Effective - 01 Jan 2017
577.300. Leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle — first and second degree — penalties. — 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) "Injures", to cause 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 offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the first degree if such person knowingly leaves a child less than eleven years of age 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.
3. Leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the first degree is a class C felony.
4. A person commits the offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the second degree if such person knowingly leaves a child less than eleven years of age 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.
5. The offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
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(L. 2000 S.B. 757 & 602, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Transferred 2014; formerly 568.052; Effective 1-01-17