Effective - 28 Aug 2020
570.027. Vehicle hijacking, offense of — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of vehicle hijacking when he or she knowingly uses or threatens the use of physical force upon another person to seize or attempt to seize possession or control of a vehicle, as defined in section 302.010, from the immediate possession or control of another person.
2. The offense of vehicle hijacking is a class B felony unless it meets one of the criteria listed in subsection 3 of this section.
3. The offense of vehicle hijacking is a class A felony if, in the course thereof, a person or another participant in the offense:
(1) Causes serious physical injury to any person in immediate possession, control, or presence of the vehicle;
(2) Is armed with a deadly weapon;
(3) Uses or threatens the immediate use of a dangerous instrument against any person;
(4) Displays or threatens the use of what appears to be a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument; or
(5) Seizes a vehicle, or attempts to seize a vehicle, in which a child or special victim as defined in section 565.002 is present.
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(L. 2020 S.B. 600)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders
Chapter 570 - Robbery, Stealing and Related Offenses
Section 570.010 - Chapter definitions.
Section 570.020 - Determination of value.
Section 570.023 - Robbery in the first degree — penalty.
Section 570.025 - Robbery in the second degree — penalty.
Section 570.027 - Vehicle hijacking, offense of — penalties.
Section 570.030 - Stealing — penalties.
Section 570.039 - Cable television services, appropriation of — not stealing, when.
Section 570.053 - Feigned blindness — penalty.
Section 570.060 - Lost property.
Section 570.070 - Claim of right.
Section 570.090 - Forgery — penalty.
Section 570.100 - Possession of a forging instrumentality — penalty.
Section 570.103 - Crime of counterfeiting, definitions — penalty.
Section 570.105 - Seizure and forfeiture of counterfeit property.
Section 570.110 - Issuing a false instrument or certificate — penalty.
Section 570.125 - Fraudulently stopping payment on an instrument — penalties.
Section 570.130 - Fraudulent use of a credit device or debit device — penalty.
Section 570.140 - Deceptive business practice — penalty.
Section 570.150 - Commercial bribery — penalty.
Section 570.180 - Defrauding secured creditors — penalty.
Section 570.210 - Library theft, guilty of stealing.
Section 570.217 - Misapplication of funds of a financial institution — penalties.
Section 570.220 - Check kiting — collected funds defined — penalty.
Section 570.224 - Trafficking in stolen identities — possession of documents, exemptions — penalty.
Section 570.225 - Misappropriation of intellectual property — penalty — definitions.
Section 570.300 - Facilitating the theft of cable television service — penalty.
Section 570.310 - Mortgage fraud — penalty — venue.
Section 570.380 - Mass manufacture or possession of five or more fake IDs — penalty.
Section 570.400 - Unlawful receipt of public assistance benefits or EBT cards — penalties.
Section 570.402 - Conversion of public assistance benefits or EBT cards — penalties.
Section 570.404 - Unlawful transfer of public assistance benefits or EBT cards — penalties.
Section 570.406 - Single criminal episode, when.
Section 570.408 - Perjury for the purpose of obtaining public assistance — penalty.