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

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

88.707. When the board of aldermen of any city of the fourthclass shall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize, gutter, curb,grade or otherwise improve the roadway of any street or avenuefor a distance not more than twelve hundred feet in length so asto connect at both ends with paving, macadamizing, guttering,curbing, grading or other improvements either on the same streetor avenue or other streets or avenues, or on the same street oravenue and another street or avenue, the board of aldermen shalldeclare such work to be necessary to be done and shall cause thesame proceedings to be had as are provided in section 88.700,except no protest may be filed. The resolution passed andpublished shall state the fact that anyone desiring to do so mayappear before the board of aldermen at a time stated therein andbe heard on the question of the necessity of the work sought tobe done, and if anyone does so appear he shall be heard, and theboard of aldermen shall, by resolution, state the result of suchhearing to be a reaffirmance of the necessity for the doing ofsuch work or the contrary, as the board of aldermen may thendecide. If no one appears, or if the board of aldermen reaffirmthe necessity of the doing of such work and improvement, then itshall proceed with such work and improvement in the manner inthis chapter provided for such work and improvement when nosufficient protest against such improvement is filed within thetime limited therefor.

(RSMo 1939 § 7211)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7061; 1919 § 8511