Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Division 35 - Children's Division
Chapter 71 - Rules for Residential Care Facilities for Children
Section 13 CSR 35-71.025 - Exemption of Religious Residential Treatment for Children and Youth Operating Sites
PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the requirement that residential treatment for children and youth operating sites must be under the exclusive control of a religious organization in order to qualify for exemption under sections 210.211(5) or 210.516.1(5), RSMo.
When a nonreligious organization, having as its principal purpose the provision of residential treatment for children and youth services, enters into an arrangement with a religious organization to provide continuing assistance in the maintenance or operation of a residential treatment for children and youth operating site, the operating site is not under the exclusive control of the religious organization and does not qualify for exemption from licensure under sections 210.211(5) or 210.516.1(5), RSMo.
*Original authority: 210.481, RSMo (1982), amended 1985; 210.486 and 210.506, RSMo (1982), amended 1993; and 210.516, RSMo (1982).