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MO Rev Stat § 205.790 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.790 - Character of board — members — appointment — tenure — compensation — vacancies (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.790. Character of board — members — appointment — tenure — compensation — vacancies (second class counties). — 1. Said board shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian in character, and the members and officers thereof shall receive no compensation as such.  2. Said board shall consist of the mayor of such cities and the presiding commissioner of the county commission of such counties, who shall be ex officio members thereof, and six other members, three of whom shall be appointed by the county commission of such counties, who shall hold office, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, whose terms of office shall be designated by such county commission, three by the mayor and common council of such cities, who shall hold office, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, whose terms of office shall be designated by the mayor.  3. Whenever the term of office of any member so appointed expires, the appointment of his successor shall be for three years. All such appointments shall date from the first of June following their appointment.  4. Vacancies from any causes shall be filled in like manner as original appointment. The mayor may, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any member appointed by him in the manner required for removal of officers of such cities. The county commission may, by a majority vote, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any member appointed by them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9580)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12940; 1919 § 12189; 1909 § 1323
MO Rev Stat § 205.800 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.800 - Board, organization (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.800. Board, organization (second class counties). — Said members shall immediately after their appointment, and annually thereafter, meet and organize by electing out of their number a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. All subordinate officers, agents and employees appointed shall give such bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties as may be required by the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9581)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12941; 1919 § 12190; 1909 § 1324
MO Rev Stat § 205.810 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.810 - Treasurer — bond — duties (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.810. Treasurer — bond — duties (second class counties). — All moneys received or appropriated for the use of said board shall be deposited with the treasurer, who shall give good and sufficient bond to said board for the safekeeping and proper expenditure of all funds placed in his hands, by or for the use of said board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9582)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12942; 1919 § 12191; 1909 § 1325
MO Rev Stat § 205.820 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.820 - Board — records — reports (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.820. Board — records — reports (second class counties). — It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of its proceedings and of its receipts, expenditures and operations, and shall annually render a full and complete itemized report, stating the condition of their trust, together with such other suggestions as they may deem of general interest to the mayor and common council of said cities and the county commission of said counties; provided, said board shall render reports concerning receipts, expenditures, operations, etc., whenever called for by the common council of said cities or the county commission of said counties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9583)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12943; 1919 § 12192; 1909 § 1326
MO Rev Stat § 205.830 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.830 - Board to furnish relief — investigations — prosecutions (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.830. Board to furnish relief — investigations — prosecutions (second class counties). — 1. It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by himself, herself, or another apply for relief to make immediate inquiry into the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he or she is in such indigent circumstances as to require temporary relief, the said board shall furnish, out of the funds in their hands, such relief as the circumstances of the case may require; provided, that in all cases where the applicant for aid may be found dependent and said applicant or member of said applicant's family is an able-bodied male person capable of performing manual labor, said board shall require such person to perform work to the value of the aid given, and the city engineer and the street commissioners of such cities in their respective departments are required to utilize the services of such able-bodied persons upon receiving notice from said board that such person has received or is entitled to such aid. Where the applicant or a member of the applicant's family is an able-bodied female, said board shall, whenever practicable, require that labor to the value of the aid given be performed. They shall make investigations of cases of dependence for individuals or other charitable organizations and furnish such reports upon the same as in their judgment seems advisable.  2. Their office shall be a center of intercommunication between the various charitable agencies in the city. They shall foster harmonious cooperation between them and endeavor to eradicate the evils of overlapping relief, and for this purpose shall maintain a confidential registration bureau.  3. When it is impossible to repress mendicancy by the above means they shall prosecute imposters. They shall carefully work out such plans for helping families to self-dependence as may seem most practicable. They shall make concentrated attack on social causes of hardship, such as unsanitary housing, child labor, extortionate charges by pawnshops, salary loan and chattel mortgage agreements. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9584)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12944; 1919 § 12193; 1909 § 1327
MO Rev Stat § 205.840 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.840 - Board of police commissioners to aid social welfare board (second class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.840. Board of police commissioners to aid social welfare board (second class counties). — It shall be the duty of the board of police commissioners of said cities, and the health officers of said cities and counties to render said social welfare board, its officers and agents, such aid as may be requested by them, or either of them, whenever such aid requested shall reasonably come within the duties of said police board, its agents or officers or the health officers aforesaid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9585)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12945; 1919 § 12194; 1909 § 1328
MO Rev Stat § 205.850 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.850 - County superintendent of public welfare — appointment — general powers (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   205.850. County superintendent of public welfare — appointment — general powers (third and fourth class counties). — The county commission in counties of the third and fourth classes may in its discretion, with an order of the juvenile court showing approval, appoint a county superintendent of public welfare, and such assistants as it may deem necessary. Whenever the county commission of any county has appointed a superintendent of public welfare such officer shall assume all the powers and duties now conferred by law upon the probation or parole officer of such county and shall assume all the powers and duties of the attendance officer in said county and all the powers and the duties of the attendance officer in any incorporated town or village having a population of more than one thousand inhabitants, and no other or different probation or parole officer or attendance officer or officers shall be appointed by the judge of the juvenile court, by the county superintendent of public schools, or by the school board or any incorporated city, town, or village school district or consolidated school district. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9791, A.L. 1943 p. 351, A.L. 1945 p. 629)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14182
MO Rev Stat § 205.860 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.860 - Compensation fixed by county commission (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.860. Compensation fixed by county commission (third and fourth class counties). — The county commission shall fix the salary of the county superintendent of public welfare and of his assistants in its county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9720)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14183
MO Rev Stat § 205.870 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.870 - Administration of funds for outdoor relief and needy mothers (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.870. Administration of funds for outdoor relief and needy mothers (third and fourth class counties). — It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public welfare to administer all of the funds of the county devoted to outdoor relief and allowances to needy mothers. He shall seek to discover any cases of neglect, dependent, defective or delinquent children in the county, and take all reasonable action in his power to secure for them the full benefit of the laws enacted for their benefit. Assistants to the county superintendents of public welfare shall perform such of the duties of the county superintendent of public welfare as he may assign to them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9721)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14184
MO Rev Stat § 205.880 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.880 - May be agent for department of social services (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.880. May be agent for department of social services (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare may be deputized or authorized and required by the department of social services to act as its agent in relation to any work to be done by said department within the county, and when said county superintendent is so authorized as the agent of the department of social services, he shall have the same powers and authority as are given to the department of social services. The county superintendent of public welfare may at any time call on the department of social services for advice and assistance in the performance of his duties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9722)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14185
MO Rev Stat § 205.890 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.890 - Special attention of county superintendent to whom (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.890. Special attention of county superintendent to whom (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare in each county shall, upon the request of the department of mental health, and in accordance with its direction, give special care and attention to the needs of any patient recently discharged from the state hospital for the insane who resides in his county, either on parole or permanent discharge, to the end that such patients may be established in such favorable circumstances as shall tend to prevent their relapse into insanity, and shall report on the progress of such former patients to the department of mental health, and under its direction, to the institution from which they have been paroled or discharged. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9723)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14186
MO Rev Stat § 205.910 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.910 - Cooperation with state employment bureaus (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.910. Cooperation with state employment bureaus (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare in each county shall cooperate with the state employment bureaus and shall, upon request of the head of such bureaus, furnish data with regard to the opportunities for employment in their respective counties and shall aid and assist in any practical way in securing employment for the unemployed in his county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9725)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14189
MO Rev Stat § 205.920 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.920 - May be deputized by inspection section as agent — powers, authority (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.920. May be deputized by inspection section as agent — powers, authority (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare and his assistants may be deputized by the director of the inspection section of the department of labor and industrial relations, as his agent or agents, and when they are so deputized by the director, they shall have the same powers and authority as deputy industrial inspectors. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9726)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14190
MO Rev Stat § 205.930 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.930 - Investigation of poor, sick and delinquent (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   205.930. Investigation of poor, sick and delinquent (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare shall investigate the conditions of living among the poor, sick and delinquent in the county and examine thoroughly into causes of crime and poverty in the county and shall make recommendations from time to time to the proper state department, and to proper local authorities as to any change in conditions or in legislation necessary to prevent or reduce poverty, crime or distress in the state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9727, A. 1949 S.B. 1061)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14191
MO Rev Stat § 205.940 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.940 - Records of cases kept (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.940. Records of cases kept (third and fourth class counties). — The records of cases handled and business transacted by the county superintendent of public welfare shall be kept in such manner and form as may be prescribed by the department of social services. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9730)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14195
MO Rev Stat § 205.950 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.950 - Report of work and proceedings (third and fourth class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   205.950. Report of work and proceedings (third and fourth class counties). — The county superintendent of public welfare shall each year prepare and keep on file, a full report of his work and proceedings during the year, and shall file a copy with the county commission and with the secretary of the department of social services. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9731)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14196
MO Rev Stat § 205.960 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.960 - Food stamp plan authorized — payments to be made only when federal funds are available.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   205.960. Food stamp plan authorized — payments to be made only when federal funds are available. — The family support division of the department of social services by itself, or upon the application of the county commission, or the governing body of any county or city not within a county, may establish and put into effect in any county or any city not within a county a program for the distribution of federally donated commodities or for the sale and issuance of federal food stamps or coupons to needy persons and participating families pursuant to any act of Congress of the United States; and may execute agreements necessary to maintain the eligibility of this state to receive surplus food commodities and to distribute federal food stamps or coupons, including agreements with banking corporations, counties and other agencies of this state, in carrying into effect the provisions of sections 205.960 to 205.966. Payment of the expenses of any program instituted under sections 205.960 to 205.966 shall be made pursuant to those sections only during the times when federal and state funds are provided and made available for such purposes. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 376 §§ 1 to 3, A.L. 1969 S.B. 23, A.L. 1972 S.B. 426, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 205.961 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.961 - Family support division to regulate.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   205.961. Family support division to regulate. — The family support division shall make and promulgate necessary and reasonable rules and regulations for the administration of the programs established pursuant to section 205.960, and when required by federal law or regulation the family support division shall be the certifying agency responsible for certifying individuals or households as eligible to receive surplus agricultural commodities or for the issuance of federal food stamps. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.965, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 205.962 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.962 - Division to contract with counties — counties not to participate without contract — expenses of program, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   205.962. Division to contract with counties — counties not to participate without contract — expenses of program, how paid. — 1. The family support division shall enter into a written agreement with the county commission or governing body of any county which desires to participate in a program for the distribution of agricultural commodities within such county. Any agreement shall cover the responsibility of the parties thereto for the administration of the program and shall contain such terms and conditions as are required by regulations prescribed under federal laws governing distribution of such commodities as well as regulations of the family support division. No county commission or governing body of a county shall participate in the administration of such program unless it has an agreement with the family support division under this section. Expenses incurred in connection with a federally donated agricultural commodities food distribution program, including sums expended for the acquisition, warehousing, cold storage, safekeeping, maintenance of proper records and distribution of surplus agricultural commodities shall be paid by the county and family support division in pursuance of the agreement entered into under this section or, in the absence of such agreement, by the family support division. A county commission which has an agreement for distributing food commodities with the family support division shall not be required to pay over fifteen percent of the total distribution costs in its county.  2. For the payment of expenses incurred in connection with the sale and distribution of federal food stamps in any county the family support division may enter into agreements with banking corporations and with the county for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a food stamp distribution program in the county, and may accept moneys, services or quarters as a contribution toward the support and maintenance of such program. Any funds so received shall be payable to the director of revenue and deposited in the proper special account in the state treasury and become and be a part of the state funds appropriated for the use of the family support division. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.970, A.L. 1972 S.B. 426, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
MO Rev Stat § 205.963 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.963 - Food stamps not to be distributed unless county has program, exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   205.963. Food stamps not to be distributed unless county has program, exceptions. — In counties where a federal food stamp program is in effect there shall be no distribution of federally owned surplus agricultural commodities to individuals or households except during emergency situations or as authorized by federal law or the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Individuals are not eligible to receive federal food stamps or coupons under a food stamp plan or to receive federal surplus agricultural commodities under a food distribution program unless they reside in a county in which such plan or program is in effect. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.975)
MO Rev Stat § 205.964 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs|Section 205.964 - Reimbursement to federal government, how made.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   205.964. Reimbursement to federal government, how made. — Any loss for which this state or its agencies or counties may be liable to reimburse the federal government in accordance with federal laws, rules and regulations applicable to federal food stamp plans or federal surplus agricultural commodities distribution programs shall be paid from funds appropriated to the family support division for the administration of these programs. Any loss in a county in which a program of surplus agricultural commodities distribution is in effect, and with respect to which loss is incurred, shall be paid by the county to the family support division in the amount payable to the federal government under this section. The payment for any loss by the state or county shall not relieve any person of any civil or criminal liability to this state. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.980, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)