2013 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XIII CORRECTIONAL AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 219 Youth Services
Section 219.091 Community work program--design and approval of work projects--custody, contract of offenders--eligibility--crew leaders--rules, procedure.

Community work program--design and approval of work projects--custody, contract of offenders--eligibility--crew leaders--rules, procedure.

219.091. 1. As used in this section, the term "department" means:

(1) The office of administration;

(2) The department of agriculture;

(3) The department of conservation;

(4) The department of economic development;

(5) The department of elementary and secondary education;

(6) The department of health and senior services;

(7) The department of higher education;

(8) The department of transportation;

(9) The department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration;

(10) The department of labor and industrial relations;

(11) The department of mental health;

(12) The department of natural resources;

(13) The department of public safety;

(14) The department of revenue; and

(15) The department of social services.

2. The division of youth services shall develop and establish a community work program whereby offenders from age fourteen to eighteen committed to the custody of the division may be employed in projects developed and established by any department.

3. The director or chief administrative officer of any department may request that the director of the division of youth services choose suitable offenders for employment in work projects developed by the division. Such projects shall be designed and approved by the director or chief administrative officer of any department and approved by the director of the division of youth services.

4. The division of youth services shall retain custody, supervision and control of any offender employed in a work project developed pursuant to this section. Any work crew employed in a work project developed pursuant to this section shall consist of not more than eleven offenders.

5. No offender shall be employed in a work project developed pursuant to this section if the offender has been convicted of a violent crime or whose conduct while under the control of the division of youth services suggests a propensity toward violence. As used in this subsection, the term "violent crime" means any crime which, in the determination of the director of the division of youth services, involves violence or the threat of violence.

6. The department proposing the work project shall supply all plans, tools and equipment necessary for the completion of work projects developed pursuant to this section.

7. The department proposing the work project shall supply crew leaders to direct work crews and supervise the completion of work projects. Such crew leaders shall be employees of the department proposing the work project and shall receive from such department and the division of youth services at least twenty hours of training per year, which shall be designed to instruct the crew leaders in the skills necessary to perform their duties.

8. The department proposing the work project and the division of youth services may promulgate rules to effectuate the purposes of this section pursuant to chapter 536 and section 217.040.

(L. 1995 H.B. 174, et al. § 217.598)