LEVEE DISTRICTS ORGANIZED BY CIRCUIT COURT
- 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