Title XII, PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

210.852. Application to actions commenced prior to effective date. — Unless agreed to by the parties and the court, the provisions of sections 210.817 to 210.852 shall not apply to proceedings to determine paternity commenced prior to July 15, 1987. ­­-------- (L. 1987 S.B. 328 §…

210.853. Parenting plan in paternity actions. — Upon a finding of paternity by a court, the parties to a paternity action may submit, either separately or jointly, a parenting plan, as defined in section 452.310, regarding the child who is the subject of such paternity action. If…

210.854. Paternity and support, setting aside of judgment, criteria — division to track cases. — 1. In the event of the entry of a judgment or judgments of paternity and support, whether entered in one judgment or separately, a person against whom such a judgment or judgments hav…

210.860. Tax levy, amount, purposes — ballot — deposit of funds in special community children's services fund. — 1. The governing body of any county or city not within a county may, after voter approval pursuant to this section, levy a tax not to exceed twenty-five cents on each …

210.861. Board of directors, term, expenses, organization — powers — funds, expenditure, purpose, restrictions. — 1. When the tax prescribed by section 210.860 or section 67.1775 is established, the governing body of the city or county or city not within a county shall appoint a …

210.865. Information system, tracking of children by court and by certain state departments — information to be confidential, when. — The juvenile divisions of the circuit courts and the departments of social services, mental health, elementary and secondary education and health …

210.870. Juvenile information governance commission created, members, duties, meetings, annual report. — 1. There is hereby established the "Juvenile Information Governance Commission". 2. The commission shall be composed of the following members: (1) The director of the departme…

210.875. Children's services commission study, purpose. — 1. The Missouri children's services commission shall evaluate current state laws and policies that affect incarcerated parents and their children. The commission shall place particular emphasis on the areas of child custod…

210.877. Courts and agencies to provide information. — The circuit courts* of this state, the office of the state courts administrator, the department of public safety, the department of corrections and the department of social services shall cooperate with the commission by prov…

210.900. Definitions. — 1. Sections 210.900 to 210.936 shall be known and may be cited as the "Family Care Safety Act". 2. As used in sections 210.900 to 210.936, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Child-care provider", any licensed or license-exempt child-care home, any licens…

210.903. Family care safety registry and access line established, contents. — 1. To protect children, the elderly, the disabled, including the developmentally disabled individuals in this state, and to promote family and community safety by providing information concerning family…

210.906. Registration form, contents — violation, penalty — fees — voluntary registration permitted, when. — 1. Every child-care worker or elder-care worker hired on or after January 1, 2001, or personal-care worker hired on or after January 1, 2002, or mental health worker hired…

210.909. Department duties — information included in registry, when — registrant notification. — 1. Upon submission of a completed registration form by a child-care worker, elder-care worker, mental health worker, or personal-care attendant, the department shall: (1) Determine if…

210.912. Right to appeal, procedure. — The department's registration form for the family care safety registry and the department's notification pursuant to subsection 1 of section 210.906 and subsection 3 of section 210.909 shall advise the person of a right to appeal the informa…

210.915. Departmental collaboration on registry information — rulemaking authority. — The department of corrections, the department of public safety, the department of social services, the department of elementary and secondary education, and the department of mental health shall…

210.918. Toll-free telephone service maintained for access to information. — The department shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone service to promote family and community safety by allowing access to certain information recorded in the registry, as provided in section…

210.921. Release of registry information, when — limitations of disclosure — immunity from liability, when. — 1. The department shall not provide any registry information pursuant to this section unless the department obtains the name and address of the person or entity requestin…

210.922. Use of registry information by certain departments, when. — The department of health and senior services, department of mental health, department of elementary and secondary education, and department of social services may use the registry information to carry out the du…

210.924. Rulemaking authority. — The department and the department of social services shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of sections 210.900 to 210.936. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is cr…

210.927. Annual report, when, contents. — The department of health and senior services shall make an annual report, no later than July first of each year, to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tem of the senate on the operation of the family care sa…

210.933. Registration qualifies as compliance with other background check requirements, elder-care workers, when. — For any elder-care worker listed in the registry or who has submitted the registration form as required by sections 210.900 to 210.936, an elder-care provider may a…

210.936. Registry information deemed public record. — For purposes of providing background information pursuant to sections 210.900 to 210.936, reports and related information pursuant to sections 198.070 and 198.090, sections 210.109 to 210.183, section 630.170, and sections 192…

210.950. Safe place for newborns act — definitions — procedure — immunity from liability — fund created, use of moneys — rulemaking authority. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002". The purpose of this section is to protect…

211.011. Purpose of law — how construed. — The purpose of this chapter is to facilitate the care, protection and discipline of children who come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. This chapter shall be liberally construed, therefore, to the end that each child coming …

211.012. Status as child determined by then-existing law at time of alleged offense for juvenile court jurisdiction and incarceration purposes. — For purposes of this chapter, section 221.044, and the original jurisdiction of the juvenile court, a person shall not be considered a…

211.021. Definitions. — As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Adult", a person eighteen years of age or older; (2) "Child", any person under eighteen years of age; (3) "Juvenile court", the juvenile division o…

211.023. Juvenile court commissioner, appointment, where, term, compensation. — In each county of the first class having a charter form of government, except those counties having a family court as provided in sections 487.010 to 487.190, a majority of the circuit judges, en banc…

211.025. Judge may direct any case be heard by commissioner (counties of the first class and St. Louis City). — The judge of the juvenile court may direct that any case shall be heard in the first instance by a commissioner in the manner provided for the hearing of cases by the c…

211.027. Findings of commissioner, how submitted — notice of right to file motion for rehearing, how given. — Upon the conclusion of the hearing in each case the commissioner shall transmit to the judge all papers relating to the case, together with his findings and recommendatio…

211.029. Rehearing, motion filed when — judge may sustain or deny — commissioner's finding final, when. — The minor and his parents, guardian or custodian are entitled to file with the court a motion for a hearing by a judge of the juvenile court within fifteen days after receivi…

211.031. Juvenile court to have exclusive jurisdiction, when — exceptions — home school or FPE school, attendance violations, how treated. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the juvenile court or the family court in circuits that have a family court as provided in…

211.032. Child abuse and neglect hearings, when held, procedure — supreme court rules to be promulgated — transfer of school records, when. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in a circuit participating in a pilot project established by the Missouri supreme court, when a child, all…

211.033. Detention for violation of traffic ordinances — no civil or criminal liability created. — 1. No person under the age of eighteen years, except those transferred to the court of general jurisdiction under the provisions of section 211.071, shall be detained in a jail or o…

211.034. Extension of juvenile court jurisdiction permitted, when — procedure — immunity from liability for certain persons, when — expiration date. — 1. Any parent, legal guardian, or other person having legal custody of a minor child may, at any time after the minor child attai…

211.036. Custody of released youth may be returned to children's division, when — factors considered by court — termination of care and supervision before 21, when — appointment of GAL, when — hearings, when held. — 1. If a youth under the age of twenty-one is released from the c…

211.037. Nonoffending parent, child returned to custody of, when. — 1. For purposes of proceedings and investigations conducted pursuant to this chapter, children shall be promptly returned to the care and custody of a nonoffending parent entitled to physical custody of the child…

211.038. Children not to be reunited with parents or placed in a home, when — discretion to return, when. — 1. A child under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court shall not be reunited with a parent or placed in a home in which the parent or any person residing in the home has b…

211.041. Continuing jurisdiction over child, exception, eighteen-year-old violating state or municipal laws. — When jurisdiction over the person of a child has been acquired by the juvenile court under the provisions of this chapter in proceedings coming within the applicable pro…

211.051. Jurisdiction as to custody of child not exclusive. — Nothing contained in this chapter deprives other courts of the right to determine the legal custody of children upon writs of habeas corpus or to determine the legal custody or guardianship of children when the legal c…

211.059. Rights of child when taken into custody (Miranda warning) — rights of child in custody in abuse and neglect cases. — 1. When a child is taken into custody by a juvenile officer or law enforcement official, with or without a warrant for an offense in violation of the juve…

211.061. Arrested child taken before juvenile court — transfer of prosecution to juvenile court — limitations on detention of juvenile — detention hearing, notice. — 1. When a child is taken into custody with or without warrant for an offense, the child, together with any informa…

211.063. Secure detention, limitations — probable cause hearing required, when — definitions — application of law. — 1. A child accused of violating the provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 211.031 shall not be held in a secure detention placement for a period…

211.068. Copy of motion for certification as adult to be provided to prosecuting attorney — access to records — testimony of prosecutor. — Upon the filing of a motion to dismiss the petition pursuant to section 211.071 to allow prosecution under the general law, the juvenile offi…

211.069. Citation of law. — Sections 211.071 and 211.073 shall be known and may be cited as "Jonathan's Law". ­­-------- (L. 2013 S.B. 36)

211.071. Certification of juvenile for trial as adult — procedure — mandatory hearing, certain offenses — misrepresentation of age, effect juvenile officer duties — report — dismissal order. — 1. (1) If a petition or motion to modify alleges that a child between the ages of fourt…

211.072. Certification as an adult, placement in secure detention facility to continue transfer to adult jail, when, procedure — limitation on time in adult jail — requirements for pretrial-certified juveniles — per diem. — 1. A juvenile under eighteen years of age who has been c…