231.110. County commission in counties of second class to set aside land for shade trees. - Missouri Statutes

County commission in counties of second class to set aside landfor shade trees.

231.110. The county commissions of class two counties shallhave the power and it is hereby made their duty, upon thepetition of a majority of the resident property owners adjoiningsuch road or roads, by order of record, to set aside a strip ofland not less than six feet in width, along and from each side ofevery public road or highway of fifty feet or more in width nowor hereafter laid out as a public road, within a distance of twomiles of the corporate limits of any city, for the purpose ofhaving planted and cared for shade and ornamental trees andproviding for and maintaining footpaths on said strip of land.

(RSMo 1939 § 8574, A.L. 1945 p. 1500)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7925; 1919 § 10713; 1909 § 10516