St. Peters, MO

Section 405.130(J)(1) of the St. Peters Municipal Code flatly bars converting an original garage into living quarters in single-family developments: a home built with a garage must…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.270 of the Municipal Code governs sheds, detached garages and other accessory structures in residential zoning districts. Accessory…

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

St. Peters requires any animal caught running at large, involved in a bite, or held in the pound to be photographed and microchipped before release under Municipal Code Section…

St. Peters does not require every pet owner to sterilize an animal, but Municipal Code Section 205.170 mandates sterilization for any dog, cat or other domestic animal released for…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a veterinary office is a permitted use only in the "C-1" Neighborhood Commercial District, listed under Municipal Code Section 405.190(B)(7)…

St. Peters has no breed-specific dog ban. Municipal Code Section 205.010 defines a "dangerous animal" and "dangerous dog" entirely by conduct, such as biting without provocation or…

St. Peters, Missouri caps most homes at three pet units under City Code Section 205.070, counting each dog, cat, potbellied pig or unaltered rabbit as one unit and five small…

St. Peters, Missouri's Animal Control chapter defines a feral cat and a feral cat program and then carves feral cats out of its habitual at-large enforcement. Under City Code Sections…

St. Peters, Missouri bans feeding wild waterfowl, including geese, anywhere in the city unless the Health Manager specially authorizes it first. City Code Section 205.020(J) also…

St. Peters, Missouri bans keeping a wild or exotic animal as a pet outright under City Code Section 205.030(B). A business may still keep wild or exotic animals for display, exhibition…

St. Peters, Missouri lets pet shops operate and sell dogs, cats and other small animals as long as they hold a commercial animal establishment license under City Code Section 205.100…

A pet grooming shop in St. Peters, Missouri needs a commercial animal establishment license under City Code Section 205.100, the same license kennels and pet shops carry. The annual…

St. Peters, Missouri requires every dog and other domesticated animal to be on a leash no longer than ten (10) feet whenever it's off its owner's property, under City Code Section…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, beekeeping is allowed in residential zoning districts under Section 205.040 of the Municipal Code. Lots must be at least 10,000 square feet, and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, backyard chickens require a Hen Permit under Section 205.070(E) of the Municipal Code: hens are allowed only on residential lots of one acre or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, construction and demolition work in residential zones may not create noise above 65 dBA at the nearest residential property line outside set hours…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 210.390(F) sets objective decibel ceilings by zoning district and time of day. Residential limits run about 59 to 70 dB from 7 a.m. to…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, prolonged yelling, shouting or whistling on public streets between 10:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is expressly banned as a disturbing noise, and the Code…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, the noise ordinance does not reach aircraft. Section 210.390(G)(7) exempts all noises coming from the normal and legal operations of properly…

St. Peters bars dogs from barking, howling or yelping continuously for more than twenty minutes between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., or more than ten minutes overnight, under Municipal…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, playing a radio, loudspeaker or sound amplifier broadcast from the public streets to advertise a business or attract attention to a building is a…

Section 210.390(C) of the St. Peters Municipal Code names two vehicle-noise offenses among its list of expressly prohibited noises: operating a vehicle "so out of repair, so loaded or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 365.070(A)(4) allows only one recreational vehicle, boat or trailer per residential lot, capped at 22 feet long and 8 feet wide. It must…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, knowingly abandoning a motor vehicle, vessel or trailer on a public road or private property without consent is an ordinance violation under…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 355.010 of the municipal code bans stopping, standing or parking in a long list of specific spots, including in front of any driveway…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, the City Traffic Engineer designates and signs passenger and freight curb loading zones and sets the hours they apply. A vehicle may stand in a…

St. Peters, Missouri has no blanket citywide overnight parking ban. Instead, Section 365.040 of the municipal code lets the City post specific hours on specific blocks by ordinance and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 365.070 requires every licensed vehicle, recreational vehicle and trailer kept on a residential lot to sit on a paved parking area or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 365.070(A)(2) bans parking a commercial vehicle or commercial trailer in any residentially zoned district and on streets or roadways in…

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

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, developed residential and multi-family properties, and commercial, industrial or institutional lots with a building on them, may not let grass or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, residential composting is legal but tightly specified under Municipal Code Section 215.010(J): compost must sit in an enclosed freestanding bin no…

St. Peters bans watering lawns, gardens and other vegetation, along with car washing, filling unfiltered pools, and several other water uses, the moment the Mayor proclaims a water…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, any tree or shrub, whether on City land or a private yard, that hangs lower than eight feet over a sidewalk or fourteen feet over a street is a…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, no one may remove a tree or other plant material from City-owned property or the public right-of-way without a written permit from the City…

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

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, it is unlawful to set off, sell, offer for sale or store fireworks anywhere in the City. The only exception is a professional pyrotechnic display…

St. Charles County's Fire Code caps liquefied petroleum gas storage under Section 6104.2: no single installation in the unincorporated county may hold more than 2,000 gallons of water…

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…

St. Peters, Missouri lets residents run home-based work out of any dwelling as an accessory use, but Section 405.380(A) of the zoning code attaches fourteen conditions covering who may…

St. Peters, Missouri effectively bars signage for home-based work: Section 405.380(A)(5) forbids altering a residence's appearance through colors, materials, construction, lighting…

St. Peters, Missouri does not set a fixed client-visit number for home-based work, but Section 405.380(A)(2) and (3) cap the total employees and clients on site at once to the…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, home day care is capped by Section 405.350 of the Municipal Code: any person or organization offering day care to five or more children must obtain…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a retaining wall taller than four feet in a commercial zoning district, or inside a commercial development within an industrial district, must…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, no permit is required to build, alter, or replace a fence in most residential and agricultural districts. Section 405.360(F)(1) reverses that…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.360(D)(3) of the Municipal Code puts the duty to maintain a residential fence on the property owner, regardless of who built it or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.360 of the Municipal Code caps fences, walls, shrubs and hedges at six feet in height citywide, with no permit required for a standard…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.360(D)(1) of the Municipal Code bans barbed wire, hardware cloth and similar sharp materials as fencing in residential districts, and…

St. Peters, Missouri does not issue a separate short-term rental permit, but Section 405.380(A)(14) requires every non-owner-occupied dwelling rented for stays of thirty days or less…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, building a residential swimming pool or spa requires a permit under the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, adopted in Section 523.010…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, an above-grade or onground residential pool wall can serve as the required safety barrier under amendment 305.5 to the 2021 International Swimming…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, the City provides special collection once each calendar quarter, at no extra charge, for items too large for a standard cart and for yard waste too…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, yard waste must go into a vented yard waste container unless it is too large, in which case Section 235.020(D) requires it to be piled separately…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City solid waste service collects residential trash twice weekly on a Director-set schedule, and Section 235.030(C) requires at least a weekly…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, collectors may not collect solid waste in or near residential areas between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. on…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 235.090(B)(1)(b) bundles weekly curbside recycling into every residential solid waste account at a $0.00 service charge per…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 235.100 requires commercial establishments whose solid waste is ten percent or more corrugated cardboard to separate that…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.395 of the Zoning Code requires a screened trash enclosure at every non-residential and multiple-family development unless the Planning…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, residents must set solid waste and yard waste carts at the curb at least four feet from any obstacle such as a mailbox, pole or parked vehicle, and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, littering or dumping refuse on public or private property is banned under Municipal Code Section 215.010(I). A driver is presumed liable when it…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, the amended Building Code makes a permit the default rule for construction work: Section 505.040's 105.2 amendment lists narrow, specific…

Beyond the standard footing, framing and final inspections built into the adopted Building Code, the City of St. Peters, Missouri gives its Code Official broad authority under Section…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, all electrical installations must comply with the 2020 NFPA 70 National Electrical Code, adopted by the Board of Aldermen and enforced by the…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, plumbing work is governed by the 2021 International Plumbing Code, adopted in Section 520.010 and enforced by the Building Commissioner. Plumbing…

St. Peters Municipal Code Section 504.040 amends the Residential Code to require, at R313.1 and R313.2, that a builder of a one- or two-family dwelling or townhouse offer the purchaser…

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.

St. Peters zones fringe land as an "A-1" Agricultural District under Section 405.110 to hold parcels for farming until urbanization warrants rezoning. Only single-family homes, farm…

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

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri's "R-1" Single-Family Residential District, Section 405.130(E) caps homes at two and one-half stories, excluding the basement, or thirty-five feet…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.130(G) of the Municipal Code caps buildings, accessory structures, and paved driveways or patios in the "R-1" Single-Family Residential…

Section 405.130(H) of the St. Peters Municipal Code sets a twenty-foot minimum front yard, a side yard of at least ten percent of lot width, and a twenty-five-foot rear yard (fifteen…

Section 405.130(J)(7) of the St. Peters Municipal Code bars storing barbecue equipment and grills in the front yard on residentially developed R-1 properties, grouping the rule with…

Section 405.180 creates the "S-D" Special Old Town Overlay District in the City of St. Peters, Missouri to preserve Old Town's character with greater design flexibility than other…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a Planned Urban Development (PUD) may receive up to a thirty percent (30%) increase in total dwelling units under Section 405.250(E)(1) of the…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, no parade, procession or public meeting can use a street, sidewalk or other public place without a permit from the Chief of Police under Section…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 240.060(E) requires a posted park use permit for any City park special event, such as a festival, picnic, bazaar or fair, that…

Anyone organizing a street fair, festival or multi-vendor market in the City of St. Peters, Missouri must hold a multi-vendor operator license under Section 605.186, not a license per…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 390.080(A)(1) makes it unlawful to loiter, loaf, wander, stand or remain idle in any public place in a way that blocks streets, sidewalks…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, pedestrians must use a crosswalk between signalized intersections and anywhere inside a business district; jaywalking mid-block in those areas is…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 240.060(E)(2) bars skateboards, bicycles, roller skates, coasters and motorized scooters from the specific park area hosting a…

Section 210.287 of the St. Peters Municipal Code makes it a strict-liability offense to urinate or defecate on public property, in a public place, or in public view anywhere in the…

Section 210.300 of the St. Peters Municipal Code bans possessing or controlling marijuana anywhere in the City, public or private, except where a person's conduct is authorized under…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, drinking alcohol on a public street, sidewalk, alley, or any parking lot open to the public is unlawful under Section 600.020, unless a temporary…

St. Charles County's Smoke-Free Air Act of 2018 doesn't stop at the doorway: Charter § 10.803.4 bans smoking within 15 feet of any entrance, operable window, or ventilation system of…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, undeveloped residential lots cannot grow weeds or grass past seven inches, and undeveloped commercial, industrial or institutional tracts cap out…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a building with structural, fire, sanitation, or safety defects can be declared a "dangerous building" and a public nuisance under Section 113.90.1…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a code complaint goes to the Code Official under Municipal Code Section 215.030(A)(1), who must promptly inspect the property. If a public nuisance…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a non-emergency nuisance notice gives the owner ten days to abate or show abatement has begun before a hearing, and Section 215.033(B)(3) requires…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 215.010 declares a long list of property conditions a public nuisance, including accumulated animal or vegetable matter, rubbish or junk…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, the traffic code splits electric bicycles into three classes by top assisted speed, and only Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes may use the city's…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, no mobile food unit or pushcart may operate without a current food service establishment business license issued by the City Clerk. Section…

Food trucks and other mobile vendors doing business in the City of St. Peters, Missouri from a vehicle they don't own or lease the site for count as itinerant vendors under the…

St. Charles County requires an itinerant vendor license and Planning and Zoning use-review approval before vending outside a permanent structure, and bars vending in residential zones…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, every food establishment must post its most recent inspection form where customers can see it, and the City's Health Department affixes a public…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 215.010(E) declares it a public nuisance to let paper, lumber, boxes, cans or other debris accumulate on any property in a way that…

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 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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 240.060(A) closes every City park between sunset or 9:00 p.m., whichever comes first, and sunrise unless the City Administrator…

Section 210.310 of the St. Peters Municipal Code bars minors under seventeen from loitering, wandering or riding in public streets, parks and other unsupervised places between 11:00…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 245.010 requires unmanned aircraft system operators to keep their drone within their own or a visual observer's line of sight…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, City Code Section 245.010(L) authorizes the City Administrator to set time, place and manner policies for launching, landing or operating unmanned…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.520 of the zoning code splits vehicle work into minor repairs and substantial repairs. Minor jobs like oil changes, tire swaps and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.530 keeps adult-oriented businesses at least 1,000 feet from residential uses, churches, schools, day care facilities, public…

St. Peters requires every junk dealer to hold a general business license under Chapter 605, Article I before operating, and to keep a mandatory purchase register for twenty-four…

Retail dealers selling cigarettes in St. Peters pay a City occupation license tax of two dollars fifty cents per thousand cigarettes sold, offered, delivered or displayed under Chapter…

Operating a body art establishment or working as a body artist in St. Peters without an annual City license is unlawful under Chapter 615, adopted in 2020. Establishments and…

Every tow truck operating in the City of St. Peters, Missouri needs a City license affixed to its windshield under Section 605.570, unless it already carries a reciprocal license from…

Operating a massage establishment or outcall massage service in the City of St. Peters, Missouri without a City license is unlawful under Section 605.333. The City Clerk vets…

Pawnshops in the City of St. Peters, Missouri must hold a City pawnbroker license under Section 605.820, which requires good moral character, at least $50,000 in net assets available…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.536 allows roof- and ground-mounted solar panels as an accessory use in every zoning district, but installers must file documentation…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.550(C) bars site lighting from reflecting, spilling over, or glaring onto adjacent properties, and requires glare reaching non-adjacent…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.550(C)(5) requires every exterior on-site light fixture to be a downcast shadowbox style or a low-wattage decorative fixture unless the…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.765(D)(1) caps electronic billboard brightness at 5,000 nits during daylight and 300 nits between dusk and dawn, measured at the sign…

The City of St. Peters, Missouri levies a two percent (2%) transient guest tax on every occupied hotel and motel room per night under City Code Section 145.035. Adopted in 2012 and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.765(B) confines billboards, called off-premises signs, to Interstate 70, Missouri Route 94 and qualifying connecting state routes, and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, permanent window signs advertising goods or services sold on the premises may cover no more than 20% of a window's area under Section…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.750(E) bars anyone but the City itself, St. Charles County or the State of Missouri from erecting a political sign on public…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.750(O) lets residents post a garage or yard sale sign only with the consent of the owner of the property where the sign is placed, and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.765(D)(1)(a) requires each electronic billboard image to hold for at least 10 seconds and forbids any flashing, twirling, color change…

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

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, residential garage sales are capped at one per residence per calendar month under Section 405.385 of the zoning code. Each sale may run up to two…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, anyone seeking a grading permit from the City Engineer must submit a site erosion and siltation control plan under Section 530.020(A)(6). Grading…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 410.110 of the Municipal Code requires a floodplain development permit for every proposed construction or development in the flood hazard…

Section 410.160(A) of the St. Peters Municipal Code sets the freeboard standard for new construction in mapped A and AE flood zones with published base flood elevation data. New or…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, any development that paves, expands, or redevelops a site must provide on-site stormwater detention once it disturbs at least one acre or increases…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a landlord who furnishes heat must maintain at least 68°F in habitable rooms, bathrooms, and toilet rooms from September 1 through May 1 under…

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…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, a non-owner-occupied dwelling unit cannot be reoccupied after any change of tenant without a reoccupancy permit under Section 525.045 of the…

Under Section 525.040's Property Maintenance Code amendments, the St. Peters Code Official must inspect any building, wall, or structure about which a complaint is filed alleging it is…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.820 requires every new residential subdivision's covenants to fund their own enforcement rather than relying on the City: each…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.820(B)(1) requires every new subdivision's covenants to provide for three subdivision managers, or trustees, and to phase in lot-owner…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 405.820 of the Municipal Code sets minimum governance terms every residential subdivision's indenture of covenants must carry. While the…

Section 405.820(B)(4) of the St. Peters Municipal Code requires every residential subdivision platted after November 12, 1992 to build a covenant-enforcement fee into its indenture of…

St. Peters Municipal Code Section 405.820(B)(5) requires every subdivision developer to fund a $2,000 trust account before filing a subdivision's first final plat. Once ten or more…

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…

Every residential property in St. Peters pays an annual twelve-dollar Water Service Line Repair Fee under Section 705.035, funding a dedicated Water Service Line Repair Fund that pays…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, Section 210.260 makes it unlawful to stand or remain idle, alone or with others, in a public place in a manner that obstructs a public street…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, anyone digging, installing, or altering facilities in a public street, sidewalk, or right-of-way needs a permit from the City Engineer under…

St. Charles County puts sidewalk maintenance on the adjoining property, not the county, once a subdivision sidewalk is built.

Section 210.390(C)(1) of the St. Peters Municipal Code bans sounding a horn, signal device, or "any device" on a stationary automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle, except as a…

Section 210.390(C)(9) of the St. Peters Municipal Code declares "the creation of loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle or the opening and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, most businesses pay one flat general business license fee under Section 605.030, but the Municipal Code carves out a separate tax class for public…

Anyone who wants to sell or solicit door-to-door in the City of St. Peters, Missouri must first get a peddler/solicitor license from the City Clerk under Section 605.155, carry it and…

Residents of the City of St. Peters, Missouri who want to keep peddlers and solicitors away post a specific weatherproof card at their door: Section 605.170(D) sets its size and…

In the City of St. Peters, Missouri, commercial and industrial developers must plant trees no more than sixty feet apart along every street their site fronts, and residential…

St. Charles County has not opted out of hosting marijuana facilities: it taxes adult-use sales at 3% under § 140.100 and instead zones them through a permit process. Every Facility…

St. Charles County keeps medical marijuana facilities a minimum of 1,000 feet from churches, schools, residential zoning districts, and agriculturally-zoned parcels that have a house…

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…

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…