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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.150 - Condemnation of property for public use, proceedings.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.150. Condemnation of property for public use, proceedings. —
1. Every county commission participating by authority in this law, in the purchase of or a contract for right-of-way over a bridge, shall cause such a highway to be opened in the county as may be necessary to give access to such bridge by the public; and every city so participating shall cause such streets or highways to be opened in the city as may be necessary for such purpose.
2. If the county commission or the city cannot agree with the owner of any land needed as right-of-way for such highway as to the amount to be paid him as damages for opening such highway, or if any such owner be incapable in law of making conveyance of such right-of-way, proceedings may be instituted in the circuit court in the name of such county, or of such city, for the condemnation of the lands, or any part thereof, needed for such right-of-way. The proceedings in the circuit court for the condemnation of such lands or any part thereof shall be had and conducted in the same manner and with like effect as provided in chapter 523 for condemnation of property for public use.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8558)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7914; 1919 § 10702
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.160 - Toll bridges in two counties permitted, when, where.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.160. Toll bridges in two counties permitted, when, where. —
If a bridge be necessary over any watercourse which divides one county from another, and the county commissions of both counties shall determine that such bridge cannot be built, reconstructed or maintained at the expense of said counties, respectively, on account of the lack of funds and power to raise funds, then said county commissions of said counties are authorized to unite in empowering and granting the right to such person, partnership or corporation as they shall think proper to build or reconstruct such bridge as a toll bridge in such a manner and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by said county commission, and empower such person, partnership or corporation to charge, collect and receive such tolls as shall be determined as maximum tolls by the said county commissions of said counties at the time of empowering or granting said rights. Said person, partnership or corporation shall then build or reconstruct and maintain said bridge at their own expense; provided, this section shall not apply to bridges on state roads.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8542)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7906; 1919 § 10694; 1909 § 10499
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.170 - Toll bridges may be built, how.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.170. Toll bridges may be built, how. —
If a bridge located wholly within any one county be necessary over any watercourse, and the county commission of such county shall determine that such bridge cannot be built, reconstructed or maintained at the expense of said county on account of the lack of funds and power to raise funds, then said county commission may grant the right to such person, partnership or corporation, as they shall think proper, to build or reconstruct such bridge as a toll bridge in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon, and empower such person, partnership or corporation to charge, collect and receive such tolls as shall be determined as maximum tolls by the said county commission at the time of empowering or granting said rights. Said person, partnership or corporation shall then build or reconstruct and maintain said bridge at their own expense; provided, this section shall not apply to bridges on state roads.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8543)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7907; 1919 § 10695; 1909 § 10500
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.180 - Toll bridge to be part of state highway system.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.180. Toll bridge to be part of state highway system. —
The state highways and transportation commission of the state of Missouri is hereby authorized and directed to include as a part of the state highway system the whole of any toll bridge across any river forming a common boundary to this state and any other state or states, now or hereafter constructed, maintained, operated or owned by any person, firm or corporation, and to construct, maintain and operate, as a part of said state highway system, an approach within the boundaries of the state of Missouri to such bridge and highways connecting the same with established highways.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8544)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.200 - Commission may accept title and ownership of bridge, when — obligation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.200. Commission may accept title and ownership of bridge, when — obligation. —
The state highways and transportation commission is hereby authorized to take and accept conveyance of title to and ownership of any such bridge, or part thereof, situated within the state of Missouri, subject to any incumbrance against any such bridge and pledge of its tolls previously executed, but not in assumption of any such incumbrance or part thereof existing upon or against any such bridge at the time of such conveyance. And such acceptance of title to and ownership of the same shall not in any manner create any liability, present or future, upon or against the state of Missouri or the state highways and transportation commission thereof, for the payment or assumption of any such incumbrance or any part thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8546)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.210 - Acquisition of toll bridges, by whom.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.210. Acquisition of toll bridges, by whom. —
Any county, municipality, road district, political or civil subdivision of a county or of the state, severally or acting with other authorized agencies in this or adjoining states, may acquire, own and operate, construct, or aid in the construction, in whole or in part, improve or extend, and maintain toll bridges, including the approaches thereto, either within or adjacent to the territory over which such public agency has jurisdiction and over any of the rivers and waters in or forming the boundary between this and other states.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8547)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.220 - Toll bridge revenue bonds — who may issue — manner.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.220. Toll bridge revenue bonds — who may issue — manner. —
1. In order to secure funds for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning and operating, improving or extending, and maintaining toll bridges, and approaches thereto, all public agencies named in section 234.210 may issue negotiable toll bridge revenue bonds and sell such bonds to the United States government, or any authorized agency thereof, or other investor or investors.
2. In the event of the issuance and sale of bonds authorized by sections 234.210 to 234.300 by a public agency, such agency shall charge a reasonable toll for the use of any such toll bridge, the amount of which toll shall be sufficient to pay the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing and operating such bridge and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize and repay any such loan, including interest and financing cost, on such dates and within such period of time as may be agreed upon between the borrower and the original purchaser of such revenue bonds, and said tolls shall be used for no other purpose; and any public body which shall issue bonds under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300 is hereby authorized and required to make all necessary provisions for the payment of principal and interest on any such bonds by the fixing, collecting, segregating, and allocating of the tolls and other revenues received from the operation of said bridge or bridges.
3. Such public agencies enumerated in section 234.210 may execute liens in proper form, pledging the revenue derived from the toll from such toll bridges or parts thereof which are constructed or acquired with funds borrowed as aforesaid, to the retirement of such bonds; provided, however, that no revenue bonds or any liens securing such bonds shall be repaid in whole or in part from any funds arising from taxation, nor shall any such bonds or liens, given under authority of sections 234.210 to 234.300 constitute a lien on any other property of any such public agency or a pledge of the credit of such agency; and provided further, that at such time when all moneys borrowed as aforesaid shall have been repaid, together with interest and charges thereon, no further toll shall be charged for the use of such bridges by the traveling public.
4. Such bonds may be made negotiable, may bear interest not to exceed six percent per annum, and may mature annually or semiannually, and may be sold at such time and in such manner as the issuing authority may determine upon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8548)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.230 - Highways and transportation commission may contribute to cost — amount.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.230. Highways and transportation commission may contribute to cost — amount. —
The state highways and transportation commission may, when in its opinion the best interests of the state require, contribute not to exceed thirty percent of the cost of construction of such bridge or bridges when constructed under the provisions of sections 234.210 and 234.220 and when such bridges form a part of or a continuation of the state highway system, and may incorporate any such toll bridge into the state highway system and maintain such bridge as a part of the state highway system; provided, however, that such law shall create no obligation or responsibility on the part of the state highways and transportation commission to make any refund for any moneys expended in the acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of such bridge.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8549)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.240 - Acquisition of land, by whom.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.240. Acquisition of land, by whom. —
The public agencies named in section 234.210 may acquire by purchase or by eminent domain all necessary land, rights-of-way, easements, materials and supplies for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning and operating, improving or extending, and maintaining toll bridges, and approaches thereto.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8550)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.250 - Bridges to be toll-free, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.250. Bridges to be toll-free, when. —
Provided that nothing in this law shall authorize or permit the collection of tolls on any bridge heretofore made toll-free or on any existing bridge on which tolls are not at present collected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8551)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.260 - Revenue and refunding bonds, how redeemed — interest rate.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
234.260. Revenue and refunding bonds, how redeemed — interest rate. —
1. For the purpose of redeeming any toll bridge revenue bonds or toll bridge revenue refunding bonds at maturity, or upon voluntary surrender by the holder or holders thereof regardless of maturity, or upon call for redemption of any such bonds prior to maturity, if the right to make such call was expressly reserved in the issuance of such bonds, the public agency by which such bonds were issued may issue its negotiable toll bridge revenue refunding bonds in an amount sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal amount and the redemption premium, if any, of the bonds to be redeemed, together with interest accrued and to accrue thereon to the date of such refunding bonds, and together also with the expenses necessarily incurred in the issuance of such refunding bonds.
2. All such refunding bonds shall bear such date, shall mature in such amount or amounts and at such time or times, shall be payable at such place or places, shall be executed in such manner, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum, and shall be of such denomination or denominations, all as may be determined by the governing authority of the public agency by which such refunding bonds are issued, and such refunding bonds shall be secured and provision for their payment shall be made in the same manner as in sections 234.210 to 234.300 with reference to the security for and the payment of original toll bridge revenue bonds issued hereunder.
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(L. 1941 p. 525 § 5b)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.270 - Bonds, how sold or exchanged.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
234.270. Bonds, how sold or exchanged. —
Toll bridge revenue refunding bonds issued under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300, may be sold at such time and in such manner as the issuing authority may determine upon, or such refunding bonds may be issued and delivered in exchange for and upon surrender and cancellation of the bonds to be refunded thereby, with adjustment of interest to be made in cash, if necessary.
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(L. 1941 p. 525 § 5c)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.280 - Maturity date may be extended.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
234.280. Maturity date may be extended. —
1. In lieu of issuing toll bridge revenue refunding bonds as provided for in section 234.220, the governing authority of any public agency now or hereafter having outstanding bonds issued under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300, may, with the consent of the holders of such bonds, extend the maturity date or dates of such bonds and, with like consent, may also reserve the right to call in, pay and redeem such bonds on any interest payment date prior to the extended maturity date or dates thereof, and, with like consent, may also change the interest rate thereon. All such changes in the terms of such bonds shall be evidenced by proper endorsement or endorsements to be made on or attached to such bonds and by attaching to such bonds such appropriate interest coupons as may be necessary to evidence the interest to accrue thereon to such extended maturity date or dates. No such extension of maturity or reservation of the right of redemption prior to maturity, or change in interest rate shall be construed as changing or varying in any respect or to any extent any other terms or provisions of such bonds.
2. Upon the making of any such extension or extensions of maturities, or upon reservation of the right of redemption prior to maturity, or upon making any change of interest rate, the governing authority of the public agency by which such bonds were issued shall cause to be certified to the state auditor of Missouri, for filing in his office, a full transcript of proceedings and other documents relating to such extension, reservation or change, but such bonds, bearing such endorsement or endorsements and having such appropriate interest coupons attached thereto, need not again be registered by said state auditor.
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(L. 1941 p. 525 § 5d)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.290 - Bonds may be called — notice to be given.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
234.290. Bonds may be called — notice to be given. —
In the issuance of toll bridge revenue bonds or toll bridge revenue refunding bonds under the provisions of sections 234.210 to 234.300, the issuing authority may reserve unto itself the right, at its option, to call in, pay and redeem such bonds prior to the maturity date or dates thereof at such premium as such issuing authority may designate in such bonds, but not exceeding a premium equal to five percent of the principal amount of such bonds; provided, however, that whenever it is desired to exercise the aforesaid right, if reserved in such bonds, the issuing authority shall cause written notice thereof to be delivered to the bank or office at which such bonds are payable, and such notice shall be so delivered not less than thirty days prior to the interest payment date designated for the redemption of such bonds, after which date, so designated, no further interest shall accrue on the bonds so called for redemption. Notice of the exercise of such right shall also be filed with the state auditor of Missouri, as provided by section 108.260.
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(L. 1941 p. 525 § 5e)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.300 - Expenses, how paid.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
234.300. Expenses, how paid. —
All expenses necessarily incurred under the provisions of sections 234.260 to 234.290 shall be deemed to be expenses of operation of any such bridge and may be paid by the issuing authority in the same manner as other expenses of such operation are paid.
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(L. 1941 p. 525 § 5f)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.310 - Certain cities empowered to acquire, construct, operate and maintain bridges.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
234.310. Certain cities empowered to acquire, construct, operate and maintain bridges. —
All cities in this state now organized and operating under a special charter, or which are now or hereafter may be organized under the provisions of Section 19 of Article VI of the State Constitution, are hereby given the power and authority to build and construct bridges, viaducts and their approaches thereto; also to acquire, in whole or in part, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation proceedings or otherwise, bridges, viaducts and the approaches thereto already constructed, together with the necessary lands, rights-of-way, easements, leaseholds, other property and rights, upon which any such bridge, viaduct, or its approach are now or may hereafter be constructed, operated and maintained by private parties, and to own, operate and maintain any such structure for public use, as and for a public highway for all kinds of vehicles, pedestrians, railroads and streetcars under such terms and conditions as the city may lawfully prescribe; and such cities are hereby empowered and authorized to condemn and pay for any or all such public improvements so constructed or acquired, together with the necessary lands, rights-of-way, easements, leaseholds, other property and rights, upon which any such bridge, viaduct or its approach are now or may hereafter be constructed, operated and maintained, in the manner aforesaid, either in whole or in part out of the general funds of the city, in whole or in part out of money raised from the sale of municipal bonds for that purpose, in whole or in part by special assessments.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8559, A.L. 1945 p. 1488)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14844; 1919 § 13815
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.320 - Condemnation proceedings.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.320. Condemnation proceedings. —
In the event the whole or any part of the cost of such bridge or viaduct or the approaches thereto, or the right-of-way therefor, or any interest therein, or any other property and rights upon which any such bridge, viaduct or its approaches are now or may hereafter be constructed, operated and maintained, shall be sought to be condemned by such city and paid for by special assessments against any private property, subject to special assessment as may now or hereafter be prescribed by the charter of such city, the common council, or two houses of legislation, of such city shall so declare by ordinance, and the city, if it so desires, may proceed with such condemnation in the manner now prescribed or which hereafter may be prescribed by the charter of such city for the taking or damaging of private property for public use; but no part of such structure sought to be condemned shall be removed by the owner thereof, and it shall not be necessary to file detailed plans of such structure with such proceedings, but a general description of such structure may be made in the ordinance. All special assessments shall be made and collected in accordance with the charter provisions above referred to.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8560)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14845; 1919 § 13816
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.330 - Existing rights not impaired.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.330. Existing rights not impaired. —
The provisions of sections 234.310 and 234.320 shall not abrogate or impair any right or power which such cities may now or hereafter have to build and construct bridges and viaducts and their approaches thereto, or to acquire, in whole or in part, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation proceedings or otherwise, bridges, viaducts and the approaches thereto already constructed, together with the necessary lands, rights-of-way, easements, leaseholds, other property and rights, upon which any such bridge, viaduct or its approaches are now or may hereafter be constructed, operated and maintained by private parties, and to own, operate and maintain any such structure for public use as and for a public highway for all kinds of vehicles, pedestrians, railroads and streetcars.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8561)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14846; 1919 § 13817
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.340 - Cities having 100,000 population and over — power and authority.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
234.340. Cities having 100,000 population and over — power and authority. —
All cities in this state having one hundred thousand inhabitants or over are hereby given the power and authority to build or acquire, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, within their corporate limits or within a reasonable distance outside thereof, a bridge or bridges, or a tunnel or tunnels, for public use by railroads, streetcars, vehicles of all kinds and pedestrians, over or under rivers and streams in Missouri or those forming a boundary between this and other states, and to acquire, hold, use and retain, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, land to be used for approaches for and in the construction, operation and maintenance of said bridge or bridges, tunnel or tunnels, in this and other states, and to maintain, use and operate said bridge or bridges, tunnel or tunnels, either as toll or free bridges or tunnels, as may by said cities be deemed expedient.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7574)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7431; 1919 § 8839; 1909 § 9688
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.370 - Commissioners — appointment and qualifications.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1949
234.370. Commissioners — appointment and qualifications. —
Within ninety days after this law becomes effective the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint five commissioners of the Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission created by compact between the states of Missouri and Tennessee. If the senate is not in session at the time for making any appointment, the governor shall make a temporary appointment as in case of a vacancy. All commissioners so appointed shall be qualified voters of the state of Missouri and shall reside within the county of Pemiscot, Missouri, or counties adjacent thereto.
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(L. 1949 p. 625 § 1)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Members to be appointed by the highways and transportation commission, 226.007
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 234 - Bridges › Section 234.380 - Terms of commissioners.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 234
Effective - 28 Aug 1949
234.380. Terms of commissioners. —
Of the commissioners first appointed one shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. At the expiration of the term of each commissioner and of each succeeding commissioner, the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint a successor who shall hold office for a term of five years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and qualified.
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(L. 1949 p. 625 § 2)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Members to be appointed by the highways and transportation commission, 226.007
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.010 - Street light maintenance districts (first class counties).

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.010. Street light maintenance districts (first class counties). —
A street light maintenance district may be organized as provided in this chapter in any county of class one.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.020 - Purpose of district — location.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.020. Purpose of district — location. —
A street light maintenance district shall have for its purpose the maintenance and operation of the street lights on the streets of the district. Such district must be wholly within a county of class one, must consist of contiguous tracts or parcels of property, and may be contiguous to but may not include any part of any incorporated city, town or village.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 2)
CROSS REFERENCE:
County planning commission powers over public improvement in class one counties, 64.010 to 64.295.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.030 - Petition for organization, contents.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
235.030. Petition for organization, contents. —
The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county in which the real property in the proposed district is situated. The petition shall be signed by one hundred voters of the proposed district. The petition shall set forth the following:
(1) Proposed name of the street light maintenance district;
(2) An estimated number of the inhabitants;
(3) The assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property located in the district;
(4) The estimated annual cost of the operation of the district;
(5) A general description of the boundaries of the district or the territory to be included therein with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether or not his property is within the district;
(6) The names of three voters who shall constitute the first board of directors of the district, one to hold office until the first biennial election, one until two years and one until four years after such election;
(7) Such other data and information as may be useful to the county commission in determining the necessity for the organization of the district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 3, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.040 - Petition may be amended — filing fee.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
235.040. Petition may be amended — filing fee. —
1. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the county commission may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors in the description of the territory, or in any other particular. Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district, revising the boundaries of the proposed district, or recommending another chosen name for the district, or recommending other voters for the first board of directors, may be filed at any time before a hearing is had on the petition, and shall, together with the first petition, be regarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the county commission the same as though filed with the first petition placed on file.
2. There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to be used by the county commission to pay for publication notices in connection with the hearing and for the submission of the question.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 4, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.050 - Notice to be published, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.050. Notice to be published, when. —
Immediately after the filing of such petition, the county commission shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the county clerk shall cause notice by publication to be made of the filing of the petition and the pendency of the action and of the time and place of the hearing.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.060 - Protesting petition.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.060. Protesting petition. —
Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the county clerk protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such protesting petition shall be signed and filed by or on behalf of one or more qualified taxpaying electors of the district, and shall recite wherein the incorporation of the district will not promote the purposes as set forth in the petition, or wherein sufficient facts have not been related to justify the incorporation of such district, and any other facts which may be useful to the commission in determining whether or not such original petition shall be allowed.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.070 - County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
235.070. County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected. —
1. If it shall appear at the hearing that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented, as provided in section 235.030, in conformity with this law, and that no protesting petition has been filed, or if one has been filed, that the facts adduced in behalf thereof at the hearing are insufficient to sustain such protesting petition, the county commission shall, by order duly entered of record, declare the district organized, define the boundaries thereof, making such changes in the boundaries thereof, making such changes in the boundary line as set forth in the petition, if any, as the county commission may deem proper, and give it a corporate name by which in all proceedings it shall thereafter be known, and thereupon the district, subject to the election provided in this section, shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate with all the powers of like or similar corporations.
2. The order of incorporation shall not become final and conclusive until it shall have been submitted to the voters residing within the boundaries described in such order, and until it shall have been assented to by a majority vote of the voters of the district voting on the question. The county commission shall order the submission of the question.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall a street light maintenance district, to be known as the ______ street light maintenance district, be incorporated?
4. If a majority of the voters of the district voting on such question shall have voted in favor of the question to incorporate the district, then the commission shall enter its further order declaring the order of incorporation to be final and conclusive. In the event, however, that the commission shall find that a majority of the voters voting thereon shall not have voted in favor of the question to incorporate the district, then the commission shall enter its further order declaring said order of incorporation to be void and of no effect.
5. If the commission enters an order declaring the order of incorporation to be final and conclusive, it shall at the same time designate the first board of directors of said district from among the names of the voters who have been named in one or more petitions filed in said cause, one to hold office until the first biennial election of board members, one until two years and one until four years after such election.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 7, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.080 - County commission findings and orders to be filed, where.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.080. County commission findings and orders to be filed, where. —
Within thirty days after the final order of the county commission in which said district has been declared a public corporation, the county clerk of said commission shall transmit to the recorder of deeds in the county in which the district is located copies of the findings and orders of the commission incorporating said district. The same shall be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.090 - Board members to qualify, how — bonds.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.090. Board members to qualify, how — bonds. —
Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall qualify by filing with the county clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such board members shall also file with the county clerk corporate surety bonds to be furnished at the expense of the district, the form and amount thereof to be fixed and approved by the county commission, and said bonds to be conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as directors.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.100 - Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.100. Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary. —
After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the district, who may or may not be members of the board. The secretary and the treasurer may be one person. Such board shall adopt a seal, and the secretary shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all its proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees and a record of corporate acts, which shall be open to inspection of all owners of property in the district, as well as to all other interested parties.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.110 - Treasurer's bond — financial statement.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.110. Treasurer's bond — financial statement. —
The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the county clerk, at the expense of the district, a corporate surety bond in an amount to be determined by the board, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of his office. He shall file in the office of the county clerk a detailed financial statement for the preceding fiscal year of the district on behalf of the board during the month of January. The fiscal year of the board shall be the same as the calendar year.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 11)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.120 - Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1990
235.120. Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal. —
Each member of the board shall receive an attendance fee in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars per diem for attending each regularly called board meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than one in any calendar month. Each member of the board shall be reimbursed for his actual expenditures in the performance of his duties on behalf of the district. The county commission shall have power to remove directors or any of them for good cause shown upon a petition, notice and hearing.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 12, A.L. 1967 p. 352, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1548)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.130 - Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.130. Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled. —
The board shall meet at the place to be designated by the board as often as the needs of the district require, on notice to each member of the board. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by the remaining member or members of the board, the appointee or appointees to act until the next biennial election at which directors are elected as provided in section 235.140, when the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by election. If the board shall fail, neglect or refuse to fill any vacancy within thirty days after the same occurs, the county commission shall fill such vacancy.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 13)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.140 - Election of new board members, when.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
235.140. Election of new board members, when. —
1. At the general election in the year after the first full calendar year after the organization of any district and at the general election thereafter, there shall be elected by the voters of the district one member of the board to serve for a term of six years. Nominations may be filed with the secretary of the board.
2. The candidates for board member shall be elected on a separate nonpartisan ballot. The candidate receiving the most votes shall be elected. Any new member of the board shall qualify in the same manner as members of the first board qualify.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 14, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.150 - Powers — authority and privileges of board.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.150. Powers — authority and privileges of board. —
For the purpose of providing for the maintenance of street lighting within the district, the district and, on its behalf, the board, shall have the following powers, authority and privileges:
(1) To have perpetual existence;
(2) To have and use a corporate seal;
(3) To sue and be sued, and be a party to suits, actions and proceedings;
(4) To enter into contracts, franchises and agreements with any person, partnership, association or corporation, public or private, affecting the affairs of the district;
(5) To acquire, dispose of and encumber real and personal property and any interest therein, including leases and easements;
(6) To have the management, control and supervision of all the business and affairs of the district, and the construction, installation, operation and maintenance of district improvements therein;
(7) To hire and retain agents, employees, engineers and attorneys;
(8) To have and exercise the power of eminent domain and in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public use to take any property within the district necessary to the exercise of the powers herein granted;
(9) To receive and accept by bequest, gift or donation any kind of property;
(10) To adopt and amend bylaws and any other rules and regulations not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state, necessary for the carrying on of the business, objects and affairs of the board and of the district, and to refer to the proper authorities for prosecution any infraction thereof detrimental to the district. Any person violating any such ordinance, rules and regulations is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as is provided by law therefor;
(11) To have and exercise all rights and powers necessary or incidental to or implied from the specific powers granted herein. Such specific powers shall not be considered as a limitation upon any power necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this law.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.160 - Power of taxation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.160. Power of taxation. —
For the purpose of providing revenue for such districts, the board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand for any and all other taxes or allocations to which the district may be entitled.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 16)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.170 - Board to fix rate of taxation.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
235.170. Board to fix rate of taxation. —
To levy and collect taxes as provided in section 235.160, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tangible property within the district as shown by the last completed assessment, and with other revenues, will raise the amount required by the district annually to supply funds for paying the expenses of organization and the costs of the district, which rate of levy shall not exceed forty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 17, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1624, A.L. 1989 H.B. 197)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.175 - Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 31 May 1978, see footnote
235.175. Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate. —
1. Before the board of directors of any street light maintenance district may increase the district's current tax levy, the proposed increase must be approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon.
2. The proposition to increase the tax levy may be submitted by the board of directors or upon petition of five hundred registered voters of the district. All propositions to increase the tax levy shall be submitted at the next election permitted by section 115.123.
3. A separate ballot containing the question shall read as follows:
Shall the board of directors of the ______ street light maintenance district be authorized to increase the current tax levy of ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation to ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation to provide funds for the support of the district?
☐ YES
☐ NO
(If you are in favor of the tax levy, place an X in the box opposite "YES". If you are opposed to the tax levy, place an X in the box opposite "NO".)
4. If a majority of the qualified voters casting votes thereon be in favor of the increased tax levy, the board of directors shall raise the tax levy to the level approved by the voters. If a majority of the voters casting votes thereon do not vote in favor of the increased tax levy, any levy previously authorized shall remain in effect.
5. No street light maintenance district shall fix a rate of levy which exceeds the maximum tax levy authorized by section 235.170.
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(L. 1978 H.B. 1624 § 2)
Effective 5-31-78
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIV - Roads and Waterways › Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts › Section 235.180 - Board to certify rate of levy to county commission.

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS
Chapter 235
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
235.180. Board to certify rate of levy to county commission. —
On or before the first day of September of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of the county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with directions that at the time and in the manner required by law for levy of taxes for county purposes such county commission shall levy a tax at the rate so fixed and determined upon the assessed valuation of all the taxable tangible property within the district, in addition to such other taxes as may be levied by such county commission.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 18)