Missouri

Missouri Revised Statutes — Criminal Offenses (Ch. 565–575)

256 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 565.001 — Procedure for chapter 565
• § 565.002 — Definitions
• § 565.003 — Culpable mental state may exist though different person killed
• § 565.004 — Joinder of offenses, exception
• § 565.005 — Prior to trial for first degree murder, opposing counsels to furnish requested information, rules applied
• § 565.006 — Waiver of jury trial permitted, when
• § 565.010 — Consent as a defense
• § 565.020 — First degree murder, penalty
• § 565.021 — Second degree murder, penalty
• § 565.023 — Voluntary manslaughter, penalty
• § 565.024 — Involuntary manslaughter, first degree, penalty
• § 565.027 — Involuntary manslaughter, second degree, penalty
• § 565.029 — Lesser degree offenses in homicide cases
• § 565.030 — Trial procedure, first degree murder
• § 565.032 — Evidence to be considered in assessing punishment in first degree murder cases for which death penalty authorized
• § 565.033 — Person under eighteen, sentencing
• § 565.034 — Person under eighteen, written notice filed to seek life without parole, procedure
• § 565.035 — Supreme court to review all death sentences, procedure
• § 565.040 — Death penalty, if held unconstitutional, resentencing procedure
• § 565.050 — Assault, first degree, penalty
• § 565.052 — Assault, second degree, penalty
• § 565.054 — Assault in the third degree
• § 565.056 — Assault in the fourth degree
• § 565.058 — Special victims
• § 565.072 — Domestic assault, first degree
• § 565.073 — Domestic assault, second degree
• § 565.074 — Domestic assault, third degree
• § 565.076 — Domestic assault in the fourth degree, penalty
• § 565.079 — Prior and persistent assault offenders
• § 565.090 — Harassment, first degree, penalty
• § 565.091 — Harassment, second degree, penalty
• § 565.110 — Kidnapping, first degree, penalty
• § 565.115 — Child kidnapping
• § 565.120 — Kidnapping, second degree, penalty
• § 565.130 — Kidnapping, third degree, penalty
• § 565.140 — Defenses to kidnapping in the third degree
• § 565.150 — Interference with custody
• § 565.153 — Parental kidnapping
• § 565.156 — Child abduction
• § 565.160 — Defenses to interference with custody, parental kidnapping, and child abduction
• § 565.163 — Venue
• § 565.184 — Abuse of an elderly person, a person with disability, or a vulnerable person
• § 565.188 — Failure to report elder abuse or neglect
• § 565.189 — Filing a false elder abuse or neglect report
• § 565.218 — Failure to report vulnerable person abuse
• § 565.222 — Filing a false vulnerable person abuse report
• § 565.225 — Stalking, first degree, penalty
• § 565.227 — Stalking, second degree, penalty
• § 565.240 — Unlawful posting of certain information over the internet, offense of
• § 565.252 — Invasion of privacy, penalty
• § 565.257 — Law enforcement officers viewing or photographing during investigations or in prisons for security not an invasion of privacy
• § 565.258 — Stop cyberstalking and harassment task force
• § 565.300 — Infant's protection act
• § 566.010 — Chapter 566 and chapter 568 definitions
• § 566.020 — Mistake as to age
• § 566.023 — Marriage to victim, at time of offense, affirmative defense, for certain offenses
• § 566.025 — Evidence that defendant has committed other charged and uncharged crimes of a sexual nature involving victims under fourteen admissible to prove propensity to commit crime, when
• § 566.030 — Rape in the first degree, penalties
• § 566.032 — Statutory rape and attempt to commit, first degree, penalties
• § 566.034 — Statutory rape, second degree, penalty
• § 566.060 — Sodomy in the first degree, penalties
• § 566.061 — Sodomy in the second degree, penalty
• § 566.062 — Statutory sodomy and attempt to commit, first degree, penalties
• § 566.064 — Statutory sodomy, second degree, penalty
• § 566.067 — Child molestation, first degree, penalties
• § 566.068 — Child molestation, second degree, penalties
• § 566.069 — Child molestation, third degree, penalty
• § 566.071 — Child molestation, fourth degree, penalty
• § 566.083 — Sexual misconduct involving a child, penalty
• § 566.086 — Sexual contact with a student
• § 566.093 — Sexual misconduct, first degree, penalties
• § 566.095 — Sexual misconduct, second degree, penalty
• § 566.100 — Sexual abuse in the first degree, penalties
• § 566.101 — Sexual abuse, second degree, penalties
• § 566.103 — Crime of promoting online sexual solicitation, violation, penalty
• § 566.111 — Sex with an animal, penalties
• § 566.115 — Sexual conduct with a nursing facility resident or a vulnerable person, first degree, penalty
• § 566.116 — Sexual conduct with a nursing facility resident or a vulnerable person, second degree, penalty
• § 566.125 — Persistent sexual offender, predatory sexual offender, defined, extension of term, when, minimum term
• § 566.145 — Sexual conduct in the course of public duty, offense of
• § 566.147 — Certain offenders not to reside within one thousand feet of a property line of a school, child care facility, or victim's residence
• § 566.148 — Certain offenders not to physically be present or loiter within five hundred feet of a child care facility
• § 566.149 — Certain offenders not to be present within five hundred feet of school property, exception
• § 566.150 — Certain offenders not to be present or loiter within five hundred feet of a public park, swimming pool, athletic complex, museum, or nature center
• § 566.151 — Enticement of a child, penalties
• § 566.153 — Age misrepresentation with intent to solicit a minor, penalty
• § 566.155 — Certain offenders not to serve as athletic coaches, managers, or trainers
• § 566.200 — Definitions
• § 566.203 — Abusing an individual through forced labor
• § 566.206 — Trafficking for the purpose of slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, or forced labor
• § 566.209 — Trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation
• § 566.210 — Sexual trafficking of a child, first degree, penalty
• § 566.211 — Sexual trafficking of a child, second degree, penalty
• § 566.215 — Contributing to human trafficking through the misuse of documentation, penalty
• § 566.218 — Restitution required for certain offenders
• § 566.223 — Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to apply, when
• § 569.010 — Chapter definitions
• § 569.040 — Arson in the first degree
• § 569.050 — Arson in the second degree
• § 569.053 — Arson in the third degree
• § 569.055 — Knowingly burning or exploding
• § 569.060 — Reckless burning or exploding
• § 569.065 — Negligent burning or exploding
• § 569.075 — Possessing a tool to break into a vending machine
• § 569.080 — Tampering in the first degree
• § 569.086 — Trespass on a critical infrastructure facility
• § 569.090 — Tampering in the second degree
• § 569.095 — Tampering with computer data
• § 569.097 — Tampering with computer equipment
• § 569.099 — Tampering with computer users
• § 569.100 — Property damage in the first degree
• § 569.117 — Damage of a critical infrastructure facility, offense of
• § 569.119 — Unauthorized possession of certain copper, brass, aluminum, fiber or telecommunications material
• § 569.120 — Property damage in the second degree
• § 569.130 — Claim of right
• § 569.132 — Prohibited acts
• § 569.135 — Unlawfully entering or defacing a cave or cavern
• § 569.137 — Polluting cave or subsurface waters
• § 569.140 — Trespass in the first degree
• § 569.145 — Posting of property against trespassers, purple paint used to mark streets and posts, requirements
• § 569.150 — Trespass in the second degree
• § 569.155 — Trespass of a school bus, penalty
• § 569.160 — Burglary in the first degree
• § 569.170 — Burglary in the second degree
• § 569.175 — Unlawfully gaining entry into a motor vehicle, offense of
• § 569.180 — Possession of burglar's tools
• § 569.200 — Criminal mischief, offense of
• § 570.010 — Chapter definitions
• § 570.020 — Determination of value
• § 570.023 — Robbery in the first degree
• § 570.025 — Robbery in the second degree
• § 570.027 — Vehicle hijacking, offense of
• § 570.030 — Stealing
• § 570.039 — Cable television services, appropriation of
• § 570.053 — Feigned blindness
• § 570.057 — Stealing leased or rented property
• § 570.060 — Lost property
• § 570.070 — Claim of right
• § 570.085 — Alteration or removal of item numbers with intent to deprive lawful owner
• § 570.090 — Forgery
• § 570.095 — Filing false documents, offense of, elements
• § 570.100 — Possession of a forging instrumentality
• § 570.103 — Crime of counterfeiting, definitions
• § 570.105 — Seizure and forfeiture of counterfeit property
• § 570.110 — Issuing a false instrument or certificate
• § 570.120 — Crime of passing bad checks, penalty
• § 570.125 — Fraudulently stopping payment on an instrument
• § 570.130 — Fraudulent use of a credit device or debit device
• § 570.135 — Fraudulent procurement of a credit or debit card
• § 570.140 — Deceptive business practice
• § 570.145 — Financial exploitation of the elderly person or person with a disability
• § 570.148 — Financial institution accounts fraud, offense of
• § 570.150 — Commercial bribery
• § 570.180 — Defrauding secured creditors
• § 570.210 — Library theft, guilty of stealing
• § 570.217 — Misapplication of funds of a financial institution
• § 570.219 — False entries in the records of a financial institution with intent to defraud
• § 570.220 — Check kiting
• § 570.223 — Identity theft
• § 570.224 — Trafficking in stolen identities
• § 570.225 — Misappropriation of intellectual property
• § 570.300 — Facilitating the theft of cable television service
• § 570.302 — Operating an audiovisual recording device in a motion picture theater
• § 570.310 — Mortgage fraud
• § 570.350 — Misuse of military medals, penalty
• § 570.375 — Fraud or deception in obtaining an instruction permit, driver's license, or nondriver's license
• § 570.380 — Mass manufacture or possession of five or more fake IDs
• § 570.400 — Unlawful receipt of public assistance benefits or EBT cards
• § 570.402 — Conversion of public assistance benefits or EBT cards
• § 570.404 — Unlawful transfer of public assistance benefits or EBT cards
• § 570.406 — Single criminal episode, when
• § 570.408 — Perjury for the purpose of obtaining public assistance
• § 570.410 — Director of department of social services, attorney general
• § 571.010 — Definitions
• § 571.012 — Health care professionals not required to disclose patient firearm information, when
• § 571.013 — Ownership of firearms records, closed records
• § 571.014 — Unlawful refusal to transfer by denying sale of a firearm to a nonlicensee, crime of
• § 571.015 — Armed criminal action, offense of
• § 571.017 — Imposition of sentences for both armed criminal action and crime committed with deadly weapon authorized, exception
• § 571.020 — Possession--manufacture--transport--repair--sale of certain weapons a crime--exceptions--penalties
• § 571.030 — Unlawful use of weapons, offense of
• § 571.037 — Open display of firearm permitted, when
• § 571.045 — Defacing firearm, penalty
• § 571.050 — Possession of defaced firearm, penalty
• § 571.060 — Unlawful transfer of weapons, penalty
• § 571.063 — Fraudulent purchase of a firearm, crime of
• § 571.067 — Surrendering a firearm to a political subdivision, valuable consideration prohibited, exceptions
• § 571.070 — Possession of firearm unlawful for certain persons
• § 571.072 — Unlawful possession of an explosive weapon, offense of
• § 571.080 — Transfer of concealable firearms
• § 571.085 — Purchase in another state by Missouri residents, permitted when
• § 571.087 — Purchase in Missouri by nonresident, permitted when
• § 571.092 — Restriction on transfer and possession of firearms, petition for removal of, when, requirements
• § 571.093 — Certain records closed to the public
• § 571.095 — Confiscation of firearms and ammunition, when
• § 571.101 — Concealed carry permits, application requirements
• § 571.104 — Suspension or revocation of endorsements and permits, when
• § 571.107 — Permit does not authorize concealed firearms, where
• § 571.111 — Firearms training requirements
• § 571.114 — Denial of application, appeal procedures