[Ord. No. 984 §2, 12-13-2007; Ord. No. 1600 §2, 1-18-2017]
A person commits the offense of assault if he or she knowingly causes physical injury to another person.
A. 
A person commits the offense of domestic assault if the act involves a domestic victim, and:
1. 
The person attempts to cause or recklessly causes physical injury, physical pain, or illness to such domestic victim;
2. 
With criminal negligence the person causes physical injury to such domestic victim by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument;
3. 
The person purposely places such domestic victim in apprehension of immediate physical injury by any means;
4. 
The person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to such domestic victim;
5. 
The person knowingly causes physical contact with such domestic victim knowing he or she will regard the contact as offensive; or
6. 
The person knowingly attempts to cause or causes the isolation of such domestic victim by unreasonably and substantially restricting or limiting his or her access to other persons, telecommunication devices or transportation for the purpose of isolation.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A. 
A person commits the offense of stalking if he or she purposely, through his or her course of conduct, disturbs, or follows with the intent to disturb another person.
B. 
This Section shall not apply to activities of federal, state, county, or municipal law enforcement officers conducting investigations of any violation of federal, state, county, or municipal law.
C. 
Cyber-Harassment. A person commits the offense of cyber-harassment if he/she with intent to disturb any other person, and under circumstances not constituting harassment as described in Subsection (A) of this Section, transmits or causes the transmission of an electronic communication, or knowingly permits an electronic communication to be transmitted from an electronic communication device under the person's control to such other person or a third party using any lewd, lascivious, indecent or obscene words, images or language, or suggesting the commission of any lewd or lascivious act; anonymously or repeatedly whether or not conversation occurs; or threatening to inflict injury on the person or property of the person communicated with or any member of his or her family or household; makes or causes to be made an electronic communication, or permits an electronic communication to be made from an electronic communications device under the person's control, with the intent to disturb any other person either by the direct action of the person initiating the communication or through the actions of a third party, which third-party actions are instigated, initiated, prompted or brought about by the person's communication.
D. 
Any offense committed under this Subsection C may be deemed to have been committed either at the place from which the communication was made or at the place where the communication was received.
E. 
This Section shall not apply to activities regulated by the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Railway Labor Act, as amended, or the Federal Employment Labor Management Act, as amended.
F. 
For purposes of this Section, "electronic communication" means the origination, emission, dissemination, transmission, or reception of data, images, signals, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any communications system by any method, including, but not limited to, a fiber optic, electronic, magnetic, optical, digital, or analog method. By way of example, electronic communication includes, but is not limited to:
1. 
Electronic mail;
2. 
Internet-based communications;
3. 
Pager service; and
4. 
Electronic text messaging.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A person commits the offense of unlawful posting of certain information over the internet if he or she knowingly posts the name, home address, Social Security number, or telephone number of any person on the internet intending to cause great bodily harm or death, or threatening to cause great bodily harm or death to such person.
A. 
A person commits the offense of invasion of privacy if he or she knowingly:
1. 
Photographs, films, videotapes, produces, or otherwise creates an image of another person, without the person's consent, while the person is in a state of full or partial nudity and is in a place where one would have a reasonable expectation of privacy; or
2. 
Photographs, films, videotapes, produces, or otherwise creates an image of another person under or through the clothing worn by that other person for the purpose of viewing the body of or the undergarments worn by that other person without that person's consent.
A. 
A person commits the offense of kidnapping if he/she knowingly restrains another unlawfully and without consent so as to interfere substantially with his/her liberty.
B. 
A person does not commit the offense of kidnapping if the person restrained is a child less than seventeen (17) years of age and:
1. 
A parent, guardian or other person responsible for the general supervision of the child's welfare has consented to the restraint; or
2. 
The person is a relative of the child; and
a. 
The person's sole purpose is to assume control of the child; and
b. 
The child is not taken out of the state of Missouri.
C. 
For the purpose of this Section, "relative" means a parent or stepparent, ancestor, sibling, uncle or aunt, including an adoptive relative of the same degree through marriage or adoption.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A. 
A person commits the offense of endangering the welfare of a child if he or she:
1. 
With criminal negligence acts in a manner that creates a substantial risk to the life, body or health of a child less than seventeen (17) years of age;
2. 
Knowingly encourages, aids or causes a child less than seventeen (17) years of age to engage in any conduct which causes or tends to cause the child to come within the provisions of Paragraph (d) of Subdivision (2) of Subsection (1) or Subdivision (3) of Subsection (1) of Section 211.031, RSMo.;
3. 
Being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a child less than seventeen (17) years of age, recklessly fails or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence in the care or control of such child to prevent him/her from coming within the provisions of Paragraph (c) of Subdivision (1) of Subsection (1) or Paragraph (d) of Subdivision (2) of Subsection (1) or Subdivision (3) of Subsection (1) of Section 211.031, RSMo.; or
4. 
Knowingly encourages, aids or causes a child less than seventeen (17) years of age to enter into any room, building or other structure which is a public nuisance as defined in Section 579.105, RSMo.
B. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to mean the welfare of a child is endangered for the sole reason that he/she is being provided non-medical remedial treatment recognized and permitted under the laws of this State.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
COLLISION
The act of a motor vehicle coming into contact with an object or a person.
INJURES
To cause physical harm to the body of a person.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, or any motorbus or motor-propelled vehicle not exclusively operated or driven on fixed rails or tracks.
UNATTENDED
Not accompanied by an individual fourteen (14) years of age or older.
B. 
A person commits the offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle if such person knowingly leaves a child less than eleven (11) 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.
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Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony under state law.