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2025 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development
Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation
Section 252.030 - Wildlife of Missouri — ownership and title.

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MO Rev Stat § 252.030 (2025)
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Title XVI CONSERVATION, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 252

• Effective - 28 Aug 1945

252.030. Wildlife of Missouri — ownership and title. — The ownership of and title to all wildlife of and within the state, whether resident, migratory or imported, dead or alive, are hereby declared to be in the state of Missouri. Any person who fails to comply with or who violates this law or any such rules and regulations shall not acquire or enforce any title, ownership or possessory right in any such wildlife; and any person who pursues, takes, kills, possesses or disposes of any such wildlife or attempts to do so, shall be deemed to consent that the title of said wildlife shall be and remain in the state of Missouri, for the purpose of control, management, restoration, conservation and regulation thereof.

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(RSMo 1939 § 8883, A.L. 1945 p. 664 § 4)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 8224; 1919 § 5581; 1909 § 6508

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