Missouri Revised Statutes Title XVII. Agriculture and Animals § 269.200. Exceptions to chapter

(1) To any person hauling a dead animal to a slaughtering establishment where such animals will be slaughtered for personal consumption;

(2) To any person transporting or storing finished carcasses or finished meat products or the trimmings therefrom;

(3) To any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides or skins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons;

(4) To any governmental agency, responding to an emergency situation, or collecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals in any manner approved by the state veterinarian;

(5) To any livestock producer transporting his dead livestock to a rendering plant or substation, or to a diagnostic facility and/or to an on-farm disposal site;

(6) To any person lawfully operating a pet cemetery;

(7) To any animal research facility that is regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act;

(8) Any person transporting, without specific hire or compensation for such transportation, a dead animal to a place of burial or disposal.

2. No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of the persons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by this chapter.