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