205.962. Division of family services to contract with counties--counties not to participate without contract--expenses of program, how paid.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

205.962. Division of family services to contract with counties--counties not to participate without contract--expenses of program, how paid.

Division of family services to contract with counties--countiesnot to participate without contract--expenses of program, howpaid.

205.962. 1. The division of family services shall enterinto a written agreement with the county commission or governingbody of any county which desires to participate in a program forthe distribution of agricultural commodities within such county.Any agreement shall cover the responsibility of the partiesthereto for the administration of the program and shall containsuch terms and conditions as are required by regulationsprescribed under federal laws governing distribution of suchcommodities as well as regulations of the division of familyservices. No county commission or governing body of a countyshall participate in the administration of such program unless ithas an agreement with the division of family services under thissection. Expenses incurred in connection with a federallydonated agricultural commodities food distribution program,including sums expended for the acquisition, warehousing, coldstorage, safekeeping, maintenance of proper records anddistribution of surplus agricultural commodities shall be paid bythe county and division of family services in pursuance of theagreement entered into under this section or, in the absence ofsuch agreement, by the division of family services. A countycommission which has an agreement for distributing foodcommodities with the division of family services shall not berequired to pay over fifteen percent of the total distributioncosts in its county.

2. For the payment of expenses incurred in connection withthe sale and distribution of federal food stamps in any countythe division of family services may enter into agreements withbanking corporations and with the county for the purpose ofestablishing and maintaining a food stamp distribution program inthe county, and may accept moneys, services or quarters as acontribution toward the support and maintenance of such program.Any funds so received shall be payable to the director of revenueand deposited in the proper special account in the state treasuryand become and be a part of the state funds appropriated for theuse of the division of family services.