Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 167.810 - Creating a hazard(1) A person commits the crime of creating a hazard if:(a) The person intentionally maintains or leaves in a place accessible to children a container with a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot easily be opened from the inside; or(b) Being the owner or otherwise having possession of property upon which there is a well, cistern, cesspool, excavation or other hole of a depth of four feet or more and a top width of 12 inches or more, the owner intentionally fails or refuses to cover or fence it with a suitable protective construction.(2) Creating a hazard is a Class B misdemeanor.