2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 575 Offenses Against the Administration of Justice
575.153. Crime of disarming a peace officer or correctional officer--violation, penalty.
Crime of disarming a peace officer or correctional officer--violation,
penalty.
575.153. 1. A person commits the crime of disarming a peace officer, as defined in section 590.100, RSMo, or a correctional officer if such person intentionally:
(1) Removes a firearm or other deadly weapon from the person of a peace officer or correctional officer while such officer is acting within the scope of his or her official duties; or
(2) Deprives a peace officer or correctional officer of such officer's use of a firearm or deadly weapon while the officer is acting within the scope of his or her official duties.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply when:
(1) The defendant does not know or could not reasonably have known that the person he or she disarmed was a peace officer or correctional officer; or
(2) The peace officer or correctional officer was engaged in an incident involving felonious conduct by the peace officer or correctional officer at the time the defendant disarmed such officer.
3. Disarming a peace officer or correctional officer is a class C felony.
(L. 2009 H.B. 62)
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