Title VII, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

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…

88.623. White way system — further powers of council. — The city council shall have the right to erect, install, maintain and operate lamp posts, electric light poles, street arches, conduits or any other apparatus or appliances necessary in lighting the streets, avenues, alleys …

88.627. White way system — costs, how paid. — The city council may, at its discretion, elect to assess as special taxes, one-half of the cost of installation of a white way system unless by remonstrance estopped, and submit to the voters a proposal to issue bonds for the remainin…

88.630. Public works, governing statutes. — The city council shall be governed in its proceedings by sections 88.507 to 88.520, 88.812 to 88.822 and 88.854 (governing the improvement of streets, alleys, sidewalks, etc., assessment of costs against abutting property owners, notice…

88.633. Water supply. — 1. The council may make contracts with any person, association or corporation for furnishing the city with water, and for supplying fire hydrants and public fountains, but no such contract shall be made for a longer time than twenty years. Any initial cont…

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…