FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 43
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BONNER.
Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACTTo amend chapter 568, RSMo, relating to offenses against the family by adding thereto one new section relating to leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Chapter 568, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 568.052, to read as follows:
568.052. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) "Collision", the act of a motor vehicle coming into contact with an object or a person;
(2) "Injury", physical harm to the body of a person;
(3) "Motor vehicle", any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, or any motor bus or motor-propelled vehicle not exclusively operated or driven on fixed rails or tracks;
(4) "Unattended", not accompanied by an individual fourteen years of age or older.
2. A person commits the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the first degree if such person knowingly leaves a child ten years of age or less unattended in a motor vehicle and such child fatally injures another person by causing a motor vehicle collision or by causing the motor vehicle to fatally injure a pedestrian. Such person shall be guilty of a class C felony.
3. A person commits the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the second degree if such person knowingly leaves a child ten years of age or less unattended in a motor vehicle and such child injures another person by causing a motor vehicle collision or by causing the motor vehicle to injure a pedestrian. Such person shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
4. A person commits the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in
the third degree if such person knowingly leaves a child ten years of age or less unattended in a motor vehicle, such
person shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
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