La Grange, MO

A shed, chicken house or one-car garage built outside La Grange's fire limits needs no city permit as long as it costs $1,000 or less. Inside the fire limits, the same small…

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

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 210.040 makes it unlawful for an owner to let a dog run at-large anywhere in the City. Police Officers impound any dog found at-large, and…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 210.210 bans keeping, harboring, owning or possessing any pit bull dog within City limits. Pit bulls already living in the City when the ban…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 210.240 makes it unlawful to kill, wound or attempt to kill any bird within City limits using firearms, bows, thrown stones or any other…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 210.225 caps backyard flocks at 12 chickens or fowl per lot of at least 66 by 120 feet, rising to 24 birds on two or more adjoining lots…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 210.280 bans keeping big cats, bears, wolves, coyotes, non-human primates and dangerous or poisonous reptiles anywhere in the City, except…

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…

Missouri RSMo 578.009 and 578.012 universally criminalize animal neglect, abandonment, and abuse, applying to hoarding situations regardless of municipal limits and authorizing courts…

Missouri Wildlife Code 3 CSR 10-4.200 prohibits year-round placement of grain, salt, minerals, and other consumable attractants for deer in the Department of Conservation's CWD…

In the City of La Grange, City Code Section 340.230 bans excessive noise from tire screeching, revving and exhaust, backed by Section 370.140.B, which outlaws muffler cutouts outright…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 505.130(C)(1) requires a fence application and permit from the City before any fence is erected or modified. Skipping the permit lets the City…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 505.130(B)(1) allows only masonry, wood, vinyl, stone, chain-link and steel or iron ornamental material for an ordinary fence. Barbed wire, smooth…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 505.130(B) caps residential fence height at six feet in rear and side yards and four feet in the front yard, where opacity cannot exceed 50…

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…

In the City of La Grange, Section 340.240.E caps how long a vehicle can sit in one parking space: six hours on Main Street between Jefferson and Lewis Streets, and twenty-four hours…

In the City of La Grange, Section 350.010 requires curb parking within eighteen inches of the right-hand curb, and Section 355.010 bars standing or parking in front of driveways…

In the City of La Grange, Section 340.250 makes it a specific ordinance offense to abandon a motor vehicle on any municipal right-of-way, on City or State waters or stream banks, on…

In the City of La Grange, Section 355.110.A bans parking any commercial vehicle, defined as 14,000 pounds or more gross weight, 80 inches or more wide, or 20 feet or more long, on any…

In the City of La Grange, Section 355.110.B bars anyone from occupying a recreational vehicle, defined to include camping trailers, fifth-wheels, motor homes, travel trailers and…

In the City of La Grange, Sections 360.020 through 360.040 let the City Traffic Engineer designate curb loading zones by permit, cap passenger loading-zone stops at three minutes under…

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…

In the City of La Grange, no one may set off or discharge rockets, fireworks or other pyrotechnic exhibitions unless the City Council first consents and specifies the place and time…

In the City of La Grange, open burning and outdoor fires are banned inside city limits under Section 215.196, with narrow exceptions for yard waste, recreational fires, training burns…

In the City of La Grange, recreational campfires and fire pits are allowed only on City-owned or leased permitted properties, must sit at least twenty feet from any building or fence…

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…

La Grange City Code § 220.020 treats 'noxious weeds which are seven (7) inches or more in height' as a public nuisance on any lot or land in the city. The City Administrator must give…

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

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 RSMo 210.211 universally requires a state license to operate a child care facility, with a statutory exemption for caring for six or fewer unrelated children, including no…

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…

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…

Every public swimming pool, spa, and bathing place in Missouri must be approved by the Department of Health and Senior Services before it opens, kept in efficient operating condition…

In the City of La Grange, medical marijuana cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities must sit at least 300 feet from any school, day care, church or worship building, while…

In the City of La Grange, Section 601.020.D requires every medical marijuana facility to operate entirely inside an enclosed building; the code contains no zoning-district scheme for…

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…

In the City of La Grange, anyone acting as a peddler or solicitor must first obtain a permit under Section 605.030; there is no fee for peddlers, solicitors or canvassers, and the City…

In the City of La Grange, Section 605.140 bars any peddler, solicitor or canvasser from entering a property posted with a visible "no soliciting" sign, from remaining after seeing a…

In the City of La Grange, Chapter 610 bars an adult bookstore, theater or entertainment business from operating within 1,000 feet of a school, church, library, park or licensed child…

In the City of La Grange, every purchaser or collector of junk, scrap metal or secondhand property must keep a photo-ID-backed register of each transaction for at least twenty-four…

La Grange City Code § 215.640 requires anyone selling cigarettes or tobacco products in the city to first hold a retail sales tax license. The requirement sits inside Article XIII…

All electrical wiring, apparatus and appliances installed in La Grange must comply with the 2002 National Electrical Code as approved by the National Fire Protection Association…

In La Grange no wall, structure or building may be built, enlarged or altered within city limits until plans and a materials statement are submitted in duplicate to the City Council…

La Grange's Building Inspector inspects buildings and structures throughout construction to confirm compliance with the building chapter. If work is found defective or illegal and…

La Grange's code does not mandate automatic sprinklers in homes. Instead, Section 505.040(C)-(D) rewards buildings that install approved sprinkler systems with a 200% larger allowable…

In the City of La Grange, businesses supplying electricity, natural gas or telephone service pay a 5% gross-income license tax under Section 700.010, a separate classification from the…

In the City of La Grange, Section 710.110.G requires an occupant or owner to immediately repair a water leak on their premises and promptly report the leak and repair to the City…

In the City of La Grange, any development inside a mapped A Zone or AE Zone requires a floodplain development permit from the City Council before construction begins. The rule covers…

New or substantially improved homes in La Grange's mapped flood zones must have the lowest floor, including the basement, built one foot above base flood elevation. Non-residential…

In the City of La Grange, dumping waste materials, oil, chemicals, yard debris or other pollutants into the storm water system is declared a public nuisance. City Code § 220.010(A)(15)…

Missouri requires a state land disturbance operating permit from the Department of Natural Resources before construction disturbing one or more acres, mandating a stormwater pollution…

No building anywhere in La Grange may exceed three stories or 45 feet in height unless it is fire-resistive construction, under Section 505.040(F). Fully fire-resistive buildings…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, City Code Section 145.470 closes every City park to public use between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. daily. The rule applies year-round to all park…

La Grange City Code § 215.580 bars minors under seventeen from wandering, playing or cruising in any public place between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, anyone wanting to use a City park beyond its normal 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. closing must obtain a park extended hours permit from the Mayor under…

In the City of La Grange, a funeral, procession or parade of two hundred or more people, or fifty or more vehicles, cannot occupy or march along any City street without a permit from…

In the City of La Grange, Missouri, Section 215.191 bars porches, platforms, steps and other fixtures from extending onto any sidewalk, limits awnings and signs to no closer than seven…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 575.010 bars disturbing or digging in any street, alley, sidewalk or drainage ditch without first getting the Street Commissioner's written…

In the City of La Grange, City Code §§ 565.010 and 565.020 define a 'dangerous and unsafe building' and declare every one a public nuisance. A structure so dilapidated, decayed or…

La Grange City Code § 220.020 makes any lot with debris, rubbish, derelict vehicle parts, unstacked lumber or flammable material a public nuisance. The City Administrator can order the…

In the City of La Grange, shade trees planted within the street lines must fall under Street Committee direction and can never sit more than twelve feet from the street property line…

In the City of La Grange, outdoor non-commercial food preparation fires, along with recreational and ceremonial fires, are exempt from the citywide open-burning ban only when they burn…

In the City of La Grange, it is unlawful to stand or remain idle in a public place in a way that blocks sidewalks, streets or business entrances, and officers can order violators to…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 600.047(A) makes it unlawful to drink intoxicating liquor on any street, alley, sidewalk, park or other public place. Subsection (B) allows an…

In the City of La Grange, skateboards, roller skates, coasters and similar toy vehicles are barred from City roadways. Section 310.040 allows crossing a street only on a marked…

La Grange City Code § 215.520 makes it unlawful for anyone to possess or control marijuana or a synthetic cannabinoid within the City of La Grange unless Missouri or federal statute…

In the City of La Grange, City Code § 565.030(A)(1) puts the trigger for a dangerous-building inspection in residents' hands: the Building Inspector checks public buildings, commercial…

La Grange's solid waste ordinance defines yard waste narrowly, as leaves, grass clippings, yard and garden vegetation and Christmas trees, and treats it separately from other trash…

In the City of La Grange, every dwelling, business, industrial and agricultural establishment must keep enough sanitary, lidded solid waste containers to hold its trash, keep them in…

The City of La Grange provides, or contracts out, mandatory weekly collection of residential and commercial solid waste. Under City Code § 235.040(A)(1), every residential and…

In the City of La Grange, bulky rubbish disposal is not guaranteed as part of routine trash service: if the City's contractor does not haul it, the occupant must keep bulky items from…

The City of La Grange bans dumping trash in its parks under § 215.720 and separately makes it unlawful, under § 235.090, to dump solid waste at any facility or location not approved by…

La Grange City Code requires every dwelling and business to keep solid waste in sufficient, well-maintained containers under § 235.010, limits manually lifted containers to 95 gallons…

Missouri requires every state department and agency to recycle at least 25% of paper products used or 50% of paper disposed of, whichever is greater, separate plastics, metals and…

In the City of La Grange, parking or standing in a designated bicycle lane is barred outright. Section 340.060 also forbids driving on sidewalks except across a driveway, and requires…

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…

La Grange City Code § 220.010 declares garbage cans that are not 'fly-tight' and any infestation of rats, mice or other vermin to be public-health nuisances. Property owners, lessees…

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…

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 food trucks operate under the statewide Missouri Food Code, 19 CSR 20-1.025, which the Department of Health and Senior Services adopts as the sanitation standard for every…

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…

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 (§…

With no general HOA statute, Missouri covenant and architectural-control disputes turn on the recorded declaration and common-law rules of restrictive covenants. One statutory overlay…

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…

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 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 recognizes an implied warranty of habitability through case law (Detling v. Edelbrock, 1984), requiring residential premises to be fit and safe to live in. RSMo 441.234…

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 preempts local ordinances that limit landlord tenant screening, source-of-income decisions, security deposit amounts, or right-of-first-refusal rules.

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…

Missouri RSMo 537.295 and constitutional protections constrain how counties and cities may zone agriculture, limiting local authority to restrict expansions or modernization of…

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 442.404 prohibits homeowners' associations and deed restrictions from banning the display of political signs on residential property. HOAs may adopt only reasonable rules…

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…

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…

Missouri's Net Metering and Easy Connection Act (RSMo 386.890) gives every utility customer the right to connect a solar system up to one hundred kilowatts, using a standardized simple…

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…