Kirkwood, MO

Kirkwood requires vehicles parked at a curb to sit parallel and within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, bans parking against the flow of traffic, and prohibits stopping in front of a…

Kirkwood Code § 14-117 makes it illegal to abandon a motor vehicle or trailer on any public road right-of-way, and separately bars leaving any vehicle anywhere in the city long enough…

Kirkwood bars parking or storing an airplane, boat, house car, mobile home, motor vehicle or trailer in the front yard or a street-facing side yard of a residential lot, per City Code…

Kirkwood Code § 14-361 bars parking dual-rear-wheel trucks, dump-bed vehicles, motorized construction equipment, and any vehicle taller than 7 1/2 feet on the public right-of-way in…

Kirkwood Code § 14-361(a)(5) bars parking any trailer, including a boat, camper or utility trailer, on the public right-of-way in a residential zoning district unless it is being used…

Kirkwood's Traffic Engineer designates and signs passenger and freight curb loading zones and sets the hours they apply under Code § 14-66, and a business can only get its own loading…

When the county Director declares a snow emergency, parking anywhere on the road that would block plowing crews is illegal outright: Section 1207.040(1)(p) bans parking that obstructs…

No one may leave a vehicle parked on a St. Louis County roadway for more than 24 uninterrupted hours, except during a standing weekend exemption running from 5 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m…

New construction, major remodels, and parking-lot alterations in unincorporated St. Louis County that create more than 30 parking spaces for offices, stores, factories, institutions…

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…

Kirkwood caps grass and weeds on private property at seven inches under Code § 16-2(i). Anything taller, including growth on privately owned land that carries a public easement such as…

Kirkwood limits compost piles to five feet in height and caps their footprint by lot size, from 100 to 400 square feet. Piles must sit at least five feet from property lines and 20…

Kirkwood's landscaping code encourages using and maintaining native plant materials on new development sites, per § 25-58(d) of the Zoning and Subdivision Code, though it sets no…

During a declared water supply emergency, Kirkwood cuts outdoor watering to protect the system. A Level I alert limits sprinklers and hoses to an odd-even schedule tied to your street…

Removing a street tree in Kirkwood's right-of-way is not a homeowner's call. Section 24-3 requires a permit to remove, reviewed by the Urban Forester, and if the tree is not a safety…

New trees may not be planted on a St. Louis County right-of-way between the sidewalk and the curb (SLCRO §1218.140). Existing right-of-way trees are owned by the adjacent property…

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

Kirkwood requires a special permit from the Mayor and City Council before anyone plays a radio, loudspeaker or sound amplifier on the streets to advertise a business, and even a…

Kirkwood limits noisy exterior construction, demolition or repair work to 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. to…

Kirkwood's disturbing-noises ordinance makes it a violation to run a radio, TV, phonograph or similar device loud enough to disturb neighbors, and sets a bright-line curfew: any such…

Kirkwood Code § 14-356 bans muffler cutouts and requires every motor vehicle to run a properly attached muffler quiet enough to match a modern passenger car's exhaust. Driving in a way…

Kirkwood folds barking dogs and noisy pets into its general noise ordinance. Section 17-69 bans any noise that unreasonably disturbs others' comfort or repose, and § 17-70(e) names…

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.

Kirkwood's parks ordinance makes it unlawful to feed waterfowl or wildlife in any city park. The same section also bars giving animals or birds noxious substances and prohibits…

Kirkwood requires every cat kept anywhere in the city, even part-time, to be vaccinated against rabies and to wear a current registration tag under § 4-38. A cat is legally 'at large'…

Kirkwood Code of Ordinances § 4-2 makes it unlawful to injure, molest, take, or disturb in any way any small bird found within the city, carving out only one exception: sparrows. The…

Kirkwood lets residents keep poultry and livestock, but only confined to their own premises: § 4-6 bars poultry from running at large, and any livestock yard under § 4-9 must sit at…

Kirkwood caps households at three cats and three dogs. Section 4-5 makes keeping more than three cats on one premises a nuisance subject to abatement, and § 4-30 flatly bars keeping…

Kirkwood requires dogs off their owner's property to be under restraint, defined in § 4-37 as controlled by a leash no longer than six feet held by a capable handler, or they're…

Kirkwood doesn't restrict dogs by breed, but § 4-52 imposes a strict bite-based dangerous dog standard: a dog that has bitten before and bites again, or a dog with no history that…

Kirkwood's zoning code puts pet grooming shops and doggy day cares in the 'animal facility, minor' category, defined as grooming and daytime boarding of animals or pets. Table 35-1…

Kirkwood's zoning code classifies veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, kennels, and overnight animal boarding as an 'animal facility, major' use. Table 35-1 marks this use with an…

St. Louis County does not require pet owners countywide to microchip their animals, but its Animal Control Code puts a chip-check duty on the County Shelter itself: every dog, cat…

Every dog, cat, puppy, and kitten leaving the St. Louis County Animal Shelter through adoption must be spayed or neutered first, with a health/age exception for animals a vet certifies…

Lions, primates, bears, wolves, coyotes, foxes and venomous reptiles are legal in St. Louis County only under a Director-issued nondomestic animal license, not as free-roaming pets.

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…

Missouri does not license backyard hives, but it is unlawful to move bees, combs, or used beekeeping equipment into the state without a permit from the Department of Agriculture, which…

Kirkwood requires new residential pools to comply with the adopted 2021 Swimming Pool and Spa Code under § 5-6b, and separately requires every pool to be enclosed by a barrier meeting…

Kirkwood requires every swimming pool to sit behind a code-compliant barrier. Section 5-38(e) folds the requirement into the fence article by cross-referencing the City's own Property…

Kirkwood bans anyone other than the City itself from selling or using fireworks within city limits. Kirkwood Code of Ordinances § 17-80 makes it unlawful for any person, except the…

St. Louis County bans all open burning countywide, in both unincorporated areas and incorporated cities, unless the fire fits one of the narrow exceptions the Air Pollution Control…

St. Louis County allows backyard recreational fire pits without a permit, but only if the fire burns pure untreated, seasoned dry firewood, its base area stays at nine square feet or…

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…

Kirkwood requires a permit from the Building Commissioner before any fence is built or rebuilt anywhere in the city. Section 5-36 requires the application to list height, type and…

Kirkwood bars flimsy and dangerous fencing materials outright: paper, cloth, canvas, bamboo and chicken coop wire are prohibited everywhere, and barbed wire or any electrified fence is…

Kirkwood caps most fences at six feet, measured from grade to the fencing material's topmost point, with posts allowed six inches taller. Section 5-39(c) cuts that to 48 inches for any…

Kirkwood exempts most retaining walls from Architectural Review Board review, but a poured-concrete wall taller than 2 feet as measured from grade needs ARB sign-off before the…

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…

Before renting or advertising, a Kirkwood owner must secure zoning approval, a 12-month occupancy permit, a Chapter 13 business license and a 24/7 local contact person under §…

Kirkwood limits short-term rental stays to 14 consecutive days and caps any particular guest at 30 rented days per calendar year under the zoning code's short-term rental use…

Kirkwood requires one on-site parking space for every rented short-term rental room, stacked on top of the standard residential parking requirement in § 25-65, under the zoning code's…

Kirkwood zoning limits short-term rentals to owner-occupied, detached single-family homes. An investor-owned house, a rental the owner does not live in, or an attached dwelling like a…

Kirkwood zoning sets bedroom and overnight-guest caps for short-term rentals by district. In the R-3, R-4, and R-5 Districts, no more than two bedrooms and four guests are allowed at a…

Kirkwood's short-term rental rules require the owner to actually live in the rental as a permanent residence and be on the premises whenever a paying guest is staying there. An owner…

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…

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…

Kirkwood caps detached accessory structures like sheds at 24 feet or 1 1/2 stories, limits total accessory coverage to 7% of the lot or 1,500 square feet, requires a 5-foot setback…

Kirkwood allows one accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot, capped at 750 square feet and two bedrooms, on a lot of at least 15,000 square feet, with a two-story height limit…

Kirkwood lets homeowners convert a detached garage into an accessory dwelling unit under Zoning Code § 25-45(b), but the garage must be brought up to every ADU standard in the section…

Kirkwood requires the property owner to actually live on site whenever an accessory dwelling unit is occupied. Under Zoning Code § 25-45(b)(11), the owner of the lot must reside in…

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

Kirkwood caps a family day-care home at six unrelated children and limits the City to one such home per block, with a hard citywide ceiling of 30. Zoning Code § 25-45(j) also restricts…

Kirkwood only allows home businesses that qualify as no-impact under Zoning Code § 25-45(k); anything more intensive is flatly prohibited. The home must keep a valid occupancy permit…

Kirkwood ties client visits at a home business to the house's own occupancy limit rather than setting a separate visitor cap. Zoning Code § 25-45(k)(9) caps employees and clients…

Kirkwood bans every permanent sign at a home-based business except the single wall sign allowed for individual residential dwellings under the Sign Code. Zoning Code § 25-45(k)(12)…

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…

Kirkwood limits curbside food truck vending to a single approved zone: the west side of South Taylor, 20 to 50 feet south of East Argonne, reserved for approved trucks only Saturdays…

Kirkwood requires every mobile food preparation vehicle to get an operational permit from the Fire Code Official before each deployment, under the amended Fire Prevention Code…

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…

Kirkwood sets seasonal closing times for its city parks under § 18-3. Kirkwood Park and Green Tree Park stay open until 11:00 p.m. from April through October, then close at sunset from…

Kirkwood bars anyone under 18 from being in a public place or public way between 12:01 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Kirkwood Code of Ordinances § 17-198 exempts minors accompanied by a parent…

Kirkwood's seven-member Landmarks Commission designates buildings, sites and districts as landmarks after notice and a hearing, and once designated, no building, demolition, relocation…

Kirkwood requires garbage and recycling carts to be set within three feet of the curb, lids facing the street, and bars putting them out before dusk the night before pickup. Carts must…

Kirkwood bans open dumping of solid waste anywhere in the city, with narrow exceptions for permitted grading fill and authorized recycling or refuse disposal. Violators face…

Kirkwood runs a City recycling depository at 350 South Taylor Avenue that accepts only specific materials such as aluminum and steel cans, clear, green or brown glass, newspaper…

Every non-multifamily residential unit in Kirkwood gets City curbside single-stream recycling collection along with garbage service. Cardboard must be broken down and fit inside the…

Kirkwood requires every residential property owner (except multifamily) to subscribe to City sanitation service, with pickup once a week. No collections run on Sundays or legal…

Kirkwood collects yard waste only in special degradable kraft paper bags bought from the City, or a bag carrying a City yard waste sticker. Regular garbage and rubbish service does not…

Kirkwood's Sanitation Division offers curbside pickup of large bulky items as a paid "special service" under Code § 10-28(2), separate from the free weekly cart collection. Furniture…

Kirkwood residents must set recycling and garbage carts within three feet of the curb, lids facing the street, no earlier than dusk the night before pickup, and pull them back behind…

Multifamily, commercial and industrial properties in Kirkwood must contract with a City-authorized hauler, and every dumpster placed in the City must be sanitary, code-compliant, and…

Kirkwood's nuisance ordinance lists specific violations residents can report to the City: a dead animal carcass left more than 24 hours, litter sitting more than a week on any lot, and…

Kirkwood treats a vacant or occupied lot carrying debris, junk or noxious weeds seven inches or taller as a nuisance under Code § 16-2(o). The rule reaches lumber not stacked 12 inches…

Kirkwood declares debris-covered lots, from weed cuttings to derelict car parts and broken furniture, a public nuisance under Chapter 16, and lets the Director of Public Services abate…

Kirkwood gives property owners and occupants 24 hours to clear ice, snow, dirt, mud or filth from the sidewalk fronting their building, premises or vacant lot. Code of Ordinances §…

Kirkwood's Clean Air Act bans smoking only in enclosed places of employment and enclosed public places. Outdoor areas, including parks and open-air patios, are not covered except for a…

Kirkwood's parks code, § 18-7, restricts roller-skating, roller-blading, skateboarding and scooter use to paved areas or spots the city designates for those activities. Skateboarding…

Kirkwood prohibits possessing or drinking alcoholic beverages in any city park unless the Department of Parks and Recreation has issued a special permit for the event. Section 18-14…

Kirkwood's park rules flatly ban soliciting alms or contributions in any city park, whether for a public or private cause. Section 18-19 is narrow: it reaches begging inside park…

Kirkwood makes it unlawful to stand or remain idle in a public place, alone or with others, in a way that knowingly blocks a street, sidewalk or business entrance, and gives officers…

Kirkwood requires pedestrians to cross streets at right angles or by the shortest route to the opposite curb unless they are in a marked or unmarked crosswalk, per City Code § 14-288…

Kirkwood bars smoking or consuming marijuana in any public place, or anywhere tobacco smoking is already prohibited, unless the location is specifically licensed for marijuana…

Kirkwood Code of Ordinances § 17-156 makes it unlawful to urinate in or on any street, park, or other public place, or any private place open to public view, unless it's inside a…

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…

Kirkwood bars flying a drone, model airplane, rocket or other motorized flying device in any city park except in spots the Director of Parks and Recreation has designated for that use…

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…

Kirkwood splits electrical code enforcement by building type. Detached one- and two-family homes follow the city's adopted 2015 IRC electrical provisions, while commercial…

Kirkwood has no elevator code of its own. Section 5-5 instead adopts the St. Louis County Building Code and County Mechanical Code, as amended, for everything pertaining to elevators…

Kirkwood adopted the 2021 International Plumbing Code, as modified, as its Plumbing Code under § 5-6, and requires a permit for plumbing and sewer work priced under a Council-set fee…

Kirkwood has no separate green-building program; its energy standard is § 5-6d, which adopts the 2021 Energy Conservation Code as modified for all new construction and renovation work…

Kirkwood caps how large a single-family house can be relative to its lot through a sliding floor area ratio in Table 48-7, from 0.35 on lots of 10,000 square feet or less down to 0.25…

Kirkwood requires a building permit from the Building Commissioner before any building or structure is erected, added to, or structurally altered anywhere in the city. Section 25-15(a)…

Kirkwood will not let anyone move into or start using a building until the Building Commissioner confirms it actually complies with the Code. Section 25-15 conditions every certificate…

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 does not mandate fire sprinklers in new one- and two-family homes or townhouses. Instead, under Residential Code R313.1 and R313.2, builders must offer every buyer the…

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…

St. Louis County's Building Code splits child day care by size and setting. A home caring for up to ten children, including the provider's own, is a Child Day Care Home that can be…

Kirkwood caps garage, estate, moving and yard sales at two consecutive days and two sales per calendar year on the same property, and limits sellers to items normally found in or…

Kirkwood bars loud and excessive noise from loading or unloading vehicles, deliveries or opening crates and boxes, and separately keeps sanitation trucks off residential routes between…

Kirkwood's noise ordinance bars discharging the exhaust of a stationary internal combustion engine, generator or motorboat into the open air unless it passes through a muffler or other…

St. Louis County's Noise Control Code bans vibration, not just audible sound, from crossing onto a neighbor's property. Section 625.060 makes it unlawful to cause any operation or…

Kirkwood bans electronic message centers in the Downtown Historic District and, everywhere else, caps their brightness at 0.3 footcandle above ambient light, limits them to monument…

Kirkwood caps window signage at 33% of any single window's area and bans illumination of window signs outright, treating even interior displays visible through glass as regulated…

Kirkwood limits garage, estate, moving and yard sales to four off-site directional signs no larger than two feet by three feet, plus one sign on the sale property itself. Signs cannot…

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.

Kirkwood Code § 14-155 bars parking or standing a motor vehicle, or leaving any other stationary object, in a designated bicycle lane. A driver may only enter a bike lane briefly to…

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…

Kirkwood requires every purchaser, collector or dealer in junk, scrap metal or secondhand property to keep a written or electronic register of each purchase, recording the seller's…

Kirkwood requires anyone selling cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products or vapor products to hold a retail sales tax license. Kirkwood Code of Ordinances § 17-213…

Massage businesses in Kirkwood must hold a City license under Code § 13-91, pass a Building Commissioner inspection against the minimum sanitation standards in § 13-83, and every…

Every tow truck operating in Kirkwood needs a City license under § 13-264, unless it already carries a valid St. Louis County or comparable-municipality license, and licensed wreckers…

Kirkwood zoning requires a tattoo studio to sit at least 1,000 feet from any other tattoo studio and caps its first-floor street frontage at eight feet, under the use-specific…

Kirkwood bans motor vehicle repair work of any kind, except emergency repairs, in off-street parking and driveway areas under § 25-64(h)(2) of the Zoning and Subdivision Code, but…

Anyone running a pawnshop in unincorporated St. Louis County must hold a Director of Revenue pawnbroker license, capped at one for every 30,000 unincorporated residents. New applicants…

St. Louis County keeps adult businesses 1,000 feet from churches, schools, libraries, parks, and other adult uses, and 300 feet from residential zoning.

Kirkwood does not write its own housing-condition rules: § 5-22 adopts the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code, as modified, as the City's Property Maintenance Code, covering…

Before renting or selling residential property in unincorporated St. Louis County, owners, agents, brokers, attorneys, and property managers must give written notice that the unit is…

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 peddling, soliciting or selling door-to-door in Kirkwood needs a license under Code § 13-277, and licensed solicitors may only work 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through…

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.

Every business operating in Kirkwood is licensed and taxed as a merchant, manufacturer or service occupation based on its principal activity, per Code § 13-35, with the tax calculated…

Kirkwood requires nearly all new or replaced outdoor lighting fixtures to be full cutoff, with no light emitted at or above a horizontal plane at the fixture's base, under §…

Kirkwood caps light spilling off a lot at 0.5 footcandle at finished grade generally, and drops that limit to 0.1 footcandle where the light lands on adjoining single-family…

Kirkwood requires a floodplain development permit for any construction inside its mapped special flood hazard areas before a shovel goes in the ground. Sections 5-70 and 5-71 name the…

New and substantially improved buildings inside Kirkwood's mapped flood zones must sit above the base flood elevation, not just at it. Section 5-72(B)(1) requires the lowest floor…

Kirkwood makes larger infill projects capture their own runoff before it leaves the lot. Section 5-202 requires a stormwater permit for any project adding 1,000 square feet or more of…

Kirkwood requires a grading permit from the Director of Public Services before any land disturbance, and the city's grading code makes erosion and sediment control mandatory, not…

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…

St. Louis County bans letting a vehicle engine idle for more than three consecutive minutes while parked, standing, or stopped, under the county's air pollution nuisance code…

Kirkwood fixes front, side and rear yard setbacks by residential zoning district in Table 48-2 of the Zoning and Subdivision Code, ranging from 60 feet in front in R-1 down to 35 feet…

Kirkwood caps single-family homes in its R-1 and R-2 Districts at 35 feet or 2.5 stories, whichever governs, under Table 48-5 of the Zoning and Subdivision Code. R-3, R-4, and R-MM…

Kirkwood caps how much of a residential lot can be covered by buildings, with the limit turning on lot size and building height. For R-1 through R-4 lots of 7,500 square feet or less…

Kirkwood allows solar energy systems only as accessory uses under § 25-51, with roof panels capped at the structure's height limit and freestanding arrays limited to 16 feet or the…

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…

Kirkwood requires a permit from the Director of Parks and Recreation before anyone plays tennis, softball or hardball, holds a group picnic, or makes any other special use of a city…

Kirkwood lets restaurants use the public sidewalk for outdoor seating under Code § 20-95. Seating for up to 12 needs no separate City approval beyond meeting the section's conditions…

Any parade or procession of 25 or more people or 25 or more vehicles on a St. Louis County road needs a permit first: Section 1218.060 requires organizers to get sign-off from the St…

Kirkwood confines marijuana dispensaries to a special use permit in the B-3 District, with cultivation, infused-product manufacturing and testing confined to the I-1 District, and…

Kirkwood requires marijuana facilities to sit at least 1,000 feet from a church, school or child day-care center, and at least 1,000 feet from any other marijuana facility, measured…

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…

Planting a tree in the parkway strip along a Kirkwood street requires a "permit to plant" from the Urban Forester under § 24-3(c)(3) of the Tree Code; approved plantings must follow…

Kirkwood's Tree Code will not let an invasive or prohibited species count toward a project's required tree canopy. Only trees that are not listed as invasive or on the Tree Manual's…

Kirkwood's Tree Code protects "significant trees," defined as any tree six inches or more in diameter at breast height that is in fair or better condition and is not an invasive or…

Kirkwood puts the duty to maintain and repair the sidewalk in front of a property on that property's owner under Code § 20-42. If a walk falls out of repair enough to impede safe…

Kirkwood bars anyone from placing a fence, porch, stairway, awning or other stationary object in a street, alley or sidewalk unless an ordinance specifically authorizes it. For…

Kirkwood bars anyone from displaying merchandise for sale or piling signs, boxes, lumber or building materials on a street, alley or sidewalk so as to obstruct or encumber the public…

In the Central Business District (B-2), Kirkwood folds its Downtown Master Plan & Parking Study's Framework Plan directly into the zoning code. Where that plan designates a street…

Kirkwood does not charge hotels a separate lodging or transient occupancy tax. Chapter 13's business license fee schedule instead charges hotels a flat annual license fee of $7 per…

Kirkwood's water code puts the burden of fixing a leaking service pipe on the property owner. When the Director of Public Services finds a service line out of repair, the owner, agent…

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 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's public health nuisance code makes it illegal to maintain or allow a rat or mouse infestation on any property. The Director of Health can inspect, declare the…

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…

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…

Even where St. Louis County lets a property owner grow a managed natural landscape taller than the normal 8-inch mowing limit, Section 620.115 draws a hard line at species: noxious…

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…

St. Louis County can suspend a residential rental license the moment the Director of Transportation and Public Works finds the property out of compliance with the Property Maintenance…

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…