233.365. In road districts so incorporated, each tract ofland for forty acres, according to a government survey, and eachof the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfullyplatted, and each separate tract of less than forty acres, shall,for the purpose of sections 233.320 to 233.445, be regarded aswithin one-half mile of any public road or part of public road,if the major portion thereof is within one-half mile; and overone-half mile and less than a mile if the major portion thereofis over one-half mile and less than one mile; and over one mileand less than one and one-half miles, if the major portionthereof is over one mile and less than one and one-half miles;and over one and one-half miles if the major portion thereof isover one and one-half miles.
(RSMo 1939 § 8852)Prior revisions: 1929 § 8192; 1919 § 10953