O'Fallon, MO

O'Fallon does not run a nightly curfew on street parking, but it bans leaving any vehicle on a roadway for longer than 48 consecutive hours. The limit applies City-wide under Chapter…

O'Fallon's parking ban on all City streets kicks in automatically the moment any snow, ice or frozen precipitation accumulates, no formal declaration needed. It lifts only when the…

O'Fallon's zoning code lets electric vehicle charging stations operate as a permitted use in C-O, C-1, C-2, C-3, HTCD, I-1 and I-2 districts, and as an accessory use in every zoning…

O'Fallon bans abandoning any motor vehicle or trailer on another person's private property without consent, and separately bans open storage of inoperable or unlicensed vehicles the…

O'Fallon's nuisance code requires any vehicle, trailer, boat, camper, or other recreational vehicle to sit on a durably paved surface, meaning asphalt or concrete, or a legally…

O'Fallon requires parked vehicles to sit within 18 inches of the curb, facing the direction of travel, and bans stopping in front of driveways, on sidewalks, within 15 feet of hydrants…

O'Fallon's Traffic Engineer designates passenger and freight curb loading zones and posts the hours they operate. Passenger zones cap stops at three minutes, while freight zones allow…

O'Fallon bans parking DOT Class 3-and-above trucks, step vans, shelled pickups, and commercial trailers or tractors on residential streets, driveways, or lots, with a narrow 48-hour…

St. Charles County requires driveways and parking areas to be paved, with a narrow all-weather-surface exception for small lots in agricultural and residential districts.

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…

O'Fallon's park code bans anyone from hunting, molesting, harming, trapping, shooting at or killing any bird on park property, and separately bars taking a bird's eggs, nest or young…

O'Fallon's Animal Control Ordinance treats cats the same as dogs under its general control-of-animals rules: no city cat license exists, but owners must keep a female cat in heat…

O'Fallon limits households and businesses to three animals over three months old. The cap can be lifted only with written permission from every surrounding adjacent property owner, or…

O'Fallon has no breed ban. Instead, the Chief of Police can declare any animal dangerous based on its conduct, such as a severe bite or a fighting history, and dangerous animals must…

O'Fallon outlaws selling, owning, or harboring bears, big cats, wolves, wolf hybrids, coyotes, and dangerous or poisonous reptiles anywhere except a licensed zoo, circus, research lab…

O'Fallon does not require every pet to be microchipped, but any dog, cat, or ferret picked up running at large, or one that has bitten a person or animal, must be permanently chipped…

O'Fallon bans letting any dog run at large within city limits. The code defines at large as off the owner's premises and not on a leash shorter than eight feet, controlled by someone…

O'Fallon's Zoning Code defines a 'pet grooming facility' as a business that provides hygienic care such as shampooing, brushing and trimming, and it allows a single dog under an…

It's unlawful to give any wild animal or bird food, drink or a noxious substance in an O'Fallon city park, and separately unlawful to feed, hunt, trap or molest any animal, fish…

St. Charles County bans roosters on residential lots under five acres and caps hens at eight per lot, with fenced-enclosure and coop rules for anyone keeping chickens on residentially…

St. Charles County has no county-wide spay/neuter mandate for ordinary pets. Sterilization becomes mandatory only as one of ten control conditions imposed on a dog the Department…

St. Charles County zones veterinary clinics and animal hospitals by district: they're a permissive use in the "C2" General Commercial District as long as the practice sits inside an…

St. Charles County doesn't ban retail dog and cat sales, but no pet shop, dealer, boarding or breeding kennel, or grooming shop may operate in the unincorporated county without an…

Backyard beekeeping isn't a listed use in St. Charles County's single-family residential districts. Apiaries appear as a permissive use only in the county's "A" Agricultural and "AT"…

O'Fallon bars clearing more than 25% of the trees on a parcel ahead of development, and once a site plan is filed, at least 20% of existing trees or 15 trees per acre, whichever is…

O'Fallon caps weeds, brush and grass at eight inches tall on any improved lot with a building or structure, and the same limit runs twenty feet back from the curb along every public or…

O'Fallon's eight-inch mowing rule doesn't apply to unimproved land over two acres kept as natural forest or native prairie grass, as long as the growth doesn't bother neighbors…

O'Fallon's Water Conservation Plan lets the City order mandatory lawn-watering restrictions once a drought or shortage threatens the water system, starting with odd/even-day watering…

O'Fallon makes it a nuisance to let trees, shrubs or other vegetation block the view at a street intersection: nothing taller than two feet above the street crown may sit within…

St. Charles County lets residents compost yard waste on their own property without a permit, but Code § 240.1401 sets real conditions: piles must sit at least three feet behind the…

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

O'Fallon Code § 215-237(L) sets a lower nighttime noise ceiling for residential areas: 55 dB from 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., dropping to 50 dB from 10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. The same clock…

O'Fallon's noise ordinance singles out barking dogs and other noisy animals as a violation when the sound is frequent or long-continued and disturbs a neighbor's comfort or repose. The…

In O'Fallon's parks and declared festival districts, amplified music and sound equipment cannot exceed 75 decibels measured 15 feet from the source without a written permit from the…

O'Fallon sets objective decibel ceilings by zoning district and time of day: 55/50 dB in residential zones, 65/60 dB in commercial zones, and 70/65 dB in industrial zones, measured at…

O'Fallon Code Section 500.420 restricts construction work to set daily windows that shift with the season, running earlier and later in summer than in winter. Work outside those hours…

O'Fallon's noise ordinance does not regulate aircraft: § 215.237(M)(7) expressly exempts 'all noises coming from the normal and legal operations of properly equipped aircraft' from the…

O'Fallon requires every vehicle's exhaust to run through a properly attached muffler sized to quiet the exhaust as completely as a modern gas engine, and bans muffler cutouts entirely…

O'Fallon allows a secondary "carriage house" dwelling only inside the Mixed-Use Traditional Development District (MUTDD): City Code § 400.161(B)(4)(a) caps the accessory unit at one…

O'Fallon caps a residential utility shed at 200 square feet and 15 feet in height, keeps it out of the front and side yards, and requires at least a 10-foot rear setback under Zoning…

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

O'Fallon confines lawful fireworks use to private property, with the owner's consent, on July 3 or 4 between noon and 11:00 p.m.; anyone under 16 must be supervised the whole time by…

O'Fallon caps the aggregate water capacity of any single liquefied petroleum gas installation at 2,000 gallons within the areas the code restricts for congested or populated zones…

St. Charles County bans burn barrels and ground burning of solid waste outright, but allows permitted residential yard-waste burning under state air rules.

In St. Charles County, pulling a permit for an alteration, repair or addition to a one- or two-family home brings the whole dwelling up to new-construction smoke alarm placement, with…

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…

O'Fallon prohibits barbed wire, razor wire, hardware cloth, wire mesh and electrified fencing citywide under Zoning Code Section 400.273(D)(2). The sole exception lets barbed wire top…

O'Fallon limits fences and decorative posts to six feet, six inches under Zoning Code Section 400.273(C), bans fencing forward of the required front setback line, and keeps fences out…

Any fence or decorative post thirty inches or taller needs a City permit before construction starts, under Zoning Code Section 400.273(B). The Administrative Officer issues the permit…

O'Fallon requires a permit and an engineer's as-built plans for any retaining wall over 48 inches tall, one that supports a surcharge load, or one that alters drainage. Front-yard…

A fence can sit right on the side or rear property line, but it can't cross onto the neighbor's land, and the owner who puts it up stays on the hook for maintaining it.

O'Fallon's adopted Swimming Pool and Spa Code requires a barrier around every pool and spa area, spelled out in amended Section 305 of Section 500.560. Vertical fence pickets cannot be…

O'Fallon Code Section 500.550 adopts the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code wholesale, folding its permitting and fee framework into city law for every new and existing…

O'Fallon allows home based businesses in any dwelling, but Section 400.280 caps the operation at 25% of the home's floor area, never more than 500 square feet, requires a valid…

O'Fallon lets a registered home based business receive customers and third parties, but Section 400.280(D) requires the operator to stagger their arrivals and provide off-street…

O'Fallon's Zoning Code treats any place that cares for children four or more hours a day as a 'daycare center,' whether or not it operates for profit. That definition sweeps in…

O'Fallon caps home occupation signage at one sign per lot, under two square feet in area, per Section 410.120(A)(18) of the sign code, and lets residents put it up without a permit as…

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…

Renting rooms in your home to overnight guests in unincorporated St. Charles County falls under the 'bed and breakfast residence' use, which needs a Conditional Use Permit approved 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…

O'Fallon's Section 245.030(F) sets residential solid waste collection at once weekly City-wide. Containers, tree limbs and yard waste must sit at the curb or alley, as near the…

Commercial and industrial lots in O'Fallon need a temporary use permit before placing a roll-off dumpster or storage container on site, and it must sit on a hard surface behind the…

O'Fallon treats an uncovered, leaking or improperly timed trash or recycle can as a public nuisance under Section 220.020(A)(22). Cans may sit at the curb only within a 36-hour window…

O'Fallon makes it an offense to throw or place glass, cans, garbage, trash, refuse, or rubbish on public rights-of-way, waterways, government land, or private property without the…

O'Fallon collects bulky items only by request, not on the regular weekly route. Tree limbs and brush must be bundled to strict size and weight limits before they reach the curb, and…

O'Fallon folds curbside recycling into every home's basic trash service: single-family, two-family and attached single-family dwellings must be enrolled in the City's collection…

O'Fallon doesn't run a standalone recycling ordinance; recycling is folded into the mandatory basic solid waste service billed under Section 245.070. Basic residential service, billed…

O'Fallon requires tree limbs under four inches thick and brush to be tied into bundles no bigger than 48 by 18 inches and no heavier than 75 pounds under Section 245.020(E). Loose…

St. Charles County requires trash and recycling carts to be set out at the curb no earlier than dusk the day before your scheduled collection day, then pulled back in that same day.

O'Fallon bans possessing an open container of beer, wine or liquor in any public place, but exempts on-premises licensed establishments, public parks (outside parking areas), permitted…

O'Fallon bars pedestrians from crossing outside a crosswalk between signaled intersections, in any business district, or on any street posted by ordinance, and forbids diagonal…

O'Fallon prohibits consuming marijuana in public areas like parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, festivals, parades and sports arenas, and bans it outright on school and…

O'Fallon makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate anywhere open to public view outside a proper restroom or comfort station, under City Code § 215.465. A related public-indecency…

O'Fallon's smoke-free ordinance reaches outdoors too: smoking is banned within three feet of any entrance, operable window or ventilation intake of a building where indoor smoking is…

O'Fallon bars skateboards from roadways outright, letting riders cross only in a marked crosswalk like a pedestrian, and separately bans skateboarding on sidewalks anywhere inside a…

O'Fallon bars loitering or gathering around any commercial establishment that offers live entertainment once the business has closed for the night. Section 635.030(H) pairs that rule…

St. Charles County criminalizes loud noise that unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person under its Peace Disturbance ordinance, Section 375.700: a misdemeanor…

O'Fallon's weed ordinance reaches unimproved land too: any vacant lot with no building on it must be kept under eight inches of weeds, brush or grass, the same limit that applies to…

O'Fallon Code § 215-205 requires every commercial property owner in the city to keep the sidewalk along or abutting the business clear of snow, ice, debris and other obstructions and…

O'Fallon Code Section 502.020 declares any building or structure detrimental to public health, safety, or welfare a public nuisance under Missouri's dangerous-building statutes…

O'Fallon requires a building permit before any solar energy system is installed, with a $50 fee for residential jobs and $100 for commercial or industrial ones. Ground-mounted arrays…

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…

Anyone hosting a public picnic, celebration, concert or organized field/court use in an O'Fallon park must first get a permit from the Parks Director and Recreation Director under…

Any parade or procession through O'Fallon streets needs a City Administrator permit before it can march, with military, police, fire and funeral processions carved out as the only…

Once O'Fallon's Mayor or City Administrator declares a Festival District, Section 225.180 bars unauthorized soliciting, tents and other temporary shelters, glass containers, animals…

O'Fallon requires a minimum 25-foot front yard, 6-foot side yards and a 25-foot rear yard for every R-1 single-family lot, with wider margins in other districts: R-1A needs 40 feet…

O'Fallon caps single-family homes in the R-1 District at two and one-half (2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet under City Code § 400.080(D)(5). Detached accessory buildings are…

O'Fallon's Zoning Code sets a maximum percentage of each lot that buildings and structures may cover, and the limit changes by district. Single-family lots in the R-1 district are…

O'Fallon protects farming through its "AG" Agricultural District, zoned for lots at least two acres (ten acres to keep livestock) with a hundred-foot buffer around hay, feed or manure…

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

O'Fallon's Landscaping Code sets exact rules for street trees along public roads: City Code § 402.110 requires one tree per residential front yard, bars new plantings inside the…

O'Fallon bars parked or standing vehicles from sitting in a designated bicycle lane, and drivers may only enter one briefly to cross it or complete a lawful maneuver like a turn. Even…

O'Fallon treats electric bicycles as regular bicycles for rights and duties, but Class 3 e-bikes carry extra rules: riders must be at least 16, and the bike needs a speedometer. Local…

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…

A towing company may only remove a vehicle from private property without police authorization if the owner, lessee, or an on-site security manager is present and the lot posts a sign…

O'Fallon zones tattoo and body piercing establishments as a conditional use under Section 400.330(A)(5), keeping them at least 1,500 feet from any other such shop and 300 feet from a…

O'Fallon requires every pawnshop to hold a City license before lending against or buying pledged goods. Section 607.100 sets a fifty-thousand-dollar net-assets minimum, a…

O'Fallon requires a City Clerk permit before operating a massage establishment or outcall massage service. Section 610.020 makes unpermitted operation unlawful, applications carry a…

O'Fallon Code Section 215.640 bars anyone from selling cigarettes or tobacco products in the city without a retail sales tax license, folding tobacco sales into the same license-first…

O'Fallon zoning caps sexually oriented businesses at one per 1,000-foot radius and requires a 1,000-foot buffer from schools, churches, residential uses and liquor-selling businesses…

Every secondhand dealer, pawnbroker, gun dealer, auction house, antiques dealer, coin dealer or jewelry dealer in unincorporated St. Charles County must log each item bought or pawned…

Running an automobile, truck or vehicle repair shop out of a home is flatly prohibited in unincorporated St. Charles County. Code § 405.495(C)(1) names vehicle repair first among ten…

O'Fallon lets any residential lot hold garage sales without a temporary use permit, but Section 400.285(B)(7) caps them at six days per calendar year per lot and restricts sales to…

O'Fallon limits light trespass onto neighboring property to one-half of one foot-candle measured at the property line, under Zoning Code Section 400.277(D)(2). Commercial and…

O'Fallon bans any revolving, rotating, flashing or moving light on a billboard outright under Section 410.170(B)(4). Steady external lighting like floodlights is allowed, but only if…

O'Fallon bars any exterior light fixture from being oriented so its lighting element or lens is visible from a residentially zoned property, under Zoning Code Section 400.277(D)(1)…

O'Fallon requires every rental dwelling to pass a Code Official inspection and hold a valid occupancy permit before anyone moves in. Chapter 525 lets the Code Official inspect units…

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 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…

O'Fallon has adopted the 2021 International Plumbing Code, including Appendix E, as its Plumbing Code, governing plumbing system design, installation, alteration and repair citywide…

O'Fallon's adopted Residential Code requires automatic fire sprinklers in townhouses under state law, but for one- and two-family dwellings a builder only has to offer the buyer the…

Any alteration to real property in O'Fallon, including driveways, fences, additions and other regulated building activity, requires a permit before construction begins. The Building…

O'Fallon has adopted the 2020 National Electrical Code as its Electrical Code, covering the design, installation and repair of electrical systems citywide, and requires a permit for…

St. Charles County lets a home-based day care serve up to eight children without triggering commercial building code review: Building Code Section 305.2.3 classifies any dwelling-unit…

St. Charles County requires carbon monoxide alarms in dwellings, tying the mandate to the county's Fire Code and Residential Code alarm-placement rules.

O'Fallon's adopted Property Maintenance Code requires sidewalks, walkways and driveways on a property to stay in a proper state of repair and free of hazards. The Building and Code…

O'Fallon Code § 215-207 bans encroachments onto public sidewalks and puts the cost of removing them on the owner or occupant of the property the sidewalk fronts. A Police Officer or…

O'Fallon requires anyone who wants to dig, build or place anything in the public right-of-way, including work that touches a sidewalk, to first get a Right-of-Way (ROW) permit from the…

O'Fallon Code Section 605.030 splits its business license fee schedule into two classifications, merchants and manufacturer/warehouse operations, each billed a base fee plus a…

O'Fallon outright bans selling or soliciting sales from City streets, alleys, sidewalks or any public right-of-way. Section 605.100 makes it unlawful to peddle, hawk or huckster…

O'Fallon requires every mobile food establishment operating anywhere in the City to carry an annual permit under Chapter 655, obtain the property owner's written consent for wherever…

Since January 1, 2025, every mobile food establishment operating in O'Fallon needs its own annual City permit under Section 655.020. The fifty-dollar application requires a St. Charles…

O'Fallon lets businesses put signs in their windows without a permit, but Section 410.120(A)(14) caps them at twenty percent of the window, or of a series of contiguous windows. Go…

O'Fallon allows digital billboards along its regulated highway corridor, but Section 410.170(B)(5) bans flashing, scrolling or animation: the display must hold static for at least ten…

O'Fallon confines billboards to a narrow band along its interstates: Section 410.170(B)(1)(a) requires a non-residentially zoned site within 660 feet of the nearest edge of the…

Political yard signs in unincorporated St. Charles County need no permit but are capped by size. Code § 405.480(C)(6) limits each sign to four square feet, with total political-sign…

St. Charles County's exterior lighting standards regulate glare and light spillover from residential and commercial properties, but temporary outdoor lighting used during customary…

St. Charles County limits garage sale signs to one 4-square-foot sign per residence, posted no more than a day early and removed within 24 hours after the sale ends.

O'Fallon Code Section 407.030 puts most stormwater detention basins in the hands of the property owner or homeowners' association rather than the City. The City only takes over…

New homes and substantially improved residential structures in an O'Fallon flood hazard area must have their lowest floor, including the basement, built at least two feet above the…

Any construction or development inside an O'Fallon flood hazard area needs a floodplain development permit before work starts, under Code Section 415.150. That covers new buildings…

O'Fallon Code § 215-237(G)(6) lists prolonged engine idling among the acts that can be cited as unlawful noise: it bars allowing vehicle or equipment engines to rev up or idle for…

O'Fallon requires a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) with engineered erosion and sediment controls before any major land disturbance begins. The rule, enacted by Ordinance…

Boat docks, marinas and piers are a permissive use only in St. Charles County's Riverfront (RF) and Park Recreational (PR) zoning districts along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers…

O'Fallon's nuisance code declares junk, equipment, and material piles that provide a breeding or nesting area for vermin and rodents a public-health nuisance, and separately requires…

St. Charles County requires the person in charge of every food establishment to be a certified food protection manager who has passed a Department-approved test and to post a current…

St. Charles County food establishments must display notice stickers at every public entrance and drive-up or walk-up window telling customers the site is subject to Department of…

St. Charles County law does not tell residents how to throw out used needles at home; instead, County Code § 240.365 makes anyone who dispenses sharps to non-medical patients…

O'Fallon requires property owners to promptly repair any break or leak in their water service line, sewer lateral or private water/sewer main between the City main and the building, at…

O'Fallon parks close on a park-by-park schedule set in Section 225.100: most parks run dawn to dusk, four run until 11:00 P.M., and the Westhoff Plaza Skatepark closes at 10:00 P.M…

O'Fallon bars minors from public places and business premises during set curfew hours: 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights, and midnight to 5:00 a.m. after Friday…

O'Fallon collects a 5% transient guest tax on every sleeping room rented within city limits, on top of state and county sales tax. Operators must remit the tax to the City Collector…

Flying a drone or any remote-controlled flying device over a public O'Fallon park is unlawful whenever another person is present. The ban sits in the park's recreational-activities…

St. Charles County requires written authorization from the Parks and Recreation Director before flying a drone, model rocket, or other remotely controlled aircraft in any county park…

St. Charles County parks are closed to remotely controlled aircraft except in areas the Parks Director designates, and even there you need written authorization from the Director…

O'Fallon's Zoning Code limits the entire city to ten marijuana dispensary facilities and shuts the Downtown Overlay District out of that count entirely. Section 400.245 also runs…

O'Fallon keeps marijuana cultivation, manufacturing and dispensary facilities at least 750 feet from any existing school, licensed daycare or church, and 1,500 feet from another…

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…

O'Fallon's Downtown Overlay District, City Code § 400.163, relaxes the standard zoning code to encourage redevelopment: buildings can rise to fifty (50) feet or three (3) stories (six…

Anyone going door-to-door in O'Fallon to sell goods or seek donations must first get an identification card from the City's Finance Officer under Code Section 605.080. Peddlers and…

O'Fallon lets residents block door-to-door visitors by posting a one-square-foot 'no soliciting' sign in the front yard or on the door. Section 605.080(O) also bars any peddler…

O'Fallon's Historic Preservation Commission can nominate and the City Council can designate any property, structure, site, or area a "landmark" for special cultural, historic…

St. Charles County's subdivision code leaves private restrictive covenants alone; the county doesn't enforce your HOA's CC&Rs, but its own subdivision standards still control wherever…

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. Charles County has no dedicated sit-lie law, but its peace disturbance ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to purposely block pedestrian or vehicle traffic, or the entrance and exit…

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…