Mo. Rev. Stat. § 578.423 – Participating knowingly in criminal street gang activities, penalty — persons between ages of fourteen and seventeen participating to be transferred to courts of general jurisdiction

Any person who actively participates in any criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal street gang activity, and who willfully promotes, furthers, or assists in any felonious criminal conduct by gang members shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for one, two, or three years. For any person between the ages of fourteen and seventeen who is alleged to have violated the provisions of sections 578.421 to 578.437 the prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney may move for dismissal of a petition and transfer to a court of general jurisdiction.

(L. 1993 H.B. 562 § 2 subsec. 1)