Effective - 01 Jan 2017
574.130. Agroterrorism — penalty — defenses. — 1. A person commits the offense of agroterrorism if such person purposely spreads any type of contagious, communicable or infectious disease among crops, poultry, livestock as defined in section 267.565, or other animals.
2. Agroterrorism is a class E felony unless the damage to crops, poultry, livestock or animals is ten million dollars or more in which case it is a class B felony.
3. It shall be a defense to the crime of agroterrorism if such spreading is consistent with medically recognized therapeutic procedures or done in the course of legitimate, professional scientific research.
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(L. 2001 S.B. 462, A.L. 2002 S.B. 712, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Transferred 2014; formerly 578.008; 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.