Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 233

Incorporated Road Districts

←233.317

Section 233.320.1

233.325→

August 28, 2015

Special road districts--organized how--by whom.

233.320. 1. In counties now operating or which may hereafter operate

under township organization, whenever it is proposed to form a special road

district within the limits of one or more incorporated townships, such

proposed district shall be organized in the manner herein prescribed.



2. The county commission shall divide the territory within their

respective counties into road districts in the manner herein prescribed, and

every such district organized according to the provisions of sections 233.320

to 233.445 shall be a body corporate and possess the usual powers of a public

corporation for public purposes, and shall be known and styled ".........

special road district of ......... County", and in that name shall be capable

of suing and being sued, of holding such real estate and personal property as

may at any time be either donated to or purchased by it in accordance with

the provisions of sections 233.320 to 233.445, or of which it may be

rightfully possessed at the time of the passage of sections 233.320 to

233.445, and of contracting and of being contracted with as herein provided.



3. Districts so organized may be of any dimensions that may be deemed

necessary or advisable, except that every district shall be included wholly

within the county organizing it and shall contain at least six hundred and

forty acres of contiguous territory; provided, that the county commission

shall not have power to divide the territory within the corporate limits of a

city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand into such road

district.



(RSMo 1939 § 8836)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 8176; 1919 § 10937







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