Terms Used In Missouri Laws 88.023

  • 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
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

The court on being satisfied that proper notice has been given to all the defendants and to the owners of property within the benefitted district and that the ordinance and petition are regular and valid, shall appoint three persons, who are residents of the county, in which the real estate or a portion thereof is situated, as commissioners to assess the damages which the owners of the land may severally sustain by reason of such appropriation, and to assess the property especially benefitted by said improvements within the benefitted district to pay therefor.