Title VII, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

88.637. May open, vacate and improve streets. — The council shall have power to create, open and improve any public square, street, avenue, alley or other highway, old or new, and also to vacate or discontinue the same whenever deemed necessary or expedient; provided, that all da…

88.640. Sprinkling and cleaning of streets — cost, how assessed. — The council may provide by ordinance for sprinkling and cleaning, or either or both, the streets and avenues, or any part thereof of the city, and may assess the cost and expense thereof as a special tax upon all …

88.647. Opening, extending or widening county roads — duty of council as to benefits. — Whenever a petition as is now provided by law is presented to the county commission of any county for the opening, extension or widening of any county road along and adjoining the corporate li…

88.650. Providing for levy of special assessment for cost of laying and extending water mains. — All cities in this state of the third class and cities with special charter containing three thousand inhabitants and less than thirty thousand inhabitants are authorized and empowere…

88.653. Declaration of necessity for improvement. — Whenever the council or other legislative body of such city shall deem such improvement necessary to be done, whether on petition or otherwise, it shall by ordinance declare such improvement necessary to be done together with th…

88.657. Owners to have thirty days to make improvements. — The ordinance shall provide that after the publication thereof, the owners of the property affected by the improvement shall have thirty days from the date of the publication to make and complete the improvement provided …

88.660. Cost to be assessed proportionally. — After the city has entered into a contract for construction of the improvements, the city engineer or other proper officer of the city shall compute the cost thereof and apportion said cost among the various lots and tracts of land ch…

88.663. Special tax bills shall be assignable and collectible. — All special tax bills issued by cities as herein provided for laying and extending of water main pipes shall be assignable and collectible in any action brought by the owner or holder of said bills, but the city sha…

88.667. Condemnation of private property. — Private property may be taken by cities of the fourth class, for public use, for the purpose of establishing, opening, widening, extending or altering any street, avenue, alley, wharf, creek, river, watercourse, marketplace, public park…

88.670. Public improvements — powers. — 1. The cities coming under the provisions of sections 88.667 to 88.773 in their corporate capacities are authorized and empowered to enact ordinances for the following purposes in addition to the other powers granted by law: (1) To levy and…

88.673. Board may open and vacate streets. — The board of aldermen shall have power to create, open and improve any public square, public park, street, avenue, alley or other highway, old or new, and also to vacate or discontinue the same whenever deemed necessary or expedient; p…

88.677. Public improvements — cost, how paid. — The cost of bringing to grade all streets, avenues, alleys and other highways, and for the building of bridges, culverts, public sewers and footwalks across streets, avenues, alleys and other public highways, shall be paid out of th…

88.680. Street improvements — cost, how paid. — The cost of paving, macadamizing, guttering and curbing (where such curb is set out into the street beyond the sidewalks) all streets, avenues, alleys and other highways, or any part thereof or any connection therewith, and repairin…

88.683. Street crossing improvements — special assessment. — The cost of paving or macadamizing the squares and areas as formed by the crossing or meeting of streets and other highways, or parts thereof or connections therewith, shall be levied as a special assessment, and paid f…

88.700. Street improvements — declaration of necessity — taxpayers' protests. — When the board of aldermen shall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize, gutter, curb (when such is set out in the street beyond the sidewalk) or otherwise improve any street, avenue, alley or other hi…

88.703. Street repairs — cost, how paid. — No formality shall be required to authorize the repairing of sidewalks, or of street or other paving, curbing, guttering, macadamizing or part thereof, or reconstructing the same, and making assessments therefor; but the proper officer o…

88.707. Certain street improvements — protest, how heard and determined. — When the board of aldermen of any city of the fourth class shall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize, gutter, curb, grade or otherwise improve the roadway of any street or avenue for a distance not more …

88.710. Sidewalk improvements — cost, how paid. — The board of aldermen shall have power, by ordinance, to provide for and require the building and repairing of sidewalks and sidewalk curbing along any streets, avenues or highways of such city, the cost thereof to be levied as a …

88.713. Condemnation of sidewalks. — In addition to the powers herein granted, the board of aldermen may, by ordinance or resolution, condemn wooden and defective sidewalks, and may remove walks so condemned, and may provide for the construction of new sidewalks in the place of w…

88.743. County property subject to city ordinances. — All real estate owned by a county and situate within the corporate limits of any city of the fourth class shall be subject to the provisions of all ordinances of such city which relate to the erection and maintenance of hitchi…

88.747. Improvements, county property — duty of county commission. — It shall be the duty of the county commission whenever any of the improvements of the property set out in section 88.743 is required by ordinance, to forthwith make such improvement fronting or abutting any real…

88.750. Procedure upon failure of county commission to make improvements. — If the county commission shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of any ordinance providing for the improvement of property as provided in sections 88.743 and 88.747, for a period of s…

88.767. Sewage reduction device — assessment. — Whenever the city shall deem it necessary, it may, by ordinance, provide for the construction of a septic tank or other sewage reduction device for the purpose of purifying the discharge from any district or joint district sewer. In…

88.770. Street lighting system — electric or gas works — sale of water or waste water system or gas plant, procedure — ballots. — 1. The board of aldermen may provide for and regulate the lighting of streets and the erection of lamp posts, poles and lights therefor, and may make …

88.773. Water supply — contracts. — 1. The board of aldermen may make contracts with any person, association or corporation, either private or municipal, for furnishing the city with water, and for supplying fire hydrants and public fountains, but no such contract shall be made f…

88.777. Public improvement powers (cities, under 30,000). — All cities within this state having less than thirty thousand inhabitants and having a special charter, in their corporate capacity are authorized and empowered to enact ordinances for the following purposes, and upon th…

88.787. Council to publish resolution declaring improvements necessary — filing of protests — contract let to lowest and best bidder (cities, under 30,000). — When the council of any city having less than thirty thousand inhabitants and having a special charter shall deem it nece…

88.790. Assessment of public property — street repairs (cities, under 30,000). — 1. All county or other public property, cemeteries and railroad rights-of-way shall, for the proportionate frontage, be subject to the liens of the special tax bills authorized by sections 88.777 to …

88.793. Paving or improving street to connect with paved or improved streets — protests, how heard and determined (cities, under 30,000). — When the council of any such city having less than thirty thousand inhabitants and having a special charter shall deem it necessary to pave,…

88.797. Sprinkling and oiling of streets (cities, under 30,000). — The city council of any city in the state having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants and being operated under a special charter, shall have power within the city, by ordinance, to cause the stree…

88.801. General sewer system (cities, 10,000 to 30,000). — All cities in this state having a special charter and containing over ten thousand inhabitants and having less than thirty thousand inhabitants and having special charters shall have power to cause a general sewer system …

88.804. Council may require owners to build or repair sidewalks (cities, under 10,000). — The council of any incorporated town or city in this state having a special charter and containing ten thousand inhabitants or less, shall have power, by ordinance, to cause the owner or own…

88.806. Sidewalk improvement (cities, under 10,000). — Whenever the council of any town or city shall determine to have any sidewalk built or repaired, as contemplated by section 88.804, the said council shall cause at least ten days' notice, in writing, to be served on the owner…

88.808. Sidewalk improvement — notice (cities, under 10,000). — If the notice in writing cannot be personally served in the state as provided in section 88.806, or if the owner or owners are unknown and cannot be personally served, the council shall cause four weeks' notice to be…

88.811. Limited street improvement costs — special tax bills. — The legislative body of any city of the third class, fourth class, of any city having a constitutional charter or a special charter, and towns and villages shall have power within the municipality, by ordinance, in a…

88.812. Special assessments for improvements authorized — plans and cost estimates, publication of public hearing required, when — attorney and engineering fees, limit on — lien, duration of — constitutional charter cities may make assessments for certain repairs. — In all third …

88.814. Errors in tax bills, corrected, how — hearing required, when — adjustment authorized — general revenue funds to be used to pay balance, when. — 1. Any error made in issuing any tax bill may be corrected by the clerk of the city, town or village who issued it, or his succe…

88.815. Assessment notes may be issued by certain cities for improvements — content — how paid and secured — sales procedure. — 1. Any city authorized to make assessments and issue special tax bills under section 88.812 may issue assessment notes secured by a special fund into wh…

88.816. Tax bills payable in annual installments, how — interest — effect of default on installment. — The total cost of constructing and repairing sidewalks and sidewalk curbing, and for sewers, and for grading, paving, excavating, macadamizing, curbing and guttering of any stre…

88.818. Record of tax bills — payment to owner or city — procedure on payment to city. — The clerk shall on completion of all special tax bills enter an abstract thereof in a special book provided for that purpose. Said abstract shall recite the date of the tax bill, the name of …

88.822. Apportionment of costs of improvement and issuance of tax bills — contents. — After the city has entered into a contract for construction of the improvements, in accordance with the contract for same, the engineer or other official in charge of the improvement shall compu…

88.824. Costs of improvement to be estimated — contracts not to exceed estimate. — Before the governing body of the municipality shall make any contract for building bridges, sidewalks, culverts or sewers, or for paving, macadamizing, curbing, guttering or grading any street, ave…

88.826. Construction of street and sidewalk improvements by city, when — special tax bills. — Whenever the governing body of the municipality shall advertise for bids for the construction of any new sidewalk of any kind, or for the construction of new sidewalks in the place of si…

88.828. Cost of bringing street to grade included in special assessment for surfacing. — The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, include in the special assessment for the paving, macadamizing or constructing sidewalks on any street, avenue or alley the cost of b…

88.832. General sewer system may be established — special public sewer tax. — The governing body of any municipality shall have power to cause a general sewer system to be established, which shall be composed of four classes of sewers, to wit: public, district, joint district, an…

88.834. District sewers — sewers constructed, when — changes. — District sewers shall be established for the districts created to be prescribed by ordinance, and shall connect with public, or other district or joint district sewers or with a natural course of drainage, as each ca…