Missouri Revised Statutes Section 610.130

Missouri Revised Statutes Section 610.130 DWI Expungement Law Summary

Missouri expungement law, under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 610.130, permits someone convicted of a DWI to expunge the case after a 10-year wait, as long as it is the person's only DWI case and they have no other intoxication-related offenses. The law only allows one expungement under this section in a person's lifetime. When granted, an expungement allows for the person to deny it ever occurred in most circumstances.

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Full Missouri Revised Statutes Section 610.130

610.130. Alcohol-related driving offenses, expunged from records, when — procedures, effect — limitations. —

1. After a period of not less than ten years, an individual who has pleaded guilty or has been convicted for a first intoxication-related traffic offense or intoxication-related boating offense which is a misdemeanor or a county or city ordinance violation and which is not a conviction for driving a commercial motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and who since such date has not been convicted of any intoxication-related traffic offense or intoxication-related boating offense may apply to the court in which he or she pled guilty or was sentenced for an order to expunge from all official records all recordations of his or her arrest, plea, trial or conviction.

  2. If the court determines, after hearing, that such person has not been convicted of any subsequent intoxication-related traffic offense or intoxication-related boating offense, has no other subsequent alcohol-related enforcement contacts as defined in section 302.525, and has no other intoxication-related traffic offense or intoxication-related boating offenses or alcohol-related enforcement actions pending at the time of the hearing on the application, the court shall enter an order of expungement.

  3. Upon granting of the order of expungement, the records and files maintained in any administrative or court proceeding in an associate or circuit division of the circuit court under this section shall be confidential and only available to the parties or by order of the court for good cause shown. The effect of such order shall be to restore such person to the status he or she occupied prior to such arrest, plea or conviction and as if such event had never taken place. No person as to whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of any law to be guilty of perjury or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of his or her failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest, plea, trial, conviction or expungement in response to any inquiry made of him or her for any purpose whatsoever and no such inquiry shall be made for information relating to an expungement under this section. A person shall only be entitled to one expungement pursuant to this section. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the director from maintaining such records as to ensure that an individual receives only one expungement pursuant to this section for the purpose of informing the proper authorities of the contents of any record maintained pursuant to this section.

  4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any individual who has been issued a commercial driver's license or is required to possess a commercial driver's license issued by this state or any other state.

(L. 1989 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 3 § 2, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1233, et al., A.L. 2005 S.B. 422, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1695, et al., A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Transferred 2014; formerly 577.054; Effective 1-01-17

(2009) Section authorizes courts to expunge all records of a driver's administrative alcohol suspension and to make those records confidential. S.S. v. Mitchell, 289 S.W.3d 797 (Mo.App. E.D.).