230.030. Power and duties of the county highway commission. - Missouri Statutes

Power and duties of the county highway commission.

230.030. It shall be the duty of the county highwaycommission and said commission shall have the power to locate,lay out, designate, construct and maintain, subject to approvalof the state highways and transportation commission, a system ofcounty highways not exceeding in the aggregate at any given timeone hundred miles in any county, by connecting by the mostpractical route the several centers of population in the county,in such manner as to afford a connection with such of saidcenters of population as are not now located on any state highwaywith such state highway, and so as to afford, as nearly as may bedone, a connection with county highways connecting the centers ofpopulation of adjoining counties, to the end that all parts ofthe county shall be connected with the state highway system asnow laid out and designated, and that the inhabitants of thecounty generally shall have and enjoy a system of highly improvedfarm-to-market roads. If any part of this county one hundredmile highway system has been, or shall hereafter be taken over bythe state highways and transportation commission and become astate highway, then an equal amount of new mileage, to take theplace thereof, may be placed in the county one hundred milesystem.

(RSMo 1939 § 8504, A.L. 1945 p. 1470)

Prior revision: 1929 § 7858

(1951) County highway commission had such jurisdiction over road in special road district in county as to enable it to agree with state highway commission to include same in state supplementary system where road was part of 100-mile system. State ex rel. State Highway Com. v. Shultz (A.), 243 S.W.2d 808.