Terms Used In Missouri Laws 230.040

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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

Before construction of any county highway located, laid out, and designated as in this chapter authorized and provided, or any money, in excess of the cost of such location and designation shall be expended thereon, it shall be the duty of county highway commission to submit such location to the state highways and transportation commission for its approval, and, upon approval of such location by the state highways and transportation commission, the county highway commission shall proceed to procure the right-of-way for said county highways, said right-of-way to be of the standard width required by the state highways and transportation commission for secondary highways, not less, however, than sixty feet wide, and secure title in fee to such right-of-way by deed of conveyance, or by judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction through condemnation. In all cases where condemnation is necessary, the proceedings shall be in the name of the county highway commission, and otherwise the same as now, or hereafter, provided by law for condemnation of land by the state highways and transportation commission for right-of-way for state highways.