Effective - 28 Aug 1939
229.420. Temporary abandonment of public road to permit mining. — Where coal or other valuable mineral underlies any public road in this state that has not been designated as a state highway or is not under the control of the state transportation department, if said coal or other mineral is being mined on or from adjoining lands by the "strip pit" or surface process of mining, the commissioners of any special road district or the township board of directors if said road be not located in a special road district may provide for the temporary abandonment of said road and the removal or mining of said coal or other valuable mineral underlying said road and the rebuilding of said road, in the manner and under the conditions provided in sections 229.420 to 229.450, when in the opinion of said commissioners or township board the public good would best be served thereby.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8860)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8200
CROSS REFERENCE:
Mining or excavating under public road prohibited, when, 444.320, 444.330
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.