2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 70 Powers of Political Subdivisions to Cooperate or Contract with Governmental Units
Section 70.340 Cities may build sewers or levees, how, where.
Effective 28 Aug 1939
Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 7070.340. Cities may build sewers or levees, how, where. — Where a watershed located partly within any such city and partly within an adjoining state requires for the health, safety and comfort of the inhabitants of such city the construction of sewers and protection against flood, such city may, with consent of such adjoining state, but with or without the cooperation of public corporations of such adjoining state, build sanitary or storm sewers, or construct levees along the banks of, or shorten, divert or otherwise improve any natural watercourse in such watershed. Such city may, by purchase or eminent domain proceedings, acquire rights-of-way for any such sewers or improvements of watercourses.
(RSMo 1939 § 6477)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6354; 1919 § 7857
