252.030. Wildlife of Missouri — ownership and title. — The ownership of and title to all wildlife of and within the state, whether resident, migratory or imported, dead or alive, are hereby declared to be in the state of Missouri. Any person who fails to comply with or who violates this law or any such rules and regulations shall not acquire or enforce any title, ownership or possessory right in any such wildlife; and any person who pursues, takes, kills, possesses or disposes of any such wildlife or attempts to do so, shall be deemed to consent that the title of said wildlife shall be and remain in the state of Missouri, for the purpose of control, management, restoration, conservation and regulation thereof.
Notes of Decisions
Hill v. Mo. Dep't of Conservation, 550 S.W.3d 463 (Mo. 2018).
· cites it 2× “§ 252.030, RSMo 2000 (emphasis added). 11 Finally, this Court has refused to infer restrictive ownership limitations into statutes otherwise employing broad, plain terms.”
Elder v. Delcour, 269 S.W.2d 17 (Mo. 1954).
· cites it 3× “Section 252.030 RSMo 1949; Reid v. Ross (Mo.”
Harris v. Missouri Dep't of Conservation, 755 S.W.2d 726 (Mo. Ct. App. 1988).
“§ 252.030. A person who fails to comply with or violates this law or any such rules and regulations does not acquire any title, ownership or possessory right in wildlife, and any person pursuing, taking, killing, possessing or disposing of wildlife is deemed to consent that…”
Miller v. City of Town & Country, 62 S.W.3d 431 (Mo. Ct. App. 2001).
· cites it 2× “Section 252.030 vests ownership and title in the state of Missouri to all wildlife within the confines of Missouri.”
Harris v. Missouri Dep't of Conservation, 895 S.W.2d 66 (Mo. Ct. App. 1995).
· cites it 2× “016(15), R.S.Mo. Cum.Supp. 1993. (This statute, part of the Clean Water Law dealing with water pollution under Chapter 644, does not add anything to the definition about movement of fishes.”
Schley v. Conservation Comm'n, 329 S.W.2d 736 (Mo. 1959).
· cites it 2× “020 the term “wild life” is defined to mean “all wild birds, mammals, fish and other aquatic and amphibious forms, and all other wild animals, regardless of classification, whether resident, migratory or imported, protected or unprotected, dead or alive; * Section 252.030…”
State v. Pollock, 914 S.W.2d 1 (Mo. Ct. App. 1995).
· cites it 5× “— The ownership of and title to all wildlife of and within the state, whether resident, migratory or imported, dead or alive, are hereby declared to be in the state of Missouri.”
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