Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 227 · 401 active provisions
The definitions of the terms "civil subdivision", "commission", "commissioner", "engineer", "municipality", "state highway" and "hard-surfaced road" as provided by section 226.010 shall apply to such terms as used in this chapter.
There is hereby created and established a statewide connected system of hard-surfaced public roads extending into each county of the state, which shall be located, acquired, constructed, reconstructed, and improved and ever after maintained as public roads, and the necessary grading, hard-surfacing, bridges and culvert…
1. The construction and maintenance of said highway system and all work incidental thereto shall be under the general supervision and control of the state highways and transportation commission, which is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take whatever steps may be necessary to cause said state highway system…
The engineer shall proceed to cause surveys to be made of the state highway system as designated in section 227.020, and to prepare detail plans and specifications for each part thereof as soon as practicable; provided, however, that wherever surveys have heretofore been made, it shall be the duty of the engineer, when…
The engineer shall, as soon as practicable, submit to the commission in writing his recommendations as to detail plans, width of right-of-way and surfaced roadway and type and character of construction for each county, and at the same time furnish a copy thereof to the county clerk for public information. The commissio…
The commission shall determine the width of the right-of-way and of the surface roadway of state highways and shall also determine the type and character of construction. In making decision as to widths, types and character of construction, there shall be taken into consideration the probable volume and weight of inter…
Whenever any state highway passes through a municipality the state shall not pay for road surfacing wider or of a higher type of construction than the road as constructed up to the boundary of such municipality.
All bridges which have heretofore been constructed or rebuilt or which may hereafter be constructed or built over navigable streams by or under the order of the state highways and transportation commission of Missouri, either entirely with state funds or in part with state funds, and local funds, or with local funds or…
All laws of this state relating to the construction, maintenance or obstruction of roads, which do not conflict with the provisions of chapters 226 and 227 and are consistent with the provisions of said chapters, shall apply to the construction, maintenance and obstruction of all state highways, and the duties and powe…
1. All contracts for the construction of said work shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders after notice and publication of an advertisement in a newspaper published in the county where the work is to be done, and in such other publications as the commission may determine. 2. Each bid shall be accompani…
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission is authorized to receive bids and bid bonds for any contract for construction, maintenance, repair, or improvement of any bridge or highway on the state highway system electronically via the internet. Such electronically submitted bids and bi…
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission is authorized to accept an annual bid bond for its construction and maintenance projects. The commission shall prescribe the form and content of an annual bid bond under the provisions set forth in the Missouri standard specifications for hig…
1. The department of transportation shall not accept any bid for a highway project with an estimated cost in excess of two million dollars received from a contractor which has performed no work for the department during the preceding five years unless the department determines the contractor making such bid satisfies t…
1. Notwithstanding any provision of section 227.100 to the contrary, as an alternative to the requirements and procedures specified by sections 227.040 to 227.100, the state highways and transportation commission is authorized to enter into highway design-build project contracts. The total number of highway design-buil…
The state highway system shall be constructed in accordance with plans, specifications, estimates of cost, and contracts entered into with the commission, in the name of the state of Missouri. Said roads shall have a right-of-way not less than forty feet wide, or as much wider as may be necessary. Bridges and culverts…
1. The state highways and transportation commission shall have power to purchase, lease, or condemn, lands in the name of the state of Missouri for the following purposes when necessary for the proper and economical construction and maintenance of state highways: (1) Acquiring the right-of-way for the location, constru…
The state of Missouri, and all departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, institutions, public agencies and political subdivisions thereof, holding title to or having an interest in real estate, or having administrative jurisdiction and control of real estate or other property, are hereby authorized and empowered to gi…
1. Counties and other political subdivisions of the state, except incorporated cities and towns, shall be reimbursed for money expended by them in the construction or acquisition of roads and bridges now or hereafter taken over by the state as permanent parts of the system of state highways to the extent of the value t…
Whenever a county, or other political subdivision of the state, except incorporated cities and towns, shall have, out of public funds, purchased or constructed across any navigable stream any bridge that forms a segment or part of the state road system or any easement thereon, then the state highways and transportation…
If any county, civil subdivision or persons interested desire a road of a higher type, more expensive construction, or better in any way than the road proposed by the department, and shall secure to the state, in the manner and within the time prescribed by the commission, the additional cost of such road, then such ro…
Any civil subdivision as defined in section 226.010 shall have the power, right and authority, through its proper officers, to contribute out of funds available for road purposes all or a part of the funds necessary for the purchase of rights-of-way for state highways, and convey such rights-of-way or any other land, t…
The state highways and transportation commission of Missouri is authorized to accept and receive as trustee moneys, credits, property or securities from any county, civil subdivision or interested parties who may contract to contribute toward the cost of construction of any road or bridge which is now being constructed…
1. The state highways and transportation commission of Missouri is authorized and directed to purchase a surety bond or bonds to guarantee to the state highways and transportation commission of Missouri the payment of any funds which have been or may be hereafter advanced or furnished to the state highways and transpor…
In the event any bank or trust company and the county, civil subdivision or interested parties shall fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of sections 227.180 and 227.190, the said bank or trust company shall forthwith surrender said moneys so deposited to the credit of the state highways and transportation co…
1. The state highways as designated in section 227.020 shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the commission; and the commission shall maintain such roads in a state and manner consistent with the present condition of such roads; provided, that when the roads included in said state highway system have been cons…