Operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content
It is against the law in Missouri to fly an aircraft — as the pilot or as a copilot, flight engineer, or flight navigator — if the person has a blood alcohol level of 0.04% or more, or if the person drank any alcohol within the last eight hours. Breaking this law is normally a class C misdemeanor. If the person has been convicted of this same type of offense before, it becomes a class A misdemeanor, which is more serious.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
577.016. Operating an aircraft with — penalties. — 1. A person commits the of operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content if he or she operates any aircraft or knowingly acts as a copilot, or for an aircraft while in operation:
(1) With four one-hundredths of one percent or more of alcohol in his or her blood; or
(2) Within eight hours after the consumption of any alcoholic beverage.
2. As used in this section, percent by weight of alcohol in the blood shall be based upon grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters of blood or two hundred ten liters of breath and may be shown by of the person's blood, breath, saliva or urine. For the purposes of determining the alcoholic content of a person's blood under this section, the test shall be conducted in accordance with the of sections 577.020 to 577.041.
3. The offense of operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content is:
(1) A ;
(2) A if the has been of operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content or operating an aircraft while or any offense committed in any which, if committed in this state, would be the offense of operating an aircraft with excessive blood alcohol content or operating an aircraft while intoxicated.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
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