Title VI, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

61.051. Employees, employment and compensation of (certain first class counties). — 1. The county highway administrator may employ such technical and professional help and assistants as are necessary for the successful performance of the duties of his office, and may set their co…

61.061. Administrator's powers and duties — written report, failure to file, effect of (certain first class counties). — The highway administrator shall directly supervise the construction, maintenance, repair and reconstruction of all public highways, roads, bridges and culverts…

61.071. Inspections, when made — action to be taken, report of (certain first class counties). — The highway administrator shall personally, or by deputy, regularly inspect the condition of all public highways, roads, bridges and culverts in the county, and in pursuance of orders…

61.091. Reports to county commission, when made, contents of (certain first class counties). — The highway administrator shall make a yearly report to the county commission during the month of January, for the preceding year, in which he shall include a detailed statement of the …

61.101. To perform duties as land surveyor, when — appointment of person to perform duties of county surveyor, when (certain first class counties). — 1. If the county highway administrator is duly registered and licensed as a land surveyor under the provisions of chapter 327, he …

61.111. Orders of courts of record for surveying to be executed — records to be kept (certain first class counties). — 1. The highway administrator shall execute or cause to be executed all orders directed to him by the courts of record of his county for the surveying or resurvey…

61.131. Pecuniary interest in certain transactions prohibited, penalty (certain first class counties). — Neither the county highway administrator, nor any other officer or employee of the county or state, or of any road district, shall be pecuniarily interested in any sale, bid o…

61.141. Fees for surveys, advance payment required (certain first class counties). — The highway administrator may charge such fees as may be agreed upon by him and the party requesting, or for whose benefit, such work is to be done, for doing, performing or furnishing any field …

61.151. Seal of office — survey as evidence, when (certain first class counties). — 1. The county highway administrator shall have a seal of office, which shall be inscribed with the name of the highway administrator, his title, and the name of the county in which he has been app…

61.156. Office of highway engineer abolished (certain first class counties). — The office of highway engineer is abolished in all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government. In all counties having a county highway administrator rather than a county highwa…

61.160. Appointment (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county commissions of each county in this state in classes two, three and four are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint and reappoint a highway engineer within and for their respective counties at any regu…

61.167. Qualifications (certain second and third class counties). — In all counties of the second and third class, having a population of fifty thousand or more and an assessed valuation of seventy million dollars or more, the county highway engineer shall be a resident of the st…

61.170. Qualifications (certain third and fourth class counties). — In all counties of the third and fourth class, having a population of less than fifty thousand or an assessed valuation of less than seventy million dollars, the county highway engineer shall be a resident of the…

61.180. Bond (second, third and fourth class counties). — Before entering upon the performance of his duties, the county highway engineer and his assistants shall each execute and deliver to the county commission a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the commission, with two or m…

61.190. Compensation, amount (second, third and fourth class counties). — In all counties of the second, third and fourth class, the county highway engineer shall receive an annual salary, to be fixed by the county commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13487, A. 1949 H.B. 2018, A.L…

61.200. Appointment — compensation — assistants (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county commission may, in their discretion, appoint the county surveyor of their respective counties to the office of county highway engineer, provided he be thoroughly qualified and …

61.210. Duties as custodian of tools and machinery (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county highway engineer shall be custodian of all tools, material and machinery belonging to the road districts and to the county, except as may be otherwise provided by law. When …

61.220. Supervisory duties (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county highway engineer shall have direct supervision over all public roads of the county, and over the road overseers and of the expenditure of all county and district funds made by the road overseers of…

61.240. General duties (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county highway engineer shall, personally or by deputy, inspect the roads, culverts and bridges of every district in the county as often as practicable, and upon written complaint of three registered voters i…

61.243. Duties (certain counties). — In counties which contain ninety thousand inhabitants and less than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants the county highway engineer shall state in his order to the overseer the time within which the road shall be placed in good conditio…

61.250. Failure of overseer to follow instructions — penalty (second, third and fourth class counties). — All overseers shall follow the plans and instructions of the county highway engineer in all matters concerning the expenditure of the funds and improving the roads, and shoul…

61.260. Annual meeting of road overseers (second, third and fourth class counties). — It shall be the duty of the county highway engineer to call a meeting at the county seat each year of all road overseers of the county, for consultation and conference touching the conditions an…

61.270. Reports (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county highway engineer shall, at each regular term of the county commission, and at such other times as required by the commission, file a detailed statement of the condition of the roads, and the amount of money a…

61.280. Annual statement — road map (second, third and fourth class counties). — The county highway engineer shall, on or before the first day of January in each year, file with the county commission a report, in writing, showing the general condition of the roads and bridges of …

61.290. Failure to perform duties — penalty (second, third and fourth class counties). — If any county highway engineer shall fail, refuse or neglect to visit and inspect, in person or by deputy, the roads, bridges and culverts in each road district in the county, at frequent and…

61.300. Shall not be sales agent (second, third and fourth class counties). — No county highway engineer, county surveyor or deputy county highway engineer, or deputy county surveyor or road overseer shall be the sales agent, for compensation in the sale to, or purchase by, the s…