Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 226.670 (2026)

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  226.670.  Licenses — fee. — No person shall operate, establish, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway, without obtaining a license from the state highways and transportation commission of Missouri.  The state highways and transportation commission shall have authority to issue a license for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of junkyards within the limits established in the preceding section and shall charge an annual fee of ten dollars, payable in advance.  All licenses shall expire on the first day of January following the date of issue and the commission may charge a pro rata part of the annual license fee for portions of a year.  Licenses shall be renewed from year to year on payment of the license fee.  Such fee shall be deposited in the highway fund and be expended by the state highways and transportation commission in the administration of provisions of sections 226.650 to 226.720.

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(L. 1965 2d Ex. Sess. p. 905 § 3)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1969–1998 · leading case: State ex rel. State High. Comm'n v. Wiggins, 454 S.W.2d 899 (Mo. 1970).
State ex rel. State High. Comm'n v. Wiggins, 454 S.W.2d 899 (Mo. 1970). · cites it 10× “It is provided in § 226.670, that no person shall establish or operate a junk yard, any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the "nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway" without first obtaining a license from the State Highway Commission.”
Deimeke v. State High. Comm'n, 444 S.W.2d 480 (Mo. 1969). · cites it 4× “” Section 226.670 of the new Act provides that no person shall establish or operate a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway, without first obtaining a license from the State Highway…”
Whitman v. State High. Comm'n of Missouri, 400 F. Supp. 1050 (W.D. Mo. 1975). · cites it 2× “See § 226.670 RSMo. (1969). No such unequivocal language appears in the 1965 Act.”
State ex rel. State High. Comm'n v. Carlton, 453 S.W.2d 642 (Mo. Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 2× “Section 3 of Senate Bill 9 [§ 226.670] forbade the operation, establishment or maintenance of any junkyard “within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway” without a license from the Commission.”
State ex rel. State High. Comm'n v. Finch, 664 S.W.2d 53 (Mo. Ct. App. 1984). · cites it 3× “At the conclusion of the second hearing the trial court found that “defendants do not operate and maintain a junkyard as defined and described in § 226.670,” and entered an order denying the injunction and dismissing the petition.”
State v. Itschner, 960 S.W.2d 570 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 2× “Itsehner appeals from the circuit court’s judgment of his jury convictions and sentences for seventy-nine counts of establishing, operating or maintaining an unlicensed junkyard in violation of § 226.670, RSMo 1994. Dismissed. Rule 30.”
State High. Comm'n v. McCully, 466 S.W.2d 112 (Mo. Ct. App. 1971). “and particularly with the provisions of Sections 226.670 and 226.680, which require that, before certain specified junkyards may be licensed to carry on a junkyard operation within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of certain highways, same must be “ * *…”
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