{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-269.200","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 269.200","heading":"Exceptions to chapter.","body":"1. Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect any of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:\n(1) To any person hauling a dead animal to a slaughtering establishment where such animals will be slaughtered for personal consumption;\n(2) To any person transporting or storing finished carcasses or finished meat products or the trimmings therefrom;\n(3) To any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides or skins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons;\n(4) To any governmental agency, responding to an emergency situation, or collecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals in any manner approved by the state veterinarian;\n(5) To any livestock producer transporting his dead livestock to a rendering plant or substation, or to a diagnostic facility and/or to an on-farm disposal site;\n(6) To any person lawfully operating a pet cemetery;\n(7) To any animal research facility that is regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act;\n(8) Any person transporting, without specific hire or compensation for such transportation, a dead animal to a place of burial or disposal.\n2. No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of the persons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by this chapter.","path":["Title XVII - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS","Chapter 269 - Disposal of Dead Animals"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=269.200","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:26Z","sha256":"e972c950bedb239570ce3b513b272ea200cb191c25da2da933625f4a1e827131","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-269.190","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-269.210"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}