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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.801 - General sewer system (cities, 10,000 to 30,000).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.801. General sewer system (cities, 10,000 to 30,000). —
All cities in this state having a special charter and containing over ten thousand inhabitants and having less than thirty thousand inhabitants and having special charters shall have power to cause a general sewer system to be established, which shall be composed of four classes of sewers, to wit: Public, district, joint district, and private sewers. Public sewers shall be established, along the principal courses of drainage, at such time, to such extent, of such dimensions, and under such regulations as may be provided by ordinance. These may be extensions or branches of sewers already constructed or entirely new throughout, as may be deemed expedient. The city may levy a tax on all property made taxable for state purposes over the whole city to pay for the constructing, reconstructing and repairing of such work, which tax shall be called "special public sewer tax" and shall be of such amount as may be required for the sewer provided by ordinance to be built; and the fund arising from said tax shall be appropriated solely to the constructing, reconstructing and repairing of said sewer.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7472)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7319; 1919 § 8734; 1909 § 9613
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.804 - Council may require owners to build or repair sidewalks (cities, under 10,000).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.804. Council may require owners to build or repair sidewalks (cities, under 10,000). —
The council of any incorporated town or city in this state having a special charter and containing ten thousand inhabitants or less, shall have power, by ordinance, to cause the owner or owners of any property or lot adjacent to any street or alley in said town or city to build, pave, construct, improve or repair any sidewalk along the side of said property or lot in such town or city.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7445)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7292; 1919 § 8707; 1909 § 9585
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.806 - Sidewalk improvement (cities, under 10,000).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.806. Sidewalk improvement (cities, under 10,000). —
Whenever the council of any town or city shall determine to have any sidewalk built or repaired, as contemplated by section 88.804, the said council shall cause at least ten days' notice, in writing, to be served on the owner or owners of any such property or lot in said town or city which said notice shall require such owner or owners of such property or lot to begin to build, repair and complete the building and repairing of any such sidewalk in a reasonable time thereafter; which said notice shall contain a description of each property or lot as aforesaid, and a general description of the character of such sidewalk, giving the length and breadth of such sidewalk and the material of which all or any part thereof shall be composed; and if, at the expiration of fifteen days after the service of said notice, if in writing, or if by publication, at the end of four weeks after such publication, said owner or owners, as aforesaid, shall not, in good faith, have commenced to build and repair any such sidewalk as aforesaid, and complete the same in a reasonable time thereafter in the judgment of the council, said council shall cause such sidewalk to be built or repaired at the expense of such town or city, the cost and expense of which shall constitute a lien on the property or lot along which such sidewalk may be built or repaired as aforesaid, and the said town or city may enforce the said lien against such property or lot in any court of competent jurisdiction, and a bill duly certified by the treasurer of such town or city to be a true and correct statement of the amount expended or paid by the town or city for the construction or repair of such sidewalk shall be prima facie evidence in any court that the amount therein stated is correct and constitutes a legal lien against the property or lot along which said sidewalk is constructed or repaired as aforesaid; provided, the owner or owners of said property or lot may pay into the treasury of said town or city the cost and expense of building or repairing said sidewalk by the town or city, at any time before the sale of the said property or lot for such cost and expense.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7446)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7293; 1919 § 8708; 1909 § 9586
CROSS REFERENCE:
Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps, when required, 71.365
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.808 - Sidewalk improvement — notice (cities, under 10,000).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.808. Sidewalk improvement — notice (cities, under 10,000). —
If the notice in writing cannot be personally served in the state as provided in section 88.806, or if the owner or owners are unknown and cannot be personally served, the council shall cause four weeks' notice to be published in the English language, in some daily or weekly newspaper published in the county in which the property or lot is situated, setting forth all the facts required in the written notice in section 88.806.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7450)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7297; 1919 § 8712; 1909 § 9590
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.814 - Errors in tax bills, corrected, how — hearing required, when — adjustment authorized — general revenue funds to be used to pay balance, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1975
88.814. Errors in tax bills, corrected, how — hearing required, when — adjustment authorized — general revenue funds to be used to pay balance, when. —
1. Any error made in issuing any tax bill may be corrected by the clerk of the city, town or village who issued it, or his successor in office, either by interlineations in it, or by issuing a new tax bill in lieu of the erroneous one, but when a tax bill is corrected by interlineations the date of making same shall be certified to by the clerk on the margin or back of the bill.
2. In any action brought on any special tax bill the court may correct any error in the amount of the tax bill, and in any case where it is shown that the work done was not as good as required by the contract, the court may give judgment for the reasonable value of the work chargeable against the land described in the special tax bill; and in all actions to enforce any special tax bill the court shall fix and allow a reasonable attorney fee to the plaintiff's attorney for his services in the prosecution of said action and tax the same as costs in the proceeding.
3. In all cases where work is done or improvements made and the cost thereof is assessed as a special tax, any owner of property upon which such tax is levied may request, and the legislative body of such city, town or village shall grant, a public hearing to determine whether such assessment is excessive or is levied at a greater sum than was stated in the notices required by section 88.812. The legislative body is hereby empowered to adjust or reduce such assessment which is determined to be excessive or levied at a greater sum than was stated in the notices. If such adjustments or reductions result in the collection of special taxes insufficient to pay the costs of work done or improvements made, the city, town or village may pay the difference between costs accrued and special taxes collected out of general revenue.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 4, A.L. 1975 H.B. 220)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.816 - Tax bills payable in annual installments, how — interest — effect of default on installment.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 18 Jun 1985, see footnote
88.816. Tax bills payable in annual installments, how — interest — effect of default on installment. —
The total cost of constructing and repairing sidewalks and sidewalk curbing, and for sewers, and for grading, paving, excavating, macadamizing, curbing and guttering of any street, avenue, alley, square, or other highway, or part thereof, and repairing the same, or for any other improvement whatsoever authorized by sections 88.497 to 88.663, and sections 88.667 to 88.773, and sections 80.090 to 80.560, and sections 88.777 to 88.797, and sections 88.811 to 88.861, wherein a special tax bill shall issue therefor, may be paid in ten annual installments. In such case the tax bills shall be payable in annual installments as follows: One-tenth in one year, one-tenth in two years, one-tenth in three years, one-tenth in four years, one-tenth in five years, one-tenth in six years, one-tenth in seven years, one-tenth in eight years, one-tenth in nine years and one-tenth in ten years after the date of their issue, and tax bills may bear interest not to exceed the rate on ten-year United States treasury notes as established at the most recent auction, payable annually, from sixty days after the date of issue until paid, and shall provide that if any annual installment, or the interest thereon, is not paid when due, then all of the remaining installments shall, at the option of the holder of the tax bill, become immediately due and payable; provided, that the owner of property charged with the payment of the tax bill, or the owner of any interest therein, shall have the privilege of paying the whole of any tax bill in full at any time, or on any annual installment payment date of paying in full one or more of the remaining installments not of maturity date.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 5, A.L. 1984 S.B. 613, A.L. 1985 H.B. 676)
Effective 6-18-85
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.818 - Record of tax bills — payment to owner or city — procedure on payment to city.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.818. Record of tax bills — payment to owner or city — procedure on payment to city. —
The clerk shall on completion of all special tax bills enter an abstract thereof in a special book provided for that purpose. Said abstract shall recite the date of the tax bill, the name of the property owner and of the person in whose favor it is issued, and a description of the property subject to the lien, and the street upon which it abuts, amount of the tax bill, and the character of the improvement for which it is issued. When any tax bill is assigned, the assignment shall be noted thereon, and the assignee shall exhibit the same to the city clerk, who shall, on the margin of said tax bill, appropriately note the assignment. The party liable to pay the tax bill may either pay the owner of the tax bill, or he may pay the amount of the tax bill to the collector of the municipality, who shall accept the money and make out duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall deliver to the person so paying the tax bill and the other he shall file with the clerk of the municipality. And thereupon the clerk shall note the filing of the receipt on the margin of the abstract of the tax bill, and shall mark the latter "cancelled", and shall affix his name to the cancellation, with the date thereof. The cancellation shall have the effect to extinguish all liability or right of action on the tax bill. The collector, on the presentation to him of the tax bill by its owner, shall pay to him the amount thereof, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file with the clerk, who shall note it on the margin of the abstract of the tax bill, and the other the collector shall retain. The collector shall be liable on his bond for said collections, and shall be paid two percent thereof for his services.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.822 - Apportionment of costs of improvement and issuance of tax bills — contents.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 18 Jun 1985, see footnote
88.822. Apportionment of costs of improvement and issuance of tax bills — contents. —
After the city has entered into a contract for construction of the improvements, in accordance with the contract for same, the engineer or other official in charge of the improvement shall compute the cost thereof, and apportion the cost among the tracts of land chargeable therewith, charging each tract of land with its proportionate part of the costs, and shall make a written report to the governing body of the municipality describing each tract of land chargeable with a part of the cost of the improvement, and the amount with which it is chargeable. If the governing body of the municipality approves the report, which approval may be made by a motion duly adopted, then the clerk shall immediately thereafter issue and deposit the special tax bills into a special fund as authorized by section 88.815, or, if appropriate, shall hold such special tax bills for delivery to the contractor upon completion of the project in payment for the work in accordance with the engineer's report, which tax bill shall be signed by the clerk and under the corporate seal of the municipality. Each tax bill shall in substance contain a brief general statement of the facts authorizing its issue, the amount for which it is issued, a description of the land against which it is issued, the name of the contractor to whom it is issued, the rate of interest which it bears, and when it begins to bear interest, and shall state that it is a special lien against the land therein described, and give the time that the lien continues. It need not give the name of the owner of the land against which it is issued.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 7, A.L. 1985 H.B. 676)
Effective 6-18-85
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.824 - Costs of improvement to be estimated — contracts not to exceed estimate.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.824. Costs of improvement to be estimated — contracts not to exceed estimate. —
Before the governing body of the municipality shall make any contract for building bridges, sidewalks, culverts or sewers, or for paving, macadamizing, curbing, guttering or grading any street, avenue, alley or other highway, or building any other improvements authorized herein, an estimate of the cost thereof shall be made by the engineer or other proper officer or person designated by ordinance and submitted to the governing body of the municipality, and no contract shall be entered into for any work or improvement for a price exceeding the estimate; provided, that no estimate shall be required for the making of any local or special repairs.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.826 - Construction of street and sidewalk improvements by city, when — special tax bills.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.826. Construction of street and sidewalk improvements by city, when — special tax bills. —
Whenever the governing body of the municipality shall advertise for bids for the construction of any new sidewalk of any kind, or for the construction of new sidewalks in the place of sidewalks condemned, or whenever the city, town or village shall advertise for bids for paving, macadamizing, guttering, curbing, or otherwise improving any street, avenue, alley or other highway or any part thereof, and shall receive no bids therefor, the city, town or village may proceed to construct or reconstruct any sidewalks, or pave, macadamize, gutter, curb or otherwise improve any street at its own expense, and shall keep an accurate account of the amount expended for labor and material, including grading and filling, opposite each lot or piece of ground, and present the same to the governing body of the municipality for assessment, and each lot or piece of ground abutting on the sidewalk, constructed or reconstructed, or other street improvement made, shall be liable for the costs thereof, as reported to the governing body of the municipality by the officer or committee having charge of the matter, and special tax bills shall be issued for the amount thereof, payable to the municipality, against each lot or piece of ground for the amount for which it is liable. In making the assessment there may be as many assessments included in one ordinance as there are lots or pieces of ground reported as having received resulting benefits from the improvement. The special tax bills payable to the city shall be as valid in all respects as other tax bills provided herein, and where any tax bill has been assigned the municipality shall not in any event be liable for any cost that may accrue in any court action brought in the name of the municipality to the use of the holder thereof, nor shall the municipality be liable for the amount of any tax bill after the same is so assigned.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.828 - Cost of bringing street to grade included in special assessment for surfacing.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.828. Cost of bringing street to grade included in special assessment for surfacing. —
The governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance, include in the special assessment for the paving, macadamizing or constructing sidewalks on any street, avenue or alley the cost of bringing to the established grade said street, avenue or alley, or part thereof, proposed to be improved; provided, that the resolution declaring the paving and macadamizing necessary to be done shall also declare that the street, avenue or alley, or part thereof, shall be brought to the established grade, and that the cost thereof shall be included in the special assessment for paying for the paving or macadamizing.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 19)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.832 - General sewer system may be established — special public sewer tax.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.832. General sewer system may be established — special public sewer tax. —
The governing body of any municipality shall have power to cause a general sewer system to be established, which shall be composed of four classes of sewers, to wit: public, district, joint district, and private sewers. Public sewers shall be established, along the principal courses of drainage, at such time, to such extent, of such dimensions, and under such regulations as may be provided by ordinance. These may be extensions or branches of sewers already constructed or entirely new throughout, as may be deemed expedient. The municipality may levy a tax on all property made taxable for state purposes over the whole municipality to pay for the constructing, reconstructing and repairing of the work, which tax shall be called "special public sewer tax" and shall be of the amount as may be required for the sewer provided by ordinance to be built; and the fund arising from the tax shall be appropriated solely to the constructing, reconstructing and repairing of the sewer.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.834 - District sewers — sewers constructed, when — changes.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1982
88.834. District sewers — sewers constructed, when — changes. —
District sewers shall be established for the districts created to be prescribed by ordinance, and shall connect with public, or other district or joint district sewers or with a natural course of drainage, as each case may be, and may be constructed with the main branch or discharge pipe wholly within or beyond the boundary of the district as the council shall determine. The district may be subdivided, enlarged or changed by ordinance at any time previous to the construction of the sewer therein; and more than one district sewer may be laid in a sewer district if deemed necessary by the governing body of the municipality for sanitary or other purposes. The governing body shall cause sewers to be constructed in each district whenever a majority of the property holders shall petition therefor, or whenever the governing body shall deem the sewers necessary for sanitary or other purposes, and the sewer shall be of such dimensions and materials as may be prescribed by ordinance and may be changed, enlarged or extended, and shall have all the necessary laterals, inlets, catch basins, manholes and other appurtenances.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 11, A.L. 1982 S.B. 646)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.836 - Apportionment of costs of district sewer — levy of tax — tax bills.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 18 Jun 1985, see footnote
88.836. Apportionment of costs of district sewer — levy of tax — tax bills. —
After the city has entered into a contract for construction of the district sewer improvements, the engineer or other officer having charge of the work shall compute the whole cost thereof and shall apportion the same against the lots or tracts of ground in the district, exclusive of the public highways, and the officer shall report the same to the governing body of the municipality by bill or otherwise, and the governing body shall therefore levy and assess a special tax by ordinance against each lot or piece of ground within the district; whereupon the clerk shall make out a certified tax bill under the seal of the city, town or village of the assessment against each lot or piece of ground within the district in the name of the owner thereof. Said certified tax bills shall be signed by the mayor and attested and recorded by the clerk and shall be delivered to the contractor in payment for the work upon completion of the project or deposited into a special fund as authorized by section 88.815, as appropriate.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 12, A.L. 1985 H.B. 676)
Effective 6-18-85
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.838 - Joint district sewers, costs, how paid.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.838. Joint district sewers, costs, how paid. —
Joint district sewers may be constructed by the municipality wherever it may deem it necessary that a sewer shall be constructed in any part of the city, town or village containing two or more sewer districts. In such case it may, by ordinance, unite the sewer districts into a joint district sewer and cause a sewer to be constructed therein in like manner and in all respects as is provided in the case of district sewers; except in cases of joint district sewers, the city, town or village may, if deemed proper, provide in the ordinance creating the joint district sewer, that the municipality shall pay a certain proportion to be specified in the ordinance, of the cost of the joint district sewer. The cost of constructing the joint district sewer, except the amount, if any, specified in the ordinance, to be paid by the municipality, shall be assessed and paid in special tax bills against the property included in the joint sewer district, the same as is provided in the case of district sewers.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 13)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.842 - Private sewers, regulation — liability for repair and expense of sewers — condemnation of sewer right-of-way.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.842. Private sewers, regulation — liability for repair and expense of sewers — condemnation of sewer right-of-way. —
1. Private sewers connected with the public, district or joint district sewers may be constructed under such restrictions and regulations as the governing body of the municipality may prescribe by general ordinance; but the municipality shall be at no expense in the construction, repairing or cleaning of the same, or for any damage that may arise from their construction.
2. The municipality shall incur no liability for building district or joint district sewers other than in the manner provided in section 88.838, except when the city, town or village is the owner of a lot of ground within the district or joint sewer district, and in such case the said municipality shall be liable for the cost of said sewer in the same manner as other property owners within the district. The repair, cleaning and other incidental expenses of district and joint district sewers shall be paid out of the general appropriation for that purpose.
3. Whenever the governing body of the municipality shall deem it necessary to run any sewer through private property, the governing body shall have power to condemn the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the opinion of the governing body of the municipality for that purpose, in the same manner that other private property may be condemned within the city, town or village for public uses, and should any sewer be laid through or on private property without the right therefor having been first obtained by said municipality, the contractor, or any person interested, may compel said city, town or village to exercise its right of condemnation by mandamus or other appropriate remedy.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 14)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.844 - City may condemn property for sewers.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.844. City may condemn property for sewers. —
The governing body of the municipality shall have power to condemn private property for use, occupation or possession in the construction and repair of sewers, in the same manner as other property is condemned for public uses.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.846 - Special tax bills for sewers, validity, how collected.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.846. Special tax bills for sewers, validity, how collected. —
All special tax bills issued under the provisions of sections 88.832 to 88.852 for sewers shall be as valid in all respects whatever as the other special tax bills provided for herein and shall be collected in the same manner, containing the same provisions as provided for in sections 88.812 to 88.818 and 88.854.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 16)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.848 - When no bids received, city may construct sewer, tax bills.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.848. When no bids received, city may construct sewer, tax bills. —
Whenever the municipality advertises for bids for the construction of a new district sewer, as provided by law, and receives no bids therefor, the municipality may proceed to construct the sewer at its own expense and shall keep an accurate account of the amount expended for labor and materials used. As soon as the district sewer has been completed the engineer or other officer having charge of the work shall compute the whole cost thereof and apportion the same against the lots, tracts or parcels of ground in proportion to the area of the whole district, exclusive of public highways, and the officer shall report the same to the governing body of the municipality by bill or otherwise. The clerk shall issue tax bills, payable to the municipality, against each lot, tract or parcel of ground for the amount for which it is liable. And when the tax bill made payable to the city, town or village is assigned, the municipality shall not be liable thereon in any court action in any manner as provided in section 88.826.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 17)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.852 - Cost of sewer construction and disposal plants, how paid — limits on changes in sewer district.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.852. Cost of sewer construction and disposal plants, how paid — limits on changes in sewer district. —
The cost of constructing all sewers, including the erection of all necessary disposal plants, in and for any district where such sewers were constructed by assessment against the property of the district shall be paid for wholly in special tax bills against the lands embraced within the district, exclusive of public highways, streets and alleys, in proportion to the area of each tract. The boundaries of no sewer district that has been paid for wholly by special tax bills shall be altered or changed after any sewer has been constructed in and for the same.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.854 - Special tax bills, how collected — evidence.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.854. Special tax bills, how collected — evidence. —
All special tax bills herein authorized shall be assignable and collectible in any action brought in the name of the city, town or village to the use of the holder thereof; but the municipality shall not in any event be liable for any cost that may accrue in the action. The special tax bills shall, in any action thereon, be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings for the 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.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.856 - Action on tax bills, how tried.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.856. Action on tax bills, how tried. —
Any action brought to enforce and foreclose the lien of any special tax bills provided for herein and all questions relating thereto shall be tried by the court.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 20)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.858 - Names of landowners not required in tax bills — parties to action on, assignment — petition in action, contents.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.858. Names of landowners not required in tax bills — parties to action on, assignment — petition in action, contents. —
No special tax bill need give the name of any party owning or interested in any land charged and bound by the lien; and before suit the owner of any part in severalty, or of any undivided interest in any land charged by any tax bill, may pay his share separately, in which case his part or interest shall not be further liable in case of suit. All or any of the owners of the land charged, or of any interest or estate therein, may be made defendants in any suit, but only the right, title, interest and estate of the parties made defendant in any suit shall be affected or bound thereby, or by the proceedings therein. In case any owner of the land, or of any interest therein, shall be unknown, or a nonresident of the state, suit under this section may be brought against the owner separately or together with others, and the unknown or nonresident owner may be proceeded against and charged by giving notice, either by publication in a newspaper or otherwise, as in suit in the circuit court to enforce any other lien on land in the county. Every tax bill, and the lien thereof, shall be assignable, and any assignee may sue in his own name. It shall be sufficient for the plaintiff, in any suit on the special tax bill, to plead the making of the tax bill sued upon, giving the date and contents thereof, and the assignment thereof, if any, and to allege that the party or parties made defendant own, or claim to own, the lands charged, or some estate or interest therein, as the case may be, and to file the tax bill in suit. Special tax bills against different lots or parcels of land, owned by the same party or parties made defendant, may join in one suit; but a separate judgment on each tax bill shall be rendered, and execution shall be issued accordingly.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 21)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.861 - Special judgment on tax bill, effect — interest rate — parties only bound.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
88.861. Special judgment on tax bill, effect — interest rate — parties only bound. —
In any suit for the foreclosure of a special tax lien, the judgment shall be special, that the plaintiff recover the amount found due, including interest, together with the costs, including a reasonable attorney fee, to be levied and made on the land described in the tax bill or liable for the special tax, and a special execution shall issue to sell the land to pay any judgment, interest and cost. The judgment, exclusive of costs, shall bear interest at the same rate as the special tax. The suits may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction. Proceedings on special executions on the judgment shall, including the making of the deeds to purchasers, conform, as far as practicable, to proceedings on other special executions from the circuit court. Every special judgment shall bind all the right, title, interest and estate in the land that defendants, and each of them, own at the time that the lien of the special tax commenced or acquired afterward, and a sale on execution thereof shall vest all right, title, interest and estate in the purchaser; but parties interested in the land not made defendants shall not be affected thereby, and if they claim through or under any party defendant by right acquired before the suit was brought, may redeem from the purchaser or otherwise assert their rights according to equity and good conscience.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 344 § 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.863 - Sidewalks — power of city council.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.863. Sidewalks — power of city council. —
Every city in this state that now has or may hereafter have a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants (that is now or may hereafter be incorporated and operating under the general statutes or special charter) shall have and is hereby given the power regarding sidewalks along any of the streets, avenues or other highways within such city, as provided in sections 88.863 to 88.913.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7537)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7383; 1919 § 8791; 1909 § 9647
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.867 - Definitions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.867. Definitions. —
1. The term
"approaches"
or
"sidewalk approaches"
as used in sections 88.863 to 88.913 shall be understood to mean the extension of sidewalks at corner lots from the property line each way to the street curb line, and being in fact the connection across the parkway or intervening space between the corner of the property and the crossing in the street.
2. The words
"city clerk"
shall be construed to mean the officer of any city who performs the duties appertaining to the office of clerk or record keeper of such city, whether he be known as city clerk or by any other title.
3. The words
"city council"
as used in sections 88.863 to 88.913 shall in all cases be construed to mean the legislative or governing body of any city, whether it be known by that or any other title.
4. The words
"city engineer"
and the words
"street commissioner"
shall be construed to mean any person appointed, authorized or employed by the city council to exercise and perform the duties and functions commonly appertaining to such officers.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 7538, 7545)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 7384, 7391; 1919 §§ 8792, 8799; 1909 §§ 9648, 9655
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.870 - Council may regulate building of sidewalks and parkways.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.870. Council may regulate building of sidewalks and parkways. —
The city council may, by ordinance, regulate the building, construction, reconstruction or repair of sidewalks, and may adopt plans and specifications for sidewalks and parkways, which parkways shall include all of the space between curbstone and the building or property line, or any space in the center of a street which may be set aside as a parkway, and prescribe and require certain materials to be used, and the manner and form of doing said work, including the kind of shade trees to be planted and the manner of their care and preservation.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7539)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7385; 1919 § 8793; 1909 § 9649
CROSS REFERENCE:
Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps, when required, 71.365
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.873 - Condemnation of sidewalks.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.873. Condemnation of sidewalks. —
The city council may, by ordinance, condemn any sidewalk which they may deem to be in a dangerous or defective condition or out of repair, or any sidewalk which is not located upon the established grade and line for sidewalks (on the street on which it is located, as provided by the ordinances of said city), or any sidewalk which does not conform to the specifications and requirements for sidewalks in said city, as provided by the ordinances of said city, and to provide for the removal of any sidewalk so condemned.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7540)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7386; 1919 § 8794; 1909 § 9650
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.877 - Sidewalk maintenance by owner.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.877. Sidewalk maintenance by owner. —
The city council may, by ordinance, provide that the owner of any lot or tract shall build and construct, or rebuild or reconstruct or repair, a sidewalk lying along and adjacent to his said property, and may require said owner to grade, fill or park that portion of the street lying between the property line and the street curb line, and to build approaches as defined in section 88.867, and may provide for the serving of notice to do said work by delivering a written order to said property owner, or his representatives, or by publication, and may provide, by ordinance, that any person who shall, after having been notified as above, fail, neglect or refuse to comply with said order, shall be guilty of an offense, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7541)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7387; 1919 § 8795; 1909 § 9651
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.883 - Sidewalk maintenance by city.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.883. Sidewalk maintenance by city. —
The city council may, by ordinance, provide for the repairing or reconstruction of any sidewalk by the city engineer or other proper person designated in said ordinance, paying the cost thereof as provided in section 88.880, and may assess and levy the cost thereof as a special assessment, as in sections 88.863 to 88.880 provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7543)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7389; 1919 § 8797; 1909 § 9653
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.887 - Sidewalk districts.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.887. Sidewalk districts. —
1. The city council of any city coming within the purview of sections 88.863 to 88.913 may, when deemed necessary or expedient, divide said city or any portion thereof into sidewalk districts, by ordinance, and may adopt plans and specifications for the building of all sidewalks within said district or districts, and may advertise for bids and award a contract to the lowest and best responsible bidder for the building and construction of all sidewalks which may be ordered built by the city council within said district for the next ensuing year. Said advertisement for bids shall be published in at least one issue of a weekly newspaper or at least two consecutive issues of a daily newspaper published in said city, or if there be no newspaper published in said city, may be published in any newspaper within such county in which said city is located.
2. And before the bids are opened or any contract let, the city engineer, or other proper person designated by the city council, by ordinance, shall prepare and submit to the city council an estimate of the cost of said sidewalk, including approaches, grading and parking, material, etc., which estimate shall be the price per cubic yard or square yard, as the case may be, for the finished improvement; and no contract shall be let for a price in excess of said estimate. And the cost of all sidewalks, approaches, parking or other improvement herein contemplated shall be, on their completion, levied as a special assessment against the lot, tract or parcel of ground along and in front of which said improvement is made, as provided in section 88.890.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7544)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7390; 1919 § 8798; 1909 § 9654
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.890 - Sidewalk improvement — assessments.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.890. Sidewalk improvement — assessments. —
The cost of any of the work or improvements contemplated in sections 88.863 to 88.913 that are made and done either by contract or by the city engineer or other proper person acting for the city as above provided in section 88.883 (except the cost of condemnation and removal of sidewalks, which shall be paid by the city) shall be levied as a special assessment against the lot, tract or parcel of ground along and in front of which said improvement is made; and the cost of the approaches, as defined in section 88.867, shall be levied as a special assessment against the corner lots which said approaches abut and connect with. And said assessment shall be levied by ordinance, in which ordinance shall be set out separately the number and title of the ordinance under authority of which the work will be done, a separate description of each lot, tract or parcel of ground assessed, the name of the owner thereof, the number of front feet therein abutting on said improvement, the separate items of cost of said improvement and the total amount thereof; and said assessment ordinance shall further provide for the making out of tax bills by the city engineer, or other proper person therein designated, in evidence of said assessments, payable to the contractor doing the work, and for the delivery of said tax bills in payment for said work, or if the work was done by the city engineer or other person acting for the city as provided in sections 88.863 to 88.887, the tax bills shall be made payable to such engineer or other person and for and to the use of the city, and shall be collected the same as other tax bills.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7546)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7392; 1919 § 8800; 1909 § 9656
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 88 - Public Works and Special Assessments — Condemnation › Section 88.893 - Sidewalk maintenance — tax bills.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 88
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
88.893. Sidewalk maintenance — tax bills. —
A separate tax bill shall be issued against each lot or tract against which an assessment has been made, and shall state therein the name of the owner of record of the lot or tract assessed, an adequate description of said lot or tract, the number of front feet therein abutting on the improvement, the number of the improvement ordinance under which the work was done, and the number of the assessment ordinance under which the tax bills are issued, the different items of improvement and total cost thereof; and shall be payable to the contractor doing the work, or to the city engineer or other person to and for the city, as the case may be. Said tax bills shall be due in thirty days after the date of issue thereof, and may bear interest as provided by ordinance, after said thirty days, at a rate of not to exceed eight percent per annum.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7547)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7393; 1919 § 8801; 1909 § 9657