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RSMo 537.348effective 28 Aug 2021

Landowner liable, when

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This law says that a landowner can still be held responsible for injuries on their land in certain situations. Those situations are: if the owner was very careless or mean about a known danger and did not warn people about it, if the person hurt paid money to get onto the land, or if the injury happened in a swimming pool, a residential neighborhood, a farm, or on land used for business, industry, mining, or manufacturing.

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537.348. Landowner , when — definitions. — Nothing in this act shall be to create , but it does not limit liability that otherwise would be incurred by those who use the land of others, or by owners of land for:

(1) or failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, structure, which the owner knew or should have known to be dangerous, or failure to guard or warn against an which the owner knew or should have known to be dangerous;

(2) Injury suffered by a person who has paid a charge for to the land; or

(3) Injuries occurring on or in:

(a) Any swimming pool. "Swimming pool" means a pool or tank, especially an artificial pool or tank, intended and adapted for swimming and held out as a swimming pool;

(b) Any . "Residential area" as used in this section means land used for residential purposes in an area in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas, and any land used for farming or agricultural purposes; or

(c) Any . "Noncovered land" as used in this section means any portion of any land, the surface of which portion is actually used primarily for commercial, industrial, mining or manufacturing purposes; provided, however, that use of any portion of any land primarily for agricultural, grazing, forestry, , natural area, owner's recreation or similar or related uses or purposes shall not under any circumstances be to be use of such portion for commercial, industrial, mining or manufacturing purposes.

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Source & history notes

(L. 1983 S.B. 162 § 4, A.L. 1984 S.B. 580, A.L. 2021 H.B. 369) Swimming pools, certain pools, refusal to allow disabled persons to wear life jackets, penalty, 577.161

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