243.320. Public roads and railroads to pay benefits.

Public roads and railroads to pay benefits.

243.320. When any ditch constructed under the provisions ofthis chapter drains, either in whole or in part, or benefits anypublic or corporate road or railroad, there shall be apportionedto the county, if a county or state or free turnpike road, or ifa corporate road or railroad, to the company owning, operating orcontrolling the same, the same proportion of the cost of locationand construction of the improvement in proportion to the benefitsreceived as to private individuals.

(RSMo 1939 § 12430)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 10840; 1919 § 4508