§ 513.020.Order Prohibiting Transferring Interest, Concealing Or Removing Property, Impairing Value

This section fills in what a temporary restraining order under § 513.010 can forbid. At the court's discretion, the order may prohibit the defendant from transferring any interest in the property — by sale, pledge, grant of a security interest, or other disposition or encumbrance — from concealing or removing the property in a way that makes it harder for the levying officer to seize, and from impairing the property's value through acts of destruction or a failure to care for it reasonably.

Subdivision (a) carves out an important exception for farm products and inventory as defined in §§ 511.040 and 511.050: the order can't stop the defendant from transferring that kind of property in the ordinary course of business, since a farming operation or retail business has to keep functioning while the case is pending. The court can still impose reasonable restrictions on what happens to the proceeds from those ordinary-course transfers, so the value doesn't vanish along with the goods.