A person commits the offense of defacing a credit card reader if a person damages, defaces, alters, or destroys a scanning device and the person has no right to do so. The offense of defacing a credit card reader is a class A misdemeanor.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 407.436
Defacing a credit card reader, offense of, penalty
Known as the Credit User Protection Law
The act spans §§ 407–407 (316 sections).
Effective: 28 Aug 2018, 3 histories; (L. 1991 S.B. 112, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1832)
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.