{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-191.918","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 191.918","heading":"Breast-feeding in public permitted — not sexual conduct, public indecency, or obscenity — no municipal ordinances to prohibit or restrict.","body":"1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a mother may, with discretion, breast-feed her child or express breast milk in any public or private location where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.\n2. The act of a mother breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be shall not:\n(1) Constitute sexual conduct or sexual contact as defined in section 566.010; or\n(2) Be considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity or any other similar term for purposes of state or municipal law.\n3. A municipality shall not enact an ordinance prohibiting or restricting a mother from breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.","path":["Title XII - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","Chapter 191 - Health and Welfare"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=191.918","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:26Z","sha256":"09117b0b39cdd3dc8d1b0ebff25f2763f4a8f8096f6cd6e1010b786d57fe60e9","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-191.915","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-191.923"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}