88.930. Condemnation of property (cities, 150,000 to 500,000).
Condemnation of property (cities, 150,000 to 500,000).
88.930. 1. Whenever a city which now has or may hereafterhave more than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants andless than five hundred thousand inhabitants, whether organizedunder general law or special charter of the provisions of section19 of article VI of the constitution of this state, shall, byordinance, deem it necessary to take and condemn or damage anyprivate property for a public use of said city, it may adopt thesame procedure for such taking and condemning or damaging as isprescribed in the general laws of the state for the appropriationand valuation of lands taken for telegraph, telephone, gravel andplank or railroad purposes, being chapter 523, RSMo. Upon payingto the clerk of the circuit court the amount of damages awarded,the city shall have the right, notwithstanding the filing ofexceptions to such award, to enter upon and take possession ofthe property so taken and condemned, and to proceed with thepublic improvement, or in the case of damage only, to proceedwith the public improvement, and any subsequent proceeding shallonly affect the amount of compensation to be allowed.
2. The method or procedure provided for in this sectionshall be construed to be an additional remedy for the benefit ofthe cities mentioned in said section, and not as in any wayaffecting or repealing the provisions of any existing law.
(RSMo 1939 §§ 7684, 7685)Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 7536, 7537; 1919 §§ 8947, 8948; 1909 §§ 9799, 9800