91.780. Defining term rapid transit improvement.
Defining term rapid transit improvement.
91.780. The term "rapid transit improvement", as used insections 91.780 to 91.840, shall include every improvement forlocal public use in connection with the transportation ormovements of persons and, or property, so designed as toeliminate interference with or by ordinary travel upon the publichighways and in public places, and located upon, over, above,below, across, through or along any street, avenue, road,highway, bridge, viaduct, public place, or private propertywithin or without the municipal corporate limits, including allsubways, tunnels, elevated highways and structures, walks,bridges, viaducts, surface construction, approaches, loops,stations, entrances, exits, yards, buildings, lands,rights-of-way or other easements, estates or interests of land,which may be necessary, convenient or expedient for the properconstruction, equipment, maintenance or use of such rapid transitimprovement. Such rapid transit improvement, when municipallyowned or controlled, shall be deemed to be a public work and alocal improvement.
(RSMo 1939 § 7774)Prior revision: 1929 § 7634