337.712. Licenses, application, oath, fee--lost certificates--fund.
Licenses, application, oath, fee--lost certificates--fund.
337.712. 1. Applications for licensure as a marital and familytherapist shall be in writing, submitted to the committee on formsprescribed by the committee and furnished to the applicant. Theapplication shall contain the applicant's statements showing theapplicant's education, experience and such other information as thecommittee may require. Each application shall contain a statement that itis made under oath or affirmation and that the information containedtherein is true and correct to the best knowledge and belief of theapplicant, subject to the penalties provided for the making of a falseaffidavit or declaration. Each application shall be accompanied by thefees required by the division.
2. The division shall mail a renewal notice to the last known addressof each licensee prior to the licensure renewal date. Failure to providethe division with the information required for license, or to pay thelicensure fee after such notice shall effect a revocation of the licenseafter a period of sixty days from the license renewal date. The licenseshall be restored if, within two years of the licensure date, the applicantprovides written application and the payment of the licensure fee and adelinquency fee.
3. A new certificate to replace any certificate lost, destroyed ormutilated may be issued subject to the rules of the division upon paymentof a fee.
4. The committee shall set the amount of the fees authorized. Thefees shall be set at a level to produce revenue which shall notsubstantially exceed the cost and expense of administering the provisionsof sections 337.700 to 337.739. All fees provided for in sections 337.700to 337.739 shall be collected by the director who shall deposit the samewith the state treasurer to a fund to be known as the "Marital and FamilyTherapists' Fund".
5. The provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrarynotwithstanding, money in this fund shall not be transferred and placed tothe credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end ofthe biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriations from themarital and family therapists' fund for the preceding fiscal year or, ifthe division requires by rule renewal less frequently than yearly thenthree times the appropriation from the fund for the preceding fiscal year.The amount, if any, in the fund which shall lapse is that amount in thefund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations from themarital and family therapists' fund for the preceding fiscal year.
(L. 1995 S.B. 69, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1122, A.L. 2009 S.B. 296)