Title XIV — ROADS AND WATERWAYS

233.010. Organization of special road districts — not applicable to what counties — special road district exemption. — 1. Territory not exceeding eight miles square, wherein is located any city, town or village, may be organized as herein set forth into a special road district; p…

233.015. Adoption of special road district law — election. — 1. Sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall be in force and take effect only in such prescribed territory as shall adopt the same by a majority of the voters who shall vote for and against its adoption at such election. Whenev…

233.025. Powers of special road districts. — Every such district organized under the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled "______ special road district …

233.030. General road law — exceptions. — The general road law in force in such county shall remain in force in such districts, except wherein the provisions thereof shall be in conflict with the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8701) Prior revis…

233.035. Duty of county clerk after adoption. — The county clerk of any county in which said special road district may be organized shall, within five days after the adoption of the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165 by the voters of any such special road district, notify …

233.040. Commissioners of special road district — appointment — term — qualifications — election, when — oaths. — 1. The mayor and members of the city council of any city or town within any special road district thus organized, together with the members of the county commission o…

233.050. Board of commissioners of special road district to organize. — Such special road district commissioners shall, within ten days, meet and organize by selecting one of their number as chairman and one as clerk. The clerk shall keep full and accurate record of the proceedin…

233.055. Treasurer of board. — Said board may appoint a treasurer and fix the amount of his bond and prescribe his duties, which said bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8679) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8030; 1919 § 10806;…

233.060. Compensation of board. — Said board shall serve without compensation, but actual, necessary expenses, actually paid, shall be repaid to them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8680) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8031; 1919 § 10807; 1909 § 10583

233.065. Board to meet monthly — proceedings. — Said board shall meet once a month, at such stated times as it may designate, to hear complaints or reports of defective and broken bridges, to order needed repairs, and to transact such other business as may be authorized by sectio…

233.070. Board's powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. — 1. The board shall: (1) Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, have sole, exclusive and entire control and jurisdiction over all public highways within its district ou…

233.075. Powers of board. — Such board may buy all material which may be used, directly or indirectly, in constructing, improving or repairing any public highway or bridge in its district, and is authorized to do and perform all acts within its district for which any authority is…

233.080. Board to make and file plat of roads. — Said board shall make and keep on file with the clerk of the board and the clerk of the county commission correct plats of all the roads in its district, and duly sectionalized maps of such district, and such sections duly subdivid…

233.085. Tools, machinery, delivered to board. — The county commission shall, upon the organization of the board of commissioners of such special road district, deliver to such board all the tools and machinery used for working roads belonging to the districts formerly existing w…

233.090. Board may sell property of district. — Said board shall sell any property of such district, on such terms as it may deem proper, when same can no longer be profitably used for road work. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8686) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8037; 1919 § 10813; 1909 § 105…

233.095. Expenditures on municipal streets within district — amounts — conditions. — Said board shall have authority to expend not more than one-fourth of the revenue which may now or which may hereafter be paid into its treasury for the purpose of grading and repairing any roads…

233.100. May repair, grade, gravel, pave or macadamize any road in district. — Said boards may repair, grade, gravel, macadamize or pave any road in its district but nothing herein shall be taken or construed as enlarging the powers of the boards to expend money upon roads and st…

233.103. No limit on amounts spent within cities (Clay and Platte counties). — 1. The limitations on amounts which may be expended upon roads and streets within the corporate limits of any city, as provided in sections 233.095 and 233.100, shall be inapplicable in a county of the…

233.105. Board of commissioners of special road district may improve certain highways, when. — 1. Said boards may repair, grade, gravel, macadamize, pave or otherwise improve to the distance of fifteen miles from any line of such special road district, any highway outside of such…

233.110. Board may plant shade trees — erect signboards. — Said board may plant, protect and cultivate ornamental and shade trees along the sides of roads within its district, and erect and keep erected and repaired such signboards in its district at places it may deem proper the…

[Repealed or reserved.]

233.120. Disposition of proceeds from certain city licenses. — One-fourth of all the pool or billiard table licenses collected by any city within any such special road district shall be set apart as collected by the city council for the improvement of the roads by the board of co…

233.125. Disposition of proceeds from certain county licenses. — In all counties in this state where a special road district, or districts, has or have been organized, or where a special road district, or districts, may be organized under sections 233.010 to 233.165, and where mo…

233.130. Commissioners may use moneys refunded by state highways and transportation commission. — In all cases in which the state highways and transportation commission may have refunded, or shall refund any moneys to any special road district organized and existing under the law…

233.135. Issuance of check warrants. — Such board may issue check warrants on the treasurer of the board in payment of the expenses and obligations which the board is authorized to incur in behalf of such special road districts and such check warrants may be issued in anticipatio…

233.140. Check warrant shall bear interest if not paid when presented for payment. — No treasurer of the districts shall pay any check warrant drawn on such treasurer unless such check warrant is presented for payment by the person in whose favor it is drawn or by the person's as…

233.145. Records of board. — Said board shall keep a full and complete record of all moneys received, showing from whom and on what account any moneys are received, giving the amount received on each particular item; and also of all moneys disbursed, to whom any moneys are paid, …

233.150. Annual report of receipts and disbursements. — 1. The said board shall make an annual settlement with the county commission during the month of August in each year, which settlement shall contain a full and correct itemized statement of all moneys received and from what …

233.155. Extension of special district boundaries — procedure — special road district exemption. — 1. Whenever the inhabitants of any special road district already formed under sections 233.010 to 233.165 shall desire to extend the boundaries of such district to take in territory…

233.160. Dissolution of special road district — procedure. — 1. If any district has adopted the provisions of sections 233.010 to 233.165, the question may be resubmitted after the expiration of four years upon the petition of fifty voters of that district at an election. 2. The …

233.165. Dissolved district — tax levy to pay indebtedness. — 1. Whenever any special road district heretofore or hereafter organized and incorporated under and by virtue of sections 233.010 to 233.165, shall have been or may hereafter be disorganized, disincorporated or abolishe…

233.170. County commissions may form districts. — 1. County commissions of counties not under township organization may divide the territory of their respective counties into road districts, and every such district organized according to the provisions of sections 233.170 to 233.…

233.172. Certain counties may form road benefit districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay County). — 1. In any county of the first classification without a charter form of government having a population of at least one hundred fifty thousand and either containing a…

233.175. Petitions — notice — remonstrances, order of county commission. — 1. Whenever a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of land within a district proposed to be organized, and setting forth the proposed name of the district, and giving the boundaries th…

233.177. Election to establish road district, procedure — ballot language. — 1. In lieu of the mode of establishment set forth in section 233.175, a road district organized under sections 233.170 to 233.315 may be established by election. The election procedures established by th…

233.180. Commissioners of the special road district, how selected. — 1. At the term of the county commission in which such order is made, or at any subsequent term thereafter, the county commission shall appoint three commissioners of the special road district, who shall be voter…

233.185. Commissioners of special road district shall organize — when — how. — 1. The commissioners so appointed and qualified shall meet at such a time and place within such district as may be fixed by the county commission at the time of appointing them, or as they may in writi…

233.187. Board to appoint treasurer, county treasurer may serve, bond, duties — check warrants, how paid, interest. — 1. The county treasurer may be the treasurer of the special road district board unless another person is appointed by the board of commissioners. The board shall …

233.190. Tools and machinery delivered to commissioners of special road district — powers and duties — concurrent jurisdiction with special road subdistrict, when. — 1. The county commission shall, upon the organization by* such commissioners of the special road district, cause a…

233.195. Portion of tax set aside for incorporated road districts — special provisions in certain counties (Clay and Platte counties). — 1. County commissions shall cause to be set aside and placed to the credit of each road district so incorporated four-fifths of such part or po…

233.200. Commissioners of special road district may issue bonds — election required — limitations — form of ballot. — 1. The commissioners of such districts so incorporated shall have power to issue road and bridge bonds for and on behalf of their respective districts, payable ou…

233.205. Petitions for road improvement — proceedings. — 1. Whenever, in any road district so incorporated, a petition, signed by the owners of a majority of the acres of the land in the district that is within one-half mile of a public road or a part of a public road in the dist…

233.210. Protests and objections considered by commission — order of commission. — 1. Anyone owning land in the district within one-half mile of such public road or part of a public road, may, at any time before the day the county commission, as stated in such notice, is to consi…

233.215. Special tax — how apportioned. — Such special tax shall be apportioned against the lands in the district in the following manner: For the purpose of such apportionment, lands appearing by said list of lands as approved by the county commission to be within one-half mile …

233.220. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. — In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land of forty acres, according to a government survey, and each of the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfully platted and each separate tract o…

233.225. Special tax payable in one installment — special tax bills. — 1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered, and the county commission states in the order that the petitioners desire that the cost of the improvement be payable in one installment, the clerk of the county commis…

233.230. Special tax may be paid in installments — interest — special assessments. — 1. Whenever a special tax is so ordered and the county commission ascertains and recites in such order that the petitioners stated in their petition that they desired that the cost of improvement…

233.235. Special tax bills — issuance — form — collection. — 1. The clerk of the county commission, after such order is made, shall procure a suitable special tax record book and therein charge each tract of land in the district, as shown in the list of lands prepared and filed b…

233.240. Suits to foreclose liens of special tax bills. — If any such special tax bills be unpaid on the first day of February after becoming payable, the commissioners shall cause suits to be instituted for foreclosure of the lien thereof. Such suits shall be instituted in the c…

233.245. Owner of land may elect to pay in one installment. — 1. The owner of any tract of land against which such special tax shall have been levied may, within thirty days after the date of said order, elect to pay all of said special tax in one installment on or before the dat…