Effective - 01 Jan 2017
569.135. Unlawfully entering or defacing a cave or cavern — penalty. — 1. Unless a person has the prior written permission of an owner, officer, lessee, or superintendent of a cave or cavern, such person commits the offense of unlawfully entering or defacing a cave or cavern if he or she:
(1) Willfully or knowingly breaks, breaks off, cracks, carves upon, writes or otherwise marks upon, or in any manner destroys, mutilates, injures, defaces, removes, displaces, mars, or harms the surfaces of any cave or any natural material therein including, without limitation, stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, anthodites, gypsum flowers, or needles, cave pearls, flowstone, draperies, rimstone, spathites, columns or similar crystalline mineral formation, including the host rock thereof; or
(2) Breaks, forces, tampers with, removes, or otherwise disturbs a lock, gate, door or other structure designed to prevent entrance to a cave or cavern. A person violates this subsection whether or not entrance to the cave or cavern is achieved.
2. No additional appropriations may be made for the enforcement of this section.
3. The provisions of this section do not apply to vertical or horizontal underground mining operations.
4. The offense of unlawfully entering or defacing a cave or cavern is a class A misdemeanor.
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(L. 1980 H.B. 1192 § 3, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Transferred 2014; formerly 578.210; Effective 1-01-17
CROSS REFERENCE:
Caves open to public, requirements, 293.620
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders
Chapter 569 - Arson, Burglary, Trespass, and Related Offenses
Section 569.010 - Chapter definitions.
Section 569.040 - Arson in the first degree — penalty.
Section 569.050 - Arson in the second degree — penalty.
Section 569.053 - Arson in the third degree — penalty.
Section 569.055 - Knowingly burning or exploding — penalty.
Section 569.060 - Reckless burning or exploding — penalty.
Section 569.065 - Negligent burning or exploding — penalty.
Section 569.075 - Possessing a tool to break into a vending machine — penalty.
Section 569.080 - Tampering in the first degree — penalty.
Section 569.086 - Trespass on a critical infrastructure facility — penalty.
Section 569.090 - Tampering in the second degree — penalties.
Section 569.095 - Tampering with computer data — penalties.
Section 569.097 - Tampering with computer equipment — penalties.
Section 569.099 - Tampering with computer users — penalties.
Section 569.100 - Property damage in the first degree — penalties.
Section 569.120 - Property damage in the second degree — penalty.
Section 569.130 - Claim of right.
Section 569.132 - Prohibited acts — involving crops — penalties.
Section 569.135 - Unlawfully entering or defacing a cave or cavern — penalty.
Section 569.137 - Polluting cave or subsurface waters — penalty.
Section 569.140 - Trespass in the first degree — penalty.
Section 569.150 - Trespass in the second degree — penalty.
Section 569.160 - Burglary in the first degree — penalty.