2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 417 - Trademarks, Names and Private Emblems
Section 417.160 Use of emblems regulated.
Effective 28 Aug 1939
417.160. Use of emblems regulated. — No person shall wear or exhibit the recognized or established badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm, or any emblem, insignia or charm representing a component part of the recognized or established badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm, or shall assume or use the name of any military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation incorporated or organized under the law of this or any other state or of the United States, or shall assume or claim to be a member thereof, or of a military, ex-military, patriotic, benevolent, humane, fraternal or charitable corporation the name of which shall so nearly resemble the name of any other corporation or organization existing prior to the organization of the corporation, association or organization of which such person may claim to be a member, the name whereof may be calculated to deceive people with respect to any such prior corporation or organization, unless he shall be authorized under the laws, statutes, rules, regulations and bylaws of such former corporation or organization to wear such recognized or established badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm, or such component part or parts of such recognized and established badge, button, emblem, decoration, insignia or charm, to use and assume such name as a member thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15463)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14339; 1919 § 13273)
