71.300. Courthouses and jails--erection and maintenance. - Missouri Statutes

Courthouses and jails--erection and maintenance.

71.300. All county seats or other cities or towns which areduly incorporated are hereby authorized upon such terms as may beagreed upon, in conjunction with their respective counties, toerect and maintain courthouses and jails in such county seats andin such other towns or cities for the joint use of such countyseats or other towns or cities and the county wherein they arelocated; and all authority now existing under the law or that mayhereafter be conferred on the counties in this state for thepurpose of providing the revenue for erecting and maintaining thebuildings herein provided for, may be exercised by such countiesjointly with such county seats or other towns or cities;provided, that for the purposes of this section, such countyseats, towns or cities shall be authorized to issue and negotiateinterest-bearing bonds.

(RSMo 1939 § 13704, A.L. 1945 p. 1394)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12045; 1919 § 9445; 1909 § 3666