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MO Rev Stat § 537.349 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.349 - Liability of landowner to trespasser, immunity where trespasser under influence of drugs or alcohol — limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories   537.349. Liability of landowner to trespasser, immunity where trespasser under influence of drugs or alcohol — limitations. — A person or legal entity owning or controlling an interest in real property, or an agent of such person or entity, shall not incur any liability for the death of or injury to a trespasser upon the property resulting from or arising by reason of the trespasser's commission of the offense of trespass if the normal faculties of such trespasser are substantially impaired by alcohol or the illegal influence of a controlled substance as defined in section 195.010. The person or entity owning or controlling an interest in such real property shall not be immune from liability if willful and wanton misconduct on the part of such person or entity or agent thereof is the proximate cause of the death of or injury to the trespasser. ­­-------- (L. 1991 S.B. 125 & 341 § 3, A.L. 2018 S.B. 608)
MO Rev Stat § 537.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.350 - Double damages for throwing down gates and fences — exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.350. Double damages for throwing down gates and fences — exception. — If any person shall voluntarily throw down or open any doors, bars, gates or fences, and leave the same open or down, other than those that lead into his own enclosure, or shall voluntarily throw down, open or remove any partition fence, without giving six months' written notice to the person owning the adjoining fields, if they are cultivated lands, he shall pay to the party injured the sum of five dollars, and double the amount of damages he shall sustain by reason of such doors, bars, gates and fences having been thrown down or opened, with costs; provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to fences erected across any watercourse in this state which carries sufficient water to move logs for lumbering purposes, of ten inches or more in diameter, and railroad crossties and piling; provided further, that any corporation, company or individual driving such logs, crossties or piling, or having placed the same in any such stream with the intent to drive or float the same, shall be liable for the actual damages which may result therefrom to any owner of land bordering on any such stream; but this section shall not be construed to include a fence erected across any such stream and not enclosing a farm or plantation, nor where, in any case, it is apparent that such fence was erected across such stream for the mere purpose of hindering the free passage of such logs, crossties or piling, or for the purpose of extorting money from the corporation, company or individual engaged in driving such logs, crossties or piling. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3682)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3292; 1919 § 4243; 1909 § 5449
MO Rev Stat § 537.351 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.351 - Trespassers, no duty of care by owners, exception — liability for physical injury or death, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012   537.351. Trespassers, no duty of care by owners, exception — liability for physical injury or death, when. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, a possessor of real property, including an owner, lessee, or other occupant, or an agent of such owner, lessee, or other occupant, owes no duty of care to a trespasser except to refrain from harming the trespasser by an intentional, willful, or wanton act. A possessor of real property may use justifiable force to repel a criminal trespasser as provided by section 563.074.  2. A possessor of real property may be subject to liability for physical injury or death to a trespasser in the following situations:  (1) If the trespasser is a child who is harmed by a dangerous artificial condition on the land; and  (a) The possessor knew or should have known that children were likely to trespass at the location of the condition;  (b) The condition is one which the possessor knew or reasonably should have known involved an unreasonable risk of death or serious physical injury to such children;  (c) The injured child because of the child's youth did not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in the intermeddling with the condition or in coming within the area made dangerous by the condition;  (d) The utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger were slight as compared with the risk to the child involved; and  (e) The possessor failed to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise protect the injured child; or  (2) The possessor knew or should have known that trespassers consistently intrude upon a limited area of the possessor's land where the trespasser was harmed, the harm resulted from a dangerous artificial condition on the land; and  (a) The possessor created or maintained the artificial condition that caused the injury;  (b) The possessor knew that the condition was likely to cause death or serious bodily harm to trespassers;  (c) The possessor knew or should have known that the condition was of such a nature that trespassers would not discover it; and  (d) The possessor failed to exercise reasonable care to warn trespassers of the condition and the risk involved; or  (3) If the possessor knew of the trespasser's presence on the land and failed to exercise ordinary care as to active operations carried out on the land.  3. This section does not create or increase the liability of any possessor of real property and does not affect any immunities from or defenses to liability established under state law or available under common law to which a possessor of real property may be entitled under circumstances not covered by this section. ­­-------- (L. 2012 S.B. 628)
MO Rev Stat § 537.353 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.353 - Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products, when — court costs awarded, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   537.353. Liability for damage or destruction of field crop products, when — court costs awarded, when. — 1. Any person or entity who knowingly damages or destroys any field crop product that is grown for personal or commercial purposes, or for testing or research purposes in the context of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university, or any federal, state or local government agency, shall be liable for double damages pursuant to this section.  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 537.340, or the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, any person or entity who negligently commits any of the acts described in subsection 1 of this section shall be liable only for compensatory damages.  3. In awarding damages pursuant to subsections 1 and 2 of this section, the courts shall consider the following:  (1) The market value of the crop prior to damage or destruction; and  (2) The actual damages involving production, research, testing replacement and crop development costs directly related to the crop that has been damaged or destroyed.  4. In addition, the court may award court costs, including reasonable attorneys fees. ­­-------- (L. 2001 S.B. 462, A.L. 2007 H.B. 344)
MO Rev Stat § 537.354 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.354 - Prescribed burning act — definitions — immunity from liability, when — inapplicability, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2021   537.354. Prescribed burning act — definitions — immunity from liability, when — inapplicability, when. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Prescribed Burning Act".  2. As used in this section, the following terms mean:  (1) "Agent of an owner of land", any person who has permission from a landowner to participate in a prescribed burning on the landowner's property;  (2) "Certified prescribed burn manager", a person who successfully completes a prescribed burn certification program approved by the Missouri department of conservation;  (3) "Prescribed burn plan", a written plan that is in a format approved by the Missouri department of conservation establishing the conditions and methods to perform a prescribed burning;  (4) "Prescribed burning", the planned and controlled application of fire to existing vegetative fuels in order to accomplish one or more specific land management objectives including, but not limited to, vegetative fuel reduction, silvicultural treatments, wildlife habitat improvement, and management of grassland and other plant communities.  3. No owner of land or agent of an owner of land shall be liable for damage, injury, or loss caused by a prescribed burning or the resulting smoke of a prescribed burning unless the owner of land or agent of an owner of land is proven to be negligent.  4. No certified prescribed burn manager shall be liable for damage, injury, or loss caused by a prescribed burning or the resulting smoke of a prescribed burning conducted under a prescribed burn plan unless the certified prescribed burn manager is proven to be negligent.  5. The provisions of subsections 3 and 4 of this section shall not apply to any damage, injury, or loss caused by a prescribed burning or the resulting smoke from a prescribed burning to any of the following:  (1) Property, lands, rights-of-way, or easements owned by a public utility or municipally owned utility;  (2) Property, lands, rights-of-way, or easements owned by a rural electric cooperative organized or operating under the provisions of chapter 394, or any corporation organized on a nonprofit or cooperative basis as described in subsection 1 of section 394.200, or any electrical corporation operating under a cooperative business plan as described in subsection 2 of section 393.110; or  (3) Property, lands, rights-of-way, or easements appurtenant or incidental to lands controlled by any railroad. ­­-------- (L. 2021 H.B. 369)
MO Rev Stat § 537.355 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.355 - Private property, permission by owner to hunt, fish, or recreate, limitation on privilege.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   537.355. Private property, permission by owner to hunt, fish, or recreate, limitation on privilege. — An owner of land who either directly or indirectly invites or permits without charge any person to use such property for hunting or fishing purposes or other recreational purpose, including but not limited to any aircraft or ultralight vehicle activity, does not thereby:  (1) Confer upon such person the legal status of an invitee or licensee and owes to such person only the duty of care as is owed to a trespasser under the law;  (2) Without the failure to exercise just ordinary care, assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to persons or property caused by an act or omission of such persons while hunting or fishing or engaging in other recreational activities, such as operating aircraft or ultralight vehicles;  (3) Without the failure to exercise just ordinary care, assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to persons or property, wherever such persons or property are located, caused while hunting or fishing or engaging in other recreational activities, such as operating aircraft or ultralight vehicles. ­­-------- (L. 2008 H.B. 2034)
MO Rev Stat § 537.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.360 - Single damages only recoverable, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.360. Single damages only recoverable, when. — On the trial of any action or prosecution brought upon sections 537.340, 537.350 and 537.370 if it shall appear that the defendant had probable cause to believe that the land on which the trespass is alleged to have been committed, or that the thing so taken, carried away, injured or destroyed, was his own, the plaintiff in the action or prosecution shall receive single damages only, with costs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3684)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3294; 1919 § 4245; 1909 § 5451
MO Rev Stat § 537.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.370 - Penalties, how recovered.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.370. Penalties, how recovered. — The penalties mentioned in sections 537.340 and 537.350 may be recovered by civil action founded on said sections, or by indictment, or information, at the option of the party injured, in any court having jurisdiction of the same; and when the proceeding is by indictment, such penalties shall be paid into county treasury. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3683)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3293; 1919 § 4244; 1909 § 5450
MO Rev Stat § 537.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.380 - Fires from railroad engines — damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.380. Fires from railroad engines — damages. — Each railroad corporation owning or operating a railroad in this state shall be responsible in damages to every person and corporation whose property may be injured or destroyed by fire communicated directly or indirectly by locomotive engines in use upon the railroad owned or operated by such railroad corporation, and each such railroad corporation shall have an insurable interest in the property upon the route of the railroad owned or operated by it, and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf for its protection against such damages. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5223)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4766; 1919 § 9954; 1909 § 3151
MO Rev Stat § 537.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.400 - Double damages for willful fires.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.400. Double damages for willful fires. — If any person shall willfully set on fire any woods, marshes or prairies whether his own or not, so as thereby to occasion any damage to any other person, such person shall make satisfaction in double damages to the party injured, to be recovered by civil action. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3660)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3270; 1919 § 4225; 1909 § 5433
MO Rev Stat § 537.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.410 - Damages for backwater caused by boom across stream — attorney's fee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.410. Damages for backwater caused by boom across stream — attorney's fee. — Every corporation, person or association of persons who shall construct a boom across or in any of the streams or waters of this state shall be liable for all damages arising from backwater or overflow caused by the construction of such boom or the accumulation of logs, lumber or other floatables therein, and in all cases where judgment is rendered in any court for any damages occasioned as herein provided, the court shall allow the plaintiff a reasonable attorney's fee, to be taxed as costs in the case. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5486)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5044; 1919 § 10317; 1909 § 3473
MO Rev Stat § 537.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.420 - Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.420. Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste. — If any tenant, for life or years, shall commit waste during his estate or term, of anything belonging to the tenement so held, without special license in writing so to do, he shall be subject to a civil action for such waste, and shall lose the thing wasted and pay treble the amount at which the waste shall be assessed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1939 § 3003)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2616; 1919 § 6910; 1909 § 7913  (2002) Presence of liquidated damages clause in lease was not a waiver of right to sue under section and did not constitute implied license for tenant to commit waste. Brizendine v. Conrad, 71 S.W.3d 587 (Mo.banc).
MO Rev Stat § 537.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.430 - Who may sue.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.430. Who may sue. — The action may be maintained by one who has the remainder or reversion in fee simple, after an intervening estate for life or years, and also by one who has a remainder or reversion for life or years only; and each of them shall recover such damages as it shall appear that he has suffered by the waste complained of. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3004)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2617; 1919 § 6911; 1909 § 7914
MO Rev Stat § 537.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.440 - Heirs may sue for waste, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.440. Heirs may sue for waste, when. — An heir may bring and maintain an action for waste done in the time of his ancestor, as well as in his own time. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3005)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2618; 1919 § 6912; 1909 § 7915
MO Rev Stat § 537.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.450 - Tenant holding land after having aliened it liable for waste.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.450. Tenant holding land after having aliened it liable for waste. — If a tenant of land commit any waste thereon after he has aliened it while he remains in possession, he shall be liable to the party injured for damages. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3006)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2619; 1919 § 6913; 1909 § 7916
MO Rev Stat § 537.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.460 - Tenants liable to cotenants, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.460. Tenants liable to cotenants, when. — If a tenant in common, joint tenant or parcener commit waste, he shall be liable to his cotenants, jointly or severally, for damages. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3007)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2620; 1919 § 6914; 1909 § 7917
MO Rev Stat § 537.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.470 - Conservators, liable for waste, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   537.470. Conservators, liable for waste, when. — If a conservator commit waste of the estate of his protectee, he shall be liable to the protectee for damages, at the expiration of his conservatorship. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3008, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2621; 1919 § 6915; 1909 § 7918
MO Rev Stat § 537.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.480 - What damages recovered for waste.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.480. What damages recovered for waste. — Any person who is entitled to such civil action shall recover such damages as it shall appear that he has suffered by the waste complained of. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3009)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2622; 1919 § 6916; 1909 § 7919
MO Rev Stat § 537.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.490 - Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.490. Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed. — If in any action for waste, the jury find that the waste was wantonly committed, judgment shall be entered for three times the amount of the damages assessed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3010)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2623; 1919 § 6917; 1909 § 7920
MO Rev Stat § 537.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.500 - Where waste committed pending suit, receiver may take possession.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.500. Where waste committed pending suit, receiver may take possession. — If the tenant in possession of any land shall, pending a suit to recover or charge said land, commit any waste thereon, the court in which the suit may be pending may order a receiver to take possession of the land. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3013)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2626; 1919 § 6920; 1909 § 7923
MO Rev Stat § 537.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.510 - Actions for waste, brought against whom.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.510. Actions for waste, brought against whom. — An action for waste may be brought against the representatives of a tenant, or, if instituted in the lifetime of the tenant, it may be revived against his representatives after his death. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3011)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2624; 1919 § 6918; 1909 § 7921
MO Rev Stat § 537.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.520 - Interest as part of damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   537.520. Interest as part of damages. — The jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, give damages, in the nature of interest, over and above the value of the goods at the time of the conversion or seizure. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3657)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3267; 1919 § 4222; 1909 § 5430
MO Rev Stat § 537.523 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts|Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages|Section 537.523 - Institutional vandalism, civil actions for damages or injunction — attorney fees and costs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   537.523. Institutional vandalism, civil actions for damages or injunction — attorney fees and costs. — 1. Irrespective of any criminal prosecution or the result thereof, any person incurring bodily injury or damage or loss to his property as a result of conduct in violation of section 574.085, 574.090* or 574.093* shall have a civil action to secure an injunction, damages or other appropriate relief in law or in equity against any and all persons who have violated section 574.085, 574.090* or 574.093*.  2. In any such action, whether a violation of section 574.085, 574.090* or 574.093* has occurred shall be determined according to the burden of proof used in other civil actions for similar relief.  3. Upon prevailing in such civil action, the plaintiff may recover:  (1) Both special and general damages; and  (2) Reasonable attorney fees and costs. ­­-------- (L. 1988 S.B. 678 § 4)  *Formerly included ethnic intimidation as a result of conduct in violation of sections 574.090 and 574.093 which were repealed by S.B. 328, 1999.