.
Section 257.210 - Board and agents may enter lands for surveys — interference, penalty.
Section 257.220 - Condemnation of land by board.
Section 257.230 - Cemetery lands, procedure on taking or damaging.
Section 257.240 - Board to make regulations, violation, misdemeanor, enforcement by civil process.
Section 257.250 - Contracts, procedure for letting — concessions, how granted.
Section 257.260 - Concessions to be reappraised each twenty years.
Section 257.270 - Board to employ guards to enforce regulations, powers.
Section 257.290 - Plans of district, adoption, state agency designated by governor to approve.
Section 257.330 - Funds of district, how kept — cost of plans, how paid — use of surplus.
Section 257.340 - Use of money received as aid from public agency.
Section 257.350 - Organization tax — pledge of anticipated revenues.
Section 257.380 - Form of ballot.
Section 257.390 - Public sale of bonds, minimum price — use of proceeds.
Section 257.400 - Tax lien not affected by disincorporation or failure of action — enforcement.
Section 257.410 - Failure to collect taxes, penalty.
Section 257.430 - Profiting by officer from district contracts or moneys, penalty — liability.
Section 257.440 - Performance of duties compelled by mandamus.
Section 257.460 - Defective notice of any proceeding, effect.
Section 257.470 - District liable for negligence.