71.340. Construction and repair of public roads--annual appropriation.
Construction and repair of public roads--annual appropriation.
71.340. The mayor and city council of any city or thechairman and board of trustees of any incorporated town orvillage shall have the power to annually appropriate and pay outof the treasury of such city or incorporated town or village asum of money, not to exceed ten percent of the annual generalrevenue thereof, for the purpose of constructing, building,repairing, working, grading or macadamizing any public road,street and highway and any bridge thereon leading to and fromsuch city or incorporated town or village; and such appropriationshall be made by ordinance and the money so appropriated shall beapplied under the supervision and direction of the engineers ofsuch city or incorporated town or village, and of the countyhighway engineer of the county in which such city, town orvillage is located, or of some competent person selected by suchcity, town or village and approved by the county highwayengineer, who shall make a report thereof, in writing, to themayor and city council of such city, or to the chairman and boardof trustees of such incorporated town or village; but thisprivilege shall not extend to a greater distance than five milesfrom the corporate limits of such city, town or village, andshall not be construed so as to allow any obstruction to orinterference with the free use of any such public road, street orhighway by the public, except so far as may be necessary whilesuch work is being done, and further shall not be construed toaffect the liability of such city, town or village, whichliability shall be the same as if such roads, streets andhighways were inside the city limits.
(RSMo 1939 § 7312, A.L. 1945 p. 1308)Prior revisions: 1929 § 7161; 1919 § 8610; 1909 § 9498
CROSS REFERENCE:
Township board may expend one-fourth of revenue on city streets, RSMo 65.295