1. Any state educational institution of the state of Missouri, as herein defined, shall have the power, acting through its governing body, to acquire, construct, erect, equip, furnish, operate, control, manage and regulate a project, as herein defined, as in the judgment of such governing body shall be necessary, advisable, and suitable for the use of students attending such educational institution.

2. Such state educational institutions shall have the further power to use real property now or hereafter belonging to such educational institution as a site for any such project, or to acquire by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise such real or personal property as in the judgment of the governing body of such educational institution shall be necessary, advisable and suitable for such purpose.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 176.020

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. In acquiring such property such educational institution shall have the power to condemn any and all rights or property, either public or private, of every kind and character, necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and in the exercise of such power of condemnation, it shall follow the procedure which is now or may hereafter be provided by law for the appropriation of land or other property taken for telegraph, telephone or railroad rights-of-way.