88.507. Power to levy and collect taxes for general revenue purposes, and to improve streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges (third class cities).
Power to levy and collect taxes for general revenue purposes,and to improve streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges (third classcities).
88.507. Any city of the third class shall have full powerand authority, under the following conditions, to do thefollowing things: To levy and collect taxes, for general revenuepurposes, on all property within the limits of such city, taxableaccording to the laws of this state. To grade, pave (the word"pave" as herein used meaning to improve with all kinds of streetpaving, including macadamizing), gutter, curb and otherwiseimprove streets and alleys, and parts of same, and to reconstructand repair any paving, grading, guttering and curbing, and tomake and repair sidewalks, bridges, culverts and crosswalks, andto condemn and destroy any sidewalk deemed unfit for use, andreplace the same with a new one of the same or differentmaterial, and to exercise control over streets and alleys, andestablish and reestablish grades thereon. The cost of bridges,culverts and footwalks across streets and alleys shall be paidfor out of the general revenue funds of the city. The cost ofgrading streets and alleys shall be charged against the lots andtracts of land fronting or abutting on the street or alley, orpart of same, so improved, and on the improvement, in proportionto the number of fronting or abutting feet. Such city shall havethe power to grade all, or any part of any street, or alley, butwhen the sidewalk part of any street, that is the part betweenthe curb line and the street line, is graded exclusive of theother parts of same, the cost of the grading shall be chargedagainst the lots and tracts of land fronting or abutting on theside of the street so improved, and on the improvement, inproportion to the number of fronting or abutting feet. The costof making curbing and sidewalks shall be charged against the lotsand tracts of land fronting or abutting on the improvement inproportion to the fronting or abutting feet, except that inmaking sidewalks, corner lots shall be charged with the cost ofextending the sidewalk to the curb lines of intersecting streets,and in making curbing, corner lots shall be charged with the costof extending the curbing to the curb lines of intersectingstreets, and curbing and extending the curbing back to the streetline at intersecting streets and alleys. The cost of repairingsidewalks and curbing shall be charged against the particular lotor tract of land fronting or abutting on the part repaired. Thecost of paving, guttering and otherwise improving any alley andthe roadway part of any street, that is, the part between curblines, including street intersections, shall be charged againstthe lots and tracts of land fronting or abutting on the street oralley so improved along the distance improved, in proportion tothe number of fronting or abutting feet. When the paving orguttering on any street or alley is only repaired ("repaired" ashere used shall not include any improvement where the entiresurface of a paving is renewed, but such renewal shall beconsidered as paving), the cost of such repairing shall becharged in the following manner, namely: The street or alleyshall be divided into sections, a section being the distance fromthe center line of one cross or intersecting street to the centerline of the next cross or intersecting street, and the cost ofrepairing each section shall be charged against the lots andtracts of land fronting or abutting on that section in proportionto the number of fronting or abutting feet.
(RSMo 1939 § 6987)Prior revisions: 1929 § 6841; 1919 § 8323; 1909 § 9254
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Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps, when required, RSMo 71.365