176.020. Any state educational institution empowered to acquire and to construct a project necessary for the use of students. - Missouri Statutes

Any state educational institution empowered to acquire and toconstruct a project necessary for the use of students.

176.020. 1. Any state educational institution of the stateof Missouri, as herein defined, shall have the power, actingthrough its governing body, to acquire, construct, erect, equip,furnish, operate, control, manage and regulate a project, asherein defined, as in the judgment of such governing body shallbe necessary, advisable, and suitable for the use of studentsattending such educational institution.

2. Such state educational institutions shall have thefurther power to use real property now or hereafter belonging tosuch educational institution as a site for any such project, orto acquire by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise such real orpersonal property as in the judgment of the governing body ofsuch educational institution shall be necessary, advisable andsuitable for such purpose.

3. In acquiring such property such educational institutionshall have the power to condemn any and all rights or property,either public or private, of every kind and character, necessaryfor the purposes aforesaid, and in the exercise of such power ofcondemnation, it shall follow the procedure which is now or mayhereafter be provided by law for the appropriation of land orother property taken for telegraph, telephone or railroadrights-of-way.

(L. 1945 p. 1715 § 2)