Taken up for Perfection April 4, 2001. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed. AN ACT To repeal sections 556.036, 566.093, 573.037, 589.400 and 589.417, RSMo 2000, relating to sex offenders, and to enact in lieu thereof six new sections relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions. A felony , or a prosecution pursuant to section 566.030, RSMo, or section 566.060, RSMo, may be commenced at any time. An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated.
Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.
A prosecution is commenced either when an indictment is found or an information filed. A person commits the crime of possession of child pornography if, knowing of its content and character, such person possesses any obscene material that has a child as one of its participants or portrays what appears to be a child as an observer or participant of sexual conduct. The chief law enforcement official shall forward a copy of the registration form required by section 589.407 to a city, town or village law enforcement agency located within the county of the chief law enforcement official, if so requested. Such request may ask the chief law enforcement official to forward copies of all registration forms filed with such official. The chief law enforcement official may forward a copy of such registration form to any city, town or village law enforcement agency, if so requested.