2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 578.407. — Prohibited actions against animals, facilities, equipment and records.

578.407. No person shall:

(1) Release, steal, or otherwise intentionally cause the death, injury, or loss of any animal at or from an animal facility and not authorized by that facility;

(2) Damage, vandalize, or steal any property in or on an animal facility;

(3) Obtain access to an animal facility by false pretenses for the purpose of performing acts not authorized by the facility;

(4) Enter or otherwise interfere with an animal facility with the intent to destroy, alter, duplicate or obtain unauthorized possession of records, data, material, equipment, or animals;

(5) Knowingly obtain, by theft or deception, control over records, data, material, equipment, or animals of any animal facility for the purpose of depriving the rightful owner or animal facility of the records, material, data, equipment, or animals, or for the purpose of concealing, abandoning, or destroying such records, material, data, equipment, or animals;

(6) Enter or remain on an animal facility with the intent to commit an act prohibited by this section.

(L. 1992 S.B. 498 § 3)