Boonville Threatening letter ordinance (§ 14-27)
Chapter 14: Offenses: Miscellaneous · Article II. Offenses Against Persons
In short: It is an offense to knowingly send a letter or writing threatening to accuse, kill, wound or harm someone's person, property, credit or reputation.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
Every person who shall knowingly send or deliver any letter, writing, printing, circular or card, with or without a name subscribed thereto, or signed with a fictitious name, or any letter, mark or device, threatening to accuse any person of a crime, or to kill, maim or wound any person, or to do any injury to the person, property, credit or reputation of another, though no money or property be demanded or extorted thereby, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of an offense.
Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 14-27
Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.