Title XVI, CONSERVATION, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

252.002. Department of conservation created — commission appointment, qualifications — director, appointment. — 1. There is hereby created a department of conservation to be headed by a conservation commission of four members appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and …

252.010. Citation of law. — This law shall be known and may be cited as "The Wildlife and Forestry Law". ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 664 § 2)

252.020. Definitions. — As used in sections 252.010 to 252.240, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) The word "commission" shall mean and include the conservation commission as established by the Constitution of Missouri; and the words "rules and regulations" shall mean tho…

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 violat…

252.040. Taking of wildlife — violations, misdemeanor — fur dealers and buyers violating record keeping rules, fine. — No wildlife shall be pursued, taken, killed, possessed or disposed of except in the manner, to the extent and at the time or times permitted by such rules and re…

252.041. Deer hunting during deer-hunting season with firearms, orange colored clothing required, violation, penalty. — Any person hunting deer during a firearms deer-hunting season shall wear a cap or hat, and a shirt, vest or coat with the outermost color of daylight fluorescen…

252.042. Additional penalties, when — moneys transferred to state school moneys fund. — 1. In addition to the penalties provided in section 252.040, the court may order a person found guilty of chasing, pursuing, killing, processing, or disposing of wild turkey, paddlefish, antle…

252.043. Hunter inflicting injury by firearm or other weapon on person mistaken as game, penalties — hearing procedure — hunter safety course required. — The commission may suspend, revoke or deny a hunting permit or privilege for a maximum of five years when a person, while hunt…

252.045. Motor vehicles, speed limit — areas designated for use of recreation activities and equipment — solid waste not to be discarded or brought on to land or water — entry by utilities permitted, when. — 1. No motor vehicle shall be operated within the boundary of any land ow…

252.050. Payment of fees — treasurer's report. — All moneys payable under the provisions of sections 252.010 to 252.240 shall be promptly transmitted to the division of taxation and collection in the department of revenue, which shall deposit the same in the state treasury to the…

252.060. License may be inspected — penalty for refusal. — It is hereby declared to be the duty of every person holding a license or permit issued pursuant to any such rules and regulations to submit the same for inspection by any agent of the commission, or by any sheriff, marsh…

252.068. Arrest powers of certain conservation department employees. — When there is reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed or is in the process of committing a violation of the laws or rules and regulations pertaining to wildlife and forestry resources of the …

252.069. Littering and abandonment of a motor vehicle, agents authorized to enforce and arrest violators. — Any agent of the conservation commission may enforce the provisions of sections 577.070 and 577.080 and arrest violators only upon the water, the banks thereof, or upon pub…

252.070. Enforcement of law. — It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, marshals, constables and their deputies and of all other peace officers and of all prosecuting attorneys and their assistants, within their respective counties, and the city of St. Louis, to aid diligently in en…

252.080. Arrest by commission agents for violations of conservation rules, powers. — Every authorized agent of the commission shall have the same power to serve criminal process as sheriffs and marshals, only in such cases as are violations of this law and rules and regulations o…

252.085. Arrests by commission agents certified as peace officers or instructors, powers, limitation. — 1. All authorized agents of the commission who have attained proper certification as peace officers in accordance with the provisions of chapter 590 and all authorized agents o…

252.090. Right of inspection by commission agents — penalty. — 1. It is hereby made the duty of every warehouse, merchant, or common carrier, or agent, servant or employee thereof, to permit any agent of the commission to examine any package in the possession of said warehouse or…

252.100. Complaints — search warrants — penalty for resisting. — 1. Any authorized agent of the commission, sheriff, marshal or their deputies, may make complaint and cause proceedings to be commenced against any person for the violation of this law or of any such rules and regul…

252.110. Service of warrant on corporation. — In case of a violation of this law or of any of the rules and regulations of the conservation commission by a corporation, a warrant of arrest may be read to the president, secretary or manager in this state or any general or local ag…

252.120. Limitation of prosecution. — Prosecutions for violations of this law and for violations of any such laws, rules and regulations shall be commenced within one year from the date of any such violation, either by indictment, complaint or information. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §…

252.130. Failure to pay fine and costs — procedure. — Whenever upon conviction the person convicted fails to pay the fine and costs imposed upon him, he shall be committed to the jail of the county or of the city of St. Louis or to some workhouse and shall there be kept confined …

252.140. Commission notified of results of prosecution. — It shall be the duty of every associate circuit judge or clerk of the court before whom any prosecution under sections 252.010 to 252.240 is commenced, or shall go on appeal and within twenty days after the trial or dismis…

252.150. Corporation owning dam to provide for free movement of fish — maintenance of hatchery — penalty. — 1. It shall be the duty of any person owning, operating or using any dam existing or which may hereafter be constructed across any river, stream or creek in this state, to …

252.160. Fraudulently securing license, penalty. — Any person who shall obtain or cause to be issued any certificate, license, or privilege from this state or any political subdivision thereof, or from any licensing or certifying organization authorized to certify or license by t…

252.170. Soliciting illegal shipments — penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit by correspondence, printed cards, circulars, shipping tags, advertisement or otherwise, any illegal shipments, consignments or delivery of wildlife, contrary to the laws and rules an…

252.180. Consignee to notify commission — penalty. — Any person to whom is consigned any wildlife, the taking, transportation, sale or possession of which is at any time or at all times prohibited or not permitted by such laws, rules and regulations, shall upon receipt of same im…

252.190. Possession of wildlife a misdemeanor — when. — Any person who shall have in his possession or under his control any wildlife, except in the manner, to the extent and at the time or times permitted by the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations of the com…

252.200. Obstructing free passage of fish — penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed or erected any seine, screen, net, weir, fish dam or other obstruction in or across any of the waters, rivers, creeks, ponds, streams, sloughs or other waterc…

252.210. Contamination of streams — penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to cause any deleterious substance to be placed, run or drained into any of the waters of this state in quantities sufficient to injure, stupefy or kill fish which may inhabit the same at or below …

252.220. Explosives prohibited — penalty. — 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place any explosive substance or preparation in any of the waters of this state, whereby any fish which may inhabit said waters may be killed, injured or destroyed; and no person, by any such me…

252.225. Telephone, statewide toll-free numbers for violation reports — confidentiality of reports, exceptions — false reports or unauthorized release of confidential information, penalties. — 1. The department of conservation may maintain a telephone service operating at all tim…

252.228. Hunting, fishing and trapping permit records, contents — records closed, when. — 1. Individual hunting, fishing and trapping permit records maintained by the department of conservation, including address, telephone number, personal identifying characteristics, date of bi…

252.230. Penalty not otherwise provided. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, any person violating any of the provisions of sections 252.010 to 252.240 wherein other specific punishment is not provided, and any person violating any of such rules and regulation…

252.235. Sale of any species of wildlife, fish parts thereof or eggs taken in violation of rules — penalties — sale and property defined. — The sale, taking for sale or possession for sale of any species of fish or wildlife, or parts thereof, which shall include eggs, which have …

252.240. Endangered species law, definitions — prohibited activities, exceptions, penalty. — 1. The importation, transportation, or sale of any endangered species of fish or wildlife, or hides or other parts thereof, or the sale or possession with intent to sell any article made …

252.241. Penalty for hunting or fishing when license is suspended, revoked, denied. — 1. No person shall hunt or fish during a period when any permit or privilege allowing such person to hunt or fish is suspended, revoked, or denied by any court of this state or by the conservati…

252.243. Hunting heritage protection areas designated, where — no TIF projects permitted, exceptions — discharge of firearms prohibited — areas not included. — 1. This section shall be known as and may be cited as the "Hunting Heritage Protection Areas Act". Hunting heritage prot…

252.244. Wild game defined, preparation and service permitted, when — notice to be posted — donation of wild game, regulation. — 1. Any political subdivision, elementary or secondary school, or any charitable, religious, fraternal or other not-for-profit organization may prepare …

252.245. Volunteers, liability, expenses — use of state vehicles — definition. — 1. The department of conservation may recruit, train and utilize the services of volunteers, whose services may supplement the programs administered by the department of conservation. 2. Volunteers r…

252.247. Interstate wildlife violators compact, authorization to enter — rulemaking authority. — 1. The conservation commission may enter into an interstate wildlife violators compact with any one or more states. 2. The commission may adopt such rules as are necessary for the imp…

252.300. Citation of law — intent of legislature. — 1. Sections 252.300 to 252.333 shall be known and may be cited as "The Missouri Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990". 2. It is the intent of sections 252.300 to 252.333 to address environmental, economic, and …

252.303. Agroforestry program developed — who may develop plan. — The department may develop and implement, in cooperation with the University of Missouri college of agriculture, the University of Missouri center for agroforestry, the University of Missouri extension service, the…

252.306. Definitions. — As used in sections 252.300 to 252.333, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Alley cropping", planting rows of trees at wide spacings and cropping the alleyways; (2) "Conservation reserve program", the conservation reserve program authorized by the Federal…

252.309. Incentive payments — agreements with landowners — amount of payments. — 1. The director may enter into agreements with individual landowners to make incentive payments during the enhancement phase to landowners. Recipients of such payments shall utilize the land for whic…

252.312. Funding for payments. — The state payments provided for in sections 252.309, 252.330, and 252.333 may be made from funds available to the department of conservation, soil conservation funds made available by the department of natural resources from the tax imposed by Sec…

252.315. Application for participation — contents — review of application — administrative procedure. — 1. To participate in the program, the landowner shall make application to the director in writing. The written application shall show the number of acres to be placed in the pr…

252.318. Annual inspection — notification of noncompliance — administrative procedure. — 1. All land participating in the agroforestry program shall be inspected annually by a representative of the director, to ensure that the land continues to comply with the requirements of sec…

252.321. Agroforestry demonstration areas established. — The University of Missouri center for* agroforestry and extension service, in consultation with the director, shall establish agroforestry demonstration areas, and develop and deliver the educational components of sections …

252.324. Rules and regulations, procedure. — 1. The director may promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 252.300 to 252.333. Before promulgating any such rule, the director shall seek the advice and comments of the University of Missouri…

252.327. Report — contents — when submitted. — 1. The department of conservation and the department of economic development and the University of Missouri college of agriculture shall, by each of the dates specified in subsection 2 of this section, jointly produce a report on the…