77.140. May control watercourses, establish water reservoirs, market houses, city hall and parks. - Missouri Statutes

May control watercourses, establish water reservoirs, markethouses, city hall and parks.

77.140. The council may establish, alter and change thechannel of watercourses, and wall them and cover them over, andprevent obstructions thereon, and may establish, make andregulate public wells, cisterns and reservoirs of water, andprovide for filling the same. The council may purchase groundsand erect and establish market houses and marketplaces, andregulate and govern the same; and also contract with any personor persons, association or corporation for the erection,maintenance and regulation of market houses and marketplaces, onsuch terms and conditions and in such manner as the council mayprescribe. The council may also provide for the erection,purchase or renting of a city hall, workhouses, houses ofcorrection, prisons, engine houses and any and all othernecessary buildings for the city; and may sell, lease, abolish orotherwise dispose of the same, and may enclose, improve,regulate, purchase or sell all public parks or other publicgrounds belonging to the city, and may purchase and hold groundsfor public parks within the city, or within three miles thereof.

(RSMo 1939 § 6954)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 6808; 1919 § 8295; 1909 § 9232