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MO Rev Stat § 209.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.050 - Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions — names may be stricken from roll.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.050. Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions — names may be stricken from roll. — 1. Sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall not be so construed as to grant the benefits thereof to any blind person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years who has no occupation and who, being both physically and mentally capable of some useful occupation or of receiving vocational or other training, who refuses, for any reason, to engage in such useful occupation or to avail himself or herself of such vocational or other training.  2. The family support division may grant its certificate admitting to the pension roll any applicant, otherwise qualified for a pension, who signifies his or her willingness and readiness to enter upon a course of vocational or other training; but in the event any such person fails for more than a reasonable time to enter upon such course of training, without good cause, the family support division shall strike the name of such person from the blind pension roll. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9453, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1976 S.B. 483, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8895
MO Rev Stat § 209.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.060 - Application for pension — payment begins, when — misrepresentation, penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.060. Application for pension — payment begins, when — misrepresentation, penalty. — Any person who desires the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall file an application at the family support division office in the county of his or her residence, who is satisfied that the applicant comes within the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall certify such fact to the family support division at its office in Jefferson City, Missouri, which shall consider the merits of such application and if approved by the family support division such person shall be placed upon the blind pension rolls. All pensions payable under sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall begin on the date of the filing of the application therefor with the family support division. And whenever it shall become known to the family support division that any person whose name is on the blind pension roll is no longer qualified to receive a pension, after reasonable notice mailed to such person at his or her last known residence address the name of such person shall be stricken from the blind pension roll; provided further, any person who shall by gifts, secret disposition or other means dispose of any property in his or her possession in order to become wholly or in part within the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9454, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A.L. 1951 p. 762, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8896
MO Rev Stat § 209.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.070 - Division to prepare suitable blank application forms.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.070. Division to prepare suitable blank application forms. — It shall be the duty of the family support division to prepare suitable blank application forms for the use of blind persons in making application for pensions, which shall contain such questions for applicant to answer and other matter as the division may deem appropriate to the end to be accomplished. All statements of an applicant contained on such application form shall be verified by the applicant and shall also be supported by the certificates of two disinterested and responsible householders of the county wherein applicant resides, who have known applicant for not less than two years next prior to date of such application, that such statements are true. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9455, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8897
MO Rev Stat § 209.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.080 - Division to make regulations relative to examination of applicants for pensions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.080. Division to make regulations relative to examination of applicants for pensions. — It shall be the duty of the family support division to make such regulations relative to the examination of applicants for pension, including the examination by an ophthalmologist, a physician skilled in disease of the eye, or an optometrist, designated or approved by the family support division to make such examination and of all matters deemed necessary connected with the administration of this chapter. The examining ophthalmologist, a physician skilled in disease of the eye, or optometrist, shall certify in writing, upon forms provided by the family support division, the findings of the examination. The examination shall be provided for by the family support division without charge to the applicant and shall be paid as an administrative expense. No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter who shall refuse to submit to treatment or operation to effect a cure when recommended by competent medical authority and approved by the family support division, but upon submission to such treatment or operation the pension of applicant otherwise entitled thereto, shall be paid as in other cases: Provided further, that no applicant who is more than seventy-five years of age shall be required to submit to an operation to restore his or her vision in order to come under the provisions of this chapter, but may voluntarily submit to operation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9456, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1961 p. 534, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8898
MO Rev Stat § 209.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.090 - Division to prepare roll of pensioners — to distribute pensions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.090. Division to prepare roll of pensioners — to distribute pensions. — Monthly, the family support division shall prepare a separate roll of persons entitled to receive blind pension, which roll shall be in triplicate, showing the name, post-office address, amount of pension payable, and such other information as the family support division may determine to be necessary. One copy of each roll shall be retained as a record by the family support division. The original roll and one copy properly certified by the director, or the director's authorized agent, shall be delivered to the commissioner of administration, who shall certify the same for payment and prepare one warrant for the total amount payable to the family support division, which warrant shall be attached to the copy of the roll and delivered to the state treasurer. The commissioner of administration shall retain the original roll as a record of his or her office. The state treasurer upon receiving said roll, warrant, and checks prepared by the family support division for each person on said roll, shall sign said checks and deliver same to the family support division for delivery to the proper payees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9457, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1945 p. 1351, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A.L. 1949 p. 521, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8899
MO Rev Stat § 209.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.100 - Division to keep blind pension roll.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.100. Division to keep blind pension roll. — The family support division shall place the names of all persons certified by it for a pension under sections 209.010 to 209.160 upon a record to be kept in its office to be known as "The Blind Pension Roll" which shall contain also the residence, post-office address, date upon which the application for pension was filed with the judge of probate division of the circuit court or family support division, and the date the certificate was received by the family support division; and the name of any person appearing upon the said blind pension roll shall be prima facie evidence of the right of such person to the pension herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9458, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8900
MO Rev Stat § 209.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.110 - Person aggrieved may appeal.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   209.110. Person aggrieved may appeal. — Any person claiming the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 who is aggrieved by the action of the family support division on the question of such person's vision or as to his or her property or income, residential or moral qualifications to receive the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160, may appeal from its decision to the circuit court of his or her judicial circuit within ninety days from the decision complained of, by giving the division notice of such appeal; such appeal shall be had and tried in the circuit court de novo, and the judgment rendered thereupon shall be final; and if such judgment be in favor of appellant a certified copy of same shall be mailed to the family support division at its office in Jefferson City. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9459, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8901
MO Rev Stat § 209.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.130 - Rate of tax to be levied.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   209.130. Rate of tax to be levied. — There is hereby levied an annual tax of three cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the state of Missouri to provide a fund out of which shall be paid the pensions for the deserving blind as herein provided. The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and by the same means as other state taxes are now collected. The tax, when so collected, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the blind pension fund, out of which fund shall be paid the pension as provided by law. Any balance remaining in the fund after the payment of the pensions may be appropriated for the adequate support of the commission for the blind, and any balance remaining at the end of the biennium shall be transferred to the distributive public school fund. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9461, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1959 S.B. 86)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8903  CROSS REFERENCE:  Tax for blind pensions, Const. Art. III § 38(a)
MO Rev Stat § 209.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.140 - Persons violating provisions of law guilty of misdemeanor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   209.140. Persons violating provisions of law guilty of misdemeanor. — Any person or persons found guilty of violating any of the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who shall willfully and fraudulently violate any of the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 for the purpose of obtaining any benefits thereunder, to which such person is not entitled, shall, in addition to the penalties otherwise provided herein, forfeit all right to future benefits hereunder. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9463)  Prior revision: 1929 § 8905
MO Rev Stat § 209.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.150 - Rights of persons with disabilities — service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for actual damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories   209.150. Rights of persons with disabilities — service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for actual damages. — 1. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the same rights afforded to a person with no such disability to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, and other public places.  2. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, is entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, taxis, streetcars, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.  3. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the right to be accompanied by a service dog or dogs, as defined in section 209.200, which is especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in subsection 2 of this section without being required to pay an extra charge for the service dog or dogs, as defined in section 209.200; provided that such person shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.  4. As used in sections 209.150 to 209.190, the term "service dog" shall have the same definition as in section 209.200. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 344 § 1, A.L. 1965 p. 95, A.L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1133, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196, A.L. 1996 S.B. 582, A.L. 2013 S.B. 33, A.L. 2020 S.B. 644 merged with S.B. 656)
MO Rev Stat § 209.152 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.152 - Trainers of guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 2013   209.152. Trainers of guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for damages. — Not to exceed the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, any trainer, from a recognized training center, of a guide dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog, or any member of a service dog team, as defined in section 209.200, shall have the right to be accompanied by such dog in or upon any of the premises listed in section 209.150 while engaged in the training of the dog without being required to pay an extra charge for such dog. Such trainer or service dog team member shall be liable for any damage done to the premise of facilities by such dog. ­­-------- (L. 1999 S.B. 12, A.L. 2013 S.B. 33)
MO Rev Stat § 209.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.160 - Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disabilities, a misdemeanor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   209.160. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disabilities, a misdemeanor. — Any person or persons, firm or corporation, or the agent of any person or persons, firm or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the public facilities enumerated in section 209.150 or otherwise interferes with the rights of a totally or partially blind or deaf person, or a physically disabled person under section 209.150 shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 344 § 2, A.L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1133, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196)
MO Rev Stat § 209.162 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.162 - Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disability, an unlawful employment practice — complaints, filed by aggrieved persons.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   209.162. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disability, an unlawful employment practice — complaints, filed by aggrieved persons. — It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against any person with a visual, aural or physical disability by interfering, directly or indirectly, with the use of an aid or appliance, including a guide dog, hearing dog or service dog by such person. Any person aggrieved by a violation of this section may make a verified complaint to the Missouri commission on human rights pursuant to the provisions of section 213.075. ­­-------- (L. 1996 S.B. 582)
MO Rev Stat § 209.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.170 - October fifteenth to be white cane safety day, governor to note.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   209.170. October fifteenth to be white cane safety day, governor to note. — Each year, the governor shall take suitable public notice of October fifteenth as "White Cane Safety Day". ­­-------- (L. 1977 S.B. 12)
MO Rev Stat § 209.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.180 - State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   209.180. State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception. — The blind and the visually handicapped shall be employed in the state service, the service of the political subdivisions of the state, in the public schools, and in all other employment supported in whole or in part by public funds on the same terms and conditions as the able-bodied, unless it is shown that the particular disability prevents the performance of the work involved. ­­-------- (L. 1977 S.B. 12)
MO Rev Stat § 209.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.190 - Housing accommodations, defined — discrimination against persons with visual, hearing or physical disabilities, prohibited — dogs, guide, hearing or service to have full access — liability for actual damages.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   209.190. Housing accommodations, defined — discrimination against persons with visual, hearing or physical disabilities, prohibited — dogs, guide, hearing or service to have full access — liability for actual damages. — 1. Blind or visually handicapped persons, deaf or partially deaf persons, or physically disabled persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation in this state, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.  2. "Housing accommodations", as used in this section means any real property, or portion thereof, which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings, but shall not include any accommodations, included within subsection 1 of this section, or any single family residence the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room therein.  3. Nothing in this section shall require any person renting, leasing, or providing for compensation real property to modify his property in any way or provide a higher degree of care for a blind or visually handicapped person, deaf or partially deaf person, or physically disabled person than for a person who is not blind or visually handicapped, deaf or partially deaf, or physically disabled.  4. Every totally or partially blind person who has or obtains a guide dog, every deaf or partially deaf person who has or obtains a hearing dog, and every physically disabled person who has or obtains a service dog shall be entitled to full and equal access to all housing accommodations provided for in this section, and he shall not be required to pay extra compensation for such dog but shall be liable for any damage done to the premises by such a dog. ­­-------- (L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1982 S.B. 840, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196)
MO Rev Stat § 209.192 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities|Section 209.192 - Definitions — blind literacy study — division of special education to make annual report.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   209.192. Definitions — blind literacy study — division of special education to make annual report. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:  (1) "Blind persons or visually impaired persons", individuals who:  (a) Have a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with conventional correction, or have a limited field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance not greater than twenty degrees; or  (b) Have a reasonable expectation of visual deterioration; or  (c) Cannot read printed material at a competitive rate of speed and with facility due to lack of visual acuity;  (2) "Literacy", reading and written communication and comprehension of reading and written communication. This may include, but is not limited to Braille, large print and computer-aided communications;  (3) "Student", any student who is blind or any student eligible for special education services for the visually impaired as defined in P.L. 94-142.  2. The division of special education of the department of elementary and secondary education shall conduct a statewide study to assess the literacy of blind students on a grade-level basis and report its findings and recommendations to improve the literacy of blind students to the governor and general assembly no later than December first of each year.  3. The division of special education of the department of elementary and secondary education shall annually provide a report to the governor and general assembly, no later than December first of each year, which describes the division's progress in implementing the recommendations, any significant obstacles to continued progress in implementation, the division's plans and time frame for removing these obstacles. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1088 § 1)