Missouri · Missouri Revised Statutes — Criminal Offenses (Ch. 565–575)
Mo. Rev. Stat. (Crimes) § 575.157: Endangering a mental health employee, visitor, or another offender, offense of
What this law says, in plain English
Intentionally or knowingly causing a mental health employee, visitor, or offender at a secure facility to contact blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or saliva is a class E felony; it becomes a class D felony if the offender knowingly has a serious communicable disease and the exposure method can transmit it.
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