If someone owns a dog or lets a dog stay on their property without registering it and paying the dog tax, that person can be found guilty of a misdemeanor. The penalty is a fine between five and twenty-five dollars. This law does not apply in cities with a population of 300,000 people or more.
273.150. Failure to pay tax — — . — Every owner of a dog and every person who shall suffer or a dog to remain upon such under his immediate control without having caused such dog to be listed and the tax thereon to be paid as provided for by sections 273.040 to 273.180 shall be guilty of a , and on thereof fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars; provided, that none of the of sections 273.040 to 273.180 shall apply to cities which now have or may hereafter have a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants or more.
(RSMo 1939 § 14557)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12880
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