Mo. Rev. Stat. § 37.005 — MO Code / Chapter 37 / Section 37.005
37.005 Powers and duties, generally.
Status: in_force

37.005. Powers and duties, generally. — 1. Except as provided herein, the office of administration shall be continued as set forth in house bill 384, seventy-sixth general assembly and shall be considered as a department within the meaning used in the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974. The commissioner of administration shall appoint directors of all major divisions within the office of administration.

2. The commissioner of administration shall be a member of the governmental emergency fund committee as ex officio comptroller and the director of the department of revenue shall be a member in place of the director of the division of facilities management, design and construction.

3. The office of administration is designated the "Missouri State Agency for Surplus Property" as required by Public Law 152, eighty-first Congress as amended, and related laws for disposal of surplus federal property. All the powers, duties and functions vested by sections 37.075 and 37.080 , and others, are transferred by type I transfer to the office of administration as well as all property and personnel related to the duties. The commissioner shall integrate the program of disposal of federal surplus property with the processes of disposal of state surplus property to provide economical and improved service to state and local agencies of government. The governor shall fix the amount of bond required by section 37.080 . All employees transferred shall be covered by the provisions of chapter 36 and the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974.

4. The commissioner of administration shall replace the director of revenue as a member of the board of fund commissioners and assume all duties and responsibilities assigned to the director of revenue by sections 33.300 to 33.540 relating to duties as a member of the board and matters relating to bonds and bond coupons.

5. All the powers, duties and functions of the administrative services section, section 33.580 * and others, are transferred by a type I transfer to the office of administration and the administrative services section is abolished.

6. The commissioner of administration shall, in addition to his or her other duties, cause to be prepared a comprehensive plan of the state's field operations, buildings owned or rented and the communications systems of state agencies. Such a plan shall place priority on improved availability of services throughout the state, consolidation of space occupancy and economy in operations.

7. The commissioner of administration shall from time to time examine the space needs of the agencies of state government and space available and shall, with the approval of the board of public buildings, assign and reassign space in property owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the state. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, upon a determination by the commissioner that all or part of any property is in excess of the needs of any state agency, the commissioner may lease such property to a private or government entity. Any revenue received from the lease of such property shall be deposited into the fund or funds from which moneys for rent, operations or purchase have been appropriated. The commissioner shall establish by rule the procedures for leasing excess property.

8. The commissioner of administration is hereby authorized to coordinate and control the acquisition and use of network, telecommunications, and data processing services in the executive branch of state government. For this purpose, the office of administration will have authority to:

(1) Develop and implement a long-range computer facilities plan for the use of network, telecommunications, and data processing services in Missouri state government. Such plan may cover, but is not limited to, operational standards, standards for the establishment, function and management of service centers, coordination of the data processing education, and planning standards for application development and implementation;

(2) Approve all additions and deletions of network, telecommunications, and data processing services hardware, software, and support services, and service centers;

(3) Establish standards for the development of annual data processing application plans for each of the service centers. These standards shall include review of post-implementation audits. These annual plans shall be on file in the office of administration and shall be the basis for equipment approval requests;

(4) Review of all state network, telecommunications, and data processing services applications to assure conformance with the state information systems plan, and the information systems plans of state agencies and service centers;

(5) Establish procurement procedures for network, telecommunications, and data processing services hardware, software, and support service;

(6) Establish a charging system to be used by all service centers when performing work for any agency;

(7) Establish procedures for the receipt of service center charges and payments for operation of the service centers.

The commissioner shall maintain a complete inventory of all state-owned or -leased network, telecommunications, and data processing services equipment, and annually submit a report to the general assembly which shall include starting and ending network, telecommunications, and data processing services costs for the fiscal year previously ended, and the reasons for major increases or variances between starting and ending costs. The commissioner shall also adopt, after public hearing, rules and regulations designed to protect the rights of privacy of the citizens of this state and the confidentiality of information contained in computer tapes or other storage devices to the maximum extent possible consistent with the efficient operation of the office of administration and contracting state agencies.

9. Except as provided in subsection 12 of this section, the fee title to all real property now owned or hereafter acquired by the state of Missouri, or any department, division, commission, board or agency of state government, other than real property owned or possessed by the state highways and transportation commission, conservation commission, state department of natural resources, and the University of Missouri, shall on May 2, 1974, vest in the governor. The governor may not convey or otherwise transfer the title to such real property, unless such conveyance or transfer is first authorized by an act of the general assembly. The provisions of this subsection requiring authorization of a conveyance or transfer by an act of the general assembly shall not, however, apply to the granting or conveyance of an easement for any purpose to any political subdivision of the state; a rural electric cooperative as defined in chapter 394 ; a public utility, except a railroad, as defined in chapter 386 ; or to accommodate utility service, including electrical, gas, steam, water, sewer, telephone, internet, or similar utility service, extended upon or provided to state property or facilities; to accommodate rights of access, ingress and egress on or to any state property or facilities; or to facilitate the construction, location, relocation, or use of any common elements of condominium property if the state is a unit owner within the condominium development. The governor, with the approval of the board of public buildings, may, upon the request of any state department, agency, board or commission not otherwise being empowered to make its own transfer or conveyance of any land belonging to the state of Missouri which is under the control and custody of such department, agency, board or commission, grant or convey without further legislative action, for such consideration as may be agreed upon, easements across, over, upon or under any such state land to any political subdivision of the state; a rural electric cooperative as defined in chapter 394 ; a public utility, except a railroad, as defined in chapter 386 ; or to accommodate utility service, including electrical, gas, steam, water, sewer, telephone, internet, or similar utility service, extended upon or provided to state property or facilities; to accommodate rights of access, ingress and egress on or to state property or facilities; or to facilitate the construction, location, relocation, or use of any common elements of condominium property if the state is a unit owner within the condominium development. The easement shall be for the purpose of promoting the general health, welfare and safety of the public and shall include the right of access, ingress or egress for the purpose of constructing, maintaining or removing any street, roadway, sidewalk, public right-of-way or thoroughfare, pipeline, power line, gas line, water or steam line, telephone line, internet cable, sewer line, or other similar installation or any equipment or appurtenances necessary to the operation thereof; except that, a railroad as defined in chapter 386 shall not be included in the provisions of this subsection unless such conveyance or transfer is first authorized by an act of the general assembly. The easement shall be for such consideration as may be agreed upon by the parties and approved by the board of public buildings. The attorney general shall approve the form of the instrument of conveyance. The commissioner of administration shall prepare management plans for such properties in the manner set out in subsection 7 of this section.

10. The commissioner of administration shall administer a revolving "Administrative Trust Fund" which shall be established by the state treasurer which shall be funded annually by appropriation and which shall contain moneys transferred or paid to the office of administration in return for goods and services provided by the office of administration to any governmental entity or to the public. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund, and shall approve disbursements from the fund for the purchase of goods or services at the request of the commissioner of administration or the commissioner's designee. The provisions of section 33.080 notwithstanding, moneys in the fund shall not lapse, unless and then only to the extent to which the unencumbered balance at the close of any fiscal year exceeds one-eighth of the total amount appropriated, paid, or transferred to the fund during such fiscal year, and upon approval of the oversight division of the joint committee on legislative research. The commissioner shall prepare an annual report of all receipts and expenditures from the fund.

11. All the powers, duties and functions of the department of community affairs relating to statewide planning are transferred by type I transfer to the office of administration.

12. The titles which are vested in the governor by or pursuant to this section to real property assigned to any of the educational institutions referred to in section 174.020 on June 15, 1983, are hereby transferred to and vested in the board of regents of the respective educational institutions, and the titles to real property and other interests therein hereafter acquired by or for the use of any such educational institution, notwithstanding provisions of this section, shall vest in the board of regents of the educational institution. The board of regents may not convey or otherwise transfer the title to or other interest in such real property unless the conveyance or transfer is first authorized by an act of the general assembly, except as provided in section 174.042 , and except that the board of regents may grant easements over, in and under such real property without further legislative action.

13. Notwithstanding any provision of subsection 12 of this section to the contrary, the board of governors of Missouri Western State University, University of Central Missouri, Missouri State University, or Missouri Southern State University, or the board of regents of Southeast Missouri State University, Northwest Missouri State University, or Harris-Stowe State University, or the board of curators of Lincoln University may convey or otherwise transfer for fair market value, except in fee simple, the title to or other interest in such real property without authorization by an act of the general assembly.

14. All county sports complex authorities, and any sports complex authority located in a city not within a county, in existence on August 13, 1986, and organized under the provisions of sections 64.920 to 64.950 , are assigned to the office of administration, but such authorities shall not be subject to the provisions of subdivision (4) of subsection 6 of section 1 of the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974, Appendix B, RSMo, as amended.

15. All powers, duties, and functions vested in the administrative hearing commission, sections 621.015 to 621.205 and others, are transferred to the office of administration by a type III transfer.

(L. 1973 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 15, A.L. 1983 H.B. 353 § 15, A.L. 1986 S.B. 426, A.L. 1987 S.B. 320, A.L. 1991 S.B. 357, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1359, A.L. 1997 H.B. 520 merged with S.B. 340, A.L. 2006 S.B. 1122, A.L. 2008 S.B. 1140, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1965, A.L. 2011 H.B. 137, A.L. 2012 S.B. 562, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1206 merged with H.B. 1299 Revision, A.L. 2017 S.B. 421) *Section 33.580 was repealed by H.B. 1521 § 1 Revision, 1984.