{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-574.080","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 574.080","heading":"Causing catastrophe — definitions — penalty.","body":"1. A person commits the offense of causing catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, collapse of a building, release of poison, radioactive material, bacteria, virus or other dangerous and difficult to confine force or substance.\n2. As used in this section, the following terms mean:\n(1) \"Catastrophe\" , death or serious physical injury to ten or more people or substantial damage to five or more buildings or inhabitable structures or substantial damage to a vital public facility which seriously impairs its usefulness or operation;\n(2) \"Vital public facility\" , includes a facility maintained for use as a bridge, whether over land or water, dam, reservoir, tunnel, communication installation or power station.\n3. The offense of causing catastrophe is a class A felony.","path":["Title XXXVIII - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS","Chapter 574 - Offenses Against Public Order"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=574.080","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:29Z","sha256":"228829829ed930b275246705d19cade68f4616aea6c65bfd4345169ca6d26c57","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-574.075","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-574.085"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}