Title XII — PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

188.335. Program established, purpose — matching moneys to be sought — moneys not to be used for abortions or abortion services. — 1. There is hereby established the "Missouri Alternatives to Abortion Public Awareness Program" which shall be administered by a state agency or agen…

188.375. Citation of act — definition — limitation on abortion, when — violation, penalty — method or technique to be utilized — severability clause. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Late-Term Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act". 2. As used in this …

189.010. Definitions — funds intended for poor patients — patients that are ineligible. — 1. As used in sections 189.010 to 189.085, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean: (1) "Approved provider", hospitals, clinics, laboratories, or other healt…

189.015. Local public hospital tax effort — report — amount required — report filed when. — The chief fiscal officer of: (1) Each city and county operating a hospital, clinic operated by a social welfare board of a county of the second class, or hospital district in the state of …

189.020. Director may require further data — may examine books and records or request audit. — Upon receipt of the above information, the director may: (1) Request further information concerning receipts and expenditures of the city, county, corporation, or district; and may (2) …

189.025. Director may propose allocations — to report local tax effort and proposed allocations to state board of health and fiscal officers of governmental body. — The director shall promptly propose such allocations in the statements which he shall determine to be reasonably ne…

189.030. State board of health to approve proposed allocations — letter of approval to chief fiscal officers and director — to revise allocations by June fifteenth. — Upon receipt of the information from the director, the state board of health and senior services shall within for…

189.035. Warrants — issuance — amounts, how determined. — Upon receipt of the revised proposal under section 189.030 from the state board of health and senior services, the commissioner of administration shall issue warrants on the state treasurer for an amount equal to the lesse…

189.040. Payment to local government treasurer — funds, how used. — The state treasurer shall pay the warrants to the treasurer of the city, county, corporation or district, who shall deposit the same to be used to supplement the appropriations from the local governmental agency …

189.045. Minimum expenditure required of local government or aid withheld. — Other than for the year for which the chief fiscal officer first renders a report hereunder, and notwithstanding the provisions of sections 189.030 and 189.035, no payment shall be made to any city, coun…

189.050. Local residency requirement prohibited. — 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no hospital in this state receiving state assistance under the provisions of sections 189.010 to 189.085 shall deny any services and care described in section 189.010 to a …

189.055. Duties of department of social services. — The department is hereby designated as administrator of sections 189.010 to 189.085 and: (1) Shall formulate and carry on a program to achieve the purposes of sections 189.010 to 189.085. Such program shall be developed in consu…

189.060. Director to promulgate rules and regulations, procedure, liaison personnel to be appointed. — 1. Within six months from August 13, 1974, the director shall promulgate rules and regulations required by sections 189.010 to 189.085 pursuant to this section and chapter 536. …

189.065. Special need areas, expenditures for. — The department is authorized and directed to work with public and private institutions and agencies or persons to insure that special services will be available in all regions of the state, both rural and metropolitan. Whenever ser…

189.070. Inspections required, when. — Prior to its acceptance as an approved provider, the director shall cause an inspection to be made of its facilities to determine that the facility is in compliance with the standards prescribed in section 189.020 and with the regulations pr…

189.075. Payments on actual cost and fair and reasonable cost basis. — Funds appropriated under sections 189.010 to 189.085 shall be paid only to providers meeting standards promulgated under sections 189.010 to 189.085. Reimbursement for facilities and equipment approved by the …

189.080. Eligibility requirements for patients. — Any high risk patient residing in the state of Missouri who is in need of services because of his* condition, who has been certified by a licensed physician as having a high risk condition and who, as a person, can probably benefi…

189.085. Department to keep records — applicant and recipient records confidential, exception. — The department shall develop and maintain appropriate records of services and financial transactions relating to sections 189.010 to 189.085. Disclosure of such information shall be r…

189.095. Hospitals which qualify for certain MO HealthNet funds are ineligible to receive certain payments — hospitals may elect to reject, when — MO HealthNet division to use funds which would have gone to hospital — division may issue rules and regulations. — 1. Hospitals eligi…

190.001. Citation. — Sections 190.001 to 190.245 shall be known and may be cited as the "Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services Systems Act". ­­-------- (L. 1998 S.B. 743)

190.010. Territory of district may be noncontiguous — ambulance districts authorized except in counties of 400,000 or more population — district, how named. — 1. An ambulance district may be created, incorporated and managed as provided in sections 190.001 to 190.090 and may exer…

190.015. Petition to form, contents — ambulance district boundaries (St. Louis County) — sales tax in lieu of property tax permitted, exception St. Louis County. — 1. Whenever the creation of an ambulance district is desired, a number of voters residing in the proposed district e…

190.020. Public hearing, notice — costs, how paid. — 1. Upon the filing of the petition with the county clerk, he shall present it to the commissioners of the county commission who shall thereupon set the petition for hearing within not less than thirty nor more than forty days a…

190.025. Petitions — consolidation, when — amended, how. — If two or more petitions covering in part the same territory are filed prior to the public hearing upon the petition which is first filed, the petitions shall be consolidated for public hearing, and hearing thereon may be…

190.030. Sufficiency of petition, county commission to determine. — If the territory, petition and proceedings meet the requirements of sections 190.005 to 190.085, the county commissioners shall make a finding determining the sufficiency of the petition and that the territory me…

190.035. Notice of election, contents. — Each notice shall state briefly the purpose of the election, setting forth the proposition to be voted upon and a description of the territory. The notice shall further state that any district upon its establishment shall have the powers, …

190.040. Form of ballot — effect of passage on tax rate — fund created — refunds, when. — 1. For the organization of a district which shall levy a property tax, the question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall there be organized in the counties of ______…

190.041. Tax levy for central dispatching service, when, amount — funds kept separate. — 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an additional tax of not to exceed three cents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation may be levied and collected by any ambulance distri…

190.043. Increase in tax rate without voter approval, when, amount. — Subject to the provisions of chapter 137, in addition to the tax rate increase allowed pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection 5 of section 137.073, if an ambulance district voluntarily decreases its tax rate…

190.045. Returns of election, where filed — effect of. — The results of the submission of the question shall be entered upon the records of the commission and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the county clerk of each other county in which the proposed district lies, w…

190.050. Election districts, how established — election of directors — declaration of candidacy filed, where, when. — 1. After the ambulance district has been declared organized, the declaring county commission, except in counties of the second class having more than one hundred …

190.051. Change in number of board members, when — ballot language. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 190.050 and 190.052 to the contrary, upon a motion by the board of directors in districts where there are six-member boards, and upon approval by the voters in the …

190.052. Board member must live in his district — vacancies, how filled. — Any member of the board of directors who moves residency from the district from which the member was elected shall be disqualified as a member of the board. If one or two vacancies occur in the membership …

190.053. Educational training required for board of directors — failure to attend. — 1. All members of the board of directors of an ambulance district first elected on or after January 1, 2008, shall attend and complete an educational seminar or conference or other suitable train…

190.055. Powers of board — seal and bylaws required — reimbursement of board members' expenses — secretary and treasurer, additional compensation — board member attendance fees, when — ineligibility for board employment, when. — 1. The board of directors of a district shall posse…

190.056. Recall of directors, procedure. — 1. Each member of an ambulance district board of directors shall be subject to recall from office by the registered voters of the election district from which he or she was elected. Proceedings may be commenced for the recall of any such…

190.060. Powers of district. — 1. An ambulance district shall have the following governmental powers, and all other powers incidental, necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and effectuate the express powers: (1) To establish and maintain an ambulance service within its …

190.065. Bonds, issuance of — election, form of ballot. — 1. For the purpose of purchasing any property or equipment necessary or incidental to the operation of an ambulance service, the board of directors may borrow money and issue bonds for the payment thereof in the manner pro…

190.070. Annexation, petition for — hearing — election, form of ballot. — 1. A petition for annexation of land to an ambulance district shall be signed by not less than ten percent or fifty voters, whichever is fewer, residing within the territory therein described proposed for a…

190.074. Collection of taxes — levy — procedure. — To levy and collect taxes as herein provided, the board shall fix a rate of levy, not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of the taxable tangible property within the district as shown by the last completed as…

190.075. Records, what and how kept. — The board shall provide for the proper and safe keeping of its permanent records and for the recording of the corporate action of the district. Such books and records shall be made available for inspection by any member of the board upon req…

190.076. Audit of district, when — availability to public. — Each ambulance district shall arrange for an audit of the records and accounts of the district at least every three years by a certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants. The audit shall be made…

190.080. Donated property — title, how taken. — Any person desiring to donate property for the benefit of an ambulance district established pursuant to the provisions of sections 190.005 to 190.085 may vest title to the property so donated in the board of directors created pursua…

190.085. Failure to approve bonds, effect of — dissolution — funds, how rebated. — In any ambulance district created under the provisions of sections 190.005 to 190.085, which is not operating an ambulance service and in which the voters of said district have on three separate oc…

190.087. Ambulance district serving city in more than one county may be expanded — procedure (Franklin County). — The boundaries of any ambulance district established pursuant to chapter 190, which is located in a noncharter county of the first classification with a population of…

*190.088. Detachment from ambulance district, procedure (City of Riverside) — inapplicable to St. Louis County. — 1. A city of the fourth classification with more than two thousand seven hundred but fewer than three thousand inhabitants and located in any county of the first clas…

190.090. Consolidation of ambulance districts, procedure for — form of ballot — transition provisions for consolidation. — 1. Two or more organized ambulance districts may consolidate into one ambulance district by following the procedures set forth in this section. 2. If the con…

190.091. Vaccination program for first responders and telecommunicators offered — definitions — participation voluntary, exception — contingent effective date. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Bioterrorism", the intentional use of any microorganism, vi…

190.092. Defibrillators, requirements — good faith immunity from civil liability, when — all basic life support ambulances and stretcher vans to be equipped with. — 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Access to Automated External Defibrillator Act". 2. …

190.094. Minimum ambulance staffing — volunteer defined. — 1. Any ambulance licensed in this state, when used as an ambulance and staffed with volunteer staff, shall be staffed with a minimum of one emergency medical technician and one other crew member who may be a licensed emer…