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Boonville Breaking into schoolhouse or church ordinance (§ 14-39)

Chapter 14: Offenses: Miscellaneous · Article III. Offenses Against Property

In short: Breaking into or wrongfully entering a school, church or other religious or educational building is an offense.

Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.

Every person who shall wrongfully break into or enter any schoolhouse or building used as a schoolhouse, or any church building, or other building used for church purposes or for other religious or educational purpose by forcibly bursting or breaking the door, window or shutter of a window of such house, or the lock or bolt of such door, or the fastening of the window or shutter, or by wrongfully breaking into or entering any such building in any other manner, or, with the assistance and aid of one or more persons there actually present, aiding and assisting, or by wrongfully unlocking the door of such building with false keys, or by picking the lock thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of an offense.

Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 14-39

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.