Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 245

Levee Districts

←245.275

Section 245.280.1

245.285→

August 28, 2015

Sections construed--existing rights not to be affected.

245.280. The repealing of existing laws shall not have the effect of

suspending, abating, abridging, impairing, vitiating or nullifying any right,

power, remedy or lien heretofore given, created or conferred upon any levee

district heretofore organized or in process of organization at the time of

passage of sections 245.010 to 245.280, under any law of this state, either

special or general, but all such rights, powers, remedies and liens are

hereby directly preserved to all such levee districts; nor shall the

repealing of existing laws have the effect of suspending, abridging, abating

or nullifying any proceeding or proceedings now pending in any court of this

state or of the United States; nor shall the repealing of existing laws have

the effect of impairing, invalidating, discharging, changing, modifying or

destroying any obligation, contract or undertaking, entered into by or with

any levee district now organized, and existing under any law in this state,

either special or general, but all such obligations, contracts and

undertakings so entered into, shall be and remain inviolate. All rights,

powers, liens and remedies now existing in behalf of such levee district of

this state, may be enforced and made available in the manner and by the means

and mode now provided by law, or such rights, powers, liens and remedies may

be enforced and made available under the provisions of sections 245.010 to

245.280, if applicable, at the election of the board of supervisors of the

levee district. Sections 245.010 to 245.280 are hereby declared to be

remedial in character and purpose, and shall be liberally construed by the

courts in carrying out this legislative intent and purpose, and its

provisions shall be construed to apply to levee districts already organized

or in process of organization at the time of the passage of sections 245.010

to 245.280.



(RSMo 1939 § 12546)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 10956; 1919 § 4650







Top



Missouri General Assembly



Copyright © Missouri Legislature, all rights reserved.