Effective - 28 Aug 1974
416.051. Penalties — attorney general to prosecute — civil penalty for contempt. — 1. Any person who violates any of the provisions of subsection* 1 or 2 of section 416.031 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of up to fifty thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one year, or by both such punishments at the discretion of the court. The attorney general shall not commence prosecutions under this section against any defendant who, at the time, is a defendant with regard to any current information or indictment filed by the United States for violation, or alleged violation, of the Federal Antitrust Statutes involving substantially the same subject matter.
2. The attorney general, with such assistance as he may require from the appropriate county prosecuting attorney, shall investigate suspected criminal violations of sections 416.011 to 416.161 and shall commence and try all criminal prosecutions under sections 416.011 to 416.161. Prosecutions under sections 416.011 to 416.161 may be commenced by information or indictment. With regard to the investigation, commencement and trial of such prosecutions, the attorney general shall have all the powers and duties vested in him by law with respect to criminal investigations and prosecutions generally. All reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by a prosecuting attorney or his staff in assisting the attorney general shall be reimbursed from appropriations made to the attorney general.
3. Any person who is found to be in contempt of any court order issued to enforce the provisions of section 416.031 arising out of any proceeding brought by the attorney general shall forfeit and pay to the state a civil penalty of not more than twenty thousand dollars. For the purposes of this section, the circuit court issuing any such court order enforcing the provisions of section 416.031 shall retain jurisdiction, and the cause shall be continued, and in such cases the attorney general acting in the name of the state may petition for recovery of civil penalties.
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(L. 1974 S.B. 424)
*Word "subsections" appears in original rolls.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 416 - Monopolies, Discriminations and Conspiracies
Section 416.011 - Title of act.
Section 416.021 - Definitions.
Section 416.031 - Restraint of trade prohibited.
Section 416.041 - Exempt organizations and activities.
Section 416.051 - Penalties — attorney general to prosecute — civil penalty for contempt.
Section 416.071 - Injunctive relief by circuit courts authorized.
Section 416.081 - Antitrust revolving fund — how used — source of funds.
Section 416.111 - Refusal to testify prohibited — criminal immunity granted.
Section 416.121 - Who may sue — prevailing plaintiff to be awarded attorney's fees and costs.
Section 416.141 - How construed as to comparable federal acts.
Section 416.151 - State's remedies to be cumulative — only one monetary recovery on any one act.
Section 416.161 - Severability clause.
Section 416.410 - Definitions.
Section 416.415 - Selling or advertising milk at less than cost prohibited — evidence.
Section 416.420 - Discrimination in price between localities — evidence.
Section 416.425 - Sales by retailers at less than cost — evidence.
Section 416.430 - Sale by bulk milk handler at less than cost — evidence.
Section 416.435 - Sales of milk in combination with other products at less than cost — evidence.
Section 416.445 - Sales and advertisements exempt from law, when.
Section 416.450 - Complaints, investigation by director — actions to restrain violations.
Section 416.455 - Person injured by violation may intervene in or bring injunction action.
Section 416.460 - Rules, authority, promulgation, procedure.
Section 416.465 - Director may subpoena and swear witnesses — enforcement of subpoena.
Section 416.470 - Director may employ auditing firm.
Section 416.475 - Bond of complainant, liability.
Section 416.480 - Remedies exclusive.
Section 416.485 - Actions barred, when.
Section 416.495 - Milk control fund, source and purpose.
Section 416.500 - Nonresident manufacturers, processors and distributors to pay license fee.
Section 416.505 - Operation without license enjoined — "stop-sale" orders, issuance — appeal.
Section 416.510 - Nonresident subject to Missouri judicial process, when.
Section 416.515 - Process, form.
Section 416.520 - Service of process, how made.
Section 416.525 - Notice of service of process, form.
Section 416.530 - Personal service authorized, how served.
Section 416.535 - Proof of service by mailing.
Section 416.540 - Provisions for service on nonresidents in addition to other methods.
Section 416.545 - Venue of actions.
Section 416.550 - Continuance of action as to nonresident.
Section 416.555 - Secretary of state to keep record of process.
Section 416.560 - Secretary of state's fee as costs.
Section 416.600 - Citation of law.
Section 416.605 - Definitions.
Section 416.610 - Transfer prices, public disclosure required.
Section 416.615 - Sale below cost or at lower price, prohibited when.
Section 416.620 - Allowable practices.
Section 416.635 - Civil action by injured party authorized.
Section 416.654 - Cause of action available to targets of bad faith assertions.
Section 416.656 - Attorney general's authority — awards credited to antitrust revolving fund, when.
Section 416.658 - Other remedies not limited — inapplicability of act, when.