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MO Rev Stat § 228.369 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 228 - Establishment and Vacation of Roads|Section 228.369 - Maintenance, multiple user roads without written agreement, plan of maintenance by court — apportionment of costs.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   228.369. Maintenance, multiple user roads without written agreement, plan of maintenance by court — apportionment of costs. — 1. For any private road subject to the use of more than one homeowner, in the absence of a prior order or written agreement for the maintenance of the private road, including covenants contained in deeds or state or local permits providing for the maintenance of a private road, when adjoining homeowners who are benefitted by the use of an abutting private road, or homeowners who have an easement to use a private road, collectively owners or benefitted owners are unable to agree in writing upon a plan of maintenance for the maintenance, repair, or improvement of the private road and including the assessment and apportionment of costs for the plan of maintenance, one or more of the owners may petition the circuit court for an order establishing a plan of maintenance.  2. The cost of a plan of maintenance for a private road shall be apportioned among the owners of residences abutting the private road and holders of easements to use the private road, with the cost apportioned commensurate with the use and benefit to residences benefitted by the access, as mutually agreed by the benefitted homeowners or as ordered by the court with such method of apportionment as agreed by the homeowners or ordered by the court, including, but not limited to, equal division, or proportionate to the residential assessed value, or to front footage, or to usage or benefit.  3. The court may implement the same procedures to order and subsequently determine a plan of maintenance for a private road as provided in this chapter for establishing or widening a private road, including the appointment and compensation of disinterested commissioners to determine the plan and the apportionment of costs.  4. Where the homeowners who are benefitted by the private road are not able to agree upon the designation of a supervisor to complete the plan of maintenance, the commissioners appointed by the court shall designate a supervisor who shall be compensated for his or her services in the same manner as the commissioners.  5. Any agreement executed by all the homeowners, or final order approving, a plan of maintenance for a private road shall be recorded with the county recorder of deeds.  6. One or more adjoining homeowners or holders of any easement to use a private road may bring an action to enforce the plan of maintenance for a private road, whether as mutually agreed or as ordered by the court. ­­-------- (L. 2012 H.B. 1103)
MO Rev Stat § 228.374 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 228 - Establishment and Vacation of Roads|Section 228.374 - Amending or modifying agreements or plans of maintenance by recorded agreement, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   228.374. Amending or modifying agreements or plans of maintenance by recorded agreement, when. — 1. A prior agreement or court order establishing a plan of maintenance may be amended or modified and may be restated at any time by a recorded agreement signed by all the homeowners or other benefitted owners.  2. No court proceeding under section 228.369 to amend, modify, or restate a plan of maintenance may be filed sooner than seven years from the entry of a prior order, except upon a prima facie showing that the real property benefitted by the private road has been developed or divided in a manner rendering the plan of maintenance obsolete or showing that the existing apportionment of the use and benefit to residences benefitted by the access to the private road is no longer equitable. ­­-------- (L. 2012 H.B. 1103)
MO Rev Stat § 229.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.010 - Roads to be thirty feet wide.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.010. Roads to be thirty feet wide. — All public roads in this state which hereafter may be established shall not be less than thirty feet in width. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8471)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7825; 1919 § 10623; 1909 § 10433  (1967) Creating of public road under section 228.190 was valid although road created was only 18 to 20 feet wide and this section requires that public roads shall not be less than 30 feet in width. Drydale v. Kiser (Mo.), 413 S.W.2d 506.
MO Rev Stat § 229.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.020 - Roads less than thirty feet in width, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.020. Roads less than thirty feet in width, when. — County commissions in counties of this state which now have, or may hereafter have, over fifty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding census, where any such county is adjacent to a city of over six hundred thousand inhabitants, are hereby authorized to establish public roads less than thirty feet in width or accept, in whole or in part, as public highways, roads already established where the same parallel and abut upon either side of the rights-of-way of steam railroads, electric or interurban railroads and the two roads aggregate not less than fifty feet in width. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8646)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7997; 1919 § 10781
MO Rev Stat § 229.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.030 - Roads cleared of obstructions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.030. Roads cleared of obstructions. — Public roads shall be cleared of all obstructions therein that hinder or interfere with travel or traffic thereon, and shall be made firm, and the surface thereof shall be kept in a reasonably smooth and level condition; and all necessary bridges and culverts shall be constructed for same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8472)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7826; 1919 § 10624; 1909 § 10434  CROSS REFERENCE:  Approaches of roadways over levees to be built, 245.430, 245.530  (1974) held that public has the right to exclusive use of highways for public purposes and any unauthorized obstruction or encroachment thereon constitutes a nuisance. State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Johns (A.), 507 S.W.2d 75. (1977) Held, erection of barricades by city of St. Louis did not violate this section. State ex rel. Schmitz v. City of St. Louis (A.), 551 S.W.2d 848.
MO Rev Stat § 229.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.060 - Contractor to give bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.060. Contractor to give bond. — The contractor shall enter into a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the county commission, township board or district commissioners, with some surety company authorized to do business in this state as surety thereon or other good and sufficient surety, the condition of such bond to be that the contractor will faithfully discharge his duties under the contract within the time and in the manner therein provided, and that he will furnish and promptly pay for all labor employed and materials used and equipment rented in the performance of said contract, and the state, county or political subdivision, or any laborer, materialman or other person injured by breach of such contract may sue on such bond. All such bonds when approved by the proper authorities shall be recorded upon the proper records. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8597)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7948; 1919 § 10735; 1909 § 10564  CROSS REFERENCE:  Bond of contractors for public work, generally, 107.170
MO Rev Stat § 229.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.070 - Contractor to report, when — payments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.070. Contractor to report, when — payments. — 1. It shall be the duty of each contractor who has entered into a contract for any road or bridge work to report in writing to the engineer in charge thereof on or before the second day of each month, setting forth in detail the amount and character of the work done under his contract during the preceding month.  2. The engineer shall carefully examine such report and shall indicate in writing attached to the report any errors therein or any explanations that he may deem necessary for the information of the county commission or other proper authorities, and if said report shall be found to be correct he shall so state and shall file same with the county clerk, clerk of the township board or district commissioner, as the case may be.  3. The county commission or other proper authorities shall examine such report, and may order such amounts paid on the contract as may be deemed safe and just, and as may be provided in the contract covering such work, but full payment for any work to be performed by contract shall not be made until the work has been completed and accepted by the county highway engineer or engineer in charge of same.  4. The county highway engineer or engineer in charge of the work shall inspect the work contracted for from time to time and make report thereon; and before any final settlement is made with any contractor the county highway engineer or engineer in charge of the work shall make a personal inspection of same, and shall make written statement under oath that he has made such inspection and that the contractor has performed his work according to contract. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8598)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7949; 1919 § 10736; 1909 § 10566
MO Rev Stat § 229.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.080 - Donations, how appropriated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.080. Donations, how appropriated. — Whenever any citizen or citizens of any county shall subscribe any sum not less than fifty dollars, for the purpose of grading, tiling, ditching or surfacing any portion of any public road in such county, and shall deposit the same with the county treasurer of such county, the county commission may appropriate and pay out of the road funds of the county a like amount for the same purpose. The amount so subscribed shall be paid out only for such work as shall be designated by the subscribers thereof, and shall be expended under the direction and supervision of the county highway engineer. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8584)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7935; 1919 § 10723; 1909 § 10537
MO Rev Stat § 229.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.090 - Sales agents — certain persons barred.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.090. Sales agents — certain persons barred. — No member of a highway board or county commission, and no highway engineer or road overseer shall be the sales agent in the sale to, or purchase by, the state, county or road districts, of road tools, culvert or bridge materials or machinery, or be pecuniarily interested in any contract for the building of any bridge or culvert or for the improvement of any public road to which the county or any road district is a party. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8593)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7944; 1919 § 10731; 1909 § 10542  CROSS REFERENCE:  County engineers, surveyors and overseer not to be sales agents, 61.300
MO Rev Stat § 229.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.100 - Improvements along public roads — location — control.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.100. Improvements along public roads — location — control. — No person or persons, association, companies or corporations shall erect poles for the suspension of electric light, or power wires, or lay and maintain pipes, conductors, mains and conduits for any purpose whatever, through, on, under or across the public roads or highways of any county of this state, without first having obtained the assent of the county commission of such county therefor; and no poles shall be erected or such pipes, conductors, mains and conduits be laid or maintained, except under such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed and promulgated by the county highway engineer, with the approval of the county commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8573)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7924; 1919 § 10712; 1909 § 10515  CROSS REFERENCES:  Electric transmission lines, placing by rural electric cooperative on public thoroughfares, 394.080  Telephone and telegraph companies, construction of lines along highways, 392.080  Underground water mains, construction along highways by water company, 393.020
MO Rev Stat § 229.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.120 - Engineer and overseer to protect trees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.120. Engineer and overseer to protect trees. — The county highway engineer and overseers shall protect all fruit, shade and ornamental trees along the sides of the public roads, and shall forthwith remove all signs and advertisements whatsoever that may have been nailed or fastened to any of said trees. And it shall be the duty of the county highway engineer to see that this provision is enforced. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8579)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7930; 1919 § 10718; 1909 § 10531
MO Rev Stat § 229.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.130 - Fingerboards.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.130. Fingerboards. — Every overseer shall erect and maintain at every road fork, or road crossing, in his district that would likely mislead, a fingerboard, containing a legible inscription, directing the way and noting the distance to the next important place on the road, for which he may be allowed not to exceed two dollars, to be paid out of the road fund of the district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8580)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7931; 1919 § 10719; 1909 § 10532
MO Rev Stat § 229.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.160 - Protection of bridges — penalty for neglect.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.160. Protection of bridges — penalty for neglect. — All persons owning, controlling or managing threshing machines, sawmills and steam engines or gasoline tractors are required, in moving the same over public highways to lay down planks not less than one foot wide and three inches in thickness on the floors of all bridges situate on the public highways, while crossing the same with such threshing machines, sawmills, steam engines or gasoline tractors, and in the event any person owning any such machinery shall cross or attempt to cross any bridge upon any public highway with such machinery who shall neglect or fail to lay down said planks as a protection to said bridge and who shall, by reason of such neglect cause injury to any such bridge, he shall be liable for double the amount of such injury to be recovered in the name of the county or any subdivision thereof, to the use and benefit of the road and bridge fund. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8591)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7942; 1919 § 10728; 1909 § 10545
MO Rev Stat § 229.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.200 - Penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.200. Penalties. — Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 229.040 to 229.200, or willfully failing to comply with the requirements of same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, where no other or different punishment is fixed, shall be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8594)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7945; 1919 § 10732; 1909 § 10550
MO Rev Stat § 229.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.210 - Driving on recently constructed bridge or culvert prohibited — notice of closing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.210. Driving on recently constructed bridge or culvert prohibited — notice of closing. — It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle, an animal or animals or a load of any kind upon a highway bridge or culvert recently constructed or repaired wholly or partly of concrete or upon the surface of any improved highway of macadam, concrete, brick or bituminous material; and which has not been opened to traffic after the construction or repair, by order of the county highway engineer of the county in which such bridge or culvert or improved highway is situated, or by order of any other person having charge of the construction or repair of said bridge or culvert or improved highway; provided, due notice to the public has been given that the bridge or culvert or improved highway is closed to traffic, by placing barriers across the entrances to the bridge or culvert or improved highway and by written or printed handbills placed at either entrance to the bridge or culvert or improved highway stating that the bridge or culvert or improved highway is closed to traffic and mentioning the date on which same will be opened to traffic signed by the county highway engineer or by the person in charge of the construction or repair of the bridge or culvert or improved highway. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8589)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7940
MO Rev Stat § 229.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.220 - Penalty for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.220. Penalty for violation. — Any person violating the provisions of section 229.210 and any person who shall unlawfully remove either of the barriers or either of the written or printed notices above mentioned, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8590)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7941
MO Rev Stat § 229.222 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.222 - Designation of a certain road or highway as a memorial road for law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   229.222. Designation of a certain road or highway as a memorial road for law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. — The governing assembly of any county, city, or village of this state may designate any street, road, or highway within such county, city, or village as a memorial road for any law enforcement officer who is killed in the line of duty. Any county, city, or village designating a memorial road pursuant to this section shall provide for and shall be responsible for the costs, erection, and maintenance of any signs marking the designated road. ­­-------- (L. 2002 H.B. 2039)
MO Rev Stat § 229.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.230 - Permit to move building across road.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.230. Permit to move building across road. — No person, firm or corporation shall move, haul or transport any house, building or other structure upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, or any city existing under a scheme and charter or a special charter in the state of Missouri, without first obtaining a permit therefor, as provided in section 229.240; provided, that nothing herein shall apply to a city having a population of fifteen thousand or less. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8599)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7950; 1919 § 10737
MO Rev Stat § 229.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.240 - Application for permit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.240. Application for permit. — 1. All applications for permits to move houses, buildings or other structures upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, or any city existing under a scheme and charter or a special charter in this state, shall be made to the county clerk of the county in which the property is situated, and shall state the location of the house, building or other structure to be moved, its greatest length, width and height, and shall state definitely the route over which it is to be moved, and whether or not it will be necessary to cut, remove, raise or in any way interfere with any electric transmission lines or electric wires, or the feed or trolley wires of any interurban railroad, or move any pole bearing any such wires, or whether it will be necessary to cross the tracks of any steam or interurban railroad; and if it shall be necessary to cut, remove, raise or in any way interfere with any such wires, the application shall state the names of the owners of such wires, the time and place when and where the removal of said poles, or the cutting, raising or otherwise interfering with the said wires will be necessary, or the crossing of said steam or interurban tracks, and the proposed new location thereof.  2. The county surveyor, or highway engineer, or the county commission, as the case may be, shall have authority to require any changes in such route which he or they shall deem proper under the attendant circumstances. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8600)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7951; 1919 § 10738
MO Rev Stat § 229.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.250 - Notice to cut or remove poles or wires.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.250. Notice to cut or remove poles or wires. — If it shall appear from the application that it will be necessary to cut, remove, raise or in any way interfere with any electric wires, transmission lines, or the feed and trolley wires of any interurban railroad, or move any poles bearing any such wires or cables, or that it will be necessary to cross the tracks of any steam or interurban railroad, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to give the persons, firms or corporations owning or operating such wires, feed wires, transmission lines, trolley wires, or owners of such steam or interurban railroads at least five days' notice of the time and place when and where the removal of said poles, or the cutting or raising or otherwise interfering with said wires, or the crossing of any steam or interurban railroad will be necessary. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8601)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7952; 1919 § 10739
MO Rev Stat § 229.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads|Section 229.270 - Fee for permit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   229.270. Fee for permit. — Before a permit to move any house, building or other structure is granted under the provisions of sections 229.230 to 229.290, the applicant for such permit shall pay to the county clerk the sum of one dollar therefor, and the county clerk shall account for such fees as is provided for in other cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8604)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7955; 1919 § 10742