Section 229.150

Title XIV ROADS AND WATERWAYS

Chapter 229

Effective - 28 Aug 1939, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  229.150.  Ditches — crossings, how made — obstructions — penalty. — 1.  All driveways or crossings over ditches connecting highways with the private property shall be made under the supervision of the overseer or commissioners of the road districts.

  2.  Any person or persons who shall willfully or knowingly obstruct or damage any public road by obstructing the side or cross drainage or ditches thereof, or by turning water upon such road or right-of-way, or by throwing or depositing brush, trees, stumps, logs, or any refuse or debris whatsoever, in said road, or on the sides or in the ditches thereof, or by fencing across or upon the right-of-way of the same, or by planting any hedge or erecting any advertising sign within the lines established for such road, or by changing the location thereof, or shall obstruct said road, highway or drains in any other manner whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

  3.  The road overseer of any district, or county highway engineer, who finds any road obstructed as above specified, shall notify the person violating the provisions of this section, verbally or in writing, to remove such obstruction.  Within ten days after being notified, he shall pay the sum of five dollars for each and every day after the tenth day if such obstruction is maintained or permitted to remain; such fine to be recovered by suit brought by the road overseer, in the name of the road district, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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(RSMo 1939 § 8581)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7932; 1919 § 10720; 1909 § 10533