Bear wrestling
Bear wrestling is illegal in Missouri. This covers everything related to it — actually wrestling a bear, letting it happen on their property, organizing or advertising it, charging people to watch, buying or selling a bear for this purpose, training a bear for it, or doing surgery on a bear to prepare it for wrestling. Breaking this law is a class A misdemeanor.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
578.176. Bear wrestling — . — 1. A person commits the of bear wrestling if he or she:
(1) Wrestles a bear;
(2) Permits bear wrestling to be done on any under his or her charge or control;
(3) Promotes, conducts, or stages bear wrestling;
(4) Advertises bear wrestling;
(5) Collects any admission fee for bear wrestling;
(6) Purchases, sells, or possesses a bear which he or she knows will be used for bear wrestling;
(7) Trains a bear for bear wrestling;
(8) Subjects a bear to for bear wrestling.
2. The offense of bear wrestling is a .
(Adopted by Initiative, A, § C, November 3, 1998, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
Effective 1-01-17
(2000) Proposition A did not violate constitutional requirements of single subject and clear . United Gamefowl Breeders Ass'n. of Missouri v. Nixon, 19 S.W.3d 137 (Mo.banc).
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Legal information, not legal advice. Always confirm with the official source at revisor.mo.gov.