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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 453.650 — MO Code / Chapter 453 / Section 453.650
453.650 Adoption fund created, use of moneys — rules.
Status: in_force

453.650. Adoption fund created, use of moneys — rules. — 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Zero-Cost Adoption Fund", which shall consist of moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any gifts, bequests, and donations. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund. In accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180 , the state treasurer may approve disbursements. The fund shall be a dedicated fund and, upon appropriation, moneys in this fund shall be used solely as provided in subsection 4 of this section. The fund shall be administered by the department of social services.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund.

3. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.

4. Moneys in the fund shall be used, in order of descending priority, to:

(1) Assist a resident of this state in paying for nonrecurring adoption expenses, as defined in section 135.326 , for each child adopted;

(2) Provide postadoption assistance, including reimbursement of adoption costs paid in advance, counseling services, and other care that may be required;

(3) Promote adoption and recruit potential adoptive families; and

(4) Support community-based intervention methods to prevent children from entering into foster care.

5. In accordance with subsection 4 of this section, moneys in the fund may be used for either public or private adoptions; however, priority shall be given to adoptions with children in foster care.

6. The department of social services may promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the administration of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010 , that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028 . This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2025, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 2025 H.B. 121) CROSS REFERENCE: Zero-cost adoption fund tax credit, 135.315
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 82.050 — MO Code / Chapter 82 / Section 82.050
82.050 Consistent ordinances to remain in force.
Status: in_force

82.050. Consistent ordinances to remain in force. — All ordinances, regulations and resolutions in force at the time such charter takes effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall remain and be in force until altered, modified or repealed by the lawmaking authorities of such city.

(RSMo 1939 § 7595) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7452; 1919 § 8863; 1909 § 9712
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 139.280 — MO Code / Chapter 139 / Section 139.280
139.280 Penalty for erroneously reporting lands delinquent.
Status: in_force

139.280. Penalty for erroneously reporting lands delinquent. — Any collector of the public revenue for the state, or for any county or town, who fails to make a true return of all taxes duly paid on any lands or other real estate to the proper officer, according to law, so that the real estate because of his negligence, delinquency or misconduct is advertised and sold as delinquent lands shall forfeit to the innocent purchaser in good faith at the public sale of the lands, one hundred percent damages in the sum so paid by the innocent purchaser to the collector, and ten percent per annum interest thereon until the amount is paid to the purchaser, recoverable in any court having competent jurisdiction.

(RSMo 1939 § 11111, A.L. 1959 H.B. 106) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9939; 1919 § 12931; 1909 § 11486
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 456.1050 — MO Code / Chapter 456 / Section 456.1050
456.1050 Selective allocation doctrine.
Status: in_force

456.1050. Selective allocation doctrine. — If a powerholder exercises a power of appointment in a disposition that also disposes of property the powerholder owns, the owned property and the appointive property shall be allocated in the permissible manner that best carries out the powerholder's intent.

(L. 2016 H.B. 1765)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 144.290 — MO Code / Chapter 144 / Section 144.290
144.290 Duty of director in collecting tax of itinerant seller — security may be ...
Status: in_force

144.290. Duty of director in collecting tax of itinerant seller — security may be required — cash bond, deposit and refund. — 1. If the director of revenue believes that the collection of any tax or any amount of tax required to be collected and paid under sections 144.010 to 144.510 to the state by any itinerant seller or other seller having no regularly established place of business, or by any seller who the director of revenue has reason to believe is about to discontinue business and dispose of his property or assets, will be jeopardized by delay, he shall thereupon make a determination of such amount of tax to be collected and paid under sections 144.010 to 144.510 , noting that fact upon such determination and the amount thereof shall be immediately due and payable. Such person shall have the right to stay collection and prevent the jeopardy assessment from becoming final by filing, within ten days after the date of mailing or issuing the notice of jeopardy assessment, a request for reassessment, accompanied by such reasonable security as the director of revenue may deem necessary to insure compliance with the provisions of sections 144.010 to 144.510 .

2. If a request for reassessment, accompanied by the required security, is filed within a ten-day period, the director of revenue shall reconsider the assessment. The director of revenue's action on the request for reassessment becomes final upon the expiration of thirty days from the date when he mails notice of his action to the person, unless within that thirty-day period such person files a petition for review with the administrative hearing commission under section 144.261 .

3. In the event that the security filed with the director is in cash, the director shall deposit such security in the state general revenue fund and such security shall be released to the taxpayer pursuant to sections 144.010 to 144.050 from funds appropriated by the general assembly for such purpose. If appropriated funds are available, the commissioner of administration and the state treasurer shall cause such refunds to be paid within thirty days of the receipt of a warrant request for such payment from the director of the department of revenue.

(RSMo 1939 § 11450, A.L. 1941 p. 698, A.L. 1943 p. 1012, A.L. 1945 p. 1865, A.L. 1978 S.B. 661, A.L. 1983 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 10) Effective 1-1-84
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 214.090 — MO Code / Chapter 214 / Section 214.090
214.090 Family burying grounds, how secured.
Status: in_force

214.090. Family burying grounds, how secured. — Any person desirous of securing family burying ground or cemetery on his or her lands, may convey to the county commission of the county in which the land lies any quantity of land not exceeding one acre, in trust for the purpose above mentioned, the deed for which to be recorded within sixty days after the conveyance; and such grounds, when so conveyed, shall be held in perpetuity as burying grounds or cemeteries for the use and benefit of the family and descendants of the person making such conveyance.

(RSMo 1939 § 15262) Prior revisions: 1929 § 14053; 1919 § 1081; 1909 § 1303
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 436.564 — MO Code / Chapter 436 / Section 436.564
436.564 Assignment of potential proceeds of a legal claim — contract not a loan — ...
Status: in_force

436.564. Assignment of potential proceeds of a legal claim — contract not a loan — priority of liens. — 1. The contingent right to receive an amount of the potential proceeds of a legal claim is assignable.

2. Nothing contained in sections 436.550 to 436.572 shall be construed to cause any consumer legal funding contract conforming to sections 436.550 to 436.572 to be deemed a loan or to be subject to any of the provisions governing loans. A consumer legal funding contract that complies with sections 436.550 to 436.572 is not subject to any other statutory or regulatory provisions governing loans or investment contracts. To the extent that sections 436.550 to 436.572 conflict with any other law, such sections shall supersede the other law for the purposes of regulating consumer legal funding in this state.

3. Only attorney's liens related to the legal claim, Medicare, or other statutory liens related to the legal claim shall take priority over claims to proceeds from the consumer legal funding company. All other liens and claims shall take priority by normal operation of law.

4. No consumer legal funding company shall report a consumer to a credit reporting agency if insufficient funds remain from the net proceeds to repay the company.

(L. 2023 S.B. 103)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 33.250 — MO Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.250
33.250 Governor shall consider estimates and prepare recommendations — public ...
Status: in_force

33.250. Governor shall consider estimates and prepare recommendations — public hearing — final hearing. — The budget director shall check all estimates submitted to see that all information required is included and may require any additional information from any department. He shall then submit all estimates to the governor, who may either himself or through the budget director call in any officer of any department to consider the estimates of such department and may order any further investigation of any item. The governor shall then prepare his tentative recommendations on each of the estimates and may hold such further conferences with any officer as he may wish. After the preparation of such recommendations they, or a summary thereof, shall be made public and a public hearing thereon may be held by the governor at which any person may appear and make suggestions as to any item or items or concerning the budget as a whole. After such hearing, the governor shall prepare his final budget for submission to the general assembly.

(RSMo 1939 § 10899, A.L. 1945 p. 1428 § 52)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 37.715 — MO Code / Chapter 37 / Section 37.715
37.715 Complaint procedures — annual report, contents.
Status: in_force

37.715. Complaint procedures — annual report, contents. — 1. The office shall establish and implement procedures for receiving, processing, responding to, and resolving complaints made by or on behalf of children who are recipients of the services of the departments of social services and mental health, and the juvenile court. Such procedures shall address complaints relating to the actions, inactions, or decisions of providers or their representatives, public or private child welfare agencies, social service agencies, or the courts which may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or rights of such recipient.

2. The office shall establish and implement procedures for the handling and, whenever possible, the resolution of complaints.

3. The office shall have the authority to make the necessary inquiries and review relevant information and records as the office deems necessary.

4. The office may recommend to any state or local agency changes in the rules adopted or proposed by such state or local agency which adversely affect or may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or civil or human rights of any recipient. The office shall make recommendations on changes to any current policies and procedures. The office shall analyze and monitor the development and implementation of federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies with respect to services in the state and shall recommend to the department, courts, general assembly, and governor changes in such laws, regulations and policies deemed by the office to be appropriate.

5. The office shall inform recipients, their guardians or their families of their rights and entitlements under state and federal laws and regulations through the distribution of educational materials.

6. The office shall annually submit to the governor, the general assembly, and the Missouri supreme court a detailed report on the work of the office of the child advocate for children's protection and services. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the number of complaints received by the office, the disposition of such complaints, the number of recipients involved in complaints, the state entities named in complaints and whether such complaints were found to be substantiated, and any recommendations for improving the delivery of services to reduce complaints or improving the function of the office of the child advocate for children's protection and services.

(L. 2004 H.B. 1453)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 337.712 — MO Code / Chapter 337 / Section 337.712
337.712 Licenses, application, oath, fee — lost certificates — fund.
Status: in_force

337.712. Licenses, application, oath, fee — lost certificates — fund. — 1. Applications for licensure as a marital and family therapist shall be in writing, submitted to the committee on forms prescribed by the committee and furnished to the applicant. The form shall include a statement that the applicant has completed two hours of suicide assessment, referral, treatment, and management training. The application shall contain the applicant's statements showing the applicant's education, experience and such other information as the committee may require. Each application shall contain a statement that it is made under oath or affirmation and that the information contained therein is true and correct to the best knowledge and belief of the applicant, subject to the penalties provided for the making of a false affidavit or declaration. Each application shall be accompanied by the fees required by the division.

2. The division shall mail a renewal notice to the last known address of each licensee prior to the licensure renewal date. Failure to provide the division with the information required for licensure, or to pay the licensure fee after such notice shall result in the expiration of the license. The license shall be restored if, within two years of the licensure date, the applicant provides written application and the payment of the licensure fee and a delinquency fee.

3. A new certificate to replace any certificate lost, destroyed or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules of the division upon payment of a fee.

4. The committee shall set the amount of the fees authorized. The fees shall be set at a level to produce revenue which shall not substantially exceed the cost and expense of administering the provisions of sections 337.700 to 337.739 . All fees provided for in sections 337.700 to 337.739 shall be collected by the director who shall deposit the same with the state treasurer to a fund to be known as the "Marital and Family Therapists' Fund".

5. The provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary notwithstanding, money in this fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of the biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriations from the marital and family therapists' fund for the preceding fiscal year or, if the division requires by rule renewal less frequently than yearly then three times the appropriation from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. The amount, if any, in the fund which shall lapse is that amount in the fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations from the marital and family therapists' fund for the preceding fiscal year.

(L. 1995 S.B. 69, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1122, A.L. 2009 S.B. 296, A.L. 2018 S.B. 975 & 1024 Revision, A.L. 2019 S.B. 514)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 71.400 — MO Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71.400
71.400 Cities may maintain joint fire departments.
Status: in_force

71.400. Cities may maintain joint fire departments. — Any two or more cities, towns or incorporated villages, whether of the same class or not and whether contiguous or not, may enter into a joint contract to acquire, install and operate a fire department for the joint benefit and protection of the property situated in said contracting municipalities and the lives of the inhabitants thereof, and to erect and maintain at such place as may be agreed upon a building for the housing of said fire department.

(RSMo 1939 § 7391) Prior revision: 1929 § 7240 CROSS REFERENCE: Cooperation with other political subdivisions, on public improvements or facilities, 70.210 to 70.325
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 66.320 — MO Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66.320
66.320 County motor vehicle license tax authority, amount limited — exemption (St. ...
Status: in_force

66.320. County motor vehicle license tax authority, amount limited — exemption (St. Louis County). — 1. The county council or other legislative authority of any first class county having a population of over six hundred thousand inhabitants may levy and collect license taxes from the owners of motor vehicles, residing in that part of the county outside of incorporated cities, and may require the display of license plates or stickers. The license tax, including the cost of plates, sticker and notarial fees, shall not exceed the amounts provided for in section 301.340 , RSMo 1959.

2. No such county license tax shall be collected from a resident of any unincorporated area of the county for motor vehicles used exclusively outside of the unincorporated area, and that fact may be shown by an affidavit of the motor vehicle owner.

(L. 1967 1st Ex. Sess. p. 872 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1991 S.B. 34)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 579.078 — MO Code / Chapter 579 / Section 579.078
579.078 Possession of an imitation controlled substance — penalty.
Status: in_force

579.078. Possession of an imitation controlled substance — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of possession of an imitation controlled substance if he or she knowingly possesses an imitation controlled substance.

2. The offense of possession of an imitation controlled substance is a class A misdemeanor.

(L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Transferred 2014; formerly 195.241; Effective 1-01-17
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 394.130 — MO Code / Chapter 394 / Section 394.130
394.130 Territory supplied by cooperative may be divided into voting districts.
Status: in_force

394.130. Territory supplied by cooperative may be divided into voting districts. — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the bylaws may provide that the territory in which a cooperative supplies electric energy to its members may be divided into two or more voting districts for the purpose of properly distributing its directors over the area in which its members reside. In such case the bylaws shall prescribe the manner in which such voting districts shall function in the election of directors at annual meetings.

(RSMo 1939 § 5396)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 227.150 — MO Code / Chapter 227 / Section 227.150
227.150 State highways and transportation commission may reimburse county or other ...
Status: in_force

227.150. State highways and transportation commission may reimburse county or other subdivision for bridges, when. — Whenever a county, or other political subdivision of the state, except incorporated cities and towns, shall have, out of public funds, purchased or constructed across any navigable stream any bridge that forms a segment or part of the state road system or any easement thereon, then the state highways and transportation commission, at any such time or times as the road funds will justify without interfering with other state road construction or maintenance, may construct and build such roads in such county or other political subdivision as the county commission of such county or in which such political subdivision is situate may direct; the cost of which roads shall be equal to the value to the state at the time taken over of the portion of such bridge entirely within the state of Missouri, not exceeding in any case the amount expended by such county or other political subdivision in the acquisition of such bridge; provided, however, that any county or other political subdivision except incorporated cities and towns may elect to receive such reimbursement from the state highways and transportation commission in cash.

(RSMo 1939 § 8777, A. 1949 S.B. 1074) Prior revision: 1929 § 8129
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 300.235 — MO Code / Chapter 300 / Section 300.235
300.235 Limitations on turning around.
Status: in_force

300.235. Limitations on turning around. — The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any street in a business district and shall not upon any other street so turn a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety and without interfering with other traffic.

(L. 1965 p. 445 § 47)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.471 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.471
67.471 Temporary notes, general obligation bonds.
Status: in_force

67.471. Temporary notes, general obligation bonds. — After an improvement has been authorized pursuant to section 67.457 , the governing body of the city or county may issue temporary notes of the city or county to pay the costs of such improvement in an amount not to exceed the estimated cost of such improvement, and such temporary notes shall be general obligations of the city or county. General obligation bonds of the city or county shall be issued and sold as provided in section 67.455 to refund, retire and pay off such temporary notes and any accrued interest thereon to the date of payment.

(L. 1991 S.B. 8 § 10) Effective 4-03-91
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 407.933 — MO Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.933
407.933 Minors employed by division of liquor control may purchase tobacco ...
Status: in_force

*407.933. Minors employed by division of liquor control may purchase tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products for enforcement purposes — misrepresentation of age, penalty. — 1. No person less than eighteen years of age shall purchase, attempt to purchase or possess cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products unless such person is an employee of a seller of cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products and is in such possession to effect a sale in the course of employment, or an employee of the division of liquor control for enforcement purposes pursuant to subsection 5 of section 407.934 .

2. Any person less than eighteen years of age shall not misrepresent his or her age to purchase cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products.

3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be penalized as follows:

(1) For the first violation, the person is guilty of an infraction and shall have any cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products confiscated;

(2) For a second violation and any subsequent violations, the person is guilty of an infraction, shall have any cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products confiscated and shall complete a tobacco education or smoking cessation program, if available.

(L. 2001 H.B. 381, A.L. 2014 S.B. 841) *Effective 10-10-14, see § 21.250. S.B. 841 was vetoed July 14, 2014. The veto was overridden on September 10, 2014.