243.010. Definitions.
Definitions.
243.010. As used in this chapter:
(1) The word "ditch" shall be held to include a drain,watercourse, bank protection, current control or levee or anydrain, watercourse, bank protection, current control or leveehereafter constructed;
(2) The word "owner" shall mean the owner of the freeholdestate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not includereversioners, remaindermen, trustees or mortgagees, who shall notbe counted and need not be notified by publication, or served byprocess, but shall be represented by the present owners of thefreehold estate in any proceeding under this chapter;
(3) The words "regular session" and "regular meeting" of thecounty commission shall be held to include and mean the regularterms of the county commission beginning on the first Mondays ofFebruary, May, August and November, or at such other times asfixed by the county commission in accordance with the provisionsof section 49.170, RSMo.
(RSMo 1939 §§ 12398, 12452, 12453, A. 1949 S.B. 1083)Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 10809, 10862, 10863; 1919 §§ 4477, 4529, 4530; 1909 §§ 5578, 5615