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 floors of all bridges situate on the public highways, while crossing the same with such threshing machines, sawmills, steam engines or gasoline tractors, and in the event any person owning any such machinery shall cross or attempt to cross any bridge upon any public highway with such machinery who shall neglect or fail to lay down said planks as a protection to said bridge and who shall, by reason of such neglect cause injury to any such bridge, he shall be liable for double the amount of such injury to be recovered in the name of the county or any subdivision thereof, to the use and benefit of the road and bridge fund.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8591)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7942; 1919 § 10728; 1909 § 10545
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIV - Roads and Waterways
Chapter 229 - Provisions Relating to All Roads
Section 229.010 - Roads to be thirty feet wide.
Section 229.020 - Roads less than thirty feet in width, when.
Section 229.030 - Roads cleared of obstructions.
Section 229.040 - Road construction — contracts — plans — supervision.
Section 229.050 - Engineer's estimate of cost — advertisement for bids — contract.
Section 229.060 - Contractor to give bond.
Section 229.070 - Contractor to report, when — payments.
Section 229.080 - Donations, how appropriated.
Section 229.090 - Sales agents — certain persons barred.
Section 229.100 - Improvements along public roads — location — control.
Section 229.120 - Engineer and overseer to protect trees.
Section 229.130 - Fingerboards.
Section 229.160 - Protection of bridges — penalty for neglect.
Section 229.210 - Driving on recently constructed bridge or culvert prohibited — notice of closing.
Section 229.220 - Penalty for violation.
Section 229.230 - Permit to move building across road.
Section 229.240 - Application for permit.
Section 229.250 - Notice to cut or remove poles or wires.
Section 229.260 - Removal of lines or poles, when — costs assessed, how.
Section 229.270 - Fee for permit.
Section 229.280 - Violation defined.
Section 229.310 - Application for special use permit.
Section 229.320 - County engineers to prescribe rules and regulations — bond.
Section 229.330 - Restoration of premises used.
Section 229.340 - Fee may be required.
Section 229.350 - Necessary alterations — notice.
Section 229.380 - Overseer's complaint as to grade crossings.
Section 229.390 - Notice to be in writing — service.
Section 229.400 - County commission to act upon report of surveyor.
Section 229.410 - Railroad company failing to make change, circuit court to enforce orders.
Section 229.420 - Temporary abandonment of public road to permit mining.
Section 229.450 - Sections applicable to certain counties — conflicting laws repealed.
Section 229.479 - Sale of plants or plant parts collected from highways or roadways, penalty.