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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.020 - Division may receive and expend donations and bequests.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.020. Division may receive and expend donations and bequests. —
The family support division is authorized to receive and use for the purposes herein enumerated, or any of them, donations and bequests, and is authorized to expend such donations and bequests in such manner as it may deem proper within the limitations imposed by the donors thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9448, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 8890; 1919 § 12362
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.035 - Proceeds from involuntary conversion, how treated — receipt defined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1972
209.035. Proceeds from involuntary conversion, how treated — receipt defined. —
1. Any proceeds from involuntary conversion of real property into personal property (such as forced transfer under condemnation, eminent domain, and fire, flood or other act of God) received by a recipient while eligible to receive blind pension benefits under existing laws shall be considered real property for a period of one year from the time of their receipt.
2. For the purposes of this section the word
"receipt"
means actual receipt of the proceeds or the payment into court of the proceeds, except that in condemnation cases where the initial exception to the commissioner's award is filed by the condemning authority, the word
"receipt"
means receipt of an award under a final judgment.
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(L. 1972 S.B. 483)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.050 - Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions — names may be stricken from roll.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.050. Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions — names may be stricken from roll. —
1. Sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall not be so construed as to grant the benefits thereof to any blind person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years who has no occupation and who, being both physically and mentally capable of some useful occupation or of receiving vocational or other training, who refuses, for any reason, to engage in such useful occupation or to avail himself or herself of such vocational or other training.
2. The family support division may grant its certificate admitting to the pension roll any applicant, otherwise qualified for a pension, who signifies his or her willingness and readiness to enter upon a course of vocational or other training; but in the event any such person fails for more than a reasonable time to enter upon such course of training, without good cause, the family support division shall strike the name of such person from the blind pension roll.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9453, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1976 S.B. 483, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8895
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.060 - Application for pension — payment begins, when — misrepresentation, penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.060. Application for pension — payment begins, when — misrepresentation, penalty. —
Any person who desires the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall file an application at the family support division office in the county of his or her residence, who is satisfied that the applicant comes within the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall certify such fact to the family support division at its office in Jefferson City, Missouri, which shall consider the merits of such application and if approved by the family support division such person shall be placed upon the blind pension rolls. All pensions payable under sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall begin on the date of the filing of the application therefor with the family support division. And whenever it shall become known to the family support division that any person whose name is on the blind pension roll is no longer qualified to receive a pension, after reasonable notice mailed to such person at his or her last known residence address the name of such person shall be stricken from the blind pension roll; provided further, any person who shall by gifts, secret disposition or other means dispose of any property in his or her possession in order to become wholly or in part within the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9454, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A.L. 1951 p. 762, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8896
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.070 - Division to prepare suitable blank application forms.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.070. Division to prepare suitable blank application forms. —
It shall be the duty of the family support division to prepare suitable blank application forms for the use of blind persons in making application for pensions, which shall contain such questions for applicant to answer and other matter as the division may deem appropriate to the end to be accomplished. All statements of an applicant contained on such application form shall be verified by the applicant and shall also be supported by the certificates of two disinterested and responsible householders of the county wherein applicant resides, who have known applicant for not less than two years next prior to date of such application, that such statements are true.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9455, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8897
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.080 - Division to make regulations relative to examination of applicants for pensions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.080. Division to make regulations relative to examination of applicants for pensions. —
It shall be the duty of the family support division to make such regulations relative to the examination of applicants for pension, including the examination by an ophthalmologist, a physician skilled in disease of the eye, or an optometrist, designated or approved by the family support division to make such examination and of all matters deemed necessary connected with the administration of this chapter. The examining ophthalmologist, a physician skilled in disease of the eye, or optometrist, shall certify in writing, upon forms provided by the family support division, the findings of the examination. The examination shall be provided for by the family support division without charge to the applicant and shall be paid as an administrative expense. No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter who shall refuse to submit to treatment or operation to effect a cure when recommended by competent medical authority and approved by the family support division, but upon submission to such treatment or operation the pension of applicant otherwise entitled thereto, shall be paid as in other cases: Provided further, that no applicant who is more than seventy-five years of age shall be required to submit to an operation to restore his or her vision in order to come under the provisions of this chapter, but may voluntarily submit to operation.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9456, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1961 p. 534, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8898
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.090 - Division to prepare roll of pensioners — to distribute pensions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.090. Division to prepare roll of pensioners — to distribute pensions. —
Monthly, the family support division shall prepare a separate roll of persons entitled to receive blind pension, which roll shall be in triplicate, showing the name, post-office address, amount of pension payable, and such other information as the family support division may determine to be necessary. One copy of each roll shall be retained as a record by the family support division. The original roll and one copy properly certified by the director, or the director's authorized agent, shall be delivered to the commissioner of administration, who shall certify the same for payment and prepare one warrant for the total amount payable to the family support division, which warrant shall be attached to the copy of the roll and delivered to the state treasurer. The commissioner of administration shall retain the original roll as a record of his or her office. The state treasurer upon receiving said roll, warrant, and checks prepared by the family support division for each person on said roll, shall sign said checks and deliver same to the family support division for delivery to the proper payees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9457, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1945 p. 1351, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A.L. 1949 p. 521, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8899
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.100 - Division to keep blind pension roll.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.100. Division to keep blind pension roll. —
The family support division shall place the names of all persons certified by it for a pension under sections 209.010 to 209.160 upon a record to be kept in its office to be known as "The Blind Pension Roll" which shall contain also the residence, post-office address, date upon which the application for pension was filed with the judge of probate division of the circuit court or family support division, and the date the certificate was received by the family support division; and the name of any person appearing upon the said blind pension roll shall be prima facie evidence of the right of such person to the pension herein provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9458, A.L. 1945 p. 1348, A.L. 1947 V. II p. 331, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8900
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.110 - Person aggrieved may appeal.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
209.110. Person aggrieved may appeal. —
Any person claiming the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160 who is aggrieved by the action of the family support division on the question of such person's vision or as to his or her property or income, residential or moral qualifications to receive the benefits of sections 209.010 to 209.160, may appeal from its decision to the circuit court of his or her judicial circuit within ninety days from the decision complained of, by giving the division notice of such appeal; such appeal shall be had and tried in the circuit court de novo, and the judgment rendered thereupon shall be final; and if such judgment be in favor of appellant a certified copy of same shall be mailed to the family support division at its office in Jefferson City.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9459, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8901
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.130 - Rate of tax to be levied.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
209.130. Rate of tax to be levied. —
There is hereby levied an annual tax of three cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the state of Missouri to provide a fund out of which shall be paid the pensions for the deserving blind as herein provided. The tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and by the same means as other state taxes are now collected. The tax, when so collected, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the blind pension fund, out of which fund shall be paid the pension as provided by law. Any balance remaining in the fund after the payment of the pensions may be appropriated for the adequate support of the commission for the blind, and any balance remaining at the end of the biennium shall be transferred to the distributive public school fund.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9461, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1959 S.B. 86)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8903
CROSS REFERENCE:
Tax for blind pensions, Const. Art. III § 38(a)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.140 - Persons violating provisions of law guilty of misdemeanor.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
209.140. Persons violating provisions of law guilty of misdemeanor. —
Any person or persons found guilty of violating any of the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who shall willfully and fraudulently violate any of the provisions of sections 209.010 to 209.160 for the purpose of obtaining any benefits thereunder, to which such person is not entitled, shall, in addition to the penalties otherwise provided herein, forfeit all right to future benefits hereunder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 9463)
Prior revision: 1929 § 8905
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.150 - Rights of persons with disabilities — service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for actual damages.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories
209.150. Rights of persons with disabilities — service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for actual damages. —
1. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the same rights afforded to a person with no such disability to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, and other public places.
2. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, is entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, taxis, streetcars, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.
3. Every person with a disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the right to be accompanied by a service dog or dogs, as defined in section 209.200, which is especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in subsection 2 of this section without being required to pay an extra charge for the service dog or dogs, as defined in section 209.200; provided that such person shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.
4. As used in sections 209.150 to 209.190, the term
"service dog"
shall have the same definition as in section 209.200.
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(L. 1941 p. 344 § 1, A.L. 1965 p. 95, A.L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1133, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196, A.L. 1996 S.B. 582, A.L. 2013 S.B. 33, A.L. 2020 S.B. 644 merged with S.B. 656)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.152 - Trainers of guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for damages.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
209.152. Trainers of guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for — liability for damages. —
Not to exceed the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, any trainer, from a recognized training center, of a guide dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog, or any member of a service dog team, as defined in section 209.200, shall have the right to be accompanied by such dog in or upon any of the premises listed in section 209.150 while engaged in the training of the dog without being required to pay an extra charge for such dog. Such trainer or service dog team member shall be liable for any damage done to the premise of facilities by such dog.
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(L. 1999 S.B. 12, A.L. 2013 S.B. 33)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.160 - Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disabilities, a misdemeanor.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
209.160. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disabilities, a misdemeanor. —
Any person or persons, firm or corporation, or the agent of any person or persons, firm or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the public facilities enumerated in section 209.150 or otherwise interferes with the rights of a totally or partially blind or deaf person, or a physically disabled person under section 209.150 shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
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(L. 1941 p. 344 § 2, A.L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1133, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.162 - Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disability, an unlawful employment practice — complaints, filed by aggrieved persons.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1996
209.162. Discrimination or interference with persons having visual, hearing or physical disability, an unlawful employment practice — complaints, filed by aggrieved persons. —
It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to discriminate against any person with a visual, aural or physical disability by interfering, directly or indirectly, with the use of an aid or appliance, including a guide dog, hearing dog or service dog by such person. Any person aggrieved by a violation of this section may make a verified complaint to the Missouri commission on human rights pursuant to the provisions of section 213.075.
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(L. 1996 S.B. 582)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.170 - October fifteenth to be white cane safety day, governor to note.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
209.170. October fifteenth to be white cane safety day, governor to note. —
Each year, the governor shall take suitable public notice of October fifteenth as "White Cane Safety Day".
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(L. 1977 S.B. 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.180 - State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1977
209.180. State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception. —
The blind and the visually handicapped shall be employed in the state service, the service of the political subdivisions of the state, in the public schools, and in all other employment supported in whole or in part by public funds on the same terms and conditions as the able-bodied, unless it is shown that the particular disability prevents the performance of the work involved.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.190 - Housing accommodations, defined — discrimination against persons with visual, hearing or physical disabilities, prohibited — dogs, guide, hearing or service to have full access — liability for actual damages.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1988
209.190. Housing accommodations, defined — discrimination against persons with visual, hearing or physical disabilities, prohibited — dogs, guide, hearing or service to have full access — liability for actual damages. —
1. Blind or visually handicapped persons, deaf or partially deaf persons, or physically disabled persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation in this state, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.
2.
"Housing accommodations"
, as used in this section means any real property, or portion thereof, which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings, but shall not include any accommodations, included within subsection 1 of this section, or any single family residence the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room therein.
3. Nothing in this section shall require any person renting, leasing, or providing for compensation real property to modify his property in any way or provide a higher degree of care for a blind or visually handicapped person, deaf or partially deaf person, or physically disabled person than for a person who is not blind or visually handicapped, deaf or partially deaf, or physically disabled.
4. Every totally or partially blind person who has or obtains a guide dog, every deaf or partially deaf person who has or obtains a hearing dog, and every physically disabled person who has or obtains a service dog shall be entitled to full and equal access to all housing accommodations provided for in this section, and he shall not be required to pay extra compensation for such dog but shall be liable for any damage done to the premises by such a dog.
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(L. 1977 S.B. 12, A.L. 1982 S.B. 840, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1196)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.192 - Definitions — blind literacy study — division of special education to make annual report.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
209.192. Definitions — blind literacy study — division of special education to make annual report. —
1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Blind persons or visually impaired persons"
, individuals who:
(a) Have a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with conventional correction, or have a limited field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance not greater than twenty degrees; or
(b) Have a reasonable expectation of visual deterioration; or
(c) Cannot read printed material at a competitive rate of speed and with facility due to lack of visual acuity;
(2)
"Literacy"
, reading and written communication and comprehension of reading and written communication. This may include, but is not limited to Braille, large print and computer-aided communications;
(3)
"Student"
, any student who is blind or any student eligible for special education services for the visually impaired as defined in P.L. 94-142.
2. The division of special education of the department of elementary and secondary education shall conduct a statewide study to assess the literacy of blind students on a grade-level basis and report its findings and recommendations to improve the literacy of blind students to the governor and general assembly no later than December first of each year.
3. The division of special education of the department of elementary and secondary education shall annually provide a report to the governor and general assembly, no later than December first of each year, which describes the division's progress in implementing the recommendations, any significant obstacles to continued progress in implementation, the division's plans and time frame for removing these obstacles.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1088 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.200 - Definitions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 3 histories
209.200. Definitions. —
As used in sections 209.150 to 209.204, not to exceed the provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Disability"
, as defined in section 213.010 including diabetes;
(2)
"Service dog"
, a dog that is being or has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Service dog includes but is not limited to:
(a)
"Guide dog"
, a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a particular blind or visually impaired person;
(b)
"Hearing dog"
, a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a particular deaf or hearing-impaired person;
(c)
"Medical alert or response dog"
, a dog that is being or has been trained to alert a person with a disability that a particular medical event is about to occur or to respond to a medical event that has occurred;
(d)
"Mental health service dog"
or
"psychiatric service dog"
, a dog individually trained for its owner who is diagnosed with a psychiatric disability, medical condition, or developmental disability recognized in the most recently published Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to perform tasks that mitigate or assist with difficulties directly related to the owner's psychiatric disability, medical condition, or developmental disability;
(e)
"Mobility dog"
, a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a person with a disability caused by physical impairments;
(f)
"Professional therapy dog"
, a dog which is selected, trained, and tested to provide specific physical therapeutic functions, under the direction and control of a qualified handler who works with the dog as a team as a part of the handler's occupation or profession. Such dogs, with their handlers, perform such functions in institutional settings, community-based group settings, or when providing services to specific persons who have disabilities. Professional therapy dogs do not include dogs, certified or not, which are used by volunteers in visitation therapy;
(g)
"Search and rescue dog"
, a dog that is being or has been trained to search for or prevent a person with a mental disability, including but not limited to verbal and nonverbal autism, from becoming lost;
(3)
"Service dog team"
, a team consisting of a trained service dog, a disabled person or child, and a person who is an adult and who has been trained to handle the service dog.
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(L. 2005 H.B. 116, A.L. 2013 S.B. 33, A.L. 2020 S.B. 644 merged with S.B. 656)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.240 - Amount of pension — need, how determined.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014, 2 histories
209.240. Amount of pension — need, how determined. —
1. The family support division shall, for the purpose of obtaining federal financial participation in aid to the blind payments, prepare a budget taking into consideration the necessary expenses in accordance with standards developed by the family support division and the income and resources of the individual claiming aid to the blind. In preparing such budget the family support division shall disregard the first eighty-five dollars per month of earned income plus one-half of earned income in excess of eighty-five dollars per month and for a period not in excess of twelve months, such additional amounts of other income and resources, in the case of an individual who has a plan for achieving self-support approved by the family support division, as may be necessary for the fulfillment of such plan. Every person passing the vision test and having the other qualifications provided in this law shall be entitled to receive aid to the blind in the amount of one hundred ten dollars monthly. Any person disqualified to receive aid to the blind may apply for pension to the blind as provided in sections 209.010 to 209.160.
2. If the funds at the disposal or which may be obtained by the family support division for the payment of benefits under this section shall at any time become insufficient to pay the full amount of benefits to each person entitled thereto, the amount of benefits of each one of such persons shall be reduced pro rata in proportion to such deficiency in the total amount available or to become available for such purpose.
3. Medical assistance for aid to the blind recipients shall be payable as provided in sections 208.151 to 208.158 without regard to any durational residence requirement for eligibility.
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(L. 1951 p. 764 § 5, A.L. 1953 p. 635, A.L. 1955 p. 694, A.L. 1959 H.B. 74, A.L. 1961 p. 536, A.L. 1963 p. 387, A.L. 1965 p. 357, A.L. 1967 p. 330, A.L. 1969 p. 347, A.L. 1971 H.B. 287, Repealed 1973 S.B. 325, A.L. 1973 H.B. 157, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.255 - Rate established to recover costs of programs — surcharge, limitations, collection — exemption from taxes.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2000
209.255. Rate established to recover costs of programs — surcharge, limitations, collection — exemption from taxes. —
1. The commission shall establish a rate recovery mechanism to recover the costs of implementing and maintaining the programs provided for in section 209.253, which shall be applied to each basic telephone access line. Any surcharge established by such rate recovery mechanism shall not be imposed upon more than one hundred basic telephone access lines per subscriber per location. Any surcharge established by such rate recovery mechanism shall not be imposed on any telephone line used to provide pay telephone service. The surcharge may appear on the bill of each local exchange telephone subscriber identified separately as a deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge. The commission shall not vary the amount of the surcharge between telephone companies nor between the class or grade of customers of any telephone company. The surcharge provided for in this section shall be exempt from the taxes provided for in chapter 144, and the surcharge shall not be construed as gross receipts or revenue of the company collecting such for the purpose of local taxation.
2. Each basic telephone access line subscriber is liable for the payment of any surcharge provided for in subsection 1 of this section. The local exchange telephone company shall not be liable for any uncollected surcharge, nor shall it have any obligation to initiate any action to enforce the collection of the surcharge.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1132 § 3 subsecs. 1, 2 merged with H.B. 1315 § 3 subsecs. 1, 2, A.L. 1993 S.B. 160, A.L. 1996 S.B. 525, A.L. 2000 S.B. 721)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.257 - Telephone company to deduct percentage to cover cost — percentage determined by PSC — money collected, deposit — use of deaf relay service fund.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1996
209.257. Telephone company to deduct percentage to cover cost — percentage determined by PSC — money collected, deposit — use of deaf relay service fund. —
The local exchange telephone company shall deduct and retain a percentage of the total surcharge amount collected each month to recover the billing, collecting, remitting and administrative costs attributed to the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge. The commission shall determine the appropriate percentage to be deducted and retained and shall include this percentage as part of its order establishing the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge. All remaining deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge money collected by local exchange telephone companies shall be remitted to the commission, who shall use such money exclusively to fund the programs provided for in section 209.253.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1132 § 3 subsec. 3 merged with H.B. 1315 § 3 subsec. 3, A.L. 1996 S.B. 525)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.258 - Deaf relay service fund established, purpose — deposit — unexpended balance not to be transferred to general revenue — commission and advisory assistive technology council to request appropriations from fund for service delivery.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2000
209.258. Deaf relay service fund established, purpose — deposit — unexpended balance not to be transferred to general revenue — commission and advisory assistive technology council to request appropriations from fund for service delivery. —
1. All remaining deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge money collected by local exchange telephone companies pursuant to section 209.257 shall be paid to the director of revenue in a manner prescribed by the public service commission. The director of revenue shall remit such payments to the state treasurer.
2. The state treasurer shall credit such payments to a special fund, which is hereby created, to be known as the "Deaf Relay Service and Equipment Distribution Program Fund" which fund shall be devoted solely to the payment of expenditures actually incurred in operation of the statewide dual-party relay service and equipment distribution program authorized by section 209.253, including expenses associated with the administration of the dual-party relay service and equipment distribution program or incurred by members of any advisory committee appointed by the commission or Missouri assistive technology advisory council to help in the administration of the statewide telecommunications equipment distribution program authorized by section 209.253.
3. Any unexpended balance in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080 relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund, but shall be applicable by appropriation of the general assembly to the payment of expenditures for the dual-party relay service and equipment distribution program in the succeeding fiscal year.
4. The commission shall annually request, through a separate budget line item, appropriations from the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund to deliver the dual-party relay service. The Missouri assistive technology advisory council shall annually request, through a separate budget line item of its departmental budget, appropriations from the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund to deliver the telecommunications equipment distribution program.
5. The current surcharge rate shall not increase for a period of two years after August 28, 2000, subject to change in federal requirements for deaf relay services.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 95, A.L. 1994 S.B. 552, A.L. 1996 S.B. 525, A.L. 2000 S.B. 721)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.259 - Review of surcharge and deduction percentage — recommendation procedures — surcharge adjusted when — excess funds, effective.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2000
209.259. Review of surcharge and deduction percentage — recommendation procedures — surcharge adjusted when — excess funds, effective. —
1. From the date of implementing the deaf relay service and equipment distribution fund surcharge, the commission shall review such surcharge no less frequently than every two years but no more than annually and shall order changes in the amount of the surcharge as necessary to assure available funds for the provision of the programs established in section 209.253.
2. The Missouri assistive technology advisory council shall annually provide the department with information on actual expenditures for the equipment distribution program along with projections for future need to assist in surcharge review. On August 28, 2000, the department shall make its initial recommendation to the commission regarding the amount of the surcharge established in section 209.255 necessary for funding of the equipment distribution program. Thereafter, the department may annually make a recommendation to the commission regarding the amount of the surcharge for that program. The commission shall, based on the department's recommendation, issue an order revising the surcharge established in section 209.255 as necessary to fund the equipment distribution program. The department's recommendation shall be based on the estimated number of access lines and anticipated budget for the coming fiscal year. The amount of the surcharge recommended by the department shall be sufficient to recover the annual costs of implementing and maintaining the equipment distribution program.
3. Concurrent with the review of the surcharge, the commission shall review the percentage deducted and retained by the local exchange telephone company provided in section 209.257 and if necessary shall order adjustments to the percentage to assure a just and reasonable compensation to the local exchange telephone company. Where the review of the surcharge determines that excess funds are available, the commission may order the suspension of the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge for a period which the commission deems appropriate.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1132 § 3 subsec. 4 merged with H.B. 1315 § 3 subsec. 4, A.L. 1996 S.B. 525, A.L. 2000 S.B. 721)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.260 - Telecommunications companies responsibility for quality of services, individuals with disabilities.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
Effective - 28 Aug 1996, 2 histories
209.260. Telecommunications companies responsibility for quality of services, individuals with disabilities. —
Telecommunications companies shall ensure, if readily achievable as defined by federal law 42 U.S.C.A. section 12181(9), that high quality existing and new telecommunications services are available, accessible and usable by individuals with disabilities, unless making the services available, accessible or usable would result in an undue burden, including unreasonable costs or technical infeasibility, or would have an adverse competitive effect.
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(L. 1996 S.B. 525 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.261 - Definitions.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
209.261. Definitions. —
As used in sections 209.261 to 209.265, the following terms mean:
(1)
"Auxiliary aids and services"
, the device or service that the deaf person feels would best serve him which includes, but is not limited to, interpreters, notetakers, transcription services, written materials, assistive listening devices, assistive listening systems, closed caption decoders, open and closed captioning, videotext display or other effective method of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing loss;
(2)
"Deaf person"
, any person who, because of a hearing loss, is not able to discriminate speech when spoken in a normal conversational tone regardless of the use of amplification devices;
(3)
"Person with a speech impairment"
, any person who, because of a speech disability, is not able to speak clearly or understandably in a normal conversational tone regardless of the use of assistive devices;
(4)
"Relay agent"
, a person employed to relay conversations for a person who is deaf or speech impaired over a dual-party telephone system.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 600 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.263 - Person relaying conversation not to disclose contents, exception — order to disclose — privilege.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
209.263. Person relaying conversation not to disclose contents, exception — order to disclose — privilege. —
1. A person who interprets, transliterates or relays a conversation between a person who can hear and a deaf person is deemed a conduit for the conversation and may not disclose, or be compelled to disclose by subpoena, the contents of the conversation which he facilitated without the prior consent of the person who received his professional services, except as provided in subsection 2 of this section.
2. A court may order disclosure of the contents of a conversation to provide evidence in proceedings related to criminal charges. However, all communications which are privileged by law shall be protected as privileged communications in the same manner as communications when an auxiliary aids and services provider or relay agent is used.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 600 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.265 - No disclosure of conversation without permission — penalty.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
209.265. No disclosure of conversation without permission — penalty. —
1. An auxiliary aids and services provider or relay agent who is employed to interpret, transliterate or relay a conversation between a person who can hear and a person who is deaf or speech impaired shall not disclose the contents of the conversation, unless the person for whom he interpreted, transliterated or relayed has given written permission for such disclosure.
2. Violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 600 § 3, A.L. 1995 H.B. 135)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XII - Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 209 - Disabilities Assistance, Aid to the Blind, and Rights of Persons with Visual, Hearing or Physical Disabilities › Section 209.287 - Board for certification of interpreters established — appointment, qualification, terms — expenses — meetings — chairman elected how — quorum — removal from office, procedure.

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209
• Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
209.287. Board for certification of interpreters established — appointment, qualification, terms — expenses — meetings — chairman elected how — quorum — removal from office, procedure. —
1. There is hereby established within the Missouri commission for the deaf and hard of hearing a board to be known as the "Board for Certification of Interpreters", which shall be composed of three members. The executive director of the Missouri commission for the deaf and hard of hearing or the director's designee shall be a nonvoting member of the board.
2. The members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate from a list of recommendations from the commission. The members shall be appointed for terms of three years. No member shall be eligible to serve more than two consecutive terms, except a person appointed to fill a vacancy for a partial term may serve two additional terms. One of the members appointed shall be deaf, one shall be a certified interpreter, and one shall be deaf or a certified interpreter. The members shall be fluent in American sign language, Pidgin Signed English, oral, tactile sign, or any specialized vocabulary used by deaf persons. The member shall have a background and knowledge of interpreting and evaluation.
3. The members shall receive no compensation for their services on the board, but the commission shall reimburse the members for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. The board shall meet not less than two times per year. The board shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a secretary. A quorum of the board shall consist of two of its members.
4. Any member of the commission may petition the governor to remove a member from the board for the following reasons: misconduct, inefficiency, incompetence or neglect of his official duties. The governor may remove the member after giving the committee member written notice of the charges against him or her and an opportunity to be heard pursuant to administrative procedures in chapter 621.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 568 § 2, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1783, A.L. 2018 S.B. 843)