260.550. Information to be available to public, exceptions. - Missouri Statutes

Information to be available to public, exceptions.

260.550. Information obtained under the provisions ofsections 260.500 to 260.550 or any rule or regulation, order orcondition adopted or issued thereunder, or any investigationauthorized thereby, shall be available to the public unless:

(1) Nondisclosure is requested in writing;

(2) Such information constitutes trade secrets orinformation which is entitled to confidential treatment in orderto protect any plan, process, tool, mechanism, or compound whichis known only to the person claiming confidential treatment andconfidential treatment is necessary to protect such person'strade, business or manufacturing process;

(3) Such nondisclosure will not result in an unreasonablethreat to the health of humans or the environment; and

(4) Disclosure is not required under any federal act.Any employee of a department or any former employee of adepartment who, for a period of two years after the terminationof such relationship, is convicted of willful disclosure orconspiracy to disclose trade secrets or information which isentitled to such confidential treatment to any person other thanone entitled to the information under sections 260.500 to260.550 is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(L. 1983 H.B. 528)

Effective 6-27-83