Mo. Rev. Stat. § 214.392 : PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE — Cemeteries —CEMETERY ENDOWED CARE TRUST FUND LAW — Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries - rulemaking authority
1. The division shall:
(1) Recommend prosecution for violations of the provisions of sections
214.270 to
214.410 to the appropriate prosecuting, circuit attorney or to the attorney general;
(2) Employ, within limits of the funds appropriated, such employees as are necessary to carry out the provisions of sections
214.270 to
214.410;
(3) Be allowed to convey full authority to each city or county governing body the use of inmates controlled by the department of corrections and the division of probation and parole to care for abandoned cemeteries located within the boundaries of each city or county;
(4) Exercise all budgeting, purchasing, reporting and other related management functions;
(5) Be authorized, within the limits of the funds appropriated, to conduct investigations, examinations, or audits to determine compliance with sections
214.270 to
214.410;
(6) The division may promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of sections
214.270 to
214.516, including but not limited to:
(a) Rules setting the amount of fees authorized pursuant to sections
214.270 to
214.516. The fees shall be set at a level to produce revenue that shall not substantially exceed the cost and expense of administering sections
214.270 to
214.516. All moneys received by the division pursuant to sections
214.270 to
214.516 shall be collected by the director who shall transmit such moneys to the department of revenue for deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the endowed care cemetery audit fund created in section
193.265;
(b) Rules to administer the inspection and audit provisions of the endowed care cemetery law;
(c) Rules for the establishment and maintenance of the cemetery registry pursuant to section
214.283.
2. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section
536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section
536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.
§ 214.392, RSMo
Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, SB 26,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.
Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, SB 53,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.
L. 1994 S.B. 496, A.L. 2001 H.B. 567, A.L. 2010H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754