650.025. Missing and endangered persons advisory system created--definitions--rulemaking authority.
Missing and endangered persons advisory systemcreated--definitions--rulemaking authority.
650.025. 1. There is hereby created an advisory system, referred toin this section as the "system", to aid in the identification and locationof missing endangered persons.
2. For the purposes of this section, "missing endangered person"means a person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is:
(1) Physically or mentally disabled to the degree that the person isdependent upon an agency or another individual;
(2) Missing under circumstances indicating that the missing person'ssafety may be in danger; or
(3) Missing under involuntary or unknown circumstances.
3. The department of public safety has the authority to promulgaterules establishing recommended procedures for issuing missing endangeredperson advisories. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is definedin section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated inthis section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subjectto all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and if applicable, section536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and ifany of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536,RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul arule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemakingauthority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2007, shall beinvalid and void.
(L. 2007 S.B. 84)