Title XIV — ROADS AND WATERWAYS

229.010. Roads to be thirty feet wide. — All public roads in this state which hereafter may be established shall not be less than thirty feet in width. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8471) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7825; 1919 § 10623; 1909 § 10433 (1967) Creating of public road under sect…

229.020. Roads less than thirty feet in width, when. — County commissions in counties of this state which now have, or may hereafter have, over fifty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding census, where any such county is adjacent to a city of over six hundred thous…

229.030. Roads cleared of obstructions. — Public roads shall be cleared of all obstructions therein that hinder or interfere with travel or traffic thereon, and shall be made firm, and the surface thereof shall be kept in a reasonably smooth and level condition; and all necessary…

229.040. Road construction — contracts — plans — supervision. — 1. Whenever any public money, whether arising from taxation or from bonds heretofore or hereafter issued, is to be expended in the construction, reconstruction or other improvement of any road, or bridge or culvert, …

229.050. Engineer's estimate of cost — advertisement for bids — contract. — 1. Whenever it shall be ordered by the county commission, township board or district commissioner, as the case may be, that any road, bridge or culvert in the county be constructed, reconstructed or impro…

229.060. Contractor to give bond. — The contractor shall enter into a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the county commission, township board or district commissioners, with some surety company authorized to do business in this state as surety thereon or other good and sufficie…

229.070. Contractor to report, when — payments. — 1. It shall be the duty of each contractor who has entered into a contract for any road or bridge work to report in writing to the engineer in charge thereof on or before the second day of each month, setting forth in detail the a…

229.080. Donations, how appropriated. — Whenever any citizen or citizens of any county shall subscribe any sum not less than fifty dollars, for the purpose of grading, tiling, ditching or surfacing any portion of any public road in such county, and shall deposit the same with the…

229.090. Sales agents — certain persons barred. — No member of a highway board or county commission, and no highway engineer or road overseer shall be the sales agent in the sale to, or purchase by, the state, county or road districts, of road tools, culvert or bridge materials o…

229.100. Improvements along public roads — location — control. — No person or persons, association, companies or corporations shall erect poles for the suspension of electric light, or power wires, or lay and maintain pipes, conductors, mains and conduits for any purpose whatever…

229.120. Engineer and overseer to protect trees. — The county highway engineer and overseers shall protect all fruit, shade and ornamental trees along the sides of the public roads, and shall forthwith remove all signs and advertisements whatsoever that may have been nailed or fa…

229.130. Fingerboards. — Every overseer shall erect and maintain at every road fork, or road crossing, in his district that would likely mislead, a fingerboard, containing a legible inscription, directing the way and noting the distance to the next important place on the road, fo…

229.150. Ditches and crossings, how made — obstructions or damage prohibited, exception — violations, remedy — inapplicability to charter counties and St. Louis City. — 1. All driveways or crossings over ditches connecting highways with the private property shall be made under th…

229.160. Protection of bridges — penalty for neglect. — All persons owning, controlling or managing threshing machines, sawmills and steam engines or gasoline tractors are required, in moving the same over public highways to lay down planks not less than one foot wide and three i…

229.200. Penalties. — Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 229.040 to 229.200, or willfully failing to comply with the requirements of same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, where no other or different punishment is fixed, shall be fined not less th…

229.210. Driving on recently constructed bridge or culvert prohibited — notice of closing. — It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle, an animal or animals or a load of any kind upon a highway bridge or culvert recently constructed or repaired wholly or partly of co…

229.220. Penalty for violation. — Any person violating the provisions of section 229.210 and any person who shall unlawfully remove either of the barriers or either of the written or printed notices above mentioned, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction sh…

229.222. Designation of a certain road or highway as a memorial road for law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. — The governing assembly of any county, city, or village of this state may designate any street, road, or highway within such county, city, or village as a…

229.230. Permit to move building across road. — No person, firm or corporation shall move, haul or transport any house, building or other structure upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, or any city existing …

229.240. Application for permit. — 1. All applications for permits to move houses, buildings or other structures upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, or any city existing under a scheme and charter or a spe…

229.250. Notice to cut or remove poles or wires. — If it shall appear from the application that it will be necessary to cut, remove, raise or in any way interfere with any electric wires, transmission lines, or the feed and trolley wires of any interurban railroad, or move any po…

229.260. Removal of lines or poles, when — costs assessed, how. — 1. It shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation owning or operating said poles, wires, transmission lines, feed or trolley wires, or steam or interurban railroads, after service of notice as required in …

[Repealed or reserved.]

229.280. Violation defined. — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation engaged as principal or employee in moving any house, building or other structure upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, …

229.290. Penalty. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 229.230 to 229.290 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county ja…

229.300. Work projects affecting property rights, moving of buildings on highways (first class counties). — In all counties of class one it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to excavate or encroach on, or cause to be excavated or encroached on, or…

229.310. Application for special use permit. — The application for such special use permit shall be made by the party in interest at an office of the county highway engineer and surveyor on blanks kept by him and furnished by the county. The applicant shall state his name, reside…

229.320. County engineers to prescribe rules and regulations — bond. — 1. The county highway engineer shall have authority to require any changes in the route, or to prescribe the time, method, and manner of such moving, or the use of such street, avenue, boulevard, road, alley, …

229.330. Restoration of premises used. — 1. If the use, excavation or encroachment of such street, avenue, boulevard, road, alley, public easement, or highway is of such nature to cause or result in disturbance or change, and the applicant fails or refuses to restore and replace …

229.340. Fee may be required. — Each applicant for a permit under the provisions of sections 229.300 to 229.370 may be required by the county highway engineer to pay a fee in an amount determined by the county commission by order of record, not to exceed the sum of seven dollars …

229.350. Necessary alterations — notice. — If it shall appear from the application that it will be necessary to cut, remove, raise, lower or change or in any way interfere with any electric wires, transmission lines, telephone or telegraph lines or wires or the feed and trolley w…

229.360. If owner supplies no competent workmen when alteration necessary, work to be done at owner's expense. — It shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation owning, leasing, or operating any such conduits, poles, pole lines, wires, mains, pipes, conductors, sewers, dr…

229.370. Penalty. — Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of sections 229.300 to 229.370 or failing to comply therewith shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The provisions of sections 229.300 to 229.370 shall apply only to counties…

229.380. Overseer's complaint as to grade crossings. — When any public road in this state shall run across two or more tracks of railroad within two hundred feet of each other, and any road overseer of the road district shall make complaint to the county commission that the diffe…

229.390. Notice to be in writing — service. — Such notice shall be given in writing, by leaving a copy of the same with some station agent of said company five days before the said presentation to said county commission, or if there be no such station agent in such county, then b…

229.400. County commission to act upon report of surveyor. — Such county commission shall hear the report of such county surveyor while in session, and shall hear such testimony as may be presented, and after such hearing such commission shall determine what changes, if any, shal…

229.410. Railroad company failing to make change, circuit court to enforce orders. — If such railroad company shall fail to make such changes as shall be directed by the county commission, within thirty days after such order shall have been made and such notice given as provided …

229.420. Temporary abandonment of public road to permit mining. — Where coal or other valuable mineral underlies any public road in this state that has not been designated as a state highway or is not under the control of the state transportation department, if said coal or other…

229.430. Commissioners may contract for removal of minerals and for rebuilding of road abandoned. — The commissioners of any special road district where said road is located, or the township board if said road be not in a special road district, whenever in their opinion the remov…

229.440. Proposition submitted to county commission for approval or rejection — bond to be given. — 1. Before the commissioners of any special road district or the township board of any township shall enter into any contract for the removal of coal or other mineral from or under …

229.450. Sections applicable to certain counties — conflicting laws repealed. — Sections 229.420 to 229.450 shall apply only to counties operating under township organization. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of sections 229.420 to 229.450 are hereby repe…

229.475. Definitions — removal of plants from roadways or state and county highways without permission, prohibited, penalty. — 1. As used in sections 229.475 to 229.481, the following terms mean: (1) "Commission", the state highways and transportation commission; (2) "Plants", tr…

229.477. Exemptions, authorized eradication of weeds or diseased vegetation, scientific research, certain edibles and seeds. — 1. Subsection 2 of section 229.475 shall not apply to the control or eradication of diseased vegetation or noxious weeds by authorized personnel. 2. Prov…

229.479. Sale of plants or plant parts collected from highways or roadways, penalty. — No person, except authorized personnel, shall possess for sale, collect, or sell any plants or plant parts collected from highways, county roadways, or rights-of-way. Violation of this section …

229.481. Law enforcement officials, conservation agents and agents of department of natural resources to enforce. — All law enforcement officials and peace officers of this state and of all political subdivisions, including department of conservation agents and agents of the depa…