HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-31 - Addition of Section 24.027 to the Criminal CodeBILL NO.
ORDINANCE NO. ~'D ~/
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF
THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI MAKING IT AN OFFENSE TO COMMIT
THE OFFENSE OF PERJURY AND ESTABLISHING PENALTIES THEREFOR TO ,
BE KNOWN AS SECTION 24.027 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF RIVERSIDE,
MISSOURI.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 24.027 of the Criminal Code of
Riverside, Missouri, is hereby adopted as a part of said
criminal code to read as follows:
24.027 PERJURY. No person shall with the purpose
to eceive nowingly testify falsely upon oath or
affirmation legally administer in any official
proceeding before any Court, public body, notary
public or other officer authorized to administer
oaths. It is a defense to a prosecution under
this section that the person retraced the false
statement in the course of the official proceeding
in which it was made provided the person did so
before the falsity of the statement was exposed.
Section 2. THE OFFENSE OF PERJURY as created under
this ordinance to e known as Section 4.027 of the Criminal
Code of the City of Riverside, Missouri, shall be punished
as provided in said criminal code by punishment of a fine
not less than One Dollar ($1.00) or more than Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail for
a term not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both said fine
and imprisonment.
PASSED THIS ~°~` DAY OF .(~( .~.-~C.t.~ . 1979.
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APPROVED THIS DAY OF , 1979.
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