229.020. County commissions in counties of this state whichnow have, or may hereafter have, over fifty thousand inhabitantsaccording to the last preceding census, where any such county isadjacent to a city of over six hundred thousand inhabitants, arehereby authorized to establish public roads less than thirty feetin width or accept, in whole or in part, as public highways,roads already established where the same parallel and abut uponeither side of the rights-of-way of steam railroads, electric orinterurban railroads and the two roads aggregate not less thanfifty feet in width.
(RSMo 1939 § 8646)Prior revisions: 1929 § 7997; 1919 § 10781