Florissant, MO

Every Florissant resident who owns, controls or harbors a cat must obtain a City license under Section 205.070 and have the cat vaccinated against rabies before that license issues…

Florissant requires every owner to keep dogs, cats and other animals on their own premises. Section 205.240 fines an owner whose animal is caught running at large starting at $25 for a…

Florissant caps the usual household pets a resident can keep without a permit at four. Section 205.380 exempts the usual domestic animals and fowl, such as usual children's pets, from…

Florissant designates the entire city as a bird sanctuary, and it is unlawful under City Code Section 205.050 to trap, hunt, shoot or molest any wild bird, or to disturb its nest or…

Florissant does not require microchipping for pets generally, but once the Director of Public Works declares an animal dangerous under Section 205.260, Section 205.270 requires the…

Florissant bans keeping chickens, turkeys, and other livestock on residential property under Section 205.350 unless the owner obtains a City Council-approved keeping permit through…

Florissant allows veterinarian offices as a permitted, by-right use in its "B-1" Local Shopping District and the city's other general commercial zones, with no special use permit…

Florissant defines "pit bull" by breed and physical traits under City Code Section 205.395 and bars anyone from breeding or transferring pit bull offspring without a permit from the…

Florissant's zoning code allows a pet grooming business for household pets as a permitted, by-right use in every one of its general commercial districts: the "B-1" Local Shopping…

Florissant requires every pit bull to be spayed or neutered under City Code Section 205.395(B), with narrow exceptions for puppies, medical risk, new arrivals, breeders and show dogs…

Keeping bees, including honeybees, on residential property in Florissant is unlawful under Section 205.350 unless the owner first obtains a City Council permit under Section 205.360…

Florissant's animal regulations (Chapter 205) follow state law (RSMo §578.023) prohibiting dangerous wild animals without local law enforcement registration. Wild, undomesticated, and…

SLCRO §611.210 declares any animal that defaces public property, causes unsanitary conditions, or attracts pests a public nuisance. Stagnant water collecting on private property is…

St. Louis County will not license a wildlife rehabilitator, breeder, or collector under its Nondomestic Animal Code until the applicant first produces a valid Missouri wildlife permit…

Florissant requires eight feet of clearance over sidewalks and eleven feet over streets for overhanging tree and shrub branches, rising to fifteen feet on principal thoroughfares. The…

Florissant's Code of Ordinances doesn't regulate composting directly, but § 220.010 carves compost out of the definition of "garbage" entirely, as long as the pile doesn't create a…

Florissant caps weeds and grass at eight inches under City Code § 213.070. Anyone who lets weeds grow taller than eight inches on a lot they own, lease, occupy or control is guilty of…

Florissant requires a permit from the Director of Public Works before anyone trims, removes or otherwise disturbs a City-owned or street tree, under Code Section 230.040(A)…

Developments that must file a landscape plan with St. Louis County have to make at least half of it native or drought-tolerant plant material. Section 1003.162.5 also caps any single…

Missouri statute guarantees every landowner the right to collect, use, and own rainwater systems anywhere on their property, including inside city limits.

Florissant's general noise ordinance bans loud, unnecessary or unusual noise that disturbs neighborhood peace, and sets an 11:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. window in which a radio, TV or…

Florissant limits noisy exterior construction, demolition, alteration or repair work to 7:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. Monday through Saturday and 9:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. on Sunday, with an exception…

Florissant bans muffler cutouts outright and requires every motor vehicle to run a properly attached muffler that quiets exhaust noise as completely as a modern gas passenger car under…

Florissant bars using loudspeakers, sound amplifiers or similar devices to cast advertising sound onto public streets unless legally authorized, and lets an announcer speak in person…

Florissant makes it unlawful under Section 205.065 to keep a dog or any other animal that emits barking or other noise causing actual physical or mental discomfort to a normal person…

St. Louis County's Noise Control Code exempts an aircraft's actual flight and pre-takeoff engine run-up from its decibel limits, but Section 625.070(7) pulls ground maintenance and…

St. Louis County caps stationary noise sources at set dB(A) levels by land-use zone and time of day, with lower nighttime and residential thresholds.

Section 355.110 caps how long a vehicle may sit continuously on a Florissant street: seven consecutive days for an ordinary vehicle, cut to just forty-eight hours for anything wrecked…

Florissant's snow coordinator, the Director of Public Works, can post any city street as a snow emergency route with signs reading SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE, NO PARKING DURING SNOW…

Section 395.020 bars leaving any motor vehicle abandoned on a public right-of-way or on another's private land without consent, and separately bans parking or storing an unlicensed or…

Florissant's City Traffic Engineer designates and signs passenger and freight curb loading zones under Chapter 360; once posted, a vehicle may stand there only while actively loading…

Section 355.010 bars stopping, standing or parking anywhere it would block traffic or emergency access: on sidewalks, in intersections, on crosswalks, in front of driveways, within…

No vehicle or trailer over 12,000 pounds licensed weight, including tractor-trailers, dump trucks and buses, may park or be stored on a residential street in Florissant at any time…

Boats, travel trailers, pickup coaches and recreational vehicles may park in a Florissant driveway only on an approved paved or permitted-gravel surface under Section 365.090, and an…

New commercial buildings and multi-family developments in Florissant must wire a share of their parking spaces for electric vehicle charging under the city's amended Energy…

Driving or parking a vehicle on someone else's yard or lawn without permission is a standalone offense in Florissant under Section 340.165, separate from the driveway-surface rules in…

Missouri lets a private lot tow a car without calling police only when the real property owner, the lessee in lawful possession, or a full-time property or security manager is…

Florissant bans burning garbage, rubbish, leaves, grass, manure or straw in any street, alley or open place under City Code Section 220.100(A). Indoor burning is barred too except for…

Florissant's Property Maintenance Code requires existing Group I-1 and residential occupancies to carry single-station smoke alarms under Section 704.6.1, interconnected so one alarm…

Florissant allows recreational wood fires only in a metal fire pit, a covered stone or brick pit no larger than 3 feet across, or a chiminea, per City Code Section 220.100(B). Fires…

Florissant bans the sale, possession, use, and discharge of fireworks within city limits under Code of Ordinances Section 215.020, with narrow exceptions for licensed nonprofit…

Missouri's Propane Safety Commission adopts uniform statewide standards for liquefied petroleum gas storage, handling, and transportation. The rules incorporate NFPA 58 by reference…

When the state fire marshal finds a natural disaster and the U.S. Drought Monitor rates a Missouri county in severe, extreme, or exceptional drought, the county commission may ban open…

Running a family child day care home in Florissant requires a City business license before the first child arrives, and homes caring for more than four unrelated children must also…

Florissant zoning treats a 'home occupation' as a permitted accessory use in every residential district, but only two family members living on the premises may run it, no outside…

A Florissant home occupation cannot display any sign at all. The zoning code's definition of 'home occupation' bars any exterior sign or display indicating the dwelling is used for…

St. Louis County bars home occupations from offering services to the general public on the premises, so client and customer visits to a home-based business are not allowed.

Missouri RSMo 196.298 expressly preempts local health departments from regulating cottage food production. Home producers may sell baked goods, jams, jellies, and dried herbs directly…

Missouri has no microenterprise home kitchen permit and no statute that lets a resident sell meals cooked to order from a home kitchen. A home kitchen escapes regulation only by…

Florissant bans flimsy fencing materials outright: chicken coop wire, barbed wire, snow fencing and bamboo are all forbidden, and solid-type plywood or similar wood fences and walls…

Florissant requires a permit before any fence goes up, per Zoning Code Section 405.220, and the fee applies even to a straight replacement. In Districts "A" and "R-1" through "R-6," a…

Florissant exempts retaining walls two feet or shorter from a building permit unless they carry a surcharge load, but any retaining wall creating more than a thirty-inch grade change…

Every fence in Florissant needs a permit before it goes up. Property owners file an application and sketch with the Building Commissioner and pay a fee, and if Planning and Zoning…

Missouri Chapter 272 governs partition fences between adjoining landowners statewide. It defines lawful fences, allocates each owner's portion of the division fence, and provides court…

Florissant requires a building permit before constructing, enlarging, altering or demolishing a residential pool or spa under Section 105.1 of the adopted 2021 Swimming Pool and Spa…

Florissant requires a compliant barrier around any private pool, hot tub or spa deeper than twenty-four inches under Section 303.2 of its Property Maintenance Code. The barrier must…

Florissant bans short-term and vacation rentals outright in every residential zoning district. The only lawful short-stay lodging is a licensed bed and breakfast, lodging…

STR guest parking falls under the same rules as all residential parking: paved driveway required (§1003.165), no front-yard parking (§1207.060), and on-street limits (§1207.040)…

STR noise complaints in St. Louis County are handled under SLCRO §716.073 (Loud Noise), plainly audible at 50 feet is presumed a violation, plus the host's Chapter 825 license is at…

STR occupancy in unincorporated St. Louis County is effectively governed by the family definition in SLCRO §1003.020: an individual or related persons, or up to 3 unrelated persons…

Missouri applies its state sales tax to charges for short-term rental rooms furnished to transient guests, the same way it taxes hotel and motel rooms. Hosts collect the tax from…

Florissant caps backyard sheds and other accessory buildings at eighteen feet and bars them from exceeding the height of the house itself, under Zoning Code Section 405.215. A shed can…

The St. Louis County Zoning Ordinance controls second dwellings through its definition of family in §1003.020. A family is one individual, or two or more persons related by blood or…

Missouri requires factory-built manufactured tiny homes to meet federal HUD standards under state law, with installation rules applied uniformly statewide.

Florissant's health nuisance code declares any garbage can that is not fly-tight, meaning it fails to keep out flies, insects and rodents, a nuisance affecting health, and separately…

St. Louis County Code Section 607.897 lets a resident throw a used needle or other sharp object out with ordinary household trash instead of treating it as regulated infectious waste…

St. Louis County restaurants must post a Health Department placard grading them A, B or C based on their inspection score. A score of 90 or above earns a Grade A, 80-89 is Grade B, and…

St. Louis County bars restaurants, cafeterias, day cares and other food establishments from employing anyone as a food handler for more than 30 days without written proof of hepatitis…

Any procession or parade of more than six vehicles, or a pedestrian group wider than eight feet or longer than forty feet, needs a Chief of Police permit before using Florissant's…

Florissant exempts vendors selling their wares at City-recognized craft fairs, the Valley of Flowers Festival and the Fall Festival from the general business license requirement…

Booking a Florissant park facility, area or equipment requires a written reservation authorization from the Director under Code of Ordinances Section 245.080. Only residents 18 or…

Florissant makes it unlawful to stand idle in a public place, alone or with others, so as to knowingly block a public street, highway, sidewalk or building entrance. Police must first…

Nobody may dig in a Florissant street, sidewalk, alley, right-of-way or easement without a City excavation permit, which costs $50 per dig ($100 if several digs complete one job) and…

Florissant treats an unmaintained lot as a public nuisance under City Code § 213.030. Debris, junk, overgrown weeds past eight inches, inoperable vehicles, and stored personal property…

Florissant Code Chapter 510 lets the City order any building with serious structural, fire, sanitary or safety defects repaired, vacated or demolished as a declared public nuisance…

St. Louis County does not impose a private snow-removal mandate on homeowners. County plows clear arterial and collector roads first; subdivision roads should be addressed within 24…

Florissant requires every purchaser, collector or dealer in junk, scrap metal, catalytic converters or secondhand property to keep a detailed written or electronic register of each…

Florissant requires a retail sales tax license to sell cigarettes, tobacco, alternative nicotine or vapor products, and its B-1 Local Shopping District zoning caps stores selling…

Chapter 395 defines a 'towing company' as any person or entity that tows, removes or stores abandoned property, and lets police or property owners have a non-consent tow done once a…

Florissant does not allow adult entertainment businesses by right anywhere in the city. They can locate only in the "B-3" Extensive Business District, and only after the City Council…

Running an auto repair operation from a Florissant home is squeezed from two directions: the home-occupation zoning definition bars any mechanical equipment beyond ordinary household…

Florissant requires every pawnshop to hold a license from the Director of Finance under Section 605.407, backed by a five-hundred-dollar investigation fee, fifty-thousand-dollar…

Florissant requires anyone who establishes, maintains or operates a massage business to hold a city license under Section 605.400, applied for through the Director of Finance alongside…

St. Louis County requires a $100 annual permit from the Director of Health before any establishment can tattoo or pierce skin in the unincorporated county, per County Code §621.030…

Florissant makes it an offense to smoke or consume marijuana in any public area, including outdoor areas, workplaces, public meetings and any place already covered by the Indoor Clean…

Florissant makes it unlawful to urinate on any street, in any park, or in any other public place open to the public, including a private place open to public view, unless you are using…

Florissant Code Section 600.140(G) makes it unlawful to drink or possess an open container of intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer on any public street, sidewalk, alley…

Section 345.060 bars pedestrians from crossing anywhere but a marked crosswalk between signalized intersections, anywhere in a business district, or on any street the City has…

Florissant bars skateboarding in the streets, roads or highways and on the property of any shopping center in the city. Section 310.045, in the traffic code's enforcement chapter, sets…

St. Louis County's loitering law, §713.075, applies only once a person refuses a police order to move on from a park, street, sidewalk or business district while intending to breach…

A property owner or resident in unincorporated St. Louis County who lets a loud party get out of hand can be cited personally under §716.070, even if they aren't the one making noise…

Florissant bars anyone under 17 from being in or on any public place or way between 12:01 A.M. and 6:00 A.M., with exceptions for minors accompanied by a parent, on a parent-directed…

Florissant parks close to the public at 8:00 p.m., and anyone on park grounds after that hour and before one hour before sunrise violates the City's curfew under Code of Ordinances…

Florissant makes it unlawful to operate a garbage or rubbish dump or to fill ground with garbage or rubbish anywhere in the City under Code Section 220.090. The ban covers any person…

Florissant requires every property generating solid waste to have an active collection agreement under § 220.015. Where the City has awarded an exclusive hauler contract, one-family…

Florissant doesn't run a mandatory curbside recycling program in its Code of Ordinances, but § 220.040 does regulate the containers: recycling bins for newspaper, aluminum, glass and…

Licensed haulers may collect garbage or rubbish in Florissant only between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., per Code Sections 220.160 (residential) and 220.170 (commercial areas within 500…

Florissant requires a Public Works permit before any dumpster, construction storage unit or portable on-demand storage container (POD) is placed on a property, and Section 210.1280…

Florissant bars leaving garbage, yard waste, trash or refuse containers in front of a building for more than 24 consecutive hours under City Code Section 220.070. Containers must sit…

St. Louis County Code Section 607.182 has required every hauler licensed to collect residential municipal waste in the county to also make curbside yard by-product collection available…

Trash haulers licensed to serve one- and two-family homes in unincorporated St. Louis County must file a recovered materials (recycling) plan with the Director of Public Health before…

Bulky household items in St. Louis County fall under SLCRO §607.120, which requires them to be stored at least 3 feet behind the main residential structure while they wait for…

Florissant's nuisance code bans discharging waste materials, oil, gasoline, lawn clippings, tree limbs or any other obstruction into the City's stormwater system or in any way that…

Florissant's Land Disturbance Code, Chapter 505 Article IX, requires a land disturbance permit and Best Management Practices for any clearing, grading or construction that exposes…

Florissant requires a floodplain development permit for any construction, fill, or substantial improvement within the numbered and unnumbered A and AE flood zones mapped on the FEMA…

Florissant requires new and substantially improved homes in mapped flood zones to elevate their lowest floor, including the basement, one foot above the base flood elevation…

Florissant bars delivery trucks from arriving, idling or making deliveries at a shopping center or business during hours posted on signs at the property, where those restrictions are…

Non-commercial boat docks are a permitted, by-right use in St. Louis County's "FP" Flood Plain District, and marinas, boat docks, and ramps are permitted outright in the "PS" Park and…

Florissant's Code of Ordinances § 213.075 declares invasive, non-native, exotic plants a public nuisance citywide and bans planting, cultivating or propagating them on any property…

Florissant's Section 405.251 caps how much light can spill past a lot line: fixtures may not exceed 0.1 foot-candle on adjacent "R," "NU" or "A" district land or on the public…

Florissant bans rotating beacons and flashing lights on standard outdoor advertising structures and requires any external floodlights to be shielded so beams never hit the highway…

Florissant's Section 405.251, adopted by Ordinance No. 9109 on September 22, 2025, requires new and replacement outdoor light fixtures in business, industrial, and commercial-use…

Florissant caps single-family homes in the R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District at two and one-half stories and thirty-five feet under the zoning code's height, area and bulk table. The…

In Florissant's 'R-1' Single-Family Dwelling District, a house must sit at least 30 feet back from the front lot line, 35 feet from the rear, and 15 feet from each side yard, on a lot…

St. Louis County does not cap the total footprint of a single-family house on its lot, but it does cap everything else built around it. Detached accessory structures like sheds…

Florissant's zoning code keeps licensed marijuana facilities away from sensitive uses with two different buffers: a dispensary must sit at least 300 feet from any existing church, day…

Florissant's zoning code confines licensed marijuana businesses to specific commercial and industrial districts rather than allowing them citywide. Dispensaries and microbusiness…

Missouri's Constitution lets any adult twenty-one or older register with the Department of Health and Senior Services to grow marijuana at home, including in unincorporated St. Louis…

Missouri Constitution Article XIV grants registered adults age 21 and over the right to cultivate up to six flowering plants at home with a $100 state registration. Localities cannot…

Florissant enforces the 2021 International Building Code as its Building Code, so a permit is required for construction, alteration or repair unless the work falls under Section…

Florissant cannot force a single-family home builder to install fire sprinklers, but Section R313.2 requires every builder of a house or fourplex to offer the buyer the option to add…

Every electrical job under a Florissant permit ends with a final inspection, and the Building Official can order as many interim inspections as needed along the way. Section 89.7 bars…

Florissant requires any facility caring for more than four unrelated children away from the provider's home to hold both a Missouri DHSS license and a separate City license under…

Florissant adopted the 2021 International Plumbing Code by Ordinance No. 8748, and Section 106.4.1 bars anyone without a St. Louis County plumbing or drainlayer license from…

Florissant requires an electrical permit from the Public Works Department before any wiring, alarm, data or low-voltage work begins, issued under the adopted 2020 National Electrical…

St. Louis County requires periodic Code Official inspections of every elevator, freight lift, moving stairway and chairlift under the county's Mechanical Code. Passenger and freight…

St. Louis County's Property Maintenance Code bars owners from locking a means-of-egress door in a way that traps occupants inside. Section 702.3 requires every exit door to open from…

St. Louis County bans applying lead-based coating to any chewable or exposed surface, but lets pre-1978 homes sell if the seller discloses known or suspected lead paint in writing and…

Florissant classifies businesses for its annual license fee two ways under Section 605.347: a graduated minimum fee of $50 to $250 based on employee count, or a specific set fee listed…

Florissant charges owners of a vacant residential structure a $200 semi-annual registration fee plus a $45 inspection fee once the property has sat empty six months or more while in…

Florissant allows one on-site garage sale sign plus up to two directional signs, each capped at 6 square feet, but only for the day of an authorized sale. Every sign must come down by…

Florissant caps window signage at convenience businesses and package liquor stores: no more than 10% of the window may be obstructed by signs that block visibility into the store. The…

Digital signs are flatly banned in Florissant's Historic District but permitted elsewhere in the city under Section 520.115, provided each image holds for at least 10 seconds and the…

Billboards aimed at highway traffic in Florissant are capped at 30 feet above the highway's natural grade (50 feet above the sign's own installed grade) and must sit within 100 feet of…

St. Louis County Code §1003.168 allows political campaign signs for candidates seeking office and other pertinent data, capped at eight square feet for any one sign and sixteen square…

St. Louis County's zoning lighting rules exempt temporary decorative seasonal lighting entirely, including its ban on flickering or flashing fixtures.

Florissant's Property Maintenance Code requires every rented dwelling unit to have continuous electric, gas or other heating, water and sewer service under Section 111.1.6, and a…

Florissant requires every residential rental property to carry an annual $50-per-unit rental license from the Department of Public Works under Section 605.455, tied to a crime-free…

Missouri uses two main paths. For nonpayment, the rent-and-possession action (RSMo 535.010 et seq.) requires the landlord to demand the rent, then file a verified statement asking the…

Missouri statute governs lease termination notice statewide and does not require landlords to demonstrate just cause to end month-to-month or expired-term tenancies.

Under RSMo 441.060, a month-to-month or periodic tenancy is ended by one month's written notice from either party, taking effect on a rent-paying date at least one month after receipt…

Missouri expressly preempts local rent control. Under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.043, no county or city may enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance regulating the rent charged for…

Missouri caps residential security deposits at two months' rent. After a tenancy ends, the landlord has 30 days to return the deposit or deliver a written itemized list of damages…

Missouri requires ten years of possession to claim land by adverse possession. RSMo 516.010 bars an action to recover real property unless the owner was seized or possessed within ten…

Anyone running a mobile food truck in Florissant needs a City business license from the Finance Director, plus a current St. Louis County mobile food establishment permit, a fire…

Florissant limits where and when a licensed mobile food unit can operate: written consent from any private property owner, a 150-foot buffer from existing restaurants, no residential…

St. Louis County treats sidewalk pushcarts as their own category of mobile food establishment under Section 807.110. Carts can sell only limited items like popcorn, nuts, pretzels…

Florissant requires a free permit from the Director of Public Works before anyone plants a tree or shrub in a street or public place, per Code Section 230.040(B). Species and location…

Florissant's Landmark and Historic District Commission can designate any property, structure or area as a Landmark or Historic District if it meets one or more criteria in Section…

Florissant treats garage, yard, estate and moving sales as a permitted accessory use in the R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District, but only with a permit from the Director of Finance and…

Florissant can suspend or revoke a landlord's residential rental license when neighbors or the City document three or more nuisance incidents tied to a rental unit within twelve…

Every rental home, duplex or apartment in Florissant needs an annual $50.00-per-unit residential rental license from the Director of Public Works, and a property cited for…

Florissant's noise ordinance separately bans loud and excessive noise from loading or unloading vehicles and from opening or destroying bales, boxes, crates and containers, a rule that…

Florissant's noise ordinance bans sounding any vehicle horn or signaling device, including a car alarm, for an unreasonable period of time or with unreasonably loud or harsh sound on…

Florissant's noise ordinance bans operating a noise-creating blower, power fan or internal combustion engine that causes noise from exploding operating gases or fluids unless the noise…

Florissant's noise ordinance bans discharging the exhaust of a stationary internal combustion engine, such as a portable generator, into the open air unless it passes through a muffler…

Florissant bans operating a radio, television, phonograph or other sound device so loudly it disturbs neighbors, and between 11:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. treats audibility fifty feet from…

Florissant's rental housing ordinance defines 'public nuisance' with a specific list of common code violations and their governing sections, from loud noise and graffiti to tall weeds…

Section 385.040 requires Florissant bicyclists to ride as near the right-hand side of the roadway as practicable and bars riding more than two abreast except on a dedicated bike path…

St. Louis County's traffic code classifies e-bikes as "motorized bicycles," not ordinary bicycles, splitting them into three types under Section 1202.010: pedal-assist and…

Missouri answers this question twice, in two statutes that do not overlap. A golf cart may be driven on a public street only where the municipality has adopted a resolution or…

Florissant does not regulate home security cameras, but it requires them at certain businesses. Convenience stores must run a security camera system focused on the cash register with…

St. Louis County lets its County Executive sign no-cost contracts with municipalities and private companies to install and run license plate recognition cameras in county…

Florissant requires anyone going door-to-door to sell goods or solicit donations to get a permit from the Director of Finance first: $25 for peddlers, $10 for solicitors, with a…

Owners can post a sign barring peddlers and solicitors from a property or limiting entry to certain hours, and entry against that sign is a county offense.

St. Louis County Parks prohibit drone operation in all parks except Buder Park and a portion of Antire Valley, where designated model-aviation areas operated by the Lafayette…

Recreational drones in Missouri follow FAA rules for registration and airspace, which preempt local flight regulation. Missouri has no drone-specific surveillance statute; using a…

SLCRO §1005.095 recognizes subdivision trust indentures, private agreements between trustees and homeowners, as the primary tool for enforcing subdivision-level standards beyond county…

Missouri has no general HOA statute, so ordinary homeowners' association liens come only from the recorded declaration. Condominiums are different: under the Missouri Uniform…

Most Missouri HOAs are nonprofit corporations governed by the Nonprofit Corporation Law (Ch. 355): an annual members' meeting (§ 355.231), special meetings on a 5% member demand (§…

Missouri sets no dollar cap on association fines and has no general homeowners-association act, so a subdivision HOA's fine power comes from its own indenture. Condominiums are…

Missouri regulates association lien foreclosure only for condominiums. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 448.3-116 gives a condominium association a lien for unpaid assessments and for fines, lets it…

Missouri has no statute capping association rental restrictions: no percentage cap, no minimum lease term, and no grandfathering for owners already renting. What Missouri does regulate…

St. Louis County levies a 3% convention and tourism tax on room charges paid by transient guests at hotels and motels countywide. Operators collect it from guests, file quarterly…

St. Louis County exempts barbecuing from its countywide open-burning ban as long as the fire is either contained in built cooking equipment, like a grill, rotisserie, or outdoor…

St. Louis County regulates solar energy system installations by adopting the 2015 Uniform Solar Energy Code into its Plumbing Code, and it separately requires solar equipment regulated…

Since January 1, 2023, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 442.404.3 has made any deed restriction, covenant or similar agreement running with the land unenforceable to the extent it limits or prohibits…

St. Louis County's "NU" Non-Urban District exists for areas where rough terrain or distance from infrastructure limits development, and it permits farming, dairy farming, and…

Missouri RSMo 537.295 shields established agricultural operations from most nuisance lawsuits, codifying a constitutional right to farm and limiting damages available against compliant…

Missouri RSMo 290.528 preempts local minimum wage ordinances, requiring cities and counties to follow the state minimum wage and barring higher local wage floors. The state wage itself…

Missouri RSMo 290.528 preempts local paid-leave and employment-benefit mandates. Voters approved statewide paid sick leave (Proposition A) in 2024, but the legislature repealed it…

Missouri RSMo 290.528 preempts local regulation of employer wages and employment benefits, so cities and counties cannot impose fair-workweek or predictive-scheduling mandates. There…

Missouri is a permitless concealed carry state and bars localities from imposing additional rules on concealed firearms beyond what RSMo 21.750 and Chapter 571 permit, ensuring uniform…

Missouri broadly preempts local firearm regulation under RSMo 21.750, reserving most gun-related legislation to the state legislature and barring city or county ordinances on…

Missouri permits open carry statewide, but RSMo 21.750 lets cities restrict open carry within their limits while exempting valid concealed carry permit holders from those local…

Missouri RSMo 571.030 allows adults 19 and older to carry concealed firearms in vehicles without a permit, and state preemption blocks cities from adding stricter local vehicle-carry…

Missouri law confines casino gambling to "excursion gambling boats" that must dock only on the Mississippi or Missouri River, and only in a city or unincorporated county area whose…

Missouri lets religious, charitable, fraternal, veteran, and service groups run bingo only after the Missouri Gaming Commission issues a license under RSMo Chapter 313. An organization…

Missouri does not carve out a safe harbor for backyard poker or friendly bets. RSMo 572.010(8) defines a 'player' as someone who wagers without profiting beyond personal winnings, and…

Missouri voters approved Amendment 2 in November 2024, adding Article III, Section 39(g) to the state constitution and legalizing sports wagering statewide. Licensed operators may take…

Sobriety checkpoints are lawful in Missouri, but no Missouri statute authorises them or sets the rules for running one. The General Assembly legislated only around the edges. Mo. Rev…

Missouri has no statute that grants a right to record police and no statute that forbids it. What decides the question is the narrow reach of Missouri's wiretap law, Mo. Rev. Stat. §§…

Missouri never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute. A person detained on suspicion of an offense commits no Missouri crime by declining to give a name. The two identification…

Missouri is one of a small group of states where the marijuana odor rule sits in the constitution rather than in a statute. Article XIV, Section 2 of the Missouri Constitution, added…

Missouri RSMo 260.283 bars cities and counties from banning, taxing, or charging fees on paper or plastic bags, and prohibits them from banning customer use of reusable bags. The…

The effective minimum age to buy tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products in Missouri is 21 under federal Tobacco 21 law. Missouri's own statute, RSMo 407.931, still sets the…

Missouri caps aftermarket forward lighting by count and by height. Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 307.080 allows a motor vehicle no more than three auxiliary lamps, all mounted on the front…

Missouri has no windshield obstruction statute at all, so nothing in the Revised Statutes tells you where a dash cam may sit. The one place a dash cam is expressly addressed is the…

Missouri has neither a statute permitting a motorcycle to ride between lanes of traffic nor one prohibiting the manoeuvre by name. A full-text search of the Revised Statutes of…

Missouri is one of the states that answers the plate cover question in the statute itself rather than leaving it to a general obstruction rule. Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 301.130.5…

Missouri has no radar detector law. A full-text search of the Revised Statutes of Missouri returns no section containing the phrase radar detector, and the single statute anywhere in…

Missouri allows metal and carbide studded tires for winter driving only. Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 307.171.1 makes it unlawful to operate any motor vehicle on any road or highway of this…

Missouri regulates exactly two pieces of glass. Under Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 307.173.1 the front sidewing vents and the windows immediately to the left and right of the driver must…