Bill Text: MO HB1417 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Doubles the fine for littering with cigarettes or cigars
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-22 - Referred: Judiciary(H) [HB1417 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1417-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES NICHOLS (Sponsor), MCNEIL AND ELLINGER (Co-sponsors).
5077L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 577.070, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the crime of littering, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 577.070, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 577.070, to read as follows:
577.070. 1. A person commits the crime of littering if [he] such person throws or places, or causes to be thrown or placed, any glass, glass bottles, wire, nails, tacks, hedge, cans, garbage, trash, refuse, cigarettes, cigars, or rubbish of any kind, nature or description on the right-of-way of any public road or state highway or on or in any of the waters in this state or on the banks of any stream, or on any land or water owned, operated or leased by the state, any board, department, agency or commission thereof or on any land or water owned, operated or leased by the federal government or on any private real property owned by another without his or her consent.
2. Littering is a class A misdemeanor; except that, if the offense involves cigarettes or cigars, the fine imposed under this section shall be twice the amount imposed for an offense not involving cigarettes or cigars.
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