Mo. Rev. Stat. § 415.040
Any person or persons who shall transact within a city now having or which shall hereafter have a population of twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, the business of storing for compensation or consideration other property than grain, without first procuring a license and giving a bond or legal liability insurance policy as provided in sections 415.010 to 415.050, who shall continue to transact such business after such license has been revoked, or such bond may have become void or found insufficient security for the penal sum in which it is executed by the court approving the same (save only that he may be permitted to deliver property previously stored in such warehouse), shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each and every day such business is carried on; and the court that issued may refuse to renew any license, or grant a new one, to any person whose license has been revoked, within one year from the time same was revoked.
§ 415.040, RSMo
RSMo 1939 § 15479, A.L. 1985 H.B. 204