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Statutes > Missouri > T07 > C082 > 82_240Parks, cemeteries may be provided for.
82.240. It shall be lawful for any such city to makeprovision in its charter, or by amendment thereof, to acquire andhold by gift, devise, purchase or by the exercise of the power ofeminent domain by condemnation proceedings, lands for public use,either within the corporate boundaries of such city or outside ofsuch corporate boundaries, and within the territorial limits ofthe county in which such city may be situated, for public parks,cemeteries, penal institutions, hospitals, rights-of-way forsewers, or for any other public purpose, and to provide formanaging, controlling and policing the same.
(RSMo 1939 § 7638)Prior revisions: 1929 § 7495; 1919 § 8906; 1909 § 9754
