2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 261.105. — Demonstration awards--technology and strategy in food and fiber production--rule authorization, procedure.

261.105. 1. The department of agriculture shall make demonstration awards, out of appropriations made for that purpose, to the center for sustainable agricultural systems of the University of Missouri college of agriculture for the development and coordination of demonstration projects on the lands of individual farmers in this state which identify, develop and demonstrate agricultural technologies and farm management strategies in food and fiber production carried out under actual farming conditions that will reduce the dependency of food and fiber production on nonrenewable inputs. In any one fiscal year, no more than* thirty such demonstration project awards shall be made and no award shall exceed four thousand five hundred dollars for any one demonstration project. The department of agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Missouri college of agriculture and the University of Missouri extension service, shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and for the identification of demonstration projects and award areas. The demonstration projects shall be selected on a broad geographical basis so that each agricultural area of the state is represented as nearly as practicable. The demonstration projects shall be selected on the basis of innovative practices based on competitive applications received. Each demonstration project shall be monitored by the University of Missouri extension service and a report of the project shall be made to the department of agriculture.

2. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is promulgated under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to repeal or affect the validity of any rule filed or adopted prior to August 28, 1999, if it fully complied with the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, 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, 1999, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 1990 H.B. 1653 §§ 26, A, A.L. 1993 S.B. 84, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1207, A.L. 1999 H.B. 152 merged with S.B. 310)

*Word "than" does not appear in original rolls.