337.612. Applications, contents, fee--fund established--renewal, fee--lost certificate, how replaced.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

337.612. Applications, contents, fee--fund established--renewal, fee--lost certificate, how replaced.

Applications, contents, fee--fund established--renewal, fee--lostcertificate, how replaced.

337.612. 1. Applications for licensure as a clinical social worker,baccalaureate social worker, advanced macro social worker or master socialworker shall be in writing, submitted to the committee on forms prescribedby the committee and furnished to the applicant. The application shallcontain the applicant's statements showing the applicant's education,experience, and such other information as the committee may require. Eachapplication shall contain a statement that it is made under oath oraffirmation and that the information contained therein is true and correctto the best knowledge and belief of the applicant, subject to the penaltiesprovided for the making of a false affidavit or declaration. Eachapplication shall be accompanied by the fees required by the committee.

2. The committee shall mail a renewal notice to the last knownaddress of each licensee prior to the licensure renewal date. Failure toprovide the committee with the information required for licensure, or topay the licensure fee after such notice shall effect a revocation of thelicense after a period of sixty days from the licensure renewal date. Thelicense shall be restored if, within two years of the licensure date, theapplicant provides written application and the payment of the licensure feeand a delinquency fee.

3. A new certificate to replace any certificate lost, destroyed ormutilated may be issued subject to the rules of the committee, upon paymentof a fee.

4. The committee shall set the amount of the fees which sections337.600 to 337.689 authorize and require by rules and regulationspromulgated pursuant to section 536.021, RSMo. The fees shall be set at alevel to produce revenue which shall not substantially exceed the cost andexpense of administering the provisions of sections 337.600 to 337.689.All fees provided for in sections 337.600 to 337.689 shall be collected bythe director who shall deposit the same with the state treasurer in a fundto be known as the "Clinical Social Workers Fund". After August 28, 2007,the clinical social workers fund shall be called the "Licensed SocialWorkers Fund" and after such date all references in state law to theclinical social workers fund shall be considered references to the licensedsocial workers 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 theclinical social workers fund for the preceding fiscal year or, if thecommittee requires by rule renewal less frequently than yearly, then threetimes the appropriation from the committee's fund for the preceding fiscalyear. The amount, if any, in the fund which shall lapse is that amount inthe fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations fromthe clinical social workers fund for the preceding fiscal year.