Effective - 01 Jan 2017
574.080. Causing catastrophe — definitions — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of causing catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, collapse of a building, release of poison, radioactive material, bacteria, virus or other dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance.
2. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) "Catastrophe", death or serious physical injury to ten or more people or substantial damage to five or more buildings or inhabitable structures or substantial damage to a vital public facility which seriously impairs its usefulness or operation;
(2) "Vital public facility", includes a facility maintained for use as a bridge, whether over land or water, dam, reservoir, tunnel, communication installation or power station.
3. The offense of causing catastrophe is a class A felony.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Transferred 2014; formerly 569.070; Effective 1-01-17
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders
Chapter 574 - Offenses Against Public Order
Section 574.010 - Peace disturbance — penalty.
Section 574.020 - Private peace disturbance — penalty.
Section 574.035 - Disrupting a house of worship — penalty.
Section 574.040 - Unlawful assembly — penalty.
Section 574.050 - Rioting — penalty.
Section 574.060 - Refusal to disperse — penalty.
Section 574.070 - Promoting civil disorder in the first degree — penalty.
Section 574.075 - Drunkenness or drinking in certain places prohibited — penalty.
Section 574.080 - Causing catastrophe — definitions — penalty.
Section 574.085 - Institutional vandalism, offense of — violation, penalty.
Section 574.105 - Money laundering — penalty.
Section 574.110 - Using a laser pointer, offense of — violation, penalty.
Section 574.115 - Making a terrorist threat, first degree — penalty.
Section 574.120 - Making a terrorist threat, second degree — penalty.
Section 574.125 - Making a terrorist threat, third degree — penalty.
Section 574.130 - Agroterrorism — penalty — defenses.
Section 574.140 - Cross burning — penalties.
Section 574.160 - Unlawful funeral protest, offense of — definitions — violation, penalty.