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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.110 - Department's duty as to diseases of animals.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
192.110. Department's duty as to diseases of animals. —
The department of health and senior services shall take cognizance of any contagious diseases which may be prevalent among domestic animals of the state which diseases may be communicable to human beings; shall ascertain the nature and causes of such diseases; publish the results of its investigations, with suggestions for the proper safeguards and treatment of such animals.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9741, A.L. 1945 p. 945 § 19)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9021; 1919 § 5778; 1909 § 6659
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.131 - Definitions — health care-associated infections data to be reported — confidentiality — plan to help monitoring to be developed — required standards.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
192.131. Definitions — health care-associated infections data to be reported — confidentiality — plan to help monitoring to be developed — required standards. —
1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Advisory panel"
, the infection control advisory panel created by section 197.165;
(2)
"Antibiogram"
, a record of the resistance of microbes to various antibiotics;
(3)
"Antimicrobial"
, the ability of an agent to destroy or prevent the development of pathogenic action of a microorganism;
(4)
"Department"
, the department of health and senior services.
2. Every laboratory performing culture and sensitivity testing on humans in Missouri shall submit data on health care associated infections to the department in accordance with this section. The data to be reported shall be defined by regulation of the department after considering the recommendations of the advisory panel. Such data may include antibiograms and, not later than July 1, 2005, shall include but not be limited to the number of patients or isolates by hospital, ambulatory surgical center, and other facility or practice setting with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE).
3. Information on infections collected pursuant to this section shall be subject to the confidentiality protections of this chapter but shall be available in provider-specific form to appropriate facility and professional licensure authorities.
4. The advisory panel shall develop a recommended plan to use laboratory and health care provider data provided pursuant to this chapter to create a system to:
(1) Enhance the ability of health care providers and the department to track the incidence and distribution of preventable infections, with emphasis on those infections that are most susceptible to interventions and that pose the greatest risk of harm to Missouri residents;
(2) Monitor trends in the development of antibiotic-resistant microbes, including but not limited to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) infections.
5. In implementing this section, the advisory panel and the department shall conform to guidelines and standards adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The advisory panel's plan may provide for demonstration projects to assess the viability of the recommended initiatives.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 1279)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.138 - Contagious or infectious disease reports by medical treatment facilities and nursing homes.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
192.138. Contagious or infectious disease reports by medical treatment facilities and nursing homes. —
Other provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, requirements imposed by state law or regulation that institutions defined under chapters 197 and 198 make notifications concerning patients who are diagnosed as having reportable infectious or contagious diseases shall apply to such institutions provided that such notifications are consistent with federal laws and rules and regulations imposed thereunder governing the confidentiality of records of patients receiving medical assistance under the provisions of federal law.
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(L. 1988 S.B. 602 § 1, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1279)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.139 - Communicable disease reporting, guidelines for department.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
192.139. Communicable disease reporting, guidelines for department. —
The communicable disease reporting requirements established by the department of health and senior services shall be in accordance with guidelines, funding requirements, or recommendations established by the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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(L. 1988 S.B. 602 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.140 - Public health nurse provided — public and private places disinfected.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
192.140. Public health nurse provided — public and private places disinfected. —
Whenever the department of health and senior services considers it necessary to secure the aid and services of a visiting public health nurse, or to disinfect any building, residence or room in any hotel or dormitory, or other place in such city or county infected with infectious or contagious diseases, such department shall make formal written report of such fact to the county commission or mayor of any city of the second, third, or fourth class, or both such commission and mayor, and therein recommend the course of action necessary and advisable to be taken in relation thereto to prevent the spread of such infectious or contagious diseases; and in case said report is made to the mayor of any city he shall lay the same before the city council at its next meeting, and the said city council and the said county commission at its next meeting after said report has been made as aforesaid, shall consider said report and recommendation and act upon it, and such city council and county commission shall each be authorized to employ, at a fixed monthly compensation, a public health nurse, qualified for such service by registration as such according to the laws of this state, to visit any family, home, boardinghouse, dormitory or club in which is a member or members, a person or persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, and upon the consent of such person or family or parent or guardian, if a minor, to assist in nursing said person and to advise such person and the persons or members of the family, boardinghouse, dormitory or club, as to the proper methods to be pursued to prevent the spread of such infectious or contagious disease, and also to authorize some other proper person or persons to visit and disinfect any building, residence, room in any hotel or dormitory or other place therein infected with such infectious or contagious disease upon the consent of the owner thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9756)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9036; 1919 § 5792
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.150 - Interference a misdemeanor — duty of mayor and county commission.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
192.150. Interference a misdemeanor — duty of mayor and county commission. —
When the owner or occupant of any building, residence, room in a hotel or dormitory or other place designated in the report or written statement contemplated by section 192.140, refuses to consent that the same be disinfected by the person designated by the city or county commission, report of that fact shall be made by such person to the mayor, if such person was appointed by the mayor, and to the county commission, if such person was appointed by said commission, and thereupon the mayor or the county commission shall have power and it shall be his or their duty, either by taking of testimony or a personal inspection of the place charged to be infected, to make an examination into the truth of the statements contained in said reports and determine whether said place is infected with an infectious or contagious disease, and if it is found to be so infected it shall be the duty of the mayor or of the county commission, as the case may be, by a written order of the mayor, and by an order spread upon its record if the county commission, to appoint some proper person to disinfect said place, designating in said order the building, residence, room in the hotel or dormitory or other place to be disinfected and said written order of the mayor, or a copy of said order of the county commission, under its seal, shall be furnished to said person and shall be his authority to enter upon said premises and to disinfect the same in a proper manner using such force as may be necessary to accomplish that purpose, proper regard being had for the rights of the owner or occupant of said premises and the beneficent purposes to be accomplished; and any needless interference by the owner or occupant of said premises or by any other person with the person so appointed, in the performance of the duties required of him by said order, shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished in the manner provided by law for interference with an officer in the performance of his duties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9757)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9037; 1919 § 5793
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.160 - Taxpayers may petition for the appointment of a nurse.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
192.160. Taxpayers may petition for the appointment of a nurse. —
In case a petition is signed by two hundred and fifty taxpayers and presented to any city council of the second, third or fourth class or any county commission, for the appointment of a public health nurse or nurses or that any place infected with infectious or contagious disease be disinfected, as designated in section 192.140, it shall be the duty of said city council or county commission, as the case may be, to provide for the appointment of said nurse or nurses and for the disinfecting of any infected place and to pay for the same as provided for in section 192.170.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9759)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9039; 1919 § 5795
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.170 - Money appropriated from current revenue.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
192.170. Money appropriated from current revenue. —
The county commission or city council in any such city shall have power to appropriate money out of the current revenues of the county or city, as the case may be, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 192.140 to 192.170.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9758)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9038; 1919 § 5794
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.230 - Department to conduct a survey of hospitals and health facilities — to recommend a state plan.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
192.230. Department to conduct a survey of hospitals and health facilities — to recommend a state plan. —
The department of health and senior services shall be empowered and authorized to conduct a complete survey of all of the hospitals, both public and private, and all health centers and units in the state, and to make a public report of such survey and findings, and recommending a state plan for the construction of such additional hospital and health center facilities as may be deemed advisable by the department of health and senior services after consultation with the state board of health and senior services.
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(L. 1945 p. 972 § 1, A.L. 2018 S.B. 843)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.250 - Department to receive grants.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
192.250. Department to receive grants. —
The department of health and senior services is hereby designated the official state agency to receive any and all federal and other grants and aids for making a survey and for the construction of hospitals and health centers, provided, that private grants and aids to private hospitals, health centers and units in this state, by will, deed or gift shall vest in such private institutions under the terms and provisions of such will, deed or gift and the department of health and senior services shall have no right, title, interest or control over grants and aids to private hospitals so granted, unless granted in said will, deed or gift. It shall be empowered to receive any and all such grants and aids under the terms of such grants and aids and to pay them out under any and all provisions as may be attached to such grants and aids. It shall be authorized to render such reports as may be required under any and all grants and aids; provide such minimum standards for maintenance and operation of hospitals and health centers as may be required under the terms of such grants and aids; and to require compliance with such standards in the case of hospitals and health centers which shall have received such grants and aids.
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(L. 1945 p. 972 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.260 - County health officer appointed by county commission.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
192.260. County health officer appointed by county commission. —
The county commissions of the several counties of this state may appoint a duly licensed qualified physician as a county health officer for a term of one year, and in the event a vacancy is created in the office of the county health officer, such commission may appoint a duly licensed qualified physician for the unexpired term. If the county commission of any county decides to appoint a county health officer as empowered in this law, it shall agree with the officer as to the compensation and expenses to be paid for such service, which amount shall be paid out of the county treasury of the county. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to require the county commission of any county to appoint a county health officer in any county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9745, A.L. 1945 p. 975, A. 1949 S.B. 1051)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9025; 1919 § 5782
CROSS REFERENCE:
Director of public county health center to be county health officer, 205.100
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.270 - Deputy or assistant county health officers (certain first and second class counties).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1982
192.270. Deputy or assistant county health officers (certain first and second class counties). —
In all counties of class one, except counties of the first class not having a charter form of government, and in any county of the second class in which the circuit court sits in more than one city and which has a population of at least fifty-eight thousand but not more than sixty-five thousand, the county commission of such county may appoint such deputies or assistants to or for the county health officer of such county, and when appointed shall fix a reasonable compensation, including expenses of such deputies and assistants, all of which shall be paid out of the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9746, A.L. 1945 p. 975, A. 1949 S.B. 1051, A.L. 1973 H.B. 627, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1069)
Prior revision: 1929 § 9026
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.280 - Duties of county health officer — neglect, penalty — removal.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
192.280. Duties of county health officer — neglect, penalty — removal. —
It shall be the duty of the county health officers to enforce the rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services throughout their respective counties outside of incorporated cities which maintain a health officer. The health officers for incorporated cities of less than seventy-five thousand population shall enforce the rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services within their respective cities. Any county health officer who neglects or refuses to perform his duties as required by this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In case of dereliction of duty or refusal to act on the part of the county health officer of any county, the department of health and senior services may at its discretion declare the office of county health officer for that county vacant.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9746, A. 1949 S.B. 1051)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9027; 1919 § 5783
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.290 - State regulations supersede local rules — additional local rules.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
192.290. State regulations supersede local rules — additional local rules. —
All rules and regulations authorized and made by the department of health and senior services in accordance with this chapter shall supersede as to those matters to which this chapter relates, all local ordinances, rules and regulations and shall be observed throughout the state and enforced by all local and state health authorities. Nothing herein shall limit the right of local authorities to make such further ordinances, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the rules and regulations prescribed by the department of health and senior services which may be necessary for the particular locality under the jurisdiction of such local authorities.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9748)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9028; 1919 § 5784
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.310 - City of St. Charles and cities of 75,000 or over excepted from sections 192.260 to 192.320.

There are multiple enactments of 192.310
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014, 2 histories
*192.310. City of St. Charles and cities of 75,000 or over excepted from sections 192.260 to 192.320. —
Nothing in sections 192.260 to 192.320 shall apply to any home rule city with more than sixty-four thousand but fewer than seventy-one thousand inhabitants, or cities which now have, or may hereafter have, a population of seventy-five thousand or over which are maintaining organized health departments; provided, that such cities shall furnish the department of health and senior services reports of contagious, infectious, communicable or dangerous diseases, which have been designated by them as such and such other statistical information as the board may require.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9749, A.L. 2014 S.B. 672)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9029; 1919 § 5785
*Revisor's Note: This section was declared unconstitutional in Calzone v. Koster, et al., see 2016 annotation below.
(2016) Provisions of S.B. 672 from 2014 declared unconstitutional as violating the single subject rule of Article III, § 23; under the facts presented, those provisions cannot be severed and the bill is unconstitutional in its entirety. Calzone v. Koster, et al., Case No. 15AC-CC00247 (Cole County Cir. Ct., Feb. 9, 2016).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.310 - Cities of 75,000 or over excepted from sections 192.260 to 192.320.

There are multiple enactments of 192.310
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 07 Aug 1919, 2 histories, see footnote
*192.310. Cities of 75,000 or over excepted from sections 192.260 to 192.320. —
Nothing in sections 192.260 to 192.320 shall apply to cities which now have, or may hereafter have, a population of seventy-five thousand or over which are maintaining organized health departments; provided, that such cities shall furnish the department of health and senior services reports of contagious, infectious, communicable or dangerous diseases, which have been designated by them as such and such other statistical information as the board may require.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9749)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9029; 1919 § 5785
Effective 8-07-1919
*Revisor's Note: This section is reprinted in accordance with section 3.066. S.B. 672 in 2014 amended this section and was declared unconstitutional as a violation of Art. III, Sec. 23, of the Missouri Constitution (see 2016 annotation below), rendering the repeal and reenactment of this section ineffective.
(2016) Provisions of S.B. 672 from 2014 declared unconstitutional as violating the single subject rule of Article III, § 23; under the facts presented, those provisions cannot be severed and the bill is unconstitutional in its entirety. Calzone v. Koster, et al., Case No. 15AC-CC00247 (Cole County Cir. Ct., Feb. 9, 2016).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.320 - Violation of law or quarantine — penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
192.320. Violation of law or quarantine — penalty. —
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of sections 192.010, 192.020 to 192.490, 192.600 to 192.620 or who shall leave any pesthouse, or isolation hospital, or quarantined house or place without the consent of the health officer having jurisdiction, or who evades or breaks quarantine or knowingly conceals a case of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or who removes, destroys, obstructs from view, or tears down any quarantine card, cloth or notice posted by the attending physician or by the health officer, or by direction of a proper health officer, shall be deemed guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9750, A.L. 1951 p. 784, A.L. 1961 p. 463, A.L. 1978 S.B. 509)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 9030; 1919 § 5786
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.323 - Department of health and senior services document services fund created — funding by certain fees — purpose — amount from fund exempt from lapse into general revenue.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
192.323. Department of health and senior services document services fund created — funding by certain fees — purpose — amount from fund exempt from lapse into general revenue. —
1. The "Department of Health and Senior Services Document Services Fund" is hereby created. All funds received by the department of health and senior services from the fees charged for reports, studies, records and other publications and documents including data tapes and audiovisual products produced or reproduced by the department shall be credited to the fund. The director of the department shall administer the fund. The state treasurer is the custodian of the fund and shall approve disbursements from the fund requested by the director of the department. When appropriated by the general assembly, moneys from the fund shall be used to pay costs, including personnel costs, as follows:
(1) To pay costs associated with the collection, processing, storage, and access to documents and data;
(2) To produce publications or other documents including data tapes and audiovisual products requested by governmental agencies or members of the general public;
(3) To publish the publications or other documents or to purchase reports, publications or other documents including data tapes and audiovisual products for reproduction; and
(4) To pay shipping charges.
2. An unexpended balance in the fund at the end of the fiscal year not exceeding fifty thousand dollars is exempt from the provisions of section 33.080 relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund.
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(L. 1987 S.B. 144 § 1, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1812)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.324 - Administrative and cost allocation fund created, use of moneys.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 29 Jun 2005, see footnote
192.324. Administrative and cost allocation fund created, use of moneys. —
There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Department of Health and Senior Services Administrative and Cost Allocation Fund". The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund and the fund shall be administered by the director of the department of health and senior services. The fund shall be funded annually by appropriations, and deposits and transfers thereto. The fund shall contain moneys transferred or paid to the department in return for goods and services provided internally by the department, or to any governmental entity or the public. The commissioner of administration shall approve disbursements from the fund at the request of the director of the department or the director's designee in accordance with the appropriations made therefor. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, moneys in the fund shall not lapse to the credit of general revenue at the end of the biennium. All interest earned on the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.
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(L. 2005 S.B. 74 & 49)
Effective 6-29-05
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.326 - Disaster fund created, use of moneys during a state of emergency.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 29 Jun 2005, see footnote
192.326. Disaster fund created, use of moneys during a state of emergency. —
There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Department of Health and Senior Services Disaster Fund", to which the general assembly may appropriate moneys and from which moneys may be appropriated annually to the department of health and senior services. Moneys in the fund shall be expended during a state of emergency at the direction of the governor and upon issuance of an emergency declaration which shall set forth the emergency and shall state that it requires the expenditure of public funds to furnish immediate aid and relief. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund and the fund shall be administered by the department of health and senior services. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, moneys in the fund shall not lapse to the credit of general revenue at the end of the biennium. All interest earned on the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.
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(L. 2005 S.B. 74 & 49)
Effective 6-29-05
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.360 - Active duty military, license to remain in good standing for duration of duty — licensing board procedure required — renewal of license.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
192.360. Active duty military, license to remain in good standing for duration of duty — licensing board procedure required — renewal of license. —
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department of health and senior services and the department of commerce and insurance shall require every health-related professional licensing board to establish a procedure to ensure any member of the United States Armed Forces on active duty who, at the time of activation, was a member in good standing with any professional licensing body in this state and was licensed or certified to engage in his or her profession or vocation in this state shall be kept in good standing by the professional licensing body with which he or she is licensed or certified.
2. While a licensee or certificate holder is an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces, the license or certificate referenced in subsection 1 of this section shall be renewed without:
(1) The payment of dues or fees;
(2) Obtaining continuing education credits when:
(a) Circumstances associated with military duty prevent obtaining such training and a waiver request has been submitted to the appropriate licensing body; or
(b) The military member, while on active duty, performs the licensed or certified occupation as part of his or her military duties as annotated in Defense Department Form 214 (DD 214); or
(c) Performing any other act typically required for the renewal of the license or certificate.
3. The license or certificate issued under this section shall be continued as long as the licensee or certificate holder is a member of the United States Armed Forces on active duty and for a period of at least six months after being released from active duty.
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(L. 2013 S.B. 106)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.390 - Cost of certain formulas to be provided — rulemaking authority.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2015
192.390. Cost of certain formulas to be provided — rulemaking authority. —
1. The department shall provide coverage, subject to state and federal appropriations, for the full cost of amino acid-based elemental formulas, meaning formulas made from single nonallergenic amino acids, for children under nineteen years of age with a medical diagnosis of immunoglobulin E and nonimmunoglobulin E mediated allergies to multiple food proteins, food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome, eosinophilic disorders, and impaired absorption of nutrients caused by disorders affecting the absorptive surface, functional length, and motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
2. The department may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions 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, 2015, shall be invalid and void.
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(L. 2015 S.B. 354)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.400 - Definitions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006
192.400. Definitions. —
The following words and terms as used in sections 192.400 to 192.490 mean:
(1)
"Radiation"
, any or all of the following forms of ionizing radiation: gamma and X rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear or atomic particles or rays, and other radiant energies including, by way of extension but not of limitation, radium, strontium 90, cesium 137 and cobalt 60, but radiation as herein defined does not include sound or radio waves or visible, infrared or ultraviolet light;
(2)
"Radiation machine"
, any device that produces radiation;
(3)
"Unnecessary radiation"
, the use of radiation as herein defined in such a manner as to be hazardous to the health of the people or the industrial or agricultural potentials of the state.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 1, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1437 merged with S.B. 677)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.410 - Powers and duties of department.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006
192.410. Powers and duties of department. —
The department of health and senior services shall:
(1) Develop comprehensive policies and programs for the evaluation and determination of hazards associated with the use of radiation and for their abatement or elimination;
(2) Employ, and, if necessary, train the personnel needed to carry out the provisions of sections 192.400 to 192.490;
(3) Advise, consult and cooperate with other agencies of this state, the federal government, other states, and interstate agencies, and with affected groups, political subdivisions and industries in furtherance of the purposes of sections 192.400 to 192.490;
(4) Accept and administer loans, grants or other funds or gifts from the federal government and from other sources, public or private, for carrying out any of its functions;
(5) Encourage, participate in or conduct studies, investigations, training, research and demonstrations relating to the control of radiation hazards, the measurement of radiation, the effects on health of exposure to radiation and related problems as it may deem necessary or advisable for the discharge of its duties under sections 192.400 to 192.490 or for the protection of public health;
(6) Collect and disseminate information relating to the determination and control of radiation exposure and hazards;
(7) Review and approve plans and specifications for radiation sources submitted pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated under sections 192.400 to 192.490;
(8) Inspect radiation sources, their shielding and immediate surroundings and records for the determination of any possible radiation hazard and may examine any records or memoranda pertaining to the question of radiation machines and the use of radioactive materials.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 2, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1437 merged with S.B. 677)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.420 - Department to make rules — procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006
192.420. Department to make rules — procedure. —
The department of health and senior services shall administer sections 192.400 to 192.490 and may formulate and promulgate rules on radiation, including registration of radiation sources and machines, as may be necessary to prohibit and prevent unnecessary radiation. Rules shall be promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this section and chapter 536. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of sections 192.400 to 192.490 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 3, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1437 merged with S.B. 677)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.430 - Radiation sources to be kept safe.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.430. Radiation sources to be kept safe. —
All sources of radiation shall be shielded, transported, handled, used and kept so as to prevent all users thereof and all persons within effective range of them from being exposed to unnecessary radiation.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.440 - Unregistered use or possession of radiation producers unlawful — use or possession contrary to law or regulations unlawful.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.440. Unregistered use or possession of radiation producers unlawful — use or possession contrary to law or regulations unlawful. —
1. It is unlawful for any person to produce radiation, or produce, use, store or dispose of radioactive materials or radiation machines, or to modify, extend or alter these activities unless he registers in writing with the department of health and senior services in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the department, except that the department may exempt from registration certain classes of radiation machines or radioactive materials known to be without hazard.
2. It is unlawful for any person to produce radiation, or to produce, use, store or dispose of radioactive materials or radiation machines except in accordance with sections 192.400 to 192.490 and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to these sections.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.450 - Department to order abatement of violations — agents may inspect — data confidential.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.450. Department to order abatement of violations — agents may inspect — data confidential. —
1. Whenever the department of health and senior services finds, upon inspection and examination of a source of radiation as constructed, operated or maintained, that there is a violation of any of the provisions of sections 192.400 to 192.490 or of any of the rules or regulations promulgated under these sections, the department shall notify the person found to be causing, allowing or permitting the violation of the nature of the violation and order that prior to a time fixed by the department, which time shall not be later than thirty days from the date of service of the notice, the person shall cease and abate causing, allowing or permitting the violation and to take such action as is necessary to comply with sections 192.400 to 192.490 and the rules or regulations promulgated under these sections.
2. Agents of the department of health and senior services charged with the enforcement of the provisions of sections 192.400 to 192.490 have the right of entry and free access at reasonable times to any building or structure for the purposes of inspection and examination.
3. All data obtained as a result of registration, inspection or investigation shall be kept confidential by the department.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.460 - Emergency orders — compliance required — hearing.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.460. Emergency orders — compliance required — hearing. —
Whenever the department of health and senior services finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health or welfare, it may issue an order reciting the existence of an emergency and requiring that such action be taken as it deems necessary to meet the emergency. The order shall be effective immediately. Any person to whom the order is directed shall comply therewith immediately, but on application to the department shall be afforded a hearing within ten days. On the basis of the hearing the department shall continue such order in effect, revoke it, or modify it.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.470 - Judicial review.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.470. Judicial review. —
Any person aggrieved by any finding or order of the department under sections 192.400 to 192.490 may appeal as provided in chapter 536.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.480 - Law not to limit medical use of radiation.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.480. Law not to limit medical use of radiation. —
Nothing in sections 192.400 to 192.490 is interpreted as limiting intentional exposure of persons to radiation for the purpose of diagnosis or therapy, or medical research, as authorized by law.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.490 - Violation of law or regulation, misdemeanor — injunctive relief.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
192.490. Violation of law or regulation, misdemeanor — injunctive relief. —
1. Any person who violates any of the provisions of, or fails to perform any duty imposed by, sections 192.400 to 192.490, or who violates any rule or regulation of the department of health and senior services promulgated pursuant to sections 192.400 to 192.490, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, in addition, may be enjoined in a civil action by a court of competent jurisdiction from continuing the violation.
2. Each day upon which the violation occurs constitutes a separate violation.
3. The attorney general, on request of the department of health and senior services, shall bring an action for injunctive relief to prevent the violation of the provisions of sections 192.400 to 192.490 or rules or regulations promulgated under these sections.
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(L. 1963 p. 359 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.500 - Inspection of cone beam computed tomography systems and panoramic x-ray systems, when.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
Effective - 28 Aug 2017
192.500. Inspection of cone beam computed tomography systems and panoramic x-ray systems, when. —
1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Cone beam computed tomography system"
, a medical imaging device using x-ray computed tomography to capture data using a cone-shaped x-ray beam;
(2)
"Panoramic x-ray system"
, an imaging device that captures the entire mouth in a single, two-dimensional image including the teeth, upper and lower jaws, and surrounding structures and tissues.
2. Cone beam computed tomography systems and panoramic x-ray systems that cannot produce radiation intensity greater than thirty milligrays shall not be required to be inspected more frequently than every three years.
3. Cone beam computed tomography systems that can produce radiation intensity of greater than thirty milligrays shall be inspected annually.
4. In addition to the requirements of subsections 2 and 3 of this section, all cone beam computed tomography systems and panoramic x-ray systems shall be inspected within thirty days of installation and whenever moved within an office.
5. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, inspections of conventional x-ray equipment used exclusively on animals by a licensed veterinarian or veterinary facility under chapter 340 shall not be required to be inspected more frequently than every four years.
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(L. 2017 S.B. 50)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.505 - Radiation data management program to collect statistics to protect health and environment.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
Effective - 28 Aug 1985
192.505. Radiation data management program to collect statistics to protect health and environment. —
The department of health and senior services shall develop and implement a responsible data management program of collecting and analyzing statistical information necessary to protect the public health and safety or the environment, and maintain a list of the persons authorized to use, possess, store, treat, or transfer sources of radiation within the state, and disseminate information relating to sources of radiation except when such information constitutes trade secrets or confidential information of the person from whom it is obtained, unless disclosure of such information is required by federal law.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 295 § 2)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Environmental radiation monitoring program and fund, 260.750
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.507 - Radiological laboratory to be established, purpose.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
Effective - 28 Aug 1985
192.507. Radiological laboratory to be established, purpose. —
The department of health and senior services shall develop and maintain radiological laboratory capabilities for analyzing radioactivity as necessary to insure the protection of the public health.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 295 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.510 - Radiation emergencies, duties of department of health and senior services to cooperate with other agencies.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
Effective - 28 Aug 1985
192.510. Radiation emergencies, duties of department of health and senior services to cooperate with other agencies. —
The department of health and senior services shall respond to all radiation emergencies. The department shall coordinate its radiation emergency response activities and plans with the state emergency management agency, the department of natural resources and other agencies, and provide a memorandum of agreement documenting responsibilities. This section does not in any way alter or change the provisions of chapter 44 concerning response during an emergency by the office of the adjutant general or its successor agency.
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(L. 1985 H.B. 295 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 192 - Department of Health and Senior Services › Section 192.601 - Toll-free telephone to be established for information on health care providers for children on medical assistance.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
192.601. Toll-free telephone to be established for information on health care providers for children on medical assistance. —
The department of health and senior services shall establish a toll-free telephone number for the use of parents to access information about health care providers and practitioners who provide health care services under the maternal and child health block grant and the medical assistance program and about other relevant health care providers, as required by 42 U.S.C. 705(a)(5)(E). Unless otherwise prohibited by federal law or regulation, the cost of establishing and maintaining the cost of the toll-free telephone number, including the cost of personnel to operate or support it, shall be appropriated from the federal maternal and child health block grant. The MO HealthNet division of the department of social services shall provide the department of health and senior services with information it has otherwise compiled concerning health care providers who participate in the medical assistance program. The department of health and senior services shall coordinate the operation of the toll-free telephone numbers operated by the department so as to minimize duplication of administrative expense.
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(L. 1990 S.B. 765 § 9, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)