This Official Missouri MO Roadside Memorial Registry page will allow you to register, plot, pinpoint and pay tribute to your loved one(s) Roadside Memorial for the State of Missouri MO. The regulation, rules, laws, policy, procedures and or guidelines etc information provided below for the Missouri MO State Roadside Memorials is ever changing and we will do our best to maintain this information for you. If you have new or updated regulation information that we have not posted, please let us know HERE.
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Update as of April 17, 2021 Missouri has an official roadside memorial program. Their web site includes ways to search for existing memorials as well as the ways to request your own. There is a charge for the service. For more information please follow this link: Memorial Designation Programs | Missouri Department of Transportation (modot.org)
You can view an online registry of all of the memorials created by the State of Missouri on this web page: MoDOT Memorial Map
News article dated 2-27-2008:
The Missouri House narrowly approved legislation allowing citizens to pay the Missouri Department of Transportation for signs commemorating drunken driving victims. The bill sponsored by Rep. Bill Deeken, R-Jefferson City, would set up a program that would allow citizens to pay a $1,040 fee for MoDOT to erect two signs in memory a family member who was killed by a drunken driver. The House passed the bill on Monday.
Is it available to have remembered sign for a family member that lost her life due to COVID-19?
There is no formal program by any state that I am aware of. You are of course free to start something yourself.
How do I get a Memorial sign for my son who died at mile maker 33.8 going west just outside of Odessa, MO in 2006?
The State of Missouri has a formal program in order to create Roadside Tributes. Follow this link to learn more and to complete their application process: https://www.modot.org/memorial-designation-programs
Question regarding when a family member passes in a wreck and what is authorized in Missouri for a roadside memorial (size, time frame, amount of structures/objects) it seems from all of the articles I have found that it does not fall under the Missouri Memorial Designation Programs and it also seem that maybe the Current state law bans such memorials, Thanks for any info on this.
I think that you are reading the laws correctly for the State of Missouri. The memorial program is very restrictive. That is why you will see people building their own memorials.
Thanks James for your reply on the above I also have a question to add. Short background a man speeding about 70 mph over posted speed limit on a bad road (hills/curves) hit my wife and I and destroyed our car (he passed away). there are several memorials crosses, buckets of flowers and all of them are pretty big. While the driver was not drunk but intoxicated in another way and after reading from the following, I wonder if the signage/memorial is in violation. Thanks for any info. : Department of Transportation / Division 10—Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission / Chapter 27—David’s Law Signing. 7 CSR 10-27.020 Eligibility
PURPOSE: This rule provides eligibility
requirements to obtain a drunk driving victim
memorial sign under David’s Law.
(1) A sign may only be installed in memory
of an individual who died in Missouri as a
result of a motor vehicle accident caused by a
person who was shown to have been operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
(2) Intoxicated individuals killed while operating a motor vehicle are not eligible for this
program.
I am curious as to why it is even allowed to put up a roadside memorial at all. If you want to be reminded of some ones death go to the cemetery. It is a distraction to drivers who stare at them while driving. I have seen drivers turn to look at them . And to have them set up in town where there is a huge display is just crazy. I am sure too that the county workers who have to mow along the roads do not appreciate having to go around them instead of just mowing right along. A lot of them are not taken care of and just look terrible .
Yes, especially in the State of Missouri where they can be provided by the State. Everyone has their reasons for building their own. Jim
These are popping up everywhere in our community. Not to diminish the family’s grief, but within a small community these become overwhelming. Is there a time limit?
I am not aware of a time limit for Missouri, but in Florida it is two years. I am thinking that there is a limit in Missouri, I will read the legislation on that. Jim Hill, Webmaster
If the State of Missouri places one David’s Law I don’t see anywhere in the regulation a time limit as to how long they will remain. You can read the details of the law here: https://www.modot.org/drunk-driving-victim-davids-law
Jim Hill, founder, Roadside Tribute