Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 577 - Public Safety Offenses
Section 577.021 - Chemical testing authorized — reasonable efforts to test required — admissibility.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories
577.021. Chemical testing authorized — reasonable efforts to test required — admissibility. — 1. Any state, county or municipal law enforcement officer who is certified pursuant to chapter 590 may, prior to arrest, administer a chemical test to any person suspected of operating a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft or acting as a flight crew member of an aircraft while in an intoxicated condition or with an excessive blood alcohol content.
2. Any state, county, or municipal law enforcement officer who is certified under chapter 590 shall make all reasonable efforts to administer a chemical test to any person suspected of operating a vehicle or vessel involved in a collision or accident which resulted in a fatality or serious physical injury as defined in section 556.061.
3. A test administered pursuant to this section shall be admissible as evidence of probable cause to arrest and as exculpatory evidence, but shall not be admissible as evidence of blood alcohol content. The provisions of sections 577.019 and 577.020 shall not apply to a test administered prior to arrest pursuant to this section.
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(L. 1993 S.B. 167, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1169 & 1271 merged with S.B. 722, A.L. 2001 H.B. 302 & 38, A.L. 2006 S.B. 872, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Effective 1-01-17

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

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

Chapter 577 - Public Safety Offenses

Section 577.001 - Chapter definitions.

Section 577.010 - Driving while intoxicated — sentencing restrictions.

Section 577.012 - Driving with excessive blood alcohol content — sentencing restrictions.

Section 577.013 - Boating while intoxicated — sentencing restrictions.

Section 577.014 - Boating with excessive blood alcohol content — penalties — sentencing restrictions.

Section 577.015 - Operating an aircraft while intoxicated — penalties.

Section 577.016 - Operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content — penalties.

Section 577.017 - Consumption of alcoholic beverages while driving — penalty.

Section 577.019 - Citation of law.

Section 577.020 - Chemical tests for alcohol content of blood — consent implied, when — administered, when, how — information available to person tested, contents — videotaping of chemical or field sobriety test admissible evidence.

Section 577.021 - Chemical testing authorized — reasonable efforts to test required — admissibility.

Section 577.023 - Aggravated, chronic, persistent and prior offenders, when — trial procedures — sentencing information.

Section 577.024 - Unlawful use of water skis and surfboards — penalty.

Section 577.025 - Negligent operation of a vessel — penalty.

Section 577.029 - Blood alcohol content tests, how made, by whom, when — person tested to receive certain information, when.

Section 577.031 - Persons administering tests not liable, when.

Section 577.033 - Inability of person to be tested to refuse, effect.

Section 577.037 - Chemical tests, results admitted into evidence, when, effect of.

Section 577.041 - Refusal to submit to chemical test — admissibility — request to include reasons and effect of refusal.

Section 577.060 - Leaving the scene of an accident — penalties.

Section 577.068 - Failure to report a shooting — penalties.

Section 577.070 - Littering — penalties.

Section 577.073 - Damaging state park property — penalties.

Section 577.075 - Anhydrous ammonia, unlawful release — penalty.

Section 577.076 - Unlawful disposition of a dead animal — penalty.

Section 577.078 - Water contamination — penalty.

Section 577.080 - Abandoning motor vehicle — last owner of record deemed the owner of abandoned motor vehicle, procedures — penalty — civil liability.

Section 577.100 - Abandonment of airtight or semi-airtight containers — penalty.

Section 577.150 - Tampering with a water supply — penalty.

Section 577.155 - Construction or use of a waste disposal well — definitions — penalty.

Section 577.161 - Prohibiting the use of a life jacket — definitions — penalty.

Section 577.300 - Leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle — first and second degree — penalties.

Section 577.599 - Failure to comply with ignition interlock device requirements — penalty.

Section 577.600 - Renting, leasing, or lending a vehicle to a person required to comply with ignition interlock requirements — penalty.

Section 577.605 - Failure to notify another of ignition interlock requirements — penalty.

Section 577.612 - Tampering with or circumventing the operation of an interlock device — penalty.

Section 577.665 - Minors, parental consent required, when — definitions — standard consent form — violations, penalty — contingent effective date.

Section 577.675 - Transportation of an illegal alien — penalty.

Section 577.685 - Illegal reentry, offense of, penalty.

Section 577.700 - Definitions.

Section 577.703 - Bus hijacking, penalty — assault with intent to commit bus hijacking, penalty, with a deadly weapon, penalty — possession and concealment of deadly weapon by passenger, penalty, exception.

Section 577.706 - Planting a bomb or explosive in or near a bus or terminal — penalties.

Section 577.709 - Vulgar or profane language — passenger under influence of alcohol or drugs, penalties, exceptions — driver may remove passenger from bus, when.

Section 577.712 - Refusal of admission to terminal — requests for identification or to leave terminal authorized, failure to comply, penalty.

Section 577.715 - Detention in terminal by security guard authorized — no criminal or civil liability, exception.

Section 577.718 - Removal of baggage or cargo without owner's permission — penalty.

Section 577.800 - Unlawful use of unmanned aircraft over open-air facility, offense of — permissible acts — violation, penalty — signage.