Missouri Laws 238.302 – Definitions
Wherever used in sections 238.300 to 238.367, the following terms mean:
(1) “Board”, the board of directors of the corporation;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 238.302
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) “Commission”, the Missouri highways and transportation commission;
(3) “Corporation” or “transportation corporation”, any transportation corporation organized under sections 238.300 to 238.367;
(4) “Local transportation authority”, a county, city, town, village, county highway commission, special road district, interstate compact agency, or any local public authority or political subdivision having jurisdiction over any bridge, street, highway, dock, wharf, ferry, lake or river port, airport, railroad, light rail or other transit improvement or service;
(5) “Pay”, paying a toll by cash, by permitting a charge against a valid account with the authority or by another means of payment approved by the corporation at the time;
(6) “Photo monitoring system”, a vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with a toll collection facility which automatically produces one or more photographs, one or more microphotographs, a videotape or other recorded images of each vehicle at the time it is used or operated in violation of toll collection regulations;
(7) “Project” includes any bridge, street, road, highway, access road, interchange, intersection, signing, signalization, parking lot, bus stop, station, garage, terminal, hangar, shelter, rest area, dock, wharf, lake or river port, airport, railroad, light rail, or other mass transit and any similar or related improvement or infrastructure;
(8) “Toll” or “tolls”, charges prescribed by the corporation for the use of its property;
(9) “Toll collection regulations”, those rules and regulations of a corporation providing for and requiring the payment of tolls for the use of bridges under its jurisdiction or those rules and regulations of a corporation making it unlawful to refuse to pay or to evade or to attempt to evade the payment of all or part of any toll for the use of bridges under the jurisdiction of the corporation;
(10) “Vehicle” or “motor vehicle”, every device in, upon or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway except devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.