Terms Used In Missouri Laws 88.100

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • 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

All real property, including rights-of-way, yards and depot grounds, situated within the corporate limits of any incorporated city, town or village in this state, of any railroad company which now owns or operates, or which may hereafter own or operate, any railroad or part of a railroad within the corporate limits of any such city, town or village, shall be subject to special assessments for public improvements made by any such city, town or village, in the same manner and to the same extent in all respects as the real property of any other person or corporation therein. And all laws which now or which may hereafter be in force for the making, enforcement and collection of such special assessments against the real property of other persons and corporations in such city, town or village, shall apply to and govern the making, collection and enforcement of such special assessments against such real property of any such railroad company in the same manner and to the same extent as to such special assessments against the real property of other persons and corporations therein.

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