Missouri Statutes

§ 211.431 — Violation of law, class A misdemeanor.

Missouri § 211.431

JurisdictionMissouri

Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Ch. 211Juvenile Courts

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Bluebook

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 211.431 (2026).

Text

Any person eighteen years of age or over who willfully violates, neglects or refuses to obey or perform any lawful order of the court, or who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

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Legislative History

(L. 1957 p. 642 §211.410, A.L. 1982 S.B. 497, A.L. 2018 S.B. 793 merged with S.B. 800) Effective 1-01-21

Nearby Sections

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§ 211.011

Purpose of law — how construed.

§ 211.012

Status as child determined by then-existing law at time of alleged offense for juvenile court jurisdiction and incarceration purposes.

§ 211.021

§ 211.023

Juvenile court commissioner, appointment, where, term, compensation.

§ 211.025

Judge may direct any case be heard by commissioner (counties of the first class and St. Louis City).

§ 211.027

Findings of commissioner, how submitted — notice of right to file motion for rehearing, how given.

§ 211.029

Rehearing, motion filed when — judge may sustain or deny — commissioner's finding final, when.

§ 211.031

Juvenile court to have exclusive jurisdiction, when — exceptions — home school or FPE school, attendance violations, how treated.

§ 211.032

Child abuse and neglect hearings, when held, procedure — supreme court rules to be promulgated — transfer of school records, when.

§ 211.033

Detention for violation of traffic ordinances — no civil or criminal liability created.

§ 211.034

Extension of juvenile court jurisdiction permitted, when — procedure — immunity from liability for certain persons, when — expiration date.

§ 211.036

Custody of released youth may be returned to children's division, when — factors considered by court — termination of care and supervision before 21, when — appointment of GAL, when — hearings, when held.

§ 211.037

Nonoffending parent, child returned to custody of, when.

§ 211.038

Children not to be reunited with parents or placed in a home, when — discretion to return, when.

§ 211.041

Continuing jurisdiction over child, exception, eighteen-year-old violating state or municipal laws.

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