Effective – 28 Aug 1939 228.010. Definitions. — The words “established” and “establishing”, as used in sections 228.010 to 228.190 in relation to public roads, shall be held to embrace the locating, relocating, changing or widening of roads, and the word “road” shall include bridges and culverts. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 8487) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 228.020. Petition for establishing road. — Applications for the establishment of all public roads, except state roads, shall be made by petition to the county commission. Such petition shall be signed by at least twelve registered voters of the municipal township or townships through which such proposed road may run, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 228.030. Notice of application for road. — Notice of such intended application shall be given by printed or written handbills put up in three or more public places in such municipal township or townships, one of which shall be put up at the proposed beginning, and one at the proposed […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2006 228.040. County commission required to open road, when. — When the petition required by section 228.020 is presented, and upon proof of notice having been given as required in section 228.030, if no remonstrance is filed and if the petitioners give the right-of-way for the proposed road or pay into […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 228.050. Remonstrances — hearing — findings. — 1. If a remonstrance is presented signed by twelve or more persons residing in the municipal township or townships through which it is proposed to establish such road, three of whom which reside in the immediate neighborhood, the county commission shall hear such […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.060. Survey of road by county highway engineer, when — report. — If the county commission finds it necessary to establish such road, either at the expense of the county or wholly or partly at the expense of the petitioners, and the petitioners pay into the county treasury, on or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.080. Order to establish road, when. — If it shall appear from the engineer’s report that the right-of-way has been secured, and needs therefor filed, or that the damages claimed do not exceed the amount offered by the commission or deposited by the petitioners, or both, the commission shall order […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.090. Relinquishments, deeds, plats to be filed and recorded. — The county highway engineer shall file all relinquishments, deeds and plats of said road in the office of the county clerk, who shall preserve them together with the order of the commission establishing the road as public records in a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.100. Condemnation proceedings, when. — If it appears that any person through whose lands such proposed road should run has failed or refused to relinquish the right-of-way, or is not willing to take the amount of damages offered him by the commission or petitioners, or both, or in case any […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2007 228.110. Roads may be vacated, how. — 1. Any twelve residents of the township or townships through which a road runs may make application for the vacation of any such road or part of the same as useless, and the repairing of the same an unreasonable burden upon the district […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.120. Record of proceedings — judicial review. — 1. Upon the request and at the expense of any petitioners or remonstrators, a stenographic record shall be made of all proceedings before the county commission upon any petition to establish or vacate any public road. 2. Any order of the county […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 228.130. No revocation of order establishing or vacating road — amendment of order. — The county commission shall not revoke or set aside any order establishing or vacating any public road, nor shall a petition to vacate or reestablish such road be entertained by such county commission for a period […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 228.140. Roads on county lines established, how. — 1. The county commissions of the several counties in this state shall have authority to establish highways on the boundary lines of their respective counties in the same manner as provided in sections 228.020 to 228.130, and when so established such roads […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 228.150. Districting and repair of new roads — owner of land given time to yield possession — penalty for refusal. — 1. When a new road has been opened, it shall be districted and kept in repair as other public roads. 2. The county commission or circuit court, as the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 228.160. Roads may be enclosed and route changed, when. — Any person wishing to cultivate or enclose land through which any road may run may petition the county commission, first giving notice, as in the case of new roads, for permission to turn such road on his own land or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 228.180. Condemnation of private property for public road — survey — claims for damages — hearings — jury trial, when. — 1. The right of eminent domain is vested in the several counties of the state to condemn private property for public road purpose, including any land, earth, stone, timber, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2007, 2 histories 228.190. Roads legally established, when — deemed abandoned, when — roads deemed public county roads, when. — 1. All roads in this state that have been established by any order of the county commission, and have been used as public highways for a period of ten years or […]
