Section 6 Code Definitions and Grammatical Changes

• Library: Criminal Code Revision History & Overview 2014

The Revised Code includes a number of universal grammatical changes, most of which have been incorporated into legislative drafting standards, with updates being made to statutes on a section-by-section basis as they are amended in legislation. These changes include:

· replacing the term “crime” with the term “offense”;

· standardizing the names of offenses;

· replacing the term “person” with the term “defendant”; and

· amending statutes to make them gender neutral.

Defined terms used regularly throughout the Revised Code have been collected together in the general definitions section of Chapter 556, RSMo, Preliminary Provisions. The number of terms included in the Original Code definitions section, § 556.061 (amended), has increased from 32 to 50. This increase is a result of definitions previously scattered elsewhere throughout the Original Code chapters being collected in the section with existing Code definitions. With respect to those definitions not transferred to Chapter 556, two approaches have been taken. Those terms used in only one or a few sections within a particular chapter have been left alone, while terms used throughout a single chapter are now included in each chapter definitions section at the beginning of the applicable chapter.

Also, the term “found guilty” includes convictions, guilty pleas, and suspended impositions of sentences, so the specific list of ways one can be found guilty has been replaced throughout the Revised Code with the general term “found guilty.”

Below is an alphabetical listing of definitions from the Revised Code (including the unrevised Chapter 571, RSMo, Weapons Offenses). A definition is labeled Code Definition and appears in bold if the term applies across the Revised Code, and is labeled Chapter [Number] Definition if its use is limited to the designated chapter(s) of the Revised Code. The Chapter 556 definitions encompass both Chapter 566, RSMo, Sexual Offenses, and Chapter 568, RSMo, Offenses Against the Family. The scope of the chapter definitions for Chapter 195, RSMo, Drug Regulations, has been expanded to include the new Chapter 579, RSMo, Controlled Substance Offenses.

A

· Access (Code Definition)

· Addict (Chapter 195 and 579 Definition)

· Adequate cause (Chapter 565 Definition)

· Administer (Chapter 195 and 579 Definition)

· Adult arcade (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Adult bookstore or adult video store (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Adult cabaret (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Adult motion picture theater (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Adulterated (Chapter 570 Definition)

· Advance gambling activity (Chapter 572 Definition)

· Affidavit (Chapter 575 and 576 Definition)

· Affirmative defense (Code Definition)

· Agent (Chapter 195 and 579 Definition)

· Aggravated boating offender (Chapter 577 Definition)

· Aggravated offender (Chapter 577 Definition)

· Aggravated sexual offense (Chapter 566 and 568 Definition)

· All-terrain vehicle (Chapter 577 Definition)

· Antique, curio or relic firearm (Chapter 571 Definition)

· Antique firearm (Chapter 571 Definition)

· Appropriate (Chapter 570 Definition)

· Attorney for the state (Chapter 195 and 579 Definition)

B

· Blackjack (Chapter 571 Definition)

· Blasting agent (Chapter 571 Definition)

· Bookmaking (Chapter 572 Definition)

· Burden of injecting the issue (Code Definition)

C

· Cave or Cavern (Chapter 569 Definition)

· Characterized by (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Check (Chapter 570 Definition)

· Child (Chapter 565 Definition)

· Child (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Child pornography (Chapter 573 Definition)

· Chronic boating offender (Chapter 577 Definition)

· Chronic offender (Chapter 577 Definition)

· Coercion (Chapter 570 Definition)

· Commercial film and photographic print processor (Code Definition)

· Commercial sex act (Chapter 566 and 568 Definition)

· Computer (Code Definition)

· Computer equipment (Code Definition)

· Computer hardware (Code Definition)

· Computer network (Code Definition)

· Computer program (Code Definition)

· Computer-related documentation (Code Definition)

· Computer software (Code Definition)

· Computer system (Code Definition)

· Concealable...