Effective - 28 Aug 2004
595.050. Contracts for services to victims, requirements, limitations. — 1. From funds appropriated for services to victims of crime, the director may contract with public or private agencies to provide assistance to victims of crime through direct services, emergency services, crisis intervention counseling and victim advocacy. Any such contract may consist solely of, or may include, educational and informational services to the public about the availability of services for victims of crime which are designed to alleviate the results of criminal acts. Under no circumstances shall the expenditures from general revenue for the purpose provided in this section exceed the amount of ninety thousand dollars each fiscal year.
2. The director shall ensure that funds administered under section 595.055, section 595.105 and this section will not be used by any agency to supplant existing funds which are presently being used to provide assistance to victims of crime. This restriction shall not apply to funds used by any not-for-profit agency.
3. Each contract shall be subject to review by the director at least annually.
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(L. 1981 H.B. 41, et al. § 9, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1195, A.L. 1992 S.B. 457, A.L. 1997 S.B. 215, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders
Chapter 595 - Victims of Crimes, Compensation and Services
Section 595.010 - Definitions.
Section 595.020 - Eligibility for compensation.
Section 595.036 - Grievances, decision of department, appeal to administrative hearing commission.
Section 595.037 - Open records, exceptions — department order to close records.
Section 595.050 - Contracts for services to victims, requirements, limitations.
Section 595.055 - Services for victims not provided, when.
Section 595.060 - Rules, authority — procedure.
Section 595.065 - Orders for payment, when effective.
Section 595.075 - Payments to witness, victim's compensation, inadmissible as evidence.
Section 595.100 - Funding, administration.
Section 595.200 - Definitions.
Section 595.206 - Victims eligible for services.
Section 595.209 - Rights of victims and witnesses — written notification, requirements.
Section 595.210 - Victims of sexually violent offenses, right to testify at parole hearings.
Section 595.215 - Duty of cooperation for prosecutor, law enforcement and social service agencies.
Section 595.223 - Polygraph tests and psychological stress evaluator exams not permitted, when.
Section 595.320 - Domestic assault offenders, costs of batterer intervention program, how paid.