Cass County, MO Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

560 targets vehicles, vessels and trailers left on six categories of land: the right-of-way of a public road or state highway, county waters, stream banks, land owned or leased by the state or any of its agencies, land owned or leased by the federal government, and private real property owned by someone else who has not consented. , is on file. A registered owner can avoid the penalty by filing an affidavit identifying who actually had care, custody or control of the vehicle at the time, which the court may accept to shift the summons to that person instead; a timely-filed stolen-vehicle police report is likewise a defense.

00, with every day of continued abandonment a separate offense), a person convicted is separately made civilly liable for all reasonable towing, storage and administrative costs tied to removing the vehicle. , so long as the towing company gave the required notice to the titled owner and any lienholders on file with the Department of Revenue. In practice this reaches junk cars left along county roads outside Harrisonville, Belton and Raymore, on the banks of the county's creeks, or parked on a neighbor's land without permission.