Exemptions

PURPOSE: This rule identifies those rides that are exempt from this Act. (1) The following rides are exempt from the provisions of this Act: (A) Unpowered, non-mechanical playground equipment including but not limited to: swings, seesaws, stationary springmounted animal features, rider-propelled merry-go-rounds, climbers, slides, and trampolines; (B) Any single passenger manually, mechanically, or electrically operated, coin-actuated ride, which is customarily placed singly, or in groups, in a public location and which does not normally require the supervision or services of an operator; (C) Water slide; (D) Dry slide less than twenty feet (20') in height; (E) Tram, open car, or combination of open cars or wagons pulled by a tractor or other motorized device used solely for transporting patrons to and from parking areas, or those used for guided/educational tours; (F) Any climbing wall less than ten feet (10') in height; (G) Any climbing wall owned by a not-for-profit entity that follows the YMCA Services Corporation’s Climbing Walls Safety Guidelines, the Boy Scouts of America Guidelines, or the American National Standards Institute/Association for Challenge Course Technology (ANSI/ACCT) or American National Standards Institute/Professional Ropes Course Association (ANSI/PRCA) Standards; and (H) Temporary structures, including but not limited to funhouses, haunted houses, etc. without mechanical components. AUTHORITY: section 316.206, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed March 1, 1999, effective Sept. 30, 1999. Amended: Filed Oct. 15, 2004, effective April 30, 2005. Amended: Filed Sept. 13, 2024, effective April 30, 2025. *Original authority: 316.206, RSMo 1997.