2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XL ADDITIONAL EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS
Chapter 660 Department of Social Services
Section 660.403 License required to operate day care program--forms--investigation--requirements--license validity period, provisional license issued, when.

660.403. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, maintain, or operate an adult day care program, or to advertise or hold himself out as being able to perform any adult day care service, unless he has obtained the proper license.

2. All applications for licenses shall be made on forms provided by the division and in the manner prescribed by the division. All forms provided shall include a fee schedule.

3. The division shall conduct an investigation of the adult day care program, and the applicant, for which a license is sought in order to determine if such program is complying with the following:

(1) Local fire safety requirements or fire safety requirements of the division if there are no local codes;

(2) Local or state sanitation requirements;

(3) Local building and zoning requirements, where applicable;

(4) Staff/adult ratios required by the division; and

(5) Other applicable provisions of sections 199.025 and 660.403 to 660.420 and all applicable rules promulgated pursuant thereto, including but not limited to:

(a) The applicant's ability to render adult day care;

(b) The proposed plan for providing adult day care;

(c) The proposed plan of operation of the adult day care program, so that, in the judgment of the division, minimum standards are being met to insure the health and safety of the participants.

4. Following completion of its investigation made pursuant to subsection 3 of this section and a finding that the applicant for a license has complied with all applicable rules promulgated pursuant to sections 199.025 and 660.403 to 660.420 the division shall issue a license to such applicant. Such license shall be valid for the period designated by the division, which period shall not exceed two years from the date of issuance, for the premises and persons named in the application.

5. Each license issued under sections 199.025 and 660.403 to 660.420 shall include the name of the provider, owner and operator; the name of the adult day care program; the location of the adult day care program; the hours of operations; the number and any limitations or the type of participants who may be served; and the period for which such license is valid.

6. The division may issue a provisional license to an adult day care program that is not currently meeting requirements for a license but which demonstrates the potential capacity to meet full requirements for license; except that, no provisional license shall be issued unless the director is satisfied that the operation of the adult day care program is not detrimental to the health and safety of the participants being served. The provisional license shall be nonrenewable and shall be valid for the period designated by the division, which period shall not exceed six months from the date of issuance. Upon issuance of a regular license, a day care program's provisional license shall immediately be null and void.

(L. 1984 H.B. 1131 5)

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