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MO Rev Stat § 88.633 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.633 - Water supply.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   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 contract must be ratified by the vote of a majority of the voters of the city voting on the question. Any renewal contracts entered into under the provisions of this section shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of section 88.251.  2. The council may erect, maintain and operate waterworks for the city, and may regulate the same, may prescribe and regulate the rates to charge to private consumers of water furnished from such waterworks, and may acquire by purchase, donation or condemnation, suitable grounds within or without the city upon which to erect such works, and the right-of-way to and from such works, and also the right-of-way for laying water pipes and posts and telephone, telegraph or electric wires and poles, under or above ground, as may be necessary for the efficient operation of said waterworks; all of which shall be done in such manner as shall be prescribed by ordinance, and the council may in its discretion grant the right to any person, association or corporation to erect, maintain and operate waterworks, and lay pipes, erect poles and telegraph, telephone and other electric wires, under or above ground, as may be necessary for the efficient operation of such works, upon such terms as the council may by ordinance prescribe, but in no case shall such right extend for a longer period than twenty years, except that such right may be renewed for another period or periods not to exceed twenty years per period. Every initial grant for such services shall be approved by a majority of the voters of the municipality voting on the question. Every renewal or extension shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to section 88.251. Nothing in this section* and section 88.630 shall be so construed as to prevent any city council from contracting with any person, association, or corporation for supplying fire hydrants and public fountains, and to furnish the city with gas or electric lights in cities where franchises have already been granted and where waterworks and electric plants already exist, without a vote of the people. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6967, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1989 H.B. 451)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6821; 1919 § 8303; 1909 § 9239  *Word "section" does not appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 88.637 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.637 - May open, vacate and improve streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 damages sustained by the citizens of the city, or the owners of the property therein, shall be ascertained as prescribed in that portion of sections 88.497 to 88.647 relating to the condemnation of private property for public use; and provided further, that whenever any public square, street, avenue or alley or other highway shall be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of the adjacent lots in proportion as it was taken from them; and still further provided, that when the grade of any street or alley shall have been once established by ordinance, it shall not be lawful to change such grade without making compensation to all persons owning real estate on such street or square, avenue, alley or other highway who may be damaged by such change of grade, to be determined and governed in all respects with reference to benefits and damages as is provided in sections 88.497 to 88.647. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6995)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6849; 1919 § 8331; 1909 § 9258
MO Rev Stat § 88.640 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.640 - Sprinkling and cleaning of streets — cost, how assessed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 real estate abutting upon the street or avenue, or part thereof, sprinkled or cleaned, in proportion to the front foot, and may issue, or cause to be issued, special tax bills therefor, which shall be a lien on such real estate until paid; provided, that before any such assessment shall be made, the council shall pass a resolution declaring such street sprinkling or cleaning necessary to be done, and shall cause such resolution to be published at least one week in some newspaper published in the city, and if a majority of the resident owners of the property abutting upon such street or avenue, or part thereof, proposed to be sprinkled or cleaned, shall not, within ten days thereafter, file with the clerk of said city their protest against such sprinkling or cleaning, then the council shall have power to contract therefor and cause the same to be done; provided further, however, that in no case shall the cost of such sprinkling or cleaning exceed five cents each per front foot per month upon the property abutting upon such street or avenue, or part thereof. The method of making said assessments and collecting the same shall be provided by ordinance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6959)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6813; 1919 § 8300; 1909 § 9237
MO Rev Stat § 88.647 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.647 - Opening, extending or widening county roads — duty of council as to benefits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 limits of any city of the third class, such commission shall proceed as is now authorized by law to condemn the right-of-way of such road, the maximum width of which shall not be over eighty feet. Before such road, however, shall be declared opened or the possession of such property for such right-of-way be taken for public use, the council of such city shall ascertain, in the manner herein provided in this chapter, the proportionate amount of benefits resulting to the owners of land adjacent thereto within the corporate limits of such city, who shall contribute toward compensating the person injured, and such amount shall constitute a lien in favor of the city on the said adjacent land, and the person or persons who shall be benefitted and so assessed shall pay in such manner as herein provided. The city authorities shall define by ordinance the limits within which private property is deemed benefitted by the opening, extension or widening as aforesaid, and the owners of private property within such limits shall be notified as herein set out, and appeals may be taken as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6974)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6828; 1919 § 8310; 1909 § 9246
MO Rev Stat § 88.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.650 - Providing for levy of special assessment for cost of laying and extending water mains.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 empowered to enact ordinances to pay the cost of laying and extending water main pipes by said cities by levying a special assessment, as herein provided, on the lots and tracts of land fronting or abutting on either side of the street, avenue or alley along the distance so improved in proportion to the front foot, whenever a majority of the resident owners of the property liable to taxation therefor and who shall own a majority of the front feet owned by residents of the city abutting on the street or alley along which the improvement is to be made shall petition the city council or other legislative body for such improvement, or whenever such body in its discretion, shall deem extension of water mains necessary for sanitary or other purposes conducive to the public welfare. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7525)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7371
MO Rev Stat § 88.653 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.653 - Declaration of necessity for improvement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 the reason therefor and shall cause plans and specifications for such work and improvement together with an estimate of the cost thereof, to be prepared by the city engineer or other proper officer and filed with the city clerk of such city subject to inspection of public, which said ordinance shall also set out in detail the course along which the water main pipes are to be laid, the depth, the dimensions of the pipe, the source and the termination thereof, together with the necessary valves and other equipment and appurtenances in connection with the said pipe and cause said ordinance to be published in some newspaper printed in the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7526)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7372
MO Rev Stat § 88.657 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.657 - Owners to have thirty days to make improvements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 for in the ordinance under direction of the city engineer and in conformity with the plans and specifications filed as provided for in section 88.653. At the end of said thirty days the owners of the land affected by the improvement shall cease to have a right to make the improvement by private contract and the council or other legislative body shall have power to cause a contract for said work to be let to the lowest and best bidder, on the plans and specifications filed as aforesaid with the city clerk by the city engineer or other proper officer, not less than one week's advertisement for bids thereon being made in some newspaper published in the city. Where the bids for said work are above the estimates, or no bids are presented, or where bids presented are for any reason rejected, or where the contractor to whom the contract is awarded fails to enter into a written contract for the performance of said contract, or to execute the bonds required by ordinance within the time provided therefor, the council or other legislative body shall direct the clerk to readvertise for bids. All county or other public property, cemeteries or railroad rights-of-way shall be subject to assessments as provided for by sections 88.787 and 88.790, relating to such lands. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7527)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7373
MO Rev Stat § 88.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.660 - Cost to be assessed proportionally.

Effective - 18 Jun 1985   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 chargeable therewith, charging each lot or tract of land with its proportionate part of said cost as required herein and shall make a written report to the council or other legislative body describing therein the lots and tracts of land chargeable with the part of the cost of such improvement and the amount with which it is chargeable and the name of the owner thereof. If the council approves the report, they shall by ordinance levy and assess the cost of the improvement against the various lots and tracts and parcels of land in proportion to the front foot as provided herein and direct the clerk to issue tax bills in accordance with the levy and assessment of the ordinance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7528, A.L. 1985 H.B. 676)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7374  Effective 6-18-85
MO Rev Stat § 88.663 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.663 - Special tax bills shall be assignable and collectible.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 shall not be liable for the cost in any such suit in any action brought by the owner or holder of said tax bills and said tax bills shall in any action thereon be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings for such special assessments and of the validity of the bills, of the doing of the work and of the furnishing of the materials charged for, and of the liability of the property to the charge stated in the bills. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7529)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7375
MO Rev Stat § 88.667 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.667 - Condemnation of private property.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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, or public square, and for establishing market houses and for any other necessary public purposes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7229)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7079; 1919 § 8529  (1998) A municipality's general statutory authority to condemn private property is not sufficient to condemn property devoted to prior public use for another public use which will destroy, impair or interfere with such prior use. Smithville v. St. Luke's Northland Hospital, 972 S.W.2d 416 (W.D.Mo.).
MO Rev Stat § 88.670 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.670 - Public improvements — powers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 collect taxes for general revenue purposes on all mixed, personal and real property within the limits of said city, taxable according to the laws of this state;  (2) To open and improve streets, avenues, alleys and other highways, and to make sidewalks and build bridges, culverts, drains and sewers within the city, and to establish grades for all improvements herein mentioned.  2. Such ordinances as may relate to any public work or improvements of any kind shall authorize the particular work to be done or improvements to be made, and shall specify the general character and extent thereof, the material to be used therein and in the alternative, if desirable, and the manner and regulations under which any such public work or improvement shall be executed.  3. Cities of the fourth class shall have and exercise exclusive control over all streets, alleys, avenues and public highways within the limits of such city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7197)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7047; 1919 § 8498; 1909 § 9400
MO Rev Stat § 88.673 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.673 - Board may open and vacate streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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; provided, that all damages sustained by the citizens of the city or the owners of the property therein shall be ascertained as prescribed in that portion of this chapter relating to the condemnation of private property for public use; and provided further, that whenever any public square, street, avenue or alley, or other highway, shall be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of the adjacent lots in proportion as it was taken from them; and when the grade of any street or alley shall have been once established by ordinance, it shall not be lawful to change such grade without making compensation to all persons owning real estate on such street or square, avenue, alley or other highway, who may be damaged by such change of grade, to be determined and governed in all respects, with reference to benefit and damages, as is provided in sections 88.667 to 88.773. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7212)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7062; 1919 § 8512; 1909 § 9412
MO Rev Stat § 88.677 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.677 - Public improvements — cost, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 the general revenue fund of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7198)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7048; 1919 § 8499; 1909 § 9401
MO Rev Stat § 88.680 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.680 - Street improvements — cost, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   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 repairing the same, and for doing all excavating and grading necessary for the same, after said streets, avenues, alleys and other highways, or parts thereof or connections therewith, have been first brought to grade, as provided in section 88.670, shall be levied as a special assessment upon all lots and pieces of ground upon either side of such street, avenue, alley or other highway, or part thereof or connection therewith, abutting thereon, along the distance improved, in proportion to the front foot; provided, that the cost of paving, macadamizing, curbing and guttering any street, avenue, alley or highway, or any part thereof, and the cost of repairing and cleaning of the same and of making and repairing sidewalks may be paid out of the general revenue fund of the city or other funds which the city may have for such purposes, if the board of aldermen so desires, in which case the proceedings of the city for such improvements shall specify that payment will be made out of the general revenue funds or other funds in whole or in part. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7201, A.L. 1945 p. 1266)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7051; 1919 § 8502; 1909 § 9403
MO Rev Stat § 88.683 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.683 - Street crossing improvements — special assessment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   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 for as follows: Such area shall be divided into parts or portions by lines drawn lengthwise along the middle of each of said streets or highways so intersecting or meeting, and the cost of said parts or portion shall be levied as a special assessment against the block or square contiguous to each, and prorated against the lots or pieces of ground in such block or square abutting on the street improved. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7203)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7053; 1919 § 8504; 1909 § 9405