Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses
Section 573.024 - Enabling sexual exploitation of a minor, offense of — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2022
573.024. Enabling sexual exploitation of a minor, offense of — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of enabling sexual exploitation of a minor if such person acting with criminal negligence permits or allows any violation of section 566.210, 566.211, 573.020, 573.023, 573.025, 573.030, 573.035, 573.200, or 573.205.
2. The offense of enabling sexual exploitation of a minor is a class E felony for the first offense and a class C felony for a second or subsequent offense.
3. If the person guilty of the offense of enabling sexual exploitation of a minor is an owner of a business or the owner's agent and the business provided the location or locations for such exploitation, the business location or locations shall be required to close for up to one year for the first offense, and the length of time shall be determined by the court. For a second offense, such business location or locations shall permanently close. As used in this section, "business" shall include, but is not limited to, a hotel or massage parlor and "owner's agent" shall include any person empowered to manage the owner's business location or locations.
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(L. 2022 S.B. 775, et al.)

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders

Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses

Section 573.010 - Definitions.

Section 573.020 - Promoting obscenity in the first degree — penalty.

Section 573.023 - Sexual exploitation of a minor — penalties.

Section 573.024 - Enabling sexual exploitation of a minor, offense of — penalty.

Section 573.025 - Promoting child pornography in the first degree — penalties.

Section 573.030 - Promoting obscenity in the second degree — penalties.

Section 573.035 - Promoting child pornography in the second degree — penalties.

Section 573.037 - Possession of child pornography — penalty.

Section 573.038 - Property or material constituting child pornography to remain in custody of the state — availability of, when.

Section 573.040 - Furnishing pornographic materials to minors — penalty.

Section 573.050 - Evidence in obscenity and child pornography cases.

Section 573.052 - Child pornography, attorney general authorized to investigate, when — violator immune from civil liability, when.

Section 573.060 - Public display of explicit sexual material — penalties.

Section 573.065 - Coercing acceptance of obscene material — penalty.

Section 573.070 - Injunctions and declaratory judgments.

Section 573.080 - Preemption and standardization — cities, towns, and certain counties may regulate, limitations.

Section 573.090 - Video cassettes, morbid violence, to be kept in separate area — sale or rental to persons under seventeen prohibited, penalties.

Section 573.100 - Telephones, obscene or indecent commercial messages, direct or electronic recording, penalties, exceptions.

Section 573.110 - Nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, offense of — definitions — elements — exemptions — immunity from liability, when — penalty — private cause of action, when.

Section 573.112 - Threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, offense of — elements — penalty.

Section 573.200 - Child used in sexual performance — penalties.

Section 573.205 - Promoting sexual performance by a child — penalties.

Section 573.206 - Patronizing a sexual performance of a child, offense of — penalty.

Section 573.215 - Failure to report child pornography — penalty.

Section 573.503 - Local government may require background checks.

Section 573.505 - Sales tax authorized, vote required — ballot — disposition of revenue — termination — city and county background check tax trust fund created, refunds — duties of director of revenue.

Section 573.507 - Minimum age limit — security personnel — random drug testing — space limitation — prohibition of public displays.

Section 573.509 - Adult cabaret, persons less than nineteen years of age prohibited from dancing, penalty.

Section 573.525 - Purpose — findings.

Section 573.531 - Establishment of business, prohibited where — nudity in establishment prohibited — display of sexual activities, requirements — state requirements — hours of operation — minors and alcohol prohibited — definitions.

Section 573.534 - Strict liability not imposed — mental state required for violation — act by employee not imputed to the business, when.

Section 573.537 - Violations, penalty — public nuisance for repeated violations — state remedies permitted.

Section 573.540 - No state preemption on regulation — consistency with state law required for local law.

Section 573.550 - Providing explicit sexual material to a student, offense of — penalty — definitions.