Missouri Statutes

§ 214.455 — Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.

Missouri § 214.455

JurisdictionMissouri

Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Ch. 214Cemeteries

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Bluebook

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 214.455 (2026).

Text

Every person who shall knowingly destroy, mutilate, disfigure, deface, injure, or remove any tomb, monument, or gravestone, or other structure placed in such cemetery or burial ground or place of burial of any human being, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

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Legislative History

(L. 1990 S.B. 625 § 2)

Nearby Sections

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§ 214.010

Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.

§ 214.020

City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.

§ 214.030

Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.

§ 214.035

Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when — notice of transfer.

§ 214.040

Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.

§ 214.041

Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.

§ 214.050

Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.

§ 214.060

Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.

§ 214.070

§ 214.080

Proceedings to enlarge.

§ 214.090

Family burying grounds, how secured.

§ 214.120

Costs, who liable for.

§ 214.130

County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.

§ 214.131

Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.

§ 214.132

Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.

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