2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation
Chapter 303 - Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law
Section 303.370 Offenses, penalties.

Effective 28 Aug 1986

303.370. Offenses, penalties. — 1. Failure to report an accident as required in section 303.040 shall be punished by a fine not in excess of five hundred dollars, and in the event of injury or damage to the person or property of another in such accident, the director shall suspend the license of the person failing to make such report, or the nonresident's operating privilege of such person, until such report has been filed or for no more than one year, provided all other requirements for reinstatement have been met and for such further period not to exceed thirty days as the director may fix.

2. Any person who gives information required in report or otherwise as provided for in section 303.040 knowing or having reason to believe that it is forged or signed without authority, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

3. Any person whose license or registration or nonresident's operating privilege has been suspended or revoked under this chapter and who, during such suspension or revocation drives any motor vehicle upon any highway or knowingly permits any motor vehicle owned by such person to be operated by another upon any highway, except as permitted under this chapter, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both.

4. Any person willfully failing to return his license or registration as required in section 303.330 shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not to exceed thirty days, or both.

5. Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

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(L. 1953 p. 569 § 303.320, A.L. 1986 S.B. 424)

Effective 7-01-87