226.950. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

226.950. As used in sections 226.950 to 226.973, the following words andphrases mean:

(1) "City", any incorporated city, town, village or municipality of thestate of Missouri;

(2) "Commission", the state highways and transportation commission;

(3) "Corridor map", a legal description of the metes and bounds of thearea within a highway corridor, tied to an existing or reestablishedgovernment corner, and accompanied by a county map showing the generallocation of the highway corridor. The legal description shall govern in thecase of any inconsistency with the corridor drawn on the map;

(4) "County", any county of the state of Missouri;

(5) "Highway corridor", the area projected to be needed as right-of-wayfor the construction and maintenance of a future new or relocated statehighway, as determined by the commission;

(6) "Regulatory authority", any city or county governmental entitywithin a county of the first or second classification, or a county containingany part of a lake having a shoreline of one hundred miles or more in length,which zones or regulates the use of land, approves plats of proposedsubdivisions or other real property development, establishes and regulatessetback lines from highways, grants zoning variances or exceptions, or whichissues building or construction permits.