Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.010. Roads to be thirty feet wide. — All public roads in this state which hereafter may be established shall not be less than thirty feet in width. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 8471) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7825; 1919 § 10623; 1909 § 10433 (1967) Creating of public road under […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.020. Roads less than thirty feet in width, when. — County commissions in counties of this state which now have, or may hereafter have, over fifty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding census, where any such county is adjacent to a city of over six hundred thousand inhabitants, are […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.030. Roads cleared of obstructions. — Public roads shall be cleared of all obstructions therein that hinder or interfere with travel or traffic thereon, and shall be made firm, and the surface thereof shall be kept in a reasonably smooth and level condition; and all necessary bridges and culverts shall […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.040. Road construction — contracts — plans — supervision. — 1. Whenever any public money, whether arising from taxation or from bonds heretofore or hereafter issued, is to be expended in the construction, reconstruction or other improvement of any road, or bridge or culvert, the county commission, township board or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.050. Engineer’s estimate of cost — advertisement for bids — contract. — 1. Whenever it shall be ordered by the county commission, township board or district commissioner, as the case may be, that any road, bridge or culvert in the county be constructed, reconstructed or improved or repaired by contract, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.060. Contractor to give bond. — The contractor shall enter into a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the county commission, township board or district commissioners, with some surety company authorized to do business in this state as surety thereon or other good and sufficient surety, the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.070. Contractor to report, when — payments. — 1. It shall be the duty of each contractor who has entered into a contract for any road or bridge work to report in writing to the engineer in charge thereof on or before the second day of each month, setting forth […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.080. Donations, how appropriated. — Whenever any citizen or citizens of any county shall subscribe any sum not less than fifty dollars, for the purpose of grading, tiling, ditching or surfacing any portion of any public road in such county, and shall deposit the same with the county treasurer of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.090. Sales agents — certain persons barred. — No member of a highway board or county commission, and no highway engineer or road overseer shall be the sales agent in the sale to, or purchase by, the state, county or road districts, of road tools, culvert or bridge materials or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.100. Improvements along public roads — location — control. — No person or persons, association, companies or corporations shall erect poles for the suspension of electric light, or power wires, or lay and maintain pipes, conductors, mains and conduits for any purpose whatever, through, on, under or across the public […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.120. Engineer and overseer to protect trees. — The county highway engineer and overseers shall protect all fruit, shade and ornamental trees along the sides of the public roads, and shall forthwith remove all signs and advertisements whatsoever that may have been nailed or fastened to any of said trees. […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.130. Fingerboards. — Every overseer shall erect and maintain at every road fork, or road crossing, in his district that would likely mislead, a fingerboard, containing a legible inscription, directing the way and noting the distance to the next important place on the road, for which he may be allowed […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2017, 2 histories 229.150. Ditches and crossings, how made — obstructions or damage prohibited, exception — violations, remedy — inapplicability to charter counties and St. Louis City. — 1. All driveways or crossings over ditches connecting highways with the private property shall be made under the supervision of the road overseer […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.160. Protection of bridges — penalty for neglect. — All persons owning, controlling or managing threshing machines, sawmills and steam engines or gasoline tractors are required, in moving the same over public highways to lay down planks not less than one foot wide and three inches in thickness on the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.200. Penalties. — Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 229.040 to 229.200, or willfully failing to comply with the requirements of same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, where no other or different punishment is fixed, shall be fined not less than five nor more […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.210. Driving on recently constructed bridge or culvert prohibited — notice of closing. — It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle, an animal or animals or a load of any kind upon a highway bridge or culvert recently constructed or repaired wholly or partly of concrete […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 229.220. Penalty for violation. — Any person violating the provisions of section 229.210 and any person who shall unlawfully remove either of the barriers or either of the written or printed notices above mentioned, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2002 229.222. Designation of a certain road or highway as a memorial road for law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty. — The governing assembly of any county, city, or village of this state may designate any street, road, or highway within such county, city, or village as a […]
