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§ 194.280 — Falsification of documents, penalty.

Missouri § 194.280
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Ch. 194Death — Disposition of Dead Bodies

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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 194.280 (2026).

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Any person that in order to obtain a financial gain knowingly falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal commits a felony and upon pleading or being found guilty is subject to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding seven years, or both.

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Legislative History

(L. 1969 S.B. 43 § 8, A.L. 2008 S.B. 1139)

Nearby Sections

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§ 194.005
Death, legal definition.
§ 194.010
Shipment by common carrier, rules.
§ 194.105
Disinterment for transport to location outside original cemetery — notice, to whom.
§ 194.115
Autopsy — consent required — penalty for violation — availability of report, to whom.
§ 194.117
Sudden infant death — notification — autopsy by certified child death pathologist required, procedure, release to parents or guardian — cost, how paid — department of health and senior services duties — rules and regulations.
§ 194.119
Right of sepulcher, the right to choose and control final disposition of a dead human body.
§ 194.120
Missouri state anatomical board — members — responsibilities.
§ 194.130
Meetings of board — organization — funds.
§ 194.140
Acceptance of provisions of this law — bond — prohibited actions and penalties.
§ 194.150
Disposal of paupers' bodies.
§ 194.160
Distribution of bodies.
§ 194.170
Autopsy not to be held, when.
§ 194.180
Penalty for violation.
§ 194.197
Depth at which body is buried may be regulated.
§ 194.200
Disposition of a stillborn child, definitions, duties of hospital, duties of parents, collection of costs, penalties.
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