88.523. Certain street improvements--protest, how heard and determined (third class cities). - Missouri Statutes

Certain street improvements--protest, how heard and determined(third class cities).

88.523. When the council of any city of the third classshall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize, gutter, curb, gradeor otherwise improve the roadway of any street or avenue for adistance not more than twelve hundred feet in length so as toconnect at both ends with paving, macadamizing, guttering,curbing, grading or other improvement either on the same streetor avenue or on other streets or avenues, or on the same streetor avenue and another street or avenue, the council shall declaresuch work to be necessary to be done and shall cause the sameproceedings to be had as are provided in section 88.520, exceptthat no protest may be filed. The resolution passed andpublished shall state the fact that anyone desiring to do so mayappear before the council at a time stated therein and be heardon the question of the necessity of the work sought to be done,and if anyone does so appear he shall be heard, and the councilshall by resolution state the result of such hearing to be areaffirmance of the necessity for the doing of such work or thecontrary, as the council may then decide. If no one appears, orif the council reaffirms the necessity of the doing of such workand improvement, then it shall proceed with such work andimprovement in the manner provided in sections 88.497 to 88.647for such work and improvement when no sufficient protest againstsuch improvement is filed within the time limited therefor.

(RSMo 1939 § 6989)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 6843; 1919 § 8325