FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 319
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS STOLL AND GIBBONS.
Read 1st time January 23, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1176S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 574.010, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to disturbance of the peace, with penalty provisions.
Section A.Section 574.010, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 574.010, to read as follows:
574.010.1.A person commits the crime of peace disturbance if:
(1)He unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person or persons by:
(a)Loud noise; or
(b)Offensive language addressed in a face-to-face manner to a specific individual and uttered under circumstances which are likely to produce an immediate violent response from a reasonable recipient; or
(c)Threatening to commit a felonious act against any person under circumstances which are likely to cause a reasonable person to fear that such threat may be carried out; or
(d)Fighting; or
(e)Creating a noxious and offensive odor; or
(f)Permitting the continued barking of a dog under his ownership or control;
(2)He is in a public place or on private property of another without consent and purposely causes inconvenience to another person or persons by unreasonably and physically obstructing:
(a)Vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
(b)The free ingress or egress to or from a public or private place.
2.Peace disturbance is a class B misdemeanor upon the first conviction.Upon a second or subsequent conviction, peace disturbance is a class A misdemeanor.Upon a third or subsequent conviction, a person shall be sentenced to pay a fine of no less than one thousand dollars and no more than five thousand dollars.