FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 386

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES PEARCE, DEEKEN, SANDER, GUEST,

TOWNLEY (Co-sponsors), MUNZLINGER, MOORE, CRAWFORD AND LUETKEMEYER.

         Read 1^st time February 5, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

1359L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 252, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to reimbursement for certain damage to motor vehicles.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 252, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 252.042, to read as follows:

            252.042. The department of conservation shall pay the owner of any motor vehicle the first two hundred fifty dollars for repair of damages to any motor vehicle that collides with a deer. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any damage caused to a motor vehicle that involved avoiding a deer where there is no contact with a deer. The owner shall prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that such damage was caused by a collision with a deer and that at the time of the collision the motor vehicle was legally operated.