226.280. When used herein, unless the context otherwiserequires, the term
(1) "Parkway" shall mean and include parkway areas ofvarying widths principally through rural areas with sightly,landscape, scenic, safety, and wayside development grants andeasements, featuring a parkway road designed for passenger cartraffic and specifically adapted to leisurely travel as a tourwayfor outdoor recreation and market-to-farm use by tourists,including service and recreational facilities and thepreservation of scenic, historical, archaeological and scientificfeatures;
(2) "Scenic, landscape, sightly or safety easement" shallmean a servitude devised to permit land to remain in privateownership for its normal agricultural, residential or other useconsistent with parkway purposes determined by the secretary, andat the same time placing a control over the future use of thearea to maintain its scenic, landscape, sightly or safety valuesfor the parkway in this state;
(3) "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of the Interior.
(RSMo 1939 ยง 8796)