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MO Rev Stat § 388.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.070 - Election of directors — terms of office.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.070. Election of directors — terms of office. — Any railroad corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of this state may elect its directors for one or more years, not to exceed three years, the time of service and mode of classifications to be provided for by the bylaws of the corporation; provided, however, that there shall be an annual election for such number or proportion of directors as may be found upon dividing the entire number of directors by the number of years composing a term. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5127)
MO Rev Stat § 388.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.100 - Directors to appoint officers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.100. Directors to appoint officers. — The directors shall appoint one of their number president; they may also appoint a treasurer and secretary, and such other officers and agents as shall be prescribed by the bylaws of the company. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5137)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4664; 1919 § 9854; 1909 § 3053
MO Rev Stat § 388.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.110 - Ineligibility for office.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.110. Ineligibility for office. — It shall be unlawful to elect or appoint any person to any office of profit or trust, or for such person to hold such office or appointment, in any railroad corporation established by any law of this state, who is a stockholder, owner or part owner of any express, dispatch, fast freight or transportation company, whether incorporated or not, which has for its object, or one of its objects, the shipment of freight or transportation of persons over said railroad, or any railroad in direct connection therewith, or who is in any way pecuniarily interested in any company or copartnership formed for any such or like purpose; and all persons interested in aforesaid are hereby declared ineligible for any such office or appointment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5146)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4673; 1919 § 9863; 1909 § 3062
MO Rev Stat § 388.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.120 - Penalty for violation of section 388.110.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.120. Penalty for violation of section 388.110. — If any person shall be elected to any office or appointed to any position in violation of section 388.110, and shall hold any such office or appointment, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day that he shall exercise the functions of said office, which amount may be recovered at the suit of any stockholder of the company in which the office or appointment shall be unlawfully held. Such suit shall be in the name of the company, and one-half of the amount received shall go into the treasury of the company, and the other half to the stockholder prosecuting. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5147)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4674; 1919 § 9864; 1909 § 3063
MO Rev Stat § 388.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.130 - Furnishing of supplies prohibited, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.130. Furnishing of supplies prohibited, when. — 1. No president, director, officer, agent or employee of any railroad company, or other corporation operating a railroad, shall hereafter be interested in any manner, directly or indirectly, in furnishing materials or supplies to such company; nor shall any such officer, agent or employee of any railroad company, or other corporation owning, controlling or managing a railroad, be interested, directly or indirectly, in the business of transportation as a common carrier of freight or passengers over the works owned, leased, controlled or operated by the corporation or association of which he is an officer, agent or employee.  2. Any president, director, officer, agent or employee of any such railroad company who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day any such violation continues shall be a separate offense. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5231)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4774; 1919 § 9962; 1909 § 3161
MO Rev Stat § 388.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.140 - Transportation certificates may be issued — effect of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.140. Transportation certificates may be issued — effect of. — Any railroad company heretofore incorporated, or which may be hereafter organized or incorporated in this state in pursuance of law, may receive subscriptions to the capital stock of such company or corporation to aid in the construction or equipment of its road, to be known as "transportation subscriptions", and the certificates of stock to be issued thereon, as herein provided, shall be known as "transportation certificates", each of which shall be for an amount equal to one share of stock in such company and may be issued to one or more persons, and shall entitle the holder or holders thereof, or their assigns or legal representatives, to all the privileges of a stockholder in such company, but shall not subject the holder to any liability for the debts or obligations of such company, and shall be an irrevocable and indefeasible first lien and charge upon and against such railroad, and the roadbed, rolling stock and depots, engine houses and machine shops of such company, then in possession of or thereafter acquired by such company or its successor or successors or assigns, whether in the hands of such company or of any other person, company or corporation whatsoever into whose hands or possession the same may at any time come, until taken up, paid or discharged by such company as herein provided, except the liens provided by law in favor of the employees of a railroad company, and in favor of parties performing labor, or furnishing materials for the construction or the improvement of the roadbed, rolling stock, station houses, depots, bridges or culverts, and except as to mortgages recorded in the county or counties through which the line of such road runs or is proposed to be run, before the date of the making of such subscription; which mortgages shall have the preference only as to so much of such road and the property of such company as lies or is situated in counties in which the same are at that time recorded; and such mortgage shall not have any preference as a lien upon any property of such company acquired after the time of making such subscriptions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5141)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4668; 1919 § 9858; 1909 § 3057
MO Rev Stat § 388.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.160 - Certificates issued jointly or severally.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.160. Certificates issued jointly or severally. — Any two or more persons may unite in their subscriptions so as to make the same joint as well as several, and have the certificates of stock issued thereon to them jointly; but in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, all subscriptions shall be several and not joint, and may be sued upon severally in any court of competent jurisdiction, without filing the original subscription list as an exhibit in the cause. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5143)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4670; 1919 § 9860; 1909 § 3059
MO Rev Stat § 388.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.170 - Certificates shall draw interest and be assignable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.170. Certificates shall draw interest and be assignable. — Every certificate of stock issued under the provisions of this chapter shall recite that fact upon its face; shall draw interest from date at six percent per annum, unless otherwise agreed in the articles of subscription; and shall be assignable by endorsement, under the hand of the holder thereof, and shall entitle the holder or his assignee to an amount of transportation, either freight or passenger, in his own right or at his request, over any and all parts of the road of such company, its successors, assigns, lessees, or any company operating the same at the time, to an amount equal to the face value thereof and accrued interest, if any, at rates not exceeding those set forth in the recorded statement herein provided for, provided, that such company shall have a right to require one-half of each freight bill, or of the fare for each trip, to be paid in cash, and that the remainder only shall be credited thereon until the amount due and unpaid shall be less than one-eighth thereof after which such holder shall be entitled to freight or passage to an amount equal to the balance due thereon until the same is all paid, when it shall be delivered up to said company, and the rights of such holder thereunder shall cease; provided further, that no assignment of any such certificate shall create any other or greater liability in the assignor than is expressly created by such assignment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5144)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4671; 1919 § 9861; 1909 § 3060
MO Rev Stat § 388.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.180 - Correct record of certificates issued to be kept — shall show what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.180. Correct record of certificates issued to be kept — shall show what. — Every railroad company taking subscriptions under this chapter shall keep in its principal office in this state, open to inspection, a correct record of all such certificates of stock issued by them or their assignor or predecessor, showing the number, date, and to whom issued, and when cancelled; and it shall be the duty of the county clerk, upon production by such company of any such cancelled certificate, to note the fact and date of such cancellation in his office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5145)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4672; 1919 § 9862; 1909 § 3061
MO Rev Stat § 388.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.190 - Interest account with stockholders to be kept.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.190. Interest account with stockholders to be kept. — Any railroad company may open and keep an interest account with their stockholders, from the dates of their payments on their subscription, respectively; and, in order to place all their stockholders on an equal footing, may allow interest from the dates of such payments, payable in stock, for such time and under such regulations as the board of directors may prescribe. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5172)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4707; 1919 § 9897; 1909 § 3092
MO Rev Stat § 388.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.200 - Persons holding stock in fiduciary capacity not liable as stockholders.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   388.200. Persons holding stock in fiduciary capacity not liable as stockholders. — No person holding stock in any such company, as personal representative, conservator, or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security shall be personally subject to any liability as a stockholder of such company; but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly; and the estates and funds in the hands of such personal representative, conservator, or trustee shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent, as the testator or intestate of the protectee or person interested in such fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5140, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4667; 1919 § 9857; 1909 § 3056
MO Rev Stat § 388.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.230 - Capital stock may be reduced, when and how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.230. Capital stock may be reduced, when and how. — Any railroad company incorporated by the laws of this state may at any time reduce the amount of its capital or common stock by a vote of three-fifths in interest of all the stock of such company to be affected thereby, at a stockholders' meeting, called in conformity to the bylaws of such company; and if so voted for, said capital stock may be reduced upon the plan in detail thus submitted to the stockholders; provided, that such reduction shall be so made as to affect the interest of all stockholders alike; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to permit the reduction of the capital stock of any company below the minimum amount prescribed by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5148)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4675; 1919 § 9865; 1909 § 3064
MO Rev Stat § 388.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.240 - Reorganization manager may adopt amendments to charters — certificates of amendments to be filed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   388.240. Reorganization manager may adopt amendments to charters — certificates of amendments to be filed. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statutes of this state applicable to amendments of charters or articles of association of railroad companies incorporated under its laws, where a plan of reorganization of any such railroad company pursuant to the act of Congress of July 1, 1898, entitled "An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Throughout the United States", as amended (herein called "The National Bankruptcy Act" ), has been confirmed by decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, the reorganization managers or committee designated in the plan of reorganization to consummate the same, or such other person so authorized by the court or judge in such reorganization proceedings, shall have full power and authority to adopt such amendments of its charter or articles of association as may be necessary and proper to put into effect and carry out such plan of reorganization and the decrees and orders of the court relative thereto without action by the directors or stockholders of any such railroad company.  2. After the adoption of such amendments of the charter or articles of association a certificate of amendment executed, acknowledged and sworn to by such reorganization managers or committee or such other person so authorized by the court or judge to adopt such amendments, shall be filed with the secretary of state. Such certificate of amendment shall show  (1) The name of the corporation and, if it has been changed, the name under which it theretofore existed;   (2) The amendment or amendments adopted;   (3) The new capitalization of such corporation; and  (4) That such amendments and new capitalization were authorized by the plan of reorganization or in a decree or order of the court relative thereto, and that the plan has been confirmed under The National Bankruptcy Act, with the title and venue of the proceeding and the date when the decree or order confirming the plan was made.  3. Any such reorganized railroad company shall not be precluded from thereafter further amending its charter or articles of association in the manner otherwise provided by law. For the amendment of a charter or articles of association pursuant to a plan of reorganization as in this section provided, there shall be paid to the state of Missouri such fees as are or shall be prescribed by law on any increase in the capital stock of such reorganized company over its aggregate authorized capital stock upon which incorporation fees were previously paid. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 684 § 5289C)
MO Rev Stat § 388.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.250 - Trustees or receivers — rights and powers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   388.250. Trustees or receivers — rights and powers. — Trustees or receivers of railroad companies and corporations and their estates appointed by any court whatsoever owning, holding, operating, controlling or managing any such corporation or company or its estate shall have all the rights and powers possessed by railroad corporations and companies under the laws of Missouri. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 329 § 5289A)
MO Rev Stat § 388.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.260 - Railroad company may own and operate equipment for aerial transportation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.260. Railroad company may own and operate equipment for aerial transportation. — Any steam railroad company operating in this state may acquire, own and operate equipment designed for aerial transportation of persons and/or property in the same manner as individuals are now or may hereafter be lawfully permitted so to do. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5132)  Prior revision: 1929 § 4659
MO Rev Stat § 388.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.270 - May own and operate motor vehicles.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.270. May own and operate motor vehicles. — Any steam railroad company operating a railroad in this state may acquire, own and operate motor vehicles for the purpose of carrying passengers or property, or both persons and property, for hire upon the highways of this state in the same manner as individuals are now or may hereafter be permitted so to do. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5133)  Prior revision: 1929 § 4660  (1956) Railroad, having authority to transport freight by truck from depot to depot, was not entitled to authority to pick up and deliver freight to shippers' docks in absence of showing of public convenience and necessity. State ex rel. Missouri Pac. Freight Trans. Co. v. Pub. Serv. Comm. (A.), 288 S.W.2d 679.
MO Rev Stat § 388.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.280 - Companies may contract with each other.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.280. Companies may contract with each other. — All railroad corporations may contract with each other, or with other corporations, in any manner not inconsistent with the scope, object and purpose of their creation and management. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5183)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4721; 1919 § 9911; 1909 § 3106
MO Rev Stat § 388.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.320 - Power to construct roads, connect with, intersect or cross other lines — duty to receive each other's freight.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.320. Power to construct roads, connect with, intersect or cross other lines — duty to receive each other's freight. — Any railroad corporation or association, organized for the purpose, shall have the right to construct and operate a railroad between any points within this state, and to connect at the state line with railroads of other states; and shall have the right, with its road, to intersect, connect with or cross any other railroad, and shall receive and transport each other's passengers, tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5232)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4775; 1919 § 9963; 1909 § 3162
MO Rev Stat § 388.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.330 - Shall file profile maps, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.330. Shall file profile maps, when. — Every railroad company shall, before constructing any part of its road into or through any county named in its articles of association, and every company heretofore formed and now operating roads in any county in this state, shall make a profile map or maps of the route intended to be or already adopted by such company in such county, which map or maps shall show the actual survey, location and distance of the roadbed through the congressional sections through which such road runs, and also the location and number of miles of main and sidetracks of such road in such county, and which map or maps shall be certified by the president and engineer of the company or a majority of the directors, and filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission of the county in which the road is to be or has been made. The company shall give written notice to all actual occupants of the land over which the route of the road is so designated, and which has not been purchased by or given to the company. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5158)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4685; 1919 § 9875; 1909 § 3074
MO Rev Stat § 388.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 388 - Railroad Corporations|Section 388.340 - Extension of lines — other roads, how acquired — assent of majority of stockholders required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   388.340. Extension of lines — other roads, how acquired — assent of majority of stockholders required. — Any railroad company heretofore organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of this state, may extend its line of railroad beyond this state into or through any other state or territory, and may acquire any line of railroad within or without this state which shall form a continuous line with the road operated by such company, by direct connection or by bridge, ferry or otherwise, or over any other line or lines constructed, or to be constructed, and which bridge, ferry, line or lines, such company shall have the right, by contract or otherwise, when completed, to use or operate, and may acquire and may hold the obligations and stock of other companies owning or operating any such lines of road, bridge or ferry; provided, that no line of railroad shall be so purchased until a meeting of the stockholders of such company or companies of this state, party or parties to such an agreement, whereby a railroad in this state may be purchased, shall have been called by the directors thereof, at such times and places and in such manner as they shall designate, sixty days' due notice thereof having been previously given, and the holders of a majority of such stock, by person or proxy, shall have assented thereto, or until a majority of the holders of the stock of such company shall have consented thereto, in writing, and a certificate thereof signed by the president and secretary of said company or companies shall have been filed in the office of the secretary of state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5164)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4691; 1919 § 9881; 1909 § 3080