88.950. Special benefit parking districts--condemnation, procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Special benefit parking districts--condemnation, procedure.

88.950. 1. Any city located within a first class county nothaving a charter form of government and any city having apopulation of at least eighty thousand, but not more than twohundred thousand, located within a first class county having acharter form of government which county contains a portion of acity having more than four hundred thousand inhabitants mayestablish special benefit parking districts to provide for theacquisition, improvement and all costs incident thereto, andmaintenance of off-street parking facilities.

2. Whenever, upon petition of the owners of fifty-onepercent of the assessable square feet of the property to beincluded in such district, the governing body of any city deemsit necessary to condemn or appropriate private property and toassess the cost thereof against property in a benefit district,the governing body shall enact an ordinance setting forth thegeneral nature or purpose of the use to which such privateproperty is to be put, declaring it to be necessary to take andappropriate private property therein described for such purpose,and defining the limits of a benefit district within whichprivate property shall be deemed benefited or assessed to pay forthe property acquired by condemnation, the improvement and allcost incident thereto, and the time and mode of payment of suchassessment and the penalty for failure to pay the same when due.

3. Upon enactment of the ordinance prescribed in subsection1 of this section, the governing body of the city shall proceedwith the establishment of the benefit district as prescribed insections 88.010 to 88.070, and the cost of improving any propertyacquired through that procedure shall be apportioned in the samemanner and along with the costs of such acquisition.

(L. 1965 p. 215 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1973 H.B. 638)