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MO Rev Stat § 573.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.070 - Injunctions and declaratory judgments.

Effective - 15 Jul 1987   573.070. Injunctions and declaratory judgments. — 1. Whenever material or a performance is being or is about to be promoted, furnished or displayed in violation of this chapter, a civil action may be instituted in the circuit court by the prosecuting or circuit attorney or by the city attorney of any city, town or village against any person violating or about to violate those sections in order to obtain a declaration that the promotion, furnishing or display of such material or performance is prohibited. Such an action may also seek an injunction appropriately restraining promotion, furnishing or display of the material or performance.  2. Such an action may be brought only in the circuit court of the county in which any such person resides, or where the violation is taking place or about to take place.  3. Any promoter, furnisher or displayer of, or a person who is about to be a promoter, furnisher or displayer of, the material or performance involved may intervene as of right as a party defendant in the proceedings.  4. The trial court and the appellate court shall give expedited consideration to actions and appeals brought under this section. The defendant shall be entitled to a trial of the issues beginning within one week after joinder of issue and a decision shall be rendered by the court within two days of the conclusion of the trial. No restraining order or injunction of any kind shall be issued restraining the promotion, furnishing or display of any material or performance without a prior adversary hearing before the court.  5. A final declaration obtained pursuant to this section may be used to form the basis for an injunction and for no other purpose.  6. All laws regulating the procedure for obtaining declaratory judgments or injunctions which are inconsistent with the provisions of this section shall be inapplicable to proceedings brought pursuant to this section. There shall be no right to jury trial in any proceedings under this section. ­­-------- (L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 1987 H.B. 113, et al.)  Effective 7-15-87
MO Rev Stat § 573.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.080 - Preemption and standardization — cities, towns, and certain counties may regulate, limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1987   573.080. Preemption and standardization — cities, towns, and certain counties may regulate, limitations. — The general assembly by enacting this chapter intends to preempt any other regulation of the area covered by section 573.020, to promote statewide control of pornography, and to standardize laws that governmental subdivisions may adopt in other areas covered by this chapter. No governmental subdivision may enact or enforce a law that makes any conduct in the area covered by section 573.020 subject to a criminal or civil penalty of any kind. Cities and towns and counties of the first class may enact and enforce laws prohibiting and penalizing conduct subject to criminal or civil sanctions under other provisions of this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 1981 S.B. 365, A.L. 1987 H.B. 113, et al.)  Effective 7-15-87
MO Rev Stat § 573.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.090 - Video cassettes, morbid violence, to be kept in separate area — sale or rental to persons under seventeen prohibited, penalties.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories   573.090. Video cassettes, morbid violence, to be kept in separate area — sale or rental to persons under seventeen prohibited, penalties. — 1. Video cassettes or other video reproduction devices, or the jackets, cases or coverings of such video reproduction devices shall be displayed or maintained in a separate area if the same are pornographic for minors as defined in section 573.010, or if:  (1) Taken as a whole and applying contemporary community standards, the average person would find that it has a tendency to cater or appeal to morbid interest in violence for persons less than seventeen years of age; and  (2) It depicts violence in a way which is patently offensive to the average person applying contemporary adult community standards with respect to what is suitable for persons less than seventeen years of age; and  (3) Taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for persons less than seventeen years of age.  2. Any video cassettes or other video reproduction devices meeting the description in subsection 1 of this section shall not be rented or sold to a person less than seventeen years of age.  3. Violation of the provisions of subsection 1 or 2 of this section shall be punishable as an infraction, unless such violation constitutes furnishing pornographic materials to minors as defined in section 573.040, in which case it shall be punishable as a class A misdemeanor or class E felony as prescribed in section 573.040, or unless such violation constitutes promoting obscenity in the second degree as defined in section 573.030, in which case it shall be punishable as a class A misdemeanor or class E felony as prescribed in section 573.030. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 225 § 1, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Effective 1-01-17  (1992) Where statute attempted to regulate expression was not drafted with precision and clarity and did not contain definitions of prohibited conduct so that people of common intelligence might guess at the meaning of the statute, statute is unconstitutionally vague. Video Software Dealers Assn. v. Webster, 773 F.Supp. 1275 (W.D. Mo.).
MO Rev Stat § 573.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.100 - Telephones, obscene or indecent commercial messages, direct or electronic recording, penalties, exceptions.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories   573.100. Telephones, obscene or indecent commercial messages, direct or electronic recording, penalties, exceptions. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:  (1) "Indecent", language or material that depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs;  (2) "Obscene", any comment, request, suggestion or proposal is obscene if:  (a) Applying contemporary community standards, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest in sex; and  (b) Taken as a whole with respect to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, it depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and  (c) Taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Obscenity shall be judged with reference to its impact upon ordinary adults.  2. A person commits the offense of obscene or indecent commercial messaging if he or she, by means of a telephone communication for commercial purposes, makes directly or by means of an electronic recording device, any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal which is obscene or indecent; or knowingly permits any telephone or telephone facility connected to a local exchange telephone under such person's control to be used for obscene or indecent commercial messaging. Any person who makes any such comment, request, suggestion, or proposal shall be in violation of the provisions of this section regardless of whether such person placed or initiated the telephone call.  3. The offense of obscene or indecent commercial messaging is a class A misdemeanor unless such person has been found guilty of the same offense committed at a different time, in which case the violation is a class E felony. For purposes of this subsection, each violation constitutes a separate offense.  4. The prohibitions and penalties contained herein are not applicable to a telecommunications company as defined in section 386.020 over whose facilities prohibited communications may be transmitted. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 225 § 2, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 573.112 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.112 - Threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, offense of — elements — penalty.

Effective - 01 Jun 2018   573.112. Threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, offense of — elements — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images if he or she gains or attempts to gain anything of value, or coerces or attempts to coerce another person to act or refrain from acting, by threatening to disseminate an image of another person, which was obtained under circumstances in which a reasonable person would know or understand that the image was to remain private, against the will of such person:  (1) Who is at least eighteen years of age;  (2) Who is identifiable from the image itself or information displayed in connection with the image; and  (3) Who is engaged in a sexual act or whose intimate parts are exposed, in whole or in part.  2. The offense of threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images is a class E felony. ­­-------- (L. 2018 H.B. 1558)  Effective 6-01-18
MO Rev Stat § 573.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.200 - Child used in sexual performance — penalties.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017   573.200. Child used in sexual performance — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of use of a child in a sexual performance if, knowing the character and content thereof, the person employs, authorizes, or induces a child less than eighteen years of age to engage in a performance which includes sexual conduct or, being a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of such child, consents to the participation by such child in such sexual performance.  2. The offense of use of a child in a sexual performance is a class C felony, unless in the course thereof the person inflicts serious emotional injury on the child, in which case the offense is a class B felony.  3. The court shall not grant a suspended imposition of sentence or a suspended execution of sentence to a person who has previously been found guilty of an offense under this section. ­­-------- (L. 1984 H.B. 1255, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Transferred 2014; formerly 568.080; Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 573.205 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.205 - Promoting sexual performance by a child — penalties.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017   573.205. Promoting sexual performance by a child — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of promoting a sexual performance by a child if, knowing the character and content thereof, the person promotes a performance which includes sexual conduct by a child less than eighteen years of age or produces, or directs any performance which includes sexual conduct by a child less than eighteen years of age.  2. The offense of promoting a sexual performance by a child is a class C felony.  3. The court shall not grant a suspended imposition of sentence or a suspended execution of sentence to a person who has previously been found guilty of an offense under this section. ­­-------- (L. 1984 H.B. 1255, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Transferred 2014; formerly 568.090; Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 573.215 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.215 - Failure to report child pornography — penalty.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017   573.215. Failure to report child pornography — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of failure to report child pornography if he or she being a film and photographic print processor, computer provider, installer or repair person, or any internet service provider who has knowledge of or observes, within the scope of the person's professional capacity or employment, any film, photograph, videotape, negative, slide, or computer-generated image or picture depicting a child under eighteen years of age engaged in an act of sexual conduct fails to report such instance to any law enforcement agency immediately or as soon as practically possible.  2. The offense of failure to report child pornography is a class B misdemeanor.  3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a provider of electronic communication services or remote computing services to monitor any user, subscriber or customer of the provider, or the content of any communication of any user, subscriber or customer of the provider. ­­-------- (L. 1984 H.B. 1255, A.L. 2000 S.B. 757 & 602, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Transferred 2014; formerly 568.110; Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 573.503 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.503 - Local government may require background checks.

Effective - 02 Jul 1993   573.503. Local government may require background checks. — Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may, by order or ordinance, require a background check be conducted on all employees of any adult cabaret to ascertain whether any such employees have been convicted of or have pled guilty to any misdemeanor or felony involving prostitution or aiding or abetting prostitution, drug possession or trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, or illegal gambling activity. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 180 § 12)  Effective 7-02-93
MO Rev Stat § 573.507 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.507 - Minimum age limit — security personnel — random drug testing — space limitation — prohibition of public displays.

Effective - 02 Jul 1993   573.507. Minimum age limit — security personnel — random drug testing — space limitation — prohibition of public displays. — 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may establish a minimum age limit for admission into any adult cabaret within the city or county.  2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may require security personnel to be present on the premises of any adult cabaret within the city or county.  3. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may require employers of any adult cabaret within the city or county to conduct random testing for the presence of illegal substances within the blood or urine of any or all employees of such adult cabaret.  4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may prohibit within such city or county any live public nudity within ten feet of any person observing such nudity.  5. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any city not within a county and any county may prohibit within such city or county the public display of sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse or appearing in a state of nudity in any adult cabaret. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 180 § 14)  Effective 7-02-93
MO Rev Stat § 573.509 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.509 - Adult cabaret, persons less than nineteen years of age prohibited from dancing, penalty.

Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories   573.509. Adult cabaret, persons less than nineteen years of age prohibited from dancing, penalty. — 1. No person less than nineteen years of age shall dance in an adult cabaret, nor shall any proprietor of such establishment permit any person less than nineteen years of age to dance in an adult cabaret.  2. Violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor. ­­-------- (L. 2003 S.B. 298, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Effective 1-01-17
MO Rev Stat § 573.525 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.525 - Purpose — findings.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   573.525. Purpose — findings. — 1. It is the purpose of sections 573.525 to 573.537 to regulate sexually oriented businesses in order to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of this state, and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the deleterious secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses within the state. The provisions of sections 573.525 to 573.537 have neither the purpose nor effect of imposing a limitation or restriction on the content or reasonable access to any communicative materials, including sexually oriented materials. Similarly, it is neither the intent nor effect of sections 573.525 to 573.537 to restrict or deny access by adults to sexually oriented materials protected by the first amendment, or to deny access by the distributors and exhibitors of sexually oriented entertainment to their intended market. Neither is it the intent nor effect of sections 573.525 to 573.537 to condone or legitimize the distribution of obscene material.  2. The general assembly finds that:  (1) Sexually oriented businesses, as a category of commercial enterprises, are associated with a wide variety of adverse secondary effects, including but not limited to personal and property crimes, prostitution, potential spread of disease, lewdness, public indecency, obscenity, illicit drug use and drug trafficking, negative impacts on surrounding properties, urban blight, litter, and sexual assault and exploitation;  (2) Sexually oriented businesses should be separated from sensitive land uses to minimize the impact of their secondary effects upon such uses, and should be separated from other sexually oriented businesses, to minimize the secondary effects associated with such uses and to prevent an unnecessary concentration of sexually oriented businesses in one area;  (3) Each of the foregoing negative secondary effects constitutes a harm which the state has a substantial interest in preventing or abating, or both. Such substantial government interest in preventing secondary effects, which is the state's rationale for sections 573.525 to 573.537, exists independent of any comparative analysis between sexually oriented and nonsexually oriented businesses. Additionally, the state's interest in regulating sexually oriented businesses extends to preventing future secondary effects of current or future sexually oriented businesses that may locate in the state. ­­-------- (L. 2010 S.B. 586 & 617)
MO Rev Stat § 573.534 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.534 - Strict liability not imposed — mental state required for violation — act by employee not imputed to the business, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   573.534. Strict liability not imposed — mental state required for violation — act by employee not imputed to the business, when. — Sections 573.525 to 573.537 do not impose strict liability. Unless a culpable mental state is otherwise specified herein, a showing of a knowing or reckless mental state is necessary to establish a violation of sections 573.525 to 573.537. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for purposes of sections 573.525 to 573.537, an act by an employee shall be imputed to the sexually oriented business for purposes of finding a violation of sections 573.525 to 573.537 only if an officer, director, or general partner, or a person who managed, supervised, or controlled the operation of the business premises knowingly or recklessly allowed such act to occur on the premises. It shall be a defense to liability that the person to whom liability is imputed was powerless to prevent the act. ­­-------- (L. 2010 S.B. 586 & 617)
MO Rev Stat § 573.537 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.537 - Violations, penalty — public nuisance for repeated violations — state remedies permitted.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   573.537. Violations, penalty — public nuisance for repeated violations — state remedies permitted. — 1. Any person, business, or entity violating or refusing to comply with any provision of sections 573.525 to 573.537 shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imposition of a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed ninety days, or both. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist or occur, and each separate occurrence, shall constitute a separate offense.  2. Any premises, building, dwelling, or other structure in which a sexually oriented business is repeatedly operated or maintained in violation of sections 573.525 to 573.537 shall constitute a public nuisance and shall be subject to civil abatement proceedings initiated by the state in a court of competent jurisdiction. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist or occur shall constitute a separate operation or maintenance of the violation.  3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the state may employ any remedy available at law or in equity to prevent or remedy a violation of any provision of sections 573.525 to 573.537. ­­-------- (L. 2010 S.B. 586 & 617)
MO Rev Stat § 573.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 573 - Pornography and Related Offenses|Section 573.540 - No state preemption on regulation — consistency with state law required for local law.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   573.540. No state preemption on regulation — consistency with state law required for local law. — 1. Nothing in sections 573.525 to 573.537 shall be construed as preempting or preventing any political subdivision of this state from maintaining, enacting, or enforcing any local ordinance, rule, regulation, resolution, or similar law concerning the regulation of sexually oriented businesses or similar adult oriented businesses which is stricter than but not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 573.525 to 573.537.  2. Political subdivisions of this state are specifically authorized to maintain, enact, and enforce local ordinances, rules, regulations, resolutions, or other similar laws concerning the regulation of sexually oriented businesses or similar adult-oriented businesses which are the same as or stricter than but not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 573.525 to 573.537. ­­-------- (L. 2010 S.B. 586 & 617)
MO Rev Stat § 574.005 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders|Chapter 574 - Offenses Against Public Order|Section 574.005 - Definitions

Effective - 01 Jan 2017   574.005. Definitions — As used in this chapter the following terms mean:  (1) "Private property", any place which at the time of the offense is not open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately;  (2) "Property of another", any property in which the person does not have a possessory interest;  (3) "Public place", any place which at the time of the offense is open to the public. It includes property which is owned publicly or privately. ­­-------- (L. 2014 S.B. 491)  Effective 1-01-17