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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.377 - Sale of nursing home, requirements.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 2023
205.377. Sale of nursing home, requirements. —
1. The county commission of any county having a nursing home erected under the provisions of section 205.375 may, upon a determination by the county commissioners that the sale of such nursing home is desirable, appoint an agent, by order, to sell and dispose of the nursing home and appurtenant property, both real and personal, in the manner provided for sale of other county property. The deed of the agent, under the agent's proper hand and seal, for and on behalf of the county, duly acknowledged and recorded, shall be sufficient to convey to the purchaser all the right, title, interest, and estate which the county has in property.
2. The proceeds from the sale of the property shall be applied to the payment of any interest and principal of any outstanding valid indebtedness of the county incurred for purchase of the site or construction of the nursing home, or for any repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions thereto, or for the operation of the nursing home. If the proceeds from the sale of the nursing home property, and any interest thereon, are or will be insufficient to pay the interest and principal of any valid outstanding bonded indebtedness as they fall due, the county commission shall continue to provide for the collection of an annual tax on all taxable personal property in the county sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the indebtedness as it falls due and to retire the bonds within the time required therein.
3. Any balance of the proceeds received by the county for the sale of the nursing home remaining after all indebtedness incurred in connection with the nursing home is paid shall be placed to the credit of the general fund of the county to be used to provide health care services in the county.
4. The sale of a nursing home under this section shall be limited to purchasers who plan to operate a similar facility or otherwise provide medical services to patients, including, but not limited to, residents of the county, for a period of not less than ten years.
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(L. 2023 H.B. 402)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.378 - Inmates of public institutions to pay for care — exceptions — county may collect, how — first class counties.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
205.378. Inmates of public institutions to pay for care — exceptions — county may collect, how — first class counties. —
Every inmate in a public institution in all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government, except those incarcerated in a jail, correctional or penal institution, who is not a pauper, shall pay to such county a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing care, medicine or attendance, in such amount as determined by the county commission, provided that it shall be lawful for such county, to which such person shall become chargeable, to sue for and receive any real or personal estate and take charge and dispose of any personal property belonging to such person and apply the proceeds, or so much thereof, as is necessary to defray the cost of support and maintenance of such person.
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(L. 1965 p. 349 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.379 - Authority to employ counsel granted — counsel, how paid.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
205.379. Authority to employ counsel granted — counsel, how paid. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any of the sections of chapter 56, the board of trustees of a county hospital organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.160 through 205.378, may employ and use legal counsel, other than the prosecuting or circuit attorney or the county counselor, to represent such hospital when in the exercise of its sole discretion the board of trustees determines that such special counsel is necessary to properly protect the hospital's interests.
2. Legal counsel so employed shall be paid out of the hospital fund in the manner provided in subsection 4 of section 205.190.
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(L. 1977 H.B. 378 §§ 1, 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.460 - Tax for hospital purposes — petition for election.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
205.460. Tax for hospital purposes — petition for election. —
1. When twenty-five percent of the voters in any township or townships in this state, forty percent of whom shall not live at the time they subscribe thereto within any town of said township or townships shall petition the county commission of the county of which said township or townships is a part, asking that a tax not to exceed one-half of one cent on each dollar be levied for one year only and thereafter an annual tax not to exceed two mills on the dollar for the establishing, either by purchase or otherwise or leasing, equipping and maintaining a hospital at some place in such township or townships to be set forth in said petition, for the care and treatment of the sick and disabled therein, such county commission shall submit the question to the voters at an election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be a ______ tax for the first year and a ______ tax thereafter for a hospital?
3. The notice shall include the rate of taxation to be voted upon. If two-thirds of the voters of each township voting on said proposition shall vote for such tax, the said tax specified in such notice shall be levied and collected in like manner as other general taxes of said township or townships and be known as "Hospital Fund" and turned over by the collector of said tax to the treasurer of such hospital. The tax shall cease in case the voters in such township or townships by a two-thirds vote of the total vote cast at a municipal election held therein shall so determine.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15210, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13993
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.470 - County commission to appoint board of trustees.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
205.470. County commission to appoint board of trustees. —
When any such township or townships shall decide to establish and maintain a hospital under the provisions of sections 205.460 to 205.570, the county commission of such county of which said township or townships is a part shall appoint a board of six trustees for the same, chosen from the voters of such township or townships. Such trustees shall serve without compensation. Such trustees appointed under the provisions of sections 205.460 to 205.570 shall hold office respectively for the term of two and four years as indicated and fixed in the order of the county commission appointing them. Every two years thereafter three trustees shall be elected at the municipal election who shall hold their office for the term of four years and until their successors are elected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15211, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13994
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.480 - Vacancies, how filled.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
205.480. Vacancies, how filled. —
If a vacancy occurs in the office of director by death, resignation, refusal to serve, repeated neglect of duty or removal from the district of such hospital, the remaining trustees shall, before transacting any official business, appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy; the person appointed shall serve until the next municipal election.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15212, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13995
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.490 - Members shall elect officers, adopt bylaws — quorum.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.490. Members shall elect officers, adopt bylaws — quorum. —
The members of said board shall meet at some place to be agreed upon by the trustees appointed within ten days after their appointments have been made and organize by electing one of their members president, and one vice president, a treasurer and a secretary which position they shall hold for two years. They shall elect such other officers as they deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for the management of such hospitals and the admission and discharge of patients as they shall deem expedient. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for business.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15213)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13996
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.500 - Treasurer to give bond.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.500. Treasurer to give bond. —
The treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such, shall enter into a bond to the hospital, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned that he will render a faithful and just account of all money that may come into his hands as such treasurer, and otherwise perform the duties of his office according to law, said bond to be filed with the president of the board.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15214)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13997
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.510 - Secretary — salary — duties — compensation of treasurer.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.510. Secretary — salary — duties — compensation of treasurer. —
1. The secretary may or may not be a member of the board and shall draw such salary as the trustees shall agree upon. He shall keep a record of all the proceedings of said board which shall be open at all times to public scrutiny. The secretary shall keep a record of all money or property received from all sources and of all expenditures therefrom, also a complete record of all patients treated therein.
2. The treasurer shall receive an annual salary of one dollar.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15215)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13998
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.520 - Board to control expenditures — employ help.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.520. Board to control expenditures — employ help. —
The board shall control the expenditures of all moneys collected to the credit of the hospital fund, and the construction, leasing, equipping of such hospital and the grounds and other property real and personal belonging to such hospital, providing all moneys from taxes, donations and from any other source shall be deposited in the hospital treasury, and drawn upon by warrants signed by the president and secretary of hospital. The board shall also employ such help, professional and otherwise, as may be necessary to carry out the spirit and intent of sections 205.460 to 205.570, and all such assistants and employees shall serve at the pleasure of the board.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15216)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13999
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.530 - Meeting of board — report.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.530. Meeting of board — report. —
The board shall meet every Monday to look after the business of the hospital. They shall make on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year a detailed report, showing the receipts of all funds and the expenditures therefrom, and showing each donation, giving the name of the donor, and the date and amount of his donation, and the name of each patient and the amount paid by said patient. Said report shall be made and placed on the secretary's book and a copy posted in the office of the hospital.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15217)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14000
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.540 - Bequests and donations accepted by trustees.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.540. Bequests and donations accepted by trustees. —
Any person making bequests or donations to such hospital shall have the right to vest the title to the real estate or personal property so bequeathed or donated in the board and to be held and controlled by said board, and to all such property the board shall be held to be special trustees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15218)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14001
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.550 - Special taxes for hospital collected as township taxes.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.550. Special taxes for hospital collected as township taxes. —
The taxes authorized and provided by the terms of sections 205.460 to 205.570 shall be levied against the township or townships forming the hospital district and collected in the same manner as the regular township taxes are levied and collected.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15219)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14002
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.560 - Discontinuance of tax, when — disposition of property.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
205.560. Discontinuance of tax, when — disposition of property. —
When two-thirds of the voters as provided in section 205.460 shall vote to cease paying said tax the county commission of said county shall within three years thereafter order the same sold and all money acquired from the sale after paying all indebtedness of said hospital shall be turned into the school funds of said township or townships as their interest may appear; provided, the voters of said township or townships do not, by a vote of two-thirds reconsider and vote to continue said tax as before.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15220)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14003
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.565 - Grants for caring communities programs.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 2023, 2 histories
205.565. Grants for caring communities programs. —
The department of social services and the department of elementary and secondary education may, subject to appropriation, use, administer and dispose of any gifts, grants, or in-kind services and may award grants to qualifying entities to carry out the caring communities program.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 573 § 1 merged with S.B. 445 § 1, A.L. 2023 H.B. 447)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.765 - Health and welfare department authorized — certain counties excepted.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
205.765. Health and welfare department authorized — certain counties excepted. —
1. The county commission of any county of the first class may by resolution create a department of health and welfare which department shall be operated in the manner hereinafter set out.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, no department of health and welfare shall be created in any county of the first class not having a charter form of government in which a county health center has been established pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.010 to 205.150, whether or not the health center is established prior to the county's attaining first class status.
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(L. 1951 p. 786 § 1, A.L. 1973 H.B. 642)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.766 - Commissioners of county commission to serve as commissioners of health and welfare — duties.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
Effective - 28 Aug 1951
205.766. Commissioners of county commission to serve as commissioners of health and welfare — duties. —
1. The commissioners of the county commission shall during their term of office serve as commissioners of health and welfare of their respective counties and shall have charge and control of all county hospitals, clinics, health centers, institutions for the insane and all county corrective, welfare and eleemosynary institutions except the county jail and the place of detention used by the juvenile court.
2. Said commissioners shall have supervision of the rehabilitation of all state prisoners in the county jail after conviction and sentence thereto, subject to the approval of the county sheriff.
3. They shall perform investigational case work, excepting that relating to adoption, probation and detention of juveniles, in all cases involving the distribution and expenditure of any county funds.
4. They shall administer all laws relating to the county support of the poor and shall have charge of all boarding home care for all juveniles subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and shall perform such other duties as provided by law.
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(L. 1951 p. 786 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.767 - Director of health and welfare, appointment, compensation, assistants.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
205.767. Director of health and welfare, appointment, compensation, assistants. —
The commissioners of health and welfare may appoint a director of health and welfare and the commissioners shall fix his compensation. The commissioners may also employ such assistants as are necessary and shall fix their compensation. The cost of salaries and expenses of the department shall be apportioned to any appropriate county fund.
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(L. 1951 p. 786 § 3, A.L. 1953 p. 622, A.L. 1973 H.B. 642)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.770 - Social welfare board created — powers — second class county changing class status — may keep board.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
205.770. Social welfare board created — powers — second class county changing class status — may keep board. —
1. In any county of the second class in this state there may be created and established by order of the county commission of any such county a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of the County of ______".
2. All powers and duties connected with and incident to the betterment of social and physical causes of dependency, the relief and care of the indigent, and the care of sick dependents, with the exception of the mentally ill and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases shall be exclusively invested in and exercised by the board.
3. The board shall have power to receive and expend donations for social welfare purposes and shall have exclusive control over the distribution and expenditure of any public funds set aside and appropriated by such counties and by any city located in any such county for the relief of the temporarily dependent. The board shall have power to promote the general welfare of the poor within the limits of such counties by social and sanitary reforms, by industrial instruction, by the inculcation of habits of providence and self-dependence, and by the establishment and maintenance of any activities to these ends. The board shall have power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to assume the care of or take, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, real estate, personal property, right of property, or other valuable things, and may use, enjoy, control, sell or convey the same for charitable purposes, to have and to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.
4. The board may make bylaws for its own guidance, rules and regulations for the government of its agents, servants and employees, and for the distribution of the funds under its control.
5. If any second class county which has established a social welfare board pursuant to the provisions of this section, subsequently becomes a first class or a third class county, such county may retain its social welfare board and continue to function pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.770 to 205.840.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9578, A.L. 1945 p. 1754, A.L. 1989 H.B. 452)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12938; 1919 § 12187; 1909 § 1322
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.780 - Additional powers of board — employees (second class counties).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• Effective - 28 Aug 1945
205.780. Additional powers of board — employees (second class counties). —
Said board shall have the exclusive power to make all suitable provisions for the relief, maintenance and support of all indigent persons within said county and within any city in said county who may appropriate for the support of said board, and to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance to the sick dependents and those who are unable to support themselves; to enforce the laws of the state, the ordinances of such cities located within said county, in regard to the indigent, and to make such rules and regulations in the conduct of its business not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Missouri and the ordinances of such cities; to have exclusive control, care and management of all public hospitals owned or operated by said counties or said cities, except those for the care of the insane and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases; to recommend to the common council of said city the passage of such ordinances as said board may deem necessary for the welfare of the indigent of said city; to have the power to appoint competent physicians and surgeons, who shall hold their office at the pleasure of said board, at a salary to be fixed by said board, and said physicians and surgeons shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by said board, and shall render medical attendance to all those who may come within the provisions of this law; said board shall have the power and it shall be the duty of said board to employ and discharge all persons or officers in their judgment necessary to carry out the matters over which said board is given jurisdiction or control.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9579, A.L. 1945 p. 1754)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12939; 1919 § 12188
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9580)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12940; 1919 § 12189; 1909 § 1323
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.800 - Board, organization (second class counties).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9581)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12941; 1919 § 12190; 1909 § 1324
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9582)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12942; 1919 § 12191; 1909 § 1325
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9583)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12943; 1919 § 12192; 1909 § 1326
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9584)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12944; 1919 § 12193; 1909 § 1327
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9585)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12945; 1919 § 12194; 1909 § 1328
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9791, A.L. 1943 p. 351, A.L. 1945 p. 629)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14182
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9720)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14183
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9721)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14184
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9722)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14185
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9723)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14186
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9725)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14189
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9726)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14190
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9727, A. 1949 S.B. 1061)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14191
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9730)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14195
2023 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).

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
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.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9731)
Prior revision: 1929 § 14196
2023 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.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(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)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 205 - County Health and Welfare Programs › Section 205.961 - Family support division to regulate.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.965, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 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.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.970, A.L. 1972 S.B. 426, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 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.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.975)
2023 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.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 205
• 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.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 23 § 205.980, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)