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MO Rev Stat § 88.900 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.900 - Sidewalk improvements — assessment of government property.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.900. Sidewalk improvements — assessment of government property. — Any real estate owned by the state of Missouri or by state institutions, or owned by any county, township or city, shall be liable for the cost of any of the improvements contemplated and provided for in sections 88.863 to 88.913, the same as other property, and an assessment shall be made thereon and tax bills issued in the same manner as tax bills against other property provided for in section 88.897, and said tax bills shall be a valid and subsisting claim against such state, state institutions, county, township or city, the same as any other debt or demand against such state, state institution, county, township or city, and shall be paid for out of funds appropriated by them for such purposes, and shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed eight percent per annum from thirty days after the date of issue until paid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7549)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7395; 1919 § 8803; 1909 § 9659
MO Rev Stat § 88.903 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.903 - Special tax bills prima facie evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.903. Special tax bills prima facie evidence. — Any special tax bills issued under the provisions of sections 88.863 to 88.913 shall, in actions thereon, be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings for such special assessment, of the validity of the bill, 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 bill. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7550)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7396; 1919 § 8804; 1909 § 9660
MO Rev Stat § 88.907 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.907 - Certification of tax bills.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.907. Certification of tax bills. — All of the tax bills, as provided in sections 88.863 to 88.913, shall be certified as correct by the city engineer or other person who has made the computation under authority of the city council, and shall be signed by the mayor, attested by the city clerk under the seal of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7551)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7397; 1919 § 8805; 1909 § 9661
MO Rev Stat § 88.910 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.910 - Recording of tax bills.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.910. Recording of tax bills. — All such tax bills shall be recorded by the city clerk in a book kept by him for such purpose before the delivery of said tax bills. And said city clerk shall release said tax bills on the margin of the record thereof, upon presentation of the tax bills duly marked "paid" by the holder or assignee, or upon presentation of other suitable evidence that such tax bill has been paid in full. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7552)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7398; 1919 § 8806; 1909 § 9662
MO Rev Stat § 88.913 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.913 - Suit to enforce collection of special tax bill.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.913. Suit to enforce collection of special tax bill. — In any suit or proceedings to enforce the collection of any special tax bill issued under the provisions of sections 88.863 to 88.910 it shall only be necessary for the owner thereof to charge in the petition that such amount is due by the defendant to the plaintiff for a certain improvement made by virtue of certain ordinances, giving their title and date of adoption; provided, that nothing in said sections shall be so construed as to prevent any defendant from pleading and proving in reduction of any bill any mistake or error in the amount thereof, or that the work therein mentioned was not done in a good and workmanlike manner; and provided further, that if any party shall plead any mistake or error in the amount of the bill, or that the work was not done in a workmanlike manner, and that such party, before the commencement of the suit, tendered to the contractor, or holder of the bill, the full value of the work done, and shall establish the same on the trial, the recovery shall only be in the amount so tendered, and judgment for costs shall be rendered against the plaintiff; provided further, that if it be pleaded and proved that the work for which the bill was issued was not done according to the terms of the contract made by the contractor with the city, then the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall recover thereon only the actual value of the work done, with interest at six percent from date, if of any value; and if not of any value, the judgment shall be for the defendant. No suit for the collection of any tax bill shall be defeated or affected by any irregularity affecting any other bill, or matter rendering any other bill invalid in whole or in part; provided further, that if at any time it is found that there has been any error in the issuance of any tax bills or in any assessment, or in the mode or manner of any assessment, the same shall be corrected and a reassessment made (if necessary to correct the mistake) by the proper officials, and said reassessment shall be as binding and in all respects the same as if no previous assessments had been made or tax bills issued. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7553)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7399; 1919 § 8807; 1909 § 9663
MO Rev Stat § 88.917 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.917 - Street grading (cities, 300,000 or over).

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   88.917. Street grading (cities, 300,000 or over). — Every city now having or which may at any time hereafter have a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants or over shall have at all times the power to establish the grade and change the grade already established of any street, alley, avenue, public highway or public place, or any part thereof, as often as it may be deemed best for the public interest, and to cause the same or any part thereof to be graded to the established grade or to any change thereof. Provided, however, that when a change is proposed to be made in the grade of any street, alley, avenue, public highway or public place, or any part thereof, which has once been established, the city shall by ordinance declare the work of improvement to be necessary, and cause such ordinance, or the substance thereof, to be published in the newspaper doing the city printing, for ten days, Sundays included. Unless the resident owners of the city who shall own the majority in front feet of all the lands belonging to such residents fronting on the street, alley, avenue, public highway, public place, or part thereof to be improved, within thirty days after the first day of the publication of such ordinance, file with the city register their remonstrance against the proposed change, then the ordinance to cause the proposed change to be made shall become effective. Provided further, however, that when the charter of any such city shall require that such ordinance shall, before being passed, be recommended by a board of public improvements, or other authority of such city, then the same shall, before being passed, be recommended as therein required. If the remonstrance of the resident property owners above mentioned shall be filed with the city register, as herein provided, the ordinance to make the proposed change in the grade of such street, alley, avenue, public highway or public place, or any part thereof, shall not become effective until a sufficient number of the persons so remonstrating or their grantees shall, in writing, withdraw their names or the property represented by them from such remonstrance, so that said remonstrance shall cease to represent a majority of the resident owners as above provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7713, A.L. 2008 H.B. 2047)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7565; 1919 § 8975; 1909 § 9827
MO Rev Stat § 88.920 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.920 - Street grading — damages and benefits (cities, 300,000 or over).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.920. Street grading — damages and benefits (cities, 300,000 or over). — When the property owners to be disturbed or damaged by the grading, regrading, or other change of any street, alley, avenue, public highway, public place, or any part thereof, are lawfully entitled to remuneration or damages under the Constitution of the state of Missouri, and shall not have waived all right or claim thereto, the ordinance which shall order the grading or regrading of any such street, alley, avenue, public highway or public place, or any part thereof, shall also prescribe and determine the limits within which private property is benefitted by the proposed grading or regrading. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7714)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7566; 1919 § 8976; 1909 § 9828
MO Rev Stat § 88.923 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.923 - Notice of suit on special tax bills (cities, 300,000 or over).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.923. Notice of suit on special tax bills (cities, 300,000 or over). — Whenever any suit shall be commenced in any city of this state now having, or which may hereafter have a population of three hundred thousand or more inhabitants, on any special tax bill to enforce the payment or the lien thereof, the party or parties plaintiff shall, within ten days after the commencement of such suit, file with the comptroller or other officer of such city, in whose office the record of such special tax bills is required to be kept, a written notice setting forth when and in which court such suit was brought; and the comptroller or such other officer shall immediately note such facts on the record of such tax bill. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7735)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7587; 1919 § 8997; 1909 § 9848
MO Rev Stat § 88.927 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.927 - Limiting lien on special tax bills (cities, 300,000 or over).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.927. Limiting lien on special tax bills (cities, 300,000 or over). — The lien of every such tax bill shall cease, end and determine in two years after said tax bill, or the last installment thereof, if the same be payable in installments, shall have become due and payable, unless suit shall have been brought on such tax bill, and notice of such suit, as required in section 88.923, shall have been given and filed within that time. If within said time no such suit was brought, or if within said time no such notice of suit shall have been filed, the tax bill shall be presumed to have been paid, and the comptroller, or other proper officer, shall make an appropriate entry on the record of the tax bill in his office that the lien thereof has expired by lapse of time. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7736)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7588; 1919 § 8998; 1909 § 9849
MO Rev Stat § 88.930 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.930 - Condemnation of property (cities, 150,000 to 500,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   88.930. Condemnation of property (cities, 150,000 to 500,000). — 1. Whenever a city which now has or may hereafter have more than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants and less than five hundred thousand inhabitants, whether organized under general law or special charter of the provisions of Section 19 of Article VI of the Constitution of this state, shall, by ordinance, deem it necessary to take and condemn or damage any private property for a public use of said city, it may adopt the same procedure for such taking and condemning or damaging as is prescribed in the general laws of the state for the appropriation and valuation of lands taken for telegraph, telephone, gravel and plank or railroad purposes, being chapter 523. Upon paying to the clerk of the circuit court the amount of damages awarded, the city shall have the right, notwithstanding the filing of exceptions to such award, to enter upon and take possession of the property so taken and condemned, and to proceed with the public improvement, or in the case of damage only, to proceed with the public improvement, and any subsequent proceeding shall only affect the amount of compensation to be allowed.  2. The method or procedure provided for in this section shall be construed to be an additional remedy for the benefit of the cities mentioned in said section, and not as in any way affecting or repealing the provisions of any existing law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 7684, 7685)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 7536, 7537; 1919 §§ 8947, 8948; 1909 §§ 9799, 9800  (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 § 88.940 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.940 - City improvements — contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1963   88.940. City improvements — contracts. — All city improvements of whatever kind or character, including the erection of all public buildings made or to be erected at the expense of any constitutional charter city having more than seventy-five thousand and less than eighty thousand inhabitants, except where otherwise provided herein, shall be let by contract to the lowest and best bidder, and shall be prescribed by ordinance; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the repair, by day's work, of boulevards, streets, sewers, culverts, buildings or other city property, so far as may be necessary for the preservation thereof; and provided that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the city from specifying by ordinance the kind and character of materials and the kind and character of labor to be used by contractors making city improvements and the maximum hours that the labor shall work thereon and the minimum wages that shall be paid the labor. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 145 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 88.950 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation|Section 88.950 - Special benefit parking districts — condemnation, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973   88.950. Special benefit parking districts — condemnation, procedure. — 1. Any city located within a first class county not having a charter form of government and any city having a population of at least eighty thousand, but not more than two hundred thousand, located within a first class county having a charter form of government which county contains a portion of a city having more than four hundred thousand inhabitants may establish special benefit parking districts to provide for the acquisition, improvement and all costs incident thereto, and maintenance of off-street parking facilities.  2. Whenever, upon petition of the owners of fifty-one percent of the assessable square feet of the property to be included in such district, the governing body of any city deems it necessary to condemn or appropriate private property and to assess the cost thereof against property in a benefit district, the governing body shall enact an ordinance setting forth the general nature or purpose of the use to which such private property is to be put, declaring it to be necessary to take and appropriate private property therein described for such purpose, and defining the limits of a benefit district within which private property shall be deemed benefitted or assessed to pay for the property acquired by condemnation, the improvement and all cost incident thereto, and the time and mode of payment of such assessment and the penalty for failure to pay the same when due.  3. Upon enactment of the ordinance prescribed in subsection 1 of this section, the governing body of the city shall proceed with the establishment of the benefit district as prescribed in sections 88.010 to 88.070, and the cost of improving any property acquired through that procedure shall be apportioned in the same manner and along with the costs of such acquisition. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 215 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1973 H.B. 638)
MO Rev Stat § 89.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.010 - Applicability of law — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   89.010. Applicability of law — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail. — 1. The provisions of sections 89.010 to 89.140 shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this state.  2. (1) As used in this subsection, "transect-based zoning" means a zoning classification system that prescriptively arranges uses, elements, and environments according to a geographic cross-section that range across a continuum from rural to urban, with the range of environments providing the basis for organizing the components of the constructed world, including buildings, lots, land use, street, and all other physical elements of the human habitat, with the objective of creating sustainable communities and emphasizing bicycle lanes, street connectivity, and sidewalks, and permitting high-density and mixed use development in urban areas.  (2) In the event that any city, town, or village adopts a zoning or subdivision ordinance based on transect-based zoning, and such transect-based zoning provisions conflict with the zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of another political subdivision with jurisdiction in such city, town, or village, the transect-based zoning provisions governing street configuration requirements, including number and locations of parking spaces, street, drive lane, and cul-de-sac lengths and widths, turning radii, and improvements within the right-of-way, shall prevail over any other conflicting or more restrictive zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of the other political subdivision. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7423, A.L. 1941 p. 460, A.L. 1957 p. 274, A.L. 2007 H.B. 205 merged with H.B. 795 merged with S.B. 22 merged with S.B. 81)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7270  (1969) A comprehensive zoning ordinance is subject to referendum; this section is not a preemption by the state in the field of zoning and does not operate as an exclusion of section 78.220. State ex rel. Wahlmann v. Reim (Mo. en banc), 445 S.W.2d 336.
MO Rev Stat § 89.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.030 - Zoning districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   89.030. Zoning districts. — For any or all of said purposes the local legislative body may divide the municipality into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of sections 89.010 to 89.140; and within such districts may regulate and restrict the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration or use of buildings, structures, or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of buildings throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7413)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7260  (1963) This act does not authorize the adoption of a one-use district zoning ordinance and city zoning ordinance which placed all territory in city in single family dwelling district, except as ordinance might be amended thereafter, was invalid. City of Moline Acres v. Heidbreder (Mo.), 367 S.W.2d 568.
MO Rev Stat § 89.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.040 - Purpose of regulations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   89.040. Purpose of regulations. — Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to preserve features of historical significance; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements. Such regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view to conserving the values of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout such municipality. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7414, A.L. 1959 H.B. 493)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7261  (1963) Zoning ordinance amendment reclassifying a single piece of property to permit use of the property for gasoline station was unjustified by change of conditions and constituted illegal spot zoning. Numer v. Kansas City (A.), 365 S.W.2d 753.
MO Rev Stat § 89.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning|Section 89.050 - Powers and limitations of legislative body in city — hearings, notice.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   89.050. Powers and limitations of legislative body in city — hearings, notice. — The legislative body of such municipality shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of such districts shall be determined, established, and enforced, and from time to time amended, supplemented, or changed. However, no such regulation, restriction, or boundary shall become effective until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in an official paper or a paper of general circulation in such municipality. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7415)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7262  (2000) Ordinance directed toward regulation of public health and safety, as opposed to a zoning ordinance, does not require the statutory notice and hearing prior to enactment. City of Green Ridge v. Kreisel, 25 S.W.3d 559 (Mo.App.W.D.).