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 the county treasury an amount of money equal to the whole amount of damages claimed by landowners through whose land the proposed road would run, the county commission may open said road if the commission determines that it is in the public interest of the county, and thereupon the commission shall proceed as in sections 228.010 to 228.190 provided in cases where upon a hearing the commission finds* it necessary to establish a road.
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(L. 1949 p. 551 § 8475, A.L. 2006 S.B. 932)
*Word "find" appears in original rolls.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIV - Roads and Waterways
Chapter 228 - Establishment and Vacation of Roads
Section 228.010 - Definitions.
Section 228.020 - Petition for establishing road.
Section 228.030 - Notice of application for road.
Section 228.040 - County commission required to open road, when.
Section 228.050 - Remonstrances — hearing — findings.
Section 228.060 - Survey of road by county highway engineer, when — report.
Section 228.080 - Order to establish road, when.
Section 228.090 - Relinquishments, deeds, plats to be filed and recorded.
Section 228.100 - Condemnation proceedings, when.
Section 228.110 - Roads may be vacated, how.
Section 228.120 - Record of proceedings — judicial review.
Section 228.130 - No revocation of order establishing or vacating road — amendment of order.
Section 228.140 - Roads on county lines established, how.
Section 228.160 - Roads may be enclosed and route changed, when.
Section 228.341 - Private road defined.
Section 228.345 - Maximum width — contents of petition.
Section 228.348 - Service of process, how issued — rules of civil procedure to apply, when.
Section 228.352 - Nonjury hearing, purpose — court order, issued when.
Section 228.355 - Commissioners, how appointed — duties — compensation.