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§ 301.400 — Removal or defacing manufacturer's numbers — penalty.

Missouri § 301.400
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XIXMOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Ch. 301Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles

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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 301.400 (2026).

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Any person who removes, covers, alters or defaces, or causes to be destroyed, removed, covered, altered or defaced, the manufacturer's number, the motor number or other distinguishing number on any motor vehicle, or number or other distinguishing number on any motor vehicle tire, piece of farm machinery, farm implement, or piece of construction equipment, the property of another, for any reason, shall be deemed guilty of a class D felony.

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Legislative History

(RSMo 1939 §§ 8396, 8404, A. 1949 S.B. 1110, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1454, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 7781, 7786; 1919 §§ 7608, 7609 Effective 1-01-17 (1967) The number on the transmission is a distinguishing manufacturer's number within the meaning of this section.  State v. Friedman (Mo.), 412 S.W.2d 171.

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§ 301.002
Rules, procedure.
§ 301.003
Rules, effective, when — rules invalid and void, when.
§ 301.010
Definitions.
§ 301.020
Application for registration of motor vehicles, contents — certain vehicles, special provisions — penalty for failure to comply — optional blindness assistance donation — donation to organ donor program or Missouri medal of honor recipients fund permitted.
§ 301.025
Personal property taxes and federal heavy vehicle use tax, paid when — tax receipt forms — failure to pay personal property tax, effect of, notification requirements, reinstatement fee, appeals — rulemaking, procedure.
§ 301.029
Implements of husbandry, movement on highway permitted, when — definition.
§ 301.030
Motor vehicle registration periods — commercial plates, requirements — proration authorized for larger commercial vehicles.
§ 301.031
Local commercial motor vehicle hauling solid waste, extended operational limit.
§ 301.032
Fleet vehicle registration, director to establish system — procedures — special license plates — exempt from inspection requirements, when — leasing company may operate as registered fleet owner, when, requirements — rulemaking authority.
§ 301.035
Commercial vehicles licensed for twelve thousand pounds or less, staggered registration periods — fees prorated.
§ 301.040
Notice of motor vehicle registration — applications.
§ 301.041
Reciprocity agreement, registered commercial vehicles — procedures — failure to display plates, penalty — director may promulgate rules — validity of previously issued plates.
§ 301.050
Registration fees — penalty for delinquency.
§ 301.055
Annual registration fees — motor vehicles other than commercial.
§ 301.057
Annual registration fee — property-carrying commercial vehicles — exemption.
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