Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

88.010. Condemnation of private property. — Whenever the city council, or the proper legislative body of any city, shall deem it necessary to condemn or appropriate private property and to assess the cost thereof against property in a benefit district, said legislative body shall…

88.013. Condemnation of property — petition for appointment of commissioners. — Thereupon the attorney for the city, in the name of the city, shall apply to the circuit court of the county where the city is located, by petition, setting forth the limits of the benefit district, a…

88.017. Condemnation of property — party defendant. — The owners of property to be appropriated or damaged shall be made defendants by name, but it shall not be necessary to name any defendants except the owners of a freehold in the property to be appropriated. If the proceedings…

88.020. Condemnation of property — summons, how served. — Upon the filing of the petition a summons shall be issued giving such defendants named therein at least ten days' notice of the time when the petition will be heard, which summons shall be served in the same manner as writ…

88.023. Condemnation of property — appointment of commissioners. — The court on being satisfied that proper notice has been given to all the defendants and to the owners of property within the benefitted district and that the ordinance and petition are regular and valid, shall ap…

88.027. Condemnation of property — assessment of damages, duties of commissioners. — 1. The commissioners so appointed shall give notice to all parties interested of the time and place when and where they will hear all parties interested who may appear before them, which notice n…

88.030. Condemnation of property — commissioners' report. — When the commissioners shall have viewed the property and assessed the value, damages and benefits they shall make their return of such assessment in writing and under oath to the circuit court. The report shall be filed…

88.033. Condemnation of property — filing of exceptions to commissioners' report. — All parties interested shall take notice of the filing of said report, and any owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land assessed may, within ten days after the filing of said report, file his wri…

88.037. Condemnation of property — assessment by jury. — All owners of property to be appropriated shall take notice of the confirmation of the report of the commissioners as to the assessment of benefits, and any owner of property to be appropriated may, within ten days after su…

88.040. Condemnation of property — appeals from judgment. — Appeals from the final judgment of the court on jury verdicts shall be allowed to any defendant, defendants or the city as in condemnation proceedings by railroad companies, and shall be controlled and governed by the sa…

88.043. Condemnation of property — payment of assessed damages. — If the amount of damages finally allowed by the court or jury shall be greater than the amount allowed by the commissioners, the excess shall be paid by the city and the assessments against the property benefitted …

88.047. Condemnation of property — report of damages. — When no requests for jury trials are filed within the time limited, or when the allowances of damages have been finally determined, the clerk shall make a report of the result of the proceedings showing the amount of damages…

88.050. Condemnation of property — confirmation or rejection of report. — The city shall, by ordinance, confirm or reject the report mentioned in section 88.047 within thirty days after delivery of the said certified copy to the city clerk and shall file a certified copy of such …

88.053. Condemnation of property — commissioners' compensation, how paid. — The judge shall allow the commissioners and court officials reasonable compensation for their services, which, together with all other costs accruing up to and including confirmation of the commissioners'…

88.057. Condemnation of property — judgment rendered for city. — When the council shall confirm the proceedings, judgment shall be rendered that the city have and hold the property so to be taken upon payment of the compensation assessed therefor, for the purpose specified in the…

88.060. Condemnation of property — assessments a lien — special executions. — 1. Said assessments for benefits shall be a lien from the date of the taking effect of the initiatory ordinance and shall continue until the assessment against such lot, tract or parcel of land has been…

88.063. Condemnation of property — right to take possession after payment of damages. — Any city shall have the right to advance the amount of damages awarded on the filing of the report of the commissioners assessing the damages and thereupon enter upon and take possession of su…

88.067. Condemnation of property — change of venue. — No change of venue shall be allowed in any of the proceedings under sections 88.010 to 88.070 to which any city having not less than ten thousand inhabitants and not more than thirty thousand inhabitants and having a special c…

88.070. Condemnation of property — duty of court. — The court shall so adapt its procedure hereunder as to give all parties in interest due process of law and just compensation for all property appropriated notwithstanding any provisions in this or any other statute to the contra…

88.073. Condemnation of property — right to condemn lands. — 1. Cities shall have the right to condemn lands under the provisions of sections 88.010 to 88.070 and pay for the same out of any funds available out of the city treasury without any assessments for benefits, or to adva…

88.077. Condemnation of property — condemnation outside city limits. — When it becomes necessary for any city to condemn private property outside of the city limits for any authorized purpose the proceedings therefor shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of prope…

88.080. Street grading — assessment of damages, procedure. — 1. In all cases where the proper authorities in any city in this state have graded or regraded, or may hereafter grade or change the grade or lines of any street or alley, or in any way alter or enlarge the same, or con…

88.083. Street grading — benefits, assessments, lien on property — special judgment and execution. — It shall be the duty of the commissioners, in every case where damages are allowed as aforesaid, to provide for the payment of such damages by assessing against the city the amoun…

88.087. Street grading — report of commissioners, contents. — The report of the commissioners to the circuit court shall be in writing and under oath, and filed by the clerk thereof, and the damages allowed to and the benefits assessed against each lot of ground, and the owner or…

88.090. Street grading — review of commissioners' report. — The report of the commissioners may be reviewed by the circuit court on written exceptions, filed by any party in the clerk's office within ten days after the filing of such report, and the court shall make such order th…

88.093. Street grading — cost of proceedings. — The costs of the proceedings, up to and including the filing of the report of the commissioners in cases where damages are allowed by the report, shall be paid by the city, and all costs caused by any subsequent litigation shall be …

88.097. Street grading — payment of damages. — All the damages allowed shall, within six months from any final decree terminating the litigation, from which no appeal or writ of error is prosecuted, be paid out of the city treasury to the parties entitled thereto, and if the owne…

88.100. Public improvement — assessment against railroad real property. — All real property, including rights-of-way, yards and depot grounds, situated within the corporate limits of any incorporated city, town or village in this state, of any railroad company which now owns or o…

88.103. Tax bill as lien against property, how released. — In all cities of Missouri that are authorized to issue special tax bills against real estate therein for public improvements of any kind, and which special tax bills are required by law to be recorded, and are made by law…

88.107. Assessment adjudged invalid — reassessment. — If a city of this state has caused to be constructed or reconstructed any sewer, boulevard, street, alley, sidewalk or other local improvement, and to pay the cost of the improvement has levied a special assessment against pri…

88.110. Proposed reassessment — hearing of objections. — Before any ordinance making provision for such reassessment, or the creation of such assessment district, shall be put upon its passage, the board of aldermen, or other local legislative body before which it is pending, sha…

88.113. Proposed reassessment — contents of ordinance. — Such ordinance shall set forth the total amount of such new assessment and shall provide in what manner it shall be apportioned among the various lots and parcels of land included within the assessment district in said ordi…

88.117. New assessment not to exceed old. — The total amount of such new assessment shall be in such sum as is equitable under all circumstances. It shall in no case exceed that part of the previous assessment that is invalid and is unpaid at the time the ordinance levying the ne…

88.120. Ordinance — conclusive. — The final passage of any ordinance under the provisions of sections 88.107 to 88.127 shall be deemed a conclusive determination that the amount of the assessment therein made is in conformity with section 88.117 and that each lot or parcel of lan…

88.123. New tax bills issued. — As soon as may be after such ordinance has come into effect, special tax bills, in favor of the record holder of the original defective bills, against the various lots, tracts and parcels of land included within the assessment district in said ordi…

88.127. Construction of law — limit on frequency of assessment. — Sections 88.107 to 88.127 shall be liberally construed so as to prevent private property that has been in good faith benefitted by local public improvements from escaping payment of its just share of the value ther…

88.130. Expiration of time limit. — Whenever in any proceeding instituted by any city in this state for the purchasing, taking or damaging of property for public purposes, provision is made in the judgment in said proceeding for the payment in annual installments of assessments o…

88.251. Utilities, franchises and contracts, procedure to grant, extend or renew — ballot form — majority vote required — notice required. — Each franchise or contract provided for in sections 71.530, 77.210, 78.190, 78.630, and sections 88.613, 88.770, and 88.773 shall remain on…

88.497. Condemnation of private property. — Private property may be taken by the cities of the third class for public use for the purpose of establishing, opening, widening, extending or altering any street, avenue, alley, wharf, creek, river, watercourse, market place, public pa…

88.500. City tax bills. — The city may issue tax bills or certificates transferring to the holder benefits, or parts thereof, as may be provided by ordinance, and sell the same for not less than par, the proceeds being applied only to the use for which such benefits were levied, …

88.503. Appropriation of private property — records of ordinances and proceedings. — As soon as practicable after the confirmation of any verdict rendered under sections 88.010 to 88.070 by the council of any third class city in the proceedings for the condemnation of private pro…

88.507. Power to levy and collect taxes for general revenue purposes, and to improve streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges. — Any city of the third class shall have full power and authority, under the following conditions, to do the following things: To levy and collect taxes, for …

88.510. Assessment of public property — street improvements, how paid — special tax bills. — 1. All lands owned by any county or other political or municipal subdivisions, cemeteries and railroad rights-of-way, fronting or abutting on any of said improvements shall be liable for …

88.520. Declaration of necessity for improvement to be published — protests. — 1. Before the city council shall be authorized, under the provisions of sections 88.507 and 88.510, to grade or pave any alley, or to grade, pave or gutter the roadway part of any street, when the impr…

88.523. Certain street improvements — protest, how heard and determined. — When the council of any city of the third 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 than twelve…

88.530. Improvements, costs — limitations — payment. — 1. The council shall have power to limit the cost to be assessed as a special tax against the abutting property for street improvement as provided in section 88.520. If the council shall, in the resolution provided for by sai…

88.533. Condemnation of sidewalks. — In addition to the powers herein granted, the city council 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 walks …

88.613. Lighting of streets. — 1. The council may provide for and regulate the lighting of streets and the erection of lamp posts, poles and lights therefor, and may make contracts with any person, association or corporation for the lighting of the streets and other public places…

88.617. White way system defined. — The term "white way system" as used in sections 88.617 to 88.633 means the systematic arrangement of ornamental light posts, street arches, frosted and colored lights and globes and other illuminating equipment, conduits and all necessary appar…

88.620. White way system — powers of city council. — Councils in cities of the third class may lay out, establish and maintain white way systems; may provide for and regulate the lighting of the streets within the white way district and may make contracts with any persons, associ…