Title XL — ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

630.183. Officers may authorize medical treatment for patient. — Subject to other provisions of this chapter, the head of a mental health or developmental disability facility may authorize the medical and surgical treatment of a patient or resident under the following circumstanc…

630.186. Purchase of food limited to that for use of patients. — Any purchase of food in any institution under the control of the department, other than the usual quantity purchased for the patients or residents thereof, to be used by or for anyone other than the patients or resi…

630.192. Limitations on research activities in mental health facilities and programs. — No biomedical or pharmacological research shall be conducted in any mental health facility or mental health program in which people may be civilly detained pursuant to chapter 632 or in any pu…

630.193. Professional review committee to make recommendations to director — committee members, appointment, qualifications, terms, compensation — organization and meetings. — 1. A "Professional Review Committee", consisting of ten members appointed by the director is hereby crea…

630.194. Professional review committee to review proposals, make report and recommendations — director to approve or disapprove — to review work in progress. — 1. Persons seeking to initiate any research in residential facilities or day programs funded, operated or licensed by th…

630.196. Research review committee at department facilities — committee members, appointment, qualifications, terms, compensation — organization and meetings. — 1. A "Research Review Committee", consisting of five members, shall be established at each department facility where re…

630.198. Duties of research review committee. — 1. After a project has been approved by the professional review committee, the research review committees shall determine that the persons selected to participate in biomedical or pharmacological research or their parents or guardia…

630.199. Research involving persons civilly detained, sections applicable. — Sections 630.194, 630.196 and 630.198 shall apply to all proposed biomedical or pharmacological research that involves persons civilly detained. ­­-------- (L. 1996 S.B. 884 & 841)

630.200. Discrimination prohibited. — In accordance with state and federal law, no mental health facility or mental health program in which people may be civilly detained pursuant to chapter 632 and no residential facility, day program or specialized service operated, funded or l…

630.202. Essential caregiver designation, procedure, requirements. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Department", the department of mental health; (2) "Essential caregiver", a family member, friend, guardian, or other individual selected by a facility r…

630.205. Patient or representative liable for costs of services rendered — parents not liable, when — denial of services for inability to pay prohibited, when — department subrogated to rights of patient, parent, or recipient, when. — 1. The person receiving services and the pers…

630.210. Charges for pay patients — each facility considered a separate unit — director to determine rules for means test and domicile verification — failure to pay, effect — exceptions, emergency treatment for transients — waiver of means test for certain children, when. — 1. Th…

630.215. Pay patient, how determined — estate of patient, court to notify director and conservator — failure to pay, may discharge — appeal. — 1. Any probate division of the circuit court having knowledge of the existence of an estate of a patient, resident or client receiving se…

630.220. Court actions by department on behalf of institutions — interest on accounts of patients. — For all debts and demands whatsoever to any of the residential facilities or day programs subject to the control of the department, and for all damages for failure of contract, fo…

630.225. Pay patient to be provided suitable clothing before admission — may receive gifts of clothing. — Before any patient who can support himself is admitted into any facility operated by the department, he shall be furnished, by those responsible for his support, with suitabl…

630.305. Funds of patient, control, expenditure, return, safekeeping. — 1. For purposes of this section, the term "money" includes any legal tender, note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check or credit card. 2. A department residential facility may require that all m…

630.310. Receipt of funds of patient, procedure. — A department residential facility may accept funds which a parent, guardian or other person wishes to provide for the use or benefit of a patient or resident of the facility. The possession and use of such funds shall be governed…

630.315. Department may become payee for patient, procedure. — A department residential facility may accept an appointment to serve as representative payee or fiduciary, or in a similar capacity for payments to a patient or resident under a public or private benefit arrangement. …

630.320. Disposition of unclaimed funds of patient — escheats, procedure. — 1. If any patient or resident dies, is released, escapes or otherwise leaves the care of the department, and leaves any personal funds in the custody of a department facility, the head of the facility sha…

630.325. Disposition of unclaimed personal property of patient. — If any patient or resident dies, is released, escapes, or otherwise leaves the care of the department, and leaves any article or articles of tangible personal property in the custody of a department facility, the h…

630.330. Department may receive gifts — disposal of gift property — mental health trust fund created. — 1. The director may for the benefit of the department or any residential facility operated by the department take, receive, administer and hold in trust all grants, gifts, dona…

630.335. Canteens and commissaries authorized — operation. — 1. With the approval of the director, the head of any of the department's mental health or developmental disability facilities or regional centers may establish and operate a canteen or commissary for the use and benefi…

630.340. Sheltered workshops and activity centers authorized — operation. — 1. With the approval of the director, the head of any mental health or intellectual disability facility or regional center operated by the department may establish a vocational activity center for its pat…

630.350. Limitation on bank accounts. — The department or any of its facilities shall not maintain any funds or accounts in concentrated bank accounts or other state accounts unless the funds or accounts are authorized by law. ­­-------- (L. 1980 H.B. 1724)

630.405. Purchase of services, procedure — commissioner of administration to cooperate — rules, procedure. — 1. The department may purchase services for patients, residents or clients from private and public vendors in this state with funds appropriated for this purpose. 2. Servi…

630.407. Administrative entities may be recognized, when — contracting with vendors — subcontracting — department to promulgate rules. — 1. The department may recognize providers as administrative entities under the following circumstances: (1) Vendors operated or funded pursuant…

630.410. Evaluation of contracts. — The department shall evaluate any proposed contract to determine whether it meets the following criteria: (1) Conformance with the conditions and priorities of the regional and state division plans; (2) Compliance with department rules and regu…

630.415. Terms of contracts. — 1. Each contract shall provide by its terms for units of a single service or several services accessible to persons needing them in defined geographic areas. 2. Through monitoring of the contracts under department rules and under the contract terms,…

630.420. Affiliation agreements from vendors required. — To coordinate a delivery system of accessible department services, to integrate vendor programs into the department system and to avoid duplication of state-provided or -supported services, the department shall require affi…

630.425. Incentive grants authorized — rules and regulations — duration of grants. — 1. The department may make incentive grants from funds specifically appropriated for this purpose to private and public entities seeking to establish a residential facility, day program or specia…

630.430. Commissioner of administration to make rules and regulations for incentive grants. — 1. The commissioner of administration, in consultation with the director, shall promulgate rules establishing the procedures to contract with grantees which receive incentive-grant funds…

630.435. Affiliation agreements from grantees required. — To coordinate the delivery system of accessible department services, to integrate the community-based program into the department system and to avoid duplication of state-provided or -supported services, the department sha…

630.440. Payment to grantees, procedure. — The department shall pay the grantees in periodic interim payments rather than lump sum payments and shall require that the grantees, before receiving any subsequent payments after their initial payments, submit invoices describing their…

630.445. Records required of vendors or grantees, contents — access for inspection. — 1. Each vendor or grantee under contract with the department under this chapter or chapter 631, 632, or 633, shall keep such records as the department shall prescribe, including records which fu…

630.450. Duplication of programs to be avoided. — If a residential facility, day program or other specialized service proposes to be funded by the department to provide services which the department provides through any of its facilities, programs or specialized services, the dep…

630.455. Attorney general to seek restitution for department. — The attorney general shall represent the department to seek restitution of any moneys dispensed under this chapter which have been misappropriated, fraudulently obtained or overpaid. ­­-------- (L. 1980 H.B. 1724)

630.460. Overpayment, defined — overpayment reimbursement request by department, procedure, review procedure — interest, amount, when — collection of overpayment, attorney general. — 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "overpayment" means any payment by the department t…

630.462. Contractors for community psychiatric rehabilitation, reviews, how conducted. — All department reviews of contractors for community psychiatric rehabilitation services shall be the same regardless of whether or not a provider is designated as an administrative entity pur…

630.505. Department to name facilities. — The department shall designate the names of each of its facilities. No official name shall contain terminology which, from a public standpoint, could be regarded as stigmatizing or denigrating. ­­-------- (L. 1980 H.B. 1724)

630.510. Inventory of facilities — plan for new facilities. — At least once every three years, the department shall conduct a complete statewide inventory of its existing facilities and a survey of needs for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disab…

630.525. Destruction of obsolete structures — procedure. — If any major building standing on property under the supervision and control of the department is in such a state of dilapidation or disrepair as to be, in the opinion of the director, dangerous to patients or residents, …

630.535. Unneeded property may be transferred to another state agency — procedure. — 1. If the department discontinues the use of any building or real property on any of the grounds of a residential facility operated by it and determines it has no future use for the building or g…

630.540. Proposed transfers and conveyances to be reviewed. — The board of public buildings, as created under section 8.010, and the commissioner of administration shall review each proposed transfer or conveyance of any interest in real property owned by the state for the depart…

630.545. Board and living quarters for employees of facilities. — In addition to salary and wages, when the director shall determine that it is in the best interest of the state to do so, the department may provide any employee in any institution under its control with board and …

630.546. Lease purchase agreement authorized for use of facilities constructed by private developer on grounds of existing St. Louis state hospital, procedure — deemed to be public works, wage rate. — 1. The commissioner of administration is authorized to enter into a lease-purch…

630.550. Centralized supply warehouses established, costs — mental health central supply fund, created, administered — charges, operation of fund. — 1. The director of the department of mental health may for the benefit of the department or its facilities establish and operate or…

630.575. Council created, members, duties, terms, meetings. — 1. There is hereby established within the department of mental health the "Missouri Eating Disorder Council" which shall consist of the following persons to be selected by and the number of members to be determined by …

630.580. Education and awareness programs established — cooperation of state agencies. — 1. The department of mental health, in collaboration with the departments of health and senior services, elementary and secondary education, and higher education and in consultation with the …

630.605. Placement programs to be maintained. — The department shall establish a placement program for persons affected by a mental disorder, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability or alcohol or drug abuse. The department may utilize residential facilit…

630.610. Applications for placement — criteria to be considered. — 1. If the head of a facility operated by the department determines that placement out of the facility would be appropriate for any patient or resident, the head of the facility shall refer the patient or resident …