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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.345 - Commission may provide assistance, how.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.345. Commission may provide assistance, how. —
The commission may contract with a corporation to provide it assistance in project funding, promotion, planning, design, right-of-way acquisition, relocation assistance services, construction, maintenance, and operation. The commission may charge the corporation a reasonable fee, not exceeding the actual cost of providing the service.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 28)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.347 - Rules, commission may adopt.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.347. Rules, commission may adopt. —
The commission is authorized to adopt reasonable administrative rules regarding transportation corporations under chapter 536.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 29)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.350 - Projects, regulation of — treatment as part of highway system, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.350. Projects, regulation of — treatment as part of highway system, when. —
1. For the purpose of law enforcement, a corporation project shall be treated as a commission highway under chapter 43.
2. All laws of this state relating to maintaining, signing, damaging, and obstructing roads shall apply to corporation projects. The duties and powers imposed by such laws on certain officials shall devolve upon the corporation engineer or other employee designated by the board.
3. For outdoor advertising and junkyard control purposes, a corporation project may be designated by the commission as a part of the state primary highway system.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 30)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.352 - Transfer of project to commission, when — dissolution of corporation, required when — procedures.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.352. Transfer of project to commission, when — dissolution of corporation, required when — procedures. —
1. When a project is completed and all outstanding bonds, notes, obligations, liabilities or other debts of the corporation have been paid and retired or the corporation has provided for payment or retirement as determined by the commission, title to the project shall be transferred to the commission pursuant to contract. The commission shall then be responsible for all future maintenance costs of the project pursuant to contract. At such time, the corporation shall be dissolved unless the board amends the articles of incorporation as provided by sections 238.300 to 238.360 to allow the corporation to commence work on another project.
2. If a corporation is dissolved or liquidated and after all of its outstanding debts have been paid in full, all other income or assets of the corporation shall be liquidated and deposited in the state road fund and shall become the property of the commission.
3. If a corporation must be dissolved or liquidated before all of its outstanding debts and obligations have been paid in full, such liquidation shall be through a receivership action instituted in the appropriate circuit court of this state or as otherwise provided by law.
4. If the corporation or the commission does not elect to complete a project, any real property obtained for the project from the state of Missouri or any agency or political subdivision shall be returned. The state, its agency or political subdivision shall repay or return to the corporation all moneys or property it received from the corporation as consideration for the original transaction.
5. Bonds, notes, obligations, liabilities or other debts of the corporation shall exclusively be the responsibility of the corporation payable solely out of corporation funds and property provided herein and shall not constitute debt or liability of the state of Missouri or any agency or political subdivision of the state.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 31)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.355 - Dissolution by commission, procedures, limitations.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.355. Dissolution by commission, procedures, limitations. —
1. The commission may alter the organization, project or activities of the corporation by written directions to the board.
2. The commission may dissolve the corporation. The commission shall not dissolve the corporation until all outstanding debts and obligations of the corporation have been paid in full, or until any receivership or other appropriate action to conclude the affairs of an insolvent corporation has been completed. The commission shall only dissolve a corporation by judicial proceedings as specified in chapter 355.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 32)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.357 - Dissolution by board, procedures.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.357. Dissolution by board, procedures. —
1. Whenever the board by resolution shall determine that the purposes for which the corporation was formed have been complied with and that all obligations of the corporation have been fully paid or that appropriate judicial action to conclude the affairs of an insolvent corporation has been completed, the board shall, with the commission's prior written approval, dissolve the corporation.
2. It is unnecessary for the board of an insolvent corporation or the commission to take any action to dissolve that corporation if a receivership or other appropriate judicial action has already concluded the affairs of that corporation. A copy of the appropriate order or decree in the judicial proceeding shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall issue a certificate of dissolution of that insolvent corporation without charge.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 33)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.360 - Articles of dissolution, execution of — secretary of state to issue certificate, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 30 May 1990, see footnote
238.360. Articles of dissolution, execution of — secretary of state to issue certificate, when. —
1. Articles of dissolution shall be executed in triplicate by the corporation by its president and attested to by its secretary. Triplicate originals of such articles of dissolution shall be delivered to the secretary of state. If the secretary of state finds that such articles of dissolution conform to the requirements of sections 238.300 to 238.360 and chapter 355, he shall, without charge:
(1) Endorse on each of such originals the word "filed" and the month, day, and year of the filing thereof;
(2) File one of such originals in his office; and
(3) Issue two certificates of dissolution to each of which he shall affix an original.
2. A certificate of dissolution together with an original of the articles of dissolution affixed thereto by the secretary of state shall be returned to the representative of the dissolved corporation and to the commission. Upon the issuance of such certificate of dissolution the existence of the corporation shall cease, except for the purpose of suits, other proceedings, and appropriate corporate action by members, directors and officers as provided in chapter 355.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 34)
Effective 5-30-90
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.362 - Toll enforcement, authority — toll assessment and collection, methods — notice to be posted near toll facility.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
238.362. Toll enforcement, authority — toll assessment and collection, methods — notice to be posted near toll facility. —
1. The commission may authorize transportation corporations which operate a toll facility to enforce the payment of tolls against the operator of a vehicle for the failure of an operator of such vehicle to comply with the toll collection regulations in accordance with the provisions of sections 238.365 and 238.367. Such authorizations shall be made in accordance with rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 536.
2. An authorized corporation may use any method for assessing and collecting tolls, including but not limited to toll tickets, barrier toll facilities, billing accounts, commuter passes and electronic recording or identification devices. The display of a recording or identification device issued or authorized by a corporation for these purposes on or near the windshield of a motor vehicle shall not be a violation of any law or rule in the state of Missouri, unless the device is attached in a way that obstructs the driver's clear view of the highway or an intersecting highway.
3. A corporation operating a toll facility shall post notice on or around a toll facility in the plain view of drivers of vehicles which reads as follows:
NOTICE
FAILURE TO PAY THE REQUIRED TOLL IS A TRAFFIC VIOLATION. TOLL BOOTH OPERATORS WILL REPORT ANY FAILURE TO PAY REQUIRED TOLLS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO WILL ISSUE A TRAFFIC CITATION.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 67)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.365 - Infraction for violation of toll collection regulation — report, admissibility, photo is rebuttable presumption, multiple vehicle owners.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
238.365. Infraction for violation of toll collection regulation — report, admissibility, photo is rebuttable presumption, multiple vehicle owners. —
1. The driver of a vehicle involved in a violation of toll collection regulations is guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine to be determined by the court.
2. A written report or telephone call from a toll enforcement officer or law enforcement officer, or photo monitoring system evidence that indicates a required toll was not paid is admissible in any proceeding to enforce this section, subject to foundation evidence to establish the authenticity of the report, call or photographs. Photo monitoring system evidence which shows that the driver of a vehicle has failed to pay a toll shall raise a rebuttable presumption that the motor vehicle shown in the photographic evidence was used in violation of this section. In the event that charges are filed against multiple owners of a motor vehicle, only one of the owners may be convicted and court costs may be assessed against only one of the owners. If the vehicle which is involved in the violation is registered in the name of a rental or leasing company and the vehicle is rented or leased to another person at the time of the violation, the rental or leasing company may rebut the presumption by providing the peace officer or prosecuting authority with a copy of the rental or lease agreement in effect at the time of the violation. No prosecuting authority may bring any legal proceedings against a rental or leasing company under this section unless prior written notice of the violation has been given to that rental or leasing company by registered mail at the address appearing on the registration and the rental or leasing company has failed to provide the rental or lease agreement copy within fifteen days of receipt of such notice.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 67)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.367 - Procedures to collect tolls and issue traffic citation for toll violation, report of violation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1997
238.367. Procedures to collect tolls and issue traffic citation for toll violation, report of violation. —
The following procedures must be taken for the collection of tolls and issuance of traffic citations under the toll collection regulations:
(1) Any toll booth operator witnessing a violation of the toll collection regulations is authorized to report such violation to a law enforcement official or agency. The report may be in one of the following forms:
(a) A telephone call from a toll enforcement officer to a law enforcement agency indicating a violation, and a reasonable description of the vehicle violating the toll enforcement regulations including, but not limited to, the license plate of the vehicle, the make, model and color of the vehicle;
(b) A certificate, or written report sworn to or affirmed by a toll enforcement officer, agent of the corporation, state patrolman or sheriff's department deputy which charged that the violation occurred, or facsimile thereof, based upon inspection of photographs, microphotographs, videotape or other recorded images produced by a photo monitoring system or a photo from a photo monitoring system, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein, subject to foundation evidence to establish the authenticity of such photographs, microphotographs, videotape or other recorded images produced by a photo monitoring system, and shall be admissible in any proceeding charging a violation of toll collection regulations, provided that any photographs, microphotographs, videotape or other recorded images evidencing such a violation shall be available for inspection and admission into evidence in any proceeding to adjudicate the liability for such violations;
(2) After a report has been given to a Missouri law enforcement agency, such agency is authorized to issue a traffic citation for failure to pay the required toll;
(3) The law enforcement agency issuing the traffic citation is responsible for prosecution of such citation; and
(4) The provisions of this section supplement the enforcement of sections 238.300 to 238.367 by law enforcement officers, and this section does not prohibit a law enforcement officer from issuing a citation for a violation of sections 238.300 to 238.367 or any violation of traffic regulations in accordance with normal traffic enforcement procedures.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 67)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.400 - County first class transit authority created — members, appointment, qualifications.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
238.400. County first class transit authority created — members, appointment, qualifications. —
1. Any county of the first class may, by ordinance or order of the county governing body, establish a county transit authority, which shall be known as the "______ County Transit Authority" and shall consist of five members appointed by the governing body of the county. The county transit authority shall have the powers prescribed in sections 238.400 to 238.412. Any county transit authority created by this section prior to August 28, 1995, shall continue in existence under sections 238.400 to 238.412.
2. The members of the transit authority shall be residents of the county and shall have been qualified voters in the county for a period of at least one year preceding their appointment. Not more than three members of the transit authority shall belong to the same political party.
3. Each member shall be appointed by a majority of the governing body of the county for a term of four years, except that of the members first appointed, one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, and two for a term of four years. The members shall elect from among their membership a chairman and such other officers as the members deem necessary. Vacancies in the transit authority shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments are made. The governing body of the county may remove any member for cause following a hearing.
4. Three members of the transit authority shall constitute a quorum, and any action or order of the transit authority shall require the approval of at least three members. All members shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 235 § 1, A.L. 1995 H.B. 153 merged with S.B. 212)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.404 - County first class transit authority — powers with respect to bi-state development agency.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
238.404. County first class transit authority — powers with respect to bi-state development agency. —
In addition to the powers prescribed in section 238.402, any transit authority established pursuant to section 238.400, with respect to its dealings with the bi-state development agency created pursuant to sections 70.370 to 70.440, may:
(1) Cooperate with the bi-state development agency in the exercise by the bi-state development agency of all the powers granted to it under sections 70.370 to 70.440;
(2) Receive funds from the bi-state development agency upon such terms and conditions as shall be set forth in an agreement between the transit authority and the bi-state development agency, which contract or agreement may be for such number of years or duration as the transit authority and the bi-state development agency may agree;
(3) Acquire from the bi-state development agency any public transportation facility by purchase contract, gift, grant, exchange for other property or rights in property, lease or installment or conditional purchase contracts, which contracts or leases may provide for consideration to be paid in annual installments during a period not exceeding forty years. Such property may be acquired subject to such conditions, restrictions, liens or security or other interests of other parties as the transit authority may deem appropriate and in each case the transit authority may acquire a joint, leasehold, easement, license or other partial interest in such property;
(4) Lease as lessor, or provide for the use by the bi-state development agency any public transportation facility upon such terms and for such consideration, as the transit authority may deem proper; and
(5) Cooperate with the bi-state development agency for the protection of employees of the transit authority and users of public transportation facilities against crime and also to protect such facilities, but neither the transit authority nor its officers or employees shall be held liable for failure to provide a security or police force, or, if a security or police force is provided, for failure to provide adequate police protection or security, failure to prevent the commission of crimes by fellow passengers or other third persons or for the failure to apprehend criminals.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 235 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.406 - Instruments issued by transit authority to be recognized as securities.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
238.406. Instruments issued by transit authority to be recognized as securities. —
Any notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by a transit authority pursuant to the provisions of sections 238.400 to 238.412 are recognized to be securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings associations, building and loan associations, investment companies, and all other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or who may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state of Missouri may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them, or within their control. Such obligations are recognized as securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any state or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 235 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.408 - Property held by transit authority — status for purposes of taxation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
238.408. Property held by transit authority — status for purposes of taxation. —
All property, real and personal, owned or held by any transit authority established pursuant to section 238.400, and all interest income derived from any notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by such transit authority, shall possess the same status, with respect to taxation in the state of Missouri, as is now or may hereafter be possessed by property, real and personal, owned or held by cities within the state of Missouri, and by the interest income derived from notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by such cities.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 235 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 238 - Transportation Districts and Transportation Corporations, Special Projects › Section 238.412 - Certain public officials prohibited from award of government funds.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 238
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
238.412. Certain public officials prohibited from award of government funds. —
No elected official in any city or county establishing a transit authority under the provisions of sections 238.400 to 238.412, acting in his own self-interest for profit or acting on behalf of any firm, corporation, person, or other legal entity with whom such official is engaged in any contractual agreement, shall seek, apply for, or be awarded any federal or state funds appropriated for the purpose of conducting a feasibility study of any proposed public transportation system within such city or county.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 235 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.010 - Reclamation of swamplands by counties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.010. Reclamation of swamplands by counties. —
In order to provide for the reclamation of all overflowed and swamp lands which were granted to the state of Missouri for that purpose by an act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits", approved September 28, 1850, all of said lands in this state are hereby donated to the counties in which they may be respectively situated, and shall be the absolute property of such counties for the purposes designated in sections 241.010 to 241.280; and the secretary of state is hereby required to furnish to the clerks of all the county commissions a certified copy of the approved and corrected list of swamplands in each county, whenever called on for such list by the said clerk or clerks.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12752)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11128; 1919 § 6992; 1909 § 7995
(1959) The ten-year statute of limitations runs against a county to deprive it of title to islands, swamplands and abandoned river beds. Hamburg Realty Co. v. Walker (Mo.), 327 S.W.2d 155.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.020 - Duty of governor and secretary of state as to lists and plats.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.020. Duty of governor and secretary of state as to lists and plats. —
Whenever the situation, description and quantity of said lands are made known to the governor, as soon as he shall receive from the government of the United States lists and plats of said lands, he shall cause such lists and plats to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and the secretary of state shall furnish such information and copies of such lists and plats to the county commissions respectively of the counties in which said lands severally lie; and said lists and plats shall be received in all the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the title in said counties to said lands.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12757)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11133; 1919 § 6997; 1909 § 8000
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.030 - Secretary of state to act as swampland agent — his duties.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.030. Secretary of state to act as swampland agent — his duties. —
1. It is made the duty of the secretary of state of this state to act as swampland agent, to locate such public lands as the state of Missouri may be authorized to locate under the provisions of the act of congress of September 28, 1850, granting swamp and overflow lands to the state of Missouri, and other acts of congress since that time passed, relating to said lands, and to obtain the right of the state under said acts, and settle and adjust any and all claims the state of Missouri may have against the United States growing out of said grant of land. He is hereby authorized to obtain such proof from the various county commissions as is necessary to secure the indemnity from the general government under the act of March 2, 1855, and is hereby authorized to employ assistants for the performance of the duties required of him in sections 241.010 to 241.280, subject to the approval of the governor.
2. He shall receive all moneys, scrip or certificates of indemnity on account of swamp and overflowed lands sold by the government of the United States since the donation of such lands to the state of Missouri, and deposit the moneys or scrip so obtained in the state treasury, to the credit of the county in whose favor the same is drawn, and cancel all records in his office on which indemnity has been received. He shall locate all certificates of indemnity received as aforesaid in the name of the county in whose favor said certificate is drawn, making said location from sight or personal knowledge of the same, and deposit the certificate of said location in the state treasury, subject to the orders of the respective county commissions, and he shall immediately notify said county commissions of all deposits made in conformity with sections 241.010 to 241.280.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12775)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11151; 1919 § 7015; 1909 § 8018
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.040 - Governor to relinquish title to certain lands, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.040. Governor to relinquish title to certain lands, when. —
The governor of the state is hereby authorized to relinquish the title of the state to such swamp and overflowed lands as may have been sold by the general government since the passage of the law donating said lands to the state in which they lie, whenever the counties interested in said lands may, by an order of the county commission, authorize him so to do.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12774)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11150; 1919 § 7014; 1909 § 8017
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.050 - Duty of treasurer.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.050. Duty of treasurer. —
It is made the duty of the treasurer of this state to pay said money or scrip mentioned in section 241.030 to the authorized agents of the counties to which such money or scrip may be made payable by the provisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12776)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11152; 1919 § 7016; 1909 § 8019
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.060 - Expenses, how paid.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
241.060. Expenses, how paid. —
All expenses incurred by the secretary of state in performing the duties under the law relating to the disposition of overflowed and swamp lands shall be paid from the state treasury upon warrants upon the general revenues of the state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12777, A. 1949 S.B. 1081)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11153; 1919 § 7017; 1909 § 8020
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.070 - Compensation of persons appointed to designate lands.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.070. Compensation of persons appointed to designate lands. —
Whenever the lands contemplated in sections 241.010 to 241.280, in any county, shall have been designated and reported by the person or persons appointed in such county for that purpose, the county commission shall audit the account of such person, and allow such reasonable compensation for such services as they may deem just, to be paid from the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12758)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11134; 1919 § 6998; 1909 § 8001
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.080 - Title to be conveyed by patents.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.080. Title to be conveyed by patents. —
In order to convey to the different counties in the state of Missouri a complete title to all the swamp and overflowed lands which have been granted and patented to the state of Missouri by an act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits", approved September 28, 1850, the secretary of state is hereby directed to prepare a patent or patents, embracing all the swamp or overflowed lands lying within the limits of the several counties of this state, conveying thereby all the title and interest of the state of Missouri in and to such lands, to the counties in which such lands may lie, and when such patents have been prepared as provided in sections 241.010 to 241.280, they shall be presented to and signed by the governor of this state, attested by the secretary of state, and recorded by the secretary of state in his office.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12780)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11156; 1919 § 7020; 1909 § 8023
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.090 - Preparation of patents.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.090. Preparation of patents. —
Whenever possible so to do, all the overflowed and swamp lands situate in any one county shall be included in one patent and described numerically by sections, townships and ranges, having due regard for county lines.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12781)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11157; 1919 § 7021; 1909 § 8024
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.100 - Lands hereafter patented to be also conveyed.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.100. Lands hereafter patented to be also conveyed. —
It shall be the duty of the officers named in section 241.080 to convey by patent or patents, as provided in said section, all such overflowed and swamp lands as may hereafter be patented to the state of Missouri by the government of the United States, to the respective counties in which the same may lie.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12782)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11158; 1919 § 7022; 1909 § 8025
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.110 - County recorder to record patents.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.110. County recorder to record patents. —
It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to forward all patents, when the same shall be executed and recorded as required by sections 241.010 to 241.280, to the clerks of the several county commissions of this state, and so soon as the same shall be received by said clerks, the several county commissions shall cause the same to be duly recorded in the recorder's office of their respective counties, as other conveyances are required by law to be recorded.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12783)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11159; 1919 § 7023; 1909 § 8026
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.120 - Patents to be evidence of title.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.120. Patents to be evidence of title. —
All patents issued, executed and duly recorded, as required by sections 241.010 to 241.280, or a certified copy of the same, which shall include all the land therein described, or which shall include any separate and distinct description of the lands therein described, either under the hand of the secretary of state or the recorder of the proper county, shall be received and read in all courts in this state as prima facie evidence of the title in the counties where such overflowed and swamp lands severally lie.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12784)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11160; 1919 § 7024; 1909 § 8027
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.130 - Construction of this law.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.130. Construction of this law. —
Nothing in this law shall be so construed as to require the secretary of state to patent to the several counties, as provided in sections 241.010 to 241.280, any swamp or overflowed lands heretofore patented to the several counties in which such lands lie or which have been patented to any person or persons by the state, nor shall the secretary of state issue patents to any individuals for any overflowed or swamp lands situate in the various counties in this state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12786)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11162; 1919 § 7026; 1909 § 8029
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.140 - County recorder to be lawful custodian.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.140. County recorder to be lawful custodian. —
In all counties where lands have been sold, patents issued, and the same have been recorded, the clerk of the county commission in whose office any such records may now remain, or that hereafter may be made under the laws respecting the sale of swamp and overflowed lands, the issuing of patents therefor, and providing for the record thereof, shall, upon application of the recorder of deeds of such county, or the clerk of the circuit court when ex officio recorder of such county, deliver up to said recorder, or clerk when ex officio recorder, all completed record books of such patents, with the indices and abstracts thereof, and upon the completion of each and every such record book, until all the swamp and overflowed lands in each and every county to which this law applies shall be sold, patents issued, and the same shall be recorded, the clerk of the county commission shall deliver the records thereof to the recorder of deeds, or the clerk of the circuit court when ex officio recorder of the county, with the indices and abstracts of such recorders, for which said recorder, or clerk, when ex officio recorder, shall give the clerk of the county commission a receipt, which he shall file in his office and the said recorder of deeds, or clerk of the circuit court when ex officio recorder, shall be the lawful custodian of all such records received by him, and certified copies of the same shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state, and shall have the same force and effect in all matters of law and equity as if said records had been made by the recorder of deeds, or clerk of the circuit court when ex officio recorder, under the laws of this state providing for the recording of conveyances of real estate.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12788)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11164; 1919 § 7028; 1909 § 8031
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.150 - Control over patented lands vested in county commissions.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.150. Control over patented lands vested in county commissions. —
The several county commissions shall have full power and control over all such overflowed and swamp lands patented to their respective counties under the provisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280, and to sell and dispose of the same in like manner and with like effect as is or may be provided by law for the conveyance of other real estate belonging to their respective counties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12785)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11161; 1919 § 7025; 1909 § 8028
CROSS REFERENCE:
Swamplands may be appropriated for purpose of constructing levee, 245.540
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.155 - County commission may employ counsel, when.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1957
241.155. County commission may employ counsel, when. —
The county commission of any county in this state owning swamp or overflowed lands may employ special counsel or attorneys to represent the county in prosecuting or defending any suit by or against the county for the recovery or preservation of the swamp or overflowed lands, and quieting the title of the county thereto and may pay the special counsel or attorneys reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of any funds arising from the sale of the swamp or overflowed lands, or out of the general revenue fund of the county.
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(L. 1957 p. 580)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.160 - Sale of public lands by county commission — procedure.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.160. Sale of public lands by county commission — procedure. —
Whenever, in the judgment of said county commission, it shall be to the interest of said counties to do so, they shall order the sheriff to sell the same at public vendue to the highest bidder, after giving sixty days' notice, by publication in some newspaper published in the county, if there be one, or if there be no such paper published in the county, then by at least ten written or printed handbills put up at ten public places within the county, containing a general description of the lands to be sold, by section, township and range. Such lands shall be sold in such quantities, at such times and places, and on such terms as they may think proper, and as set forth in such notice, with or without draining or reclaiming the same, as in their discretion they may think most conducive to the interest of their respective counties; and all sales made under the provisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280 shall conform to the subdivisions prescribed by the laws of the United States; provided, however, that no land shall be sold under the provisions of said sections for less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and provided further, that the county commissions of the several counties in this state may, if in their judgment it is deemed advisable, sell any of the swamp or overflowed lands in their counties at private sale, without advertisement as provided in this section, at a price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; provided further, that in all cases where the county commissions of this state have, prior to 1880, sold or disposed of any such swamplands in their respective counties and issued, or caused to be issued, patents for the same, and the patentees, or those holding under them, have been claiming such lands and paying county and state taxes thereon for more than twenty years, such grant shall be deemed and held to be good and valid, and no action shall be maintained for the purpose of setting aside or calling in question such patent or patents.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12754)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11130; 1919 § 6994; 1909 § 7997
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.170 - County commissions may cancel contracts, upon conditions.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.170. County commissions may cancel contracts, upon conditions. —
In every case where persons have become the purchasers of swamp and overflowed lands in the several counties in this state, on credit, either in whole or in part, and shall, by death or otherwise, become unable to pay for the same, the county commission of such county, on the application of such purchaser, or, in case of death, of his or her legal representatives, is hereby authorized to cancel the contract, in whole or in part, upon these conditions: The said commission shall not, in any case, pay back any money or interest that has been paid upon said contract, nor rescind a contract for timbered land, when the timber or any portion of it has been removed since the sale of said land by said commission, without full indemnity being made therefor; and whenever any such sale is cancelled the county commission may resell said land as provided in section 241.160.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12770)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11146; 1919 § 7010; 1909 § 8013
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.180 - Cancellation of contract when process cannot be served, how.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.180. Cancellation of contract when process cannot be served, how. —
If the purchaser of any swamplands has absented himself from this state, so that no process at law can be served on him, the county commission of the county where the said swampland lies may, upon the application of anyone who may have become surety for the purchase of said lands, cancel the contract on such terms as may be deemed equitable and not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 241.010 to 241.280, as provided in section 241.160.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12771)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11147; 1919 § 7011; 1909 § 8014
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.190 - Insufficient title cause for cancellation.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.190. Insufficient title cause for cancellation. —
Whenever the county commissions of this state shall have sold swamp or overflowed lands to which they are unable to make a good and sufficient title, the said commissions are hereby authorized and empowered, with the consent of the purchaser, or, in the case of his or her death or absence from the state, then with the consent of his or her sureties or legal representative, to cancel said contract.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12772)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11148; 1919 § 7012; 1909 § 8015
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.200 - Power to cancel discretionary with commission.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.200. Power to cancel discretionary with commission. —
This law shall not be so construed as to make it obligatory upon any county commission to rescind or cancel any contract or sale heretofore made, but the same shall be wholly discretionary with said commission, having in view the best interests of the county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12773)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11149; 1919 § 7013; 1909 § 8016
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XV - Lands, Levees, Drainage, Sewers and Public Water Supply › Chapter 241 - Swamplands, Islands and Abandoned Riverbeds › Section 241.210 - Lands may be resold, when — conditions.

Title XV LANDS, LEVEES, DRAINAGE, SEWERS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
Chapter 241
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
241.210. Lands may be resold, when — conditions. —
In all cases where swamplands have been or may hereafter be sold, which had been previously sold and patented by any county commission in this state, to a bona fide purchaser, it shall be the duty of the county commission of the county in which such sales were made, upon proper application of the subsequent purchaser, accompanied by the proper proof, showing the facts, to draw a warrant on the county treasury in favor of the person who paid the same, for the amount of such purchase money actually paid into the county treasury; provided, that such person in whose favor such warrant is drawn shall relinquish all interest and title in such land in favor of the county or the prior purchaser holding a prior patent to such lands.
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(RSMo 1939 § 12779)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11155; 1919 § 7019; 1909 § 8022