Title XIV, ROADS AND WATERWAYS

234.200. Commission may accept title and ownership of bridge, when — obligation. — The state highways and transportation commission is hereby authorized to take and accept conveyance of title to and ownership of any such bridge, or part thereof, situated within the state of Misso…

234.210. Acquisition of toll bridges, by whom. — Any county, municipality, road district, political or civil subdivision of a county or of the state, severally or acting with other authorized agencies in this or adjoining states, may acquire, own and operate, construct, or aid in…

234.220. Toll bridge revenue bonds — who may issue — manner. — 1. In order to secure funds for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning and operating, improving or extending, and maintaining toll bridges, and approaches thereto, all public agencies named in section 234.210 …

234.230. Highways and transportation commission may contribute to cost — amount. — The state highways and transportation commission may, when in its opinion the best interests of the state require, contribute not to exceed thirty percent of the cost of construction of such bridge…

234.240. Acquisition of land, by whom. — The public agencies named in section 234.210 may acquire by purchase or by eminent domain all necessary land, rights-of-way, easements, materials and supplies for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning and operating, improving or e…

234.250. Bridges to be toll-free, when. — Provided that nothing in this law shall authorize or permit the collection of tolls on any bridge heretofore made toll-free or on any existing bridge on which tolls are not at present collected. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8551)

234.260. Revenue and refunding bonds, how redeemed — interest rate. — 1. For the purpose of redeeming any toll bridge revenue bonds or toll bridge revenue refunding bonds at maturity, or upon voluntary surrender by the holder or holders thereof regardless of maturity, or upon cal…

234.270. Bonds, how sold or exchanged. — Toll bridge revenue refunding bonds issued under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300, may be sold at such time and in such manner as the issuing authority may determine upon, or such refunding bonds may be issued and delivered in…

234.280. Maturity date may be extended. — 1. In lieu of issuing toll bridge revenue refunding bonds as provided for in section 234.220, the governing authority of any public agency now or hereafter having outstanding bonds issued under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.30…

234.290. Bonds may be called — notice to be given. — In the issuance of toll bridge revenue bonds or toll bridge revenue refunding bonds under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300, the issuing authority may reserve unto itself the right, at its option, to call in, pay an…

234.300. Expenses, how paid. — All expenses necessarily incurred under the provisions of sections 234.260 to 234.290 shall be deemed to be expenses of operation of any such bridge and may be paid by the issuing authority in the same manner as other expenses of such operation are …

234.310. Certain cities empowered to acquire, construct, operate and maintain bridges. — All cities in this state now organized and operating under a special charter, or which are now or hereafter may be organized under the provisions of Section 19 of Article VI of the State Cons…

234.320. Condemnation proceedings. — In the event the whole or any part of the cost of such bridge or viaduct or the approaches thereto, or the right-of-way therefor, or any interest therein, or any other property and rights upon which any such bridge, viaduct or its approaches a…

234.330. Existing rights not impaired. — The provisions of sections 234.310 and 234.320 shall not abrogate or impair any right or power which such cities may now or hereafter have to build and construct bridges and viaducts and their approaches thereto, or to acquire, in whole or…

234.340. Cities having 100,000 population and over — power and authority. — All cities in this state having one hundred thousand inhabitants or over are hereby given the power and authority to build or acquire, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, within their corporate limits …

234.370. Commissioners — appointment and qualifications. — Within ninety days after this law becomes effective the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint five commissioners of the Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission created by compact between t…

234.380. Terms of commissioners. — Of the commissioners first appointed one shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. At the expiration of the term of each commissioner and of each succee…

235.010. Street light maintenance districts (first class counties). — A street light maintenance district may be organized as provided in this chapter in any county of class one. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 1)

235.020. Purpose of district — location. — A street light maintenance district shall have for its purpose the maintenance and operation of the street lights on the streets of the district. Such district must be wholly within a county of class one, must consist of contiguous tract…

235.030. Petition for organization, contents. — The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county in which the real property in the proposed district is situated. The petition shall be signed by…

235.040. Petition may be amended — filing fee. — 1. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the county commission may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any er…

235.050. Notice to be published, when. — Immediately after the filing of such petition, the county commission shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the county clerk…

235.060. Protesting petition. — Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the county clerk protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such pr…

235.070. County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected. — 1. If it shall appear at the hearing that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented, as provided in section 235.030, …

235.080. County commission findings and orders to be filed, where. — Within thirty days after the final order of the county commission in which said district has been declared a public corporation, the county clerk of said commission shall transmit to the recorder of deeds in the…

235.090. Board members to qualify, how — bonds. — Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall qualify by filing with the county clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such bo…

235.100. Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary. — After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the di…

235.110. Treasurer's bond — financial statement. — The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the county clerk, at the expense of the district, a corporate…

235.120. Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal. — Each member of the board shall receive an attendance fee in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars per diem for attending each regularly called board meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than one in any calendar…

235.130. Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled. — The board shall meet at the place to be designated by the board as often as the needs of the district require, on notice to each member of the board. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Any…

235.140. Election of new board members, when. — 1. At the general election in the year after the first full calendar year after the organization of any district and at the general election thereafter, there shall be elected by the voters of the district one member of the board to…

235.150. Powers — authority and privileges of board. — For the purpose of providing for the maintenance of street lighting within the district, the district and, on its behalf, the board, shall have the following powers, authority and privileges: (1) To have perpetual existence; …

235.160. Power of taxation. — For the purpose of providing revenue for such districts, the board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand for…

235.170. Board to fix rate of taxation. — To levy and collect taxes as provided in section 235.160, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tang…

235.175. Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate. — 1. Before the board of directors of any street light maintenance district may increase the district's current tax levy, the proposed increase must be approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon. 2…

235.180. Board to certify rate of levy to county commission. — On or before the first day of September of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of the county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with d…

235.190. Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes. — It shall be the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within the county to levy the taxes provided in this law, and it shall be the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect suc…

235.200. Property to be sold for delinquent taxes — manner. — If the taxes levied are not paid as provided in section 235.190, then the delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest and penalties, in the manner provided by …

235.210. Boundaries of district may be altered to include new territory — annexation, procedure. — 1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this law may be changed in the manner prescribed in this section and in section 235.220, but any change of bounda…

235.220. Boundaries may be altered to exclude certain territory, how. — 1. The owner or owners of any real or personal property contained within the boundaries of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such property be excluded and taken from said district. …

235.230. Property subject to taxation. — All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that…

235.240. Annexation of district by municipality. — Any provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, no city, town or village shall annex a part of the territory of any district; but nothing herein shall be construed so as to prevent the annexation of the whole of the ter…

235.250. Dissolution of district, election for, when required — form of ballot. — 1. Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have been filed with the county commission setting forth all th…

235.260. Dissolution of district, when — procedure. — 1. If the commission shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district * that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the question t…

235.270. Appointment of trustee to liquidate district. — No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such district or person; an…

236.010. Dams across nonnavigable streams — who may erect. — Any person or corporation chartered and organized to construct, operate and maintain mills, electric power and light works, or other machinery, may erect a dam across any watercourse, not being a navigable stream, if su…