2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 208 Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief
208.309. Pilot projects authorized, where--definitions.

208.309. 1. Sections 208.309 to 208.315 shall be known as the "Elders Volunteer for Elders Project (EVE) Act". Subject to appropriations, the department of social services, division of aging, shall review applications and award grants to at least three community provider organizations for the provisions of services which shall establish a three-year demonstration project designed to prevent the premature or unnecessary institutionalization of Missouri's low-income elderly citizens in specifically defined neighborhoods located in a city not within a county, a city with a population of more than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants which is located in more than one county and in region 2 of the Missouri area agencies on aging.

2. As used in sections 208.309 to 208.315, the following terms mean:

(1) "Community provider organizations", any:

(a) Charitable organization as defined in section 407.453, RSMo;

(b) Not-for-profit corporation established pursuant to chapter 355, RSMo; or

(c) An organization that has obtained an exemption from the payment of federal income taxes as provided in section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(7) or 501(c)(8) of Title 26, U.S.C., as amended;

(2) "Division", division of aging of the department of social services;

(3) "Elderly low-income person", a Missouri citizen who is sixty years of age or older and whose income is at or below one hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level;

(4) "Project", a demonstration project directed at Missouri's low-income elderly who are at risk of involuntary and unnecessary institutionalization;

(5) "Recipient", any elderly low-income person who is in need of assistance with at least one of the activities of daily life or assistance with instrumental activities of daily living. The highest priority will be given to those at risk of incapacity adjudication.

(L. 1996 S.B. 884 & 841)