Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.150. Road laws — how applied. — All road laws of this state shall apply to counties under township organization, unless by their terms limited to counties not under township organization, or in conflict with the provisions of this law. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 8813) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8149; […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.160. Board to form districts — boundary lines — established how — overseer — appointment. — The township board of directors shall form the township into one or more road districts. If the boundary line of any road district is along a public road, then one or the other edge […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.170. Overseer — qualifications — compensation. — The person appointed to the office of road overseer shall be a citizen of the township from which he is appointed, and shall be a practical road builder, or possessed of technical or scientific knowledge of such work. His compensation shall be fixed […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.180. Overseer — bond. — Before entering upon the performance of his duties each road overseer shall execute and deliver to the township board a bond in such sum as may be fixed by the board, and with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the board, conditioned that […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.190. Overseer shall make reports, when. — It shall be the duty of every road overseer to make a detailed report and settlement, under oath, to the township board at each regular meeting thereof, and on or before the twentieth day of March next after his appointment he shall make […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.200. Overseer — employees — material. — The overseer shall not employ any member of the township board nor enter into any contract for road work, material, tools, teams, nor purchase any machinery or material for the use of the road district from any member of the board or a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 231.210. Duties of road overseer. — It shall be the duty of the road overseer to keep the roads in his district in as good repair as the funds at his command will permit. It shall also be his duty to keep all culverts and holes in the floors of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.220. Bridges — repairs — bids — notice — contract. — The township board of directors shall construct and keep in repair all bridges in their district costing less than one hundred dollars; and shall make all necessary repairs, costing less than twenty-five dollars, upon bridges which are now or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2005 231.230. Bridges costing more than forty-five hundred dollars, how built. — Whenever it shall be necessary in any township to build a bridge, the cost of which shall exceed forty-five hundred dollars, the township board of directors shall make out and cause to be presented to the county commission a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.240. Contract system — how adopted — publication. — Whenever the inhabitants of any road district of any county of this state having heretofore adopted or which may hereafter adopt township organization may desire to adopt the contract system of working roads in such road district, it may be accomplished […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.250. Property tax in districts under contract system, how paid — contracts, how let — notice — contractor to give bond. — Upon the adoption of the contract system of working the roads, the township board of the road district so adopting the same shall, on or before the fifteenth […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.260. Contractor liable on bond for damages — when. — Any contractor who shall willfully fail or neglect to keep any road under his care in good repair, or shall in any manner fail or neglect to keep any road under his care in good repair, or shall in any […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.270. May abolish contract system of working roads — how. — Whenever the inhabitants of any township under township organization having previously adopted the contract system of working roads, as provided for in section 231.240, desire to change such system, they may abolish said system in the same manner as […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2003 231.280. Clerk to make itemized statement — publication — filing of certain copies. — The township board of directors in all counties under township organization shall keep, or cause to be kept, a full, true and correct record of all moneys received and disbursed on account of roads and bridges […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.290. County clerk to furnish forms. — For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 231.280, it shall be the duty of the county clerk in counties having township organization to prepare, at the expense of the county, forms for the publication of the detailed statement of the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.300. County commission may appropriate money, when. — Whenever the citizens along the line of any public road in a district subscribe any sum not less than twenty-five dollars for grading, graveling or otherwise improving any portion of such road, and shall deposit the same with the township treasurer, the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.310. Highway engineer to make surveys, when — report. — It shall be lawful for the county commission of any county upon the application of the township board of directors, to empower and authorize the county highway engineer of said county, under the direction of the township board of such […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.320. Prosecuting attorney to prosecute actions. — It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county or his assistant to prosecute all actions brought under sections 231.150 to 231.330. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 8834) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8174; 1919 § 10935; 1909 § 11787
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 231.330. Violations — penalty. — Any official or other person who shall willfully fail to comply with any of the provisions of sections 231.150 to 231.330, and any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and where no other or […]
