Missouri Revised Statutes

Chapter 578
Miscellaneous Offenses
Section 578.325

August 28, 2011


Detention in terminal by security guard authorized--no criminal or civil liability, exception.

578.325. A duly authorized security guard may detain within the terminal any person committing an act declared unlawful by any provision of sections 578.300 to 578.330 and section 307.176 until law enforcement authorities arrive. Such detention shall not constitute unlawful imprisonment and neither the company nor such company representative personally shall be civilly or criminally liable upon grounds of unlawful imprisonment or assault providing that only reasonable force is exercised against any person so detained.

(L. 1982 S.B. 519 § 6)


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