227.270. Commission may abandon and relocate inundated portion of highway. - Missouri Statutes

Commission may abandon and relocate inundated portion of highway.

227.270. Whenever the construction or operation of anywaterpower and/or hydroelectric project results in the inundationof any portion of a state highway, the state highways andtransportation commission is authorized to abandon said portionof said highway, and, in addition to the relocations mentioned insection 227.260, to relocate, construct and maintain, as in itsopinion may be best from considerations of good engineering,safety to the general public, economy and directness of route andservice to the locality, so much of said highway as in thejudgment of said commission is necessary on account of suchinundation, and abandon the portion of the highway in lieu ofwhich the relocation is made, provided that any such relocationshall not deviate from any designated point, if any named in anylaw, unless such designated point shall itself be inundated;provided, that when the seat of county government of any countyis inundated by virtue of the construction or operation of anywaterpower, and/or hydroelectric project, rendering necessary thereestablishment and relocation of such seat of county government,such seat of county government having prior to such inundation,been a designated point on any state highway, such relocation andreestablished seat of county government shall be considered forall purposes of state road designation and construction, as theoriginal seat of county government of such county.

(RSMo 1939 § 8771)

Prior revision: 1929 § 8123