2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 578.173. — Baiting or fighting animals--penalty.

578.173. Baiting or fighting animals -- penalty. -- 1. Any person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class D felony:

(1) Baiting or fighting animals;

(2) Permitting baiting or animal fighting to be done on any premises under his charge or control;

(3) Promoting, conducting, or staging a baiting or fight between two or more animals;

(4) Advertising a baiting or fight between two or more animals;

(5) Collecting any admission fee for a baiting or fight between two or more animals.

2. Any person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class A misdemeanor:

(1) Knowingly attending the baiting or fighting of animals;

(2) Knowingly selling, offering for sale, shipping, or transporting any animal which has been bred or trained to bait or fight another animal;

(3) Owning or possessing any of the cockfighting implements, commonly known as gaffs and slashers, or any other sharp implement designed to be attached to the leg of a gamecock;

(4) Manufacturing, selling, bartering or exchanging any of the cockfighting implements, commonly known as gaffs and slashers, or any other sharp implement designed to be attached to the leg of a gamecock.

(Adopted by Initiative, Proposition A, § B, November 3, 1998)

Effective 12-3-98

(2000) Proposition A did not violate constitutional requirements of single subject and clear title. United Gamefowl Breeders Ass'n. of Missouri v. Nixon, 19 S.W.3d 137 (Mo.banc).