660.405. Exceptions to licensure requirements for adult day care centers. - Missouri Statutes

Exceptions to licensure requirements for adult day care centers.

660.405. 1. The provisions of sections 199.025, RSMo, and 660.403 to660.420 shall not apply to the following:

(1) Any adult day care program operated by a person in which care isoffered for no more than two hours per day;

(2) Any adult day care program maintained or operated by the federalgovernment except where care is provided through a management contract;

(3) Any person who cares solely for persons related to the provider orwho has been designated as guardian of that person;

(4) Any adult day care program which cares for no more than four personsunrelated to the provider;

(5) Any adult day care program licensed by the department of mentalhealth under chapter 630, RSMo, which provides care, treatment andhabilitation exclusively to adults who have a primary diagnosis of mentaldisorder, mental illness, mental retardation or developmental disability asdefined;

(6) Any adult day care program administered or maintained by a religiousnot-for-profit organization serving a social or religious function if theadult day care program does not hold itself out as providing the prescriptionor usage of physical or medical therapeutic activities or as providing oradministering medicines or drugs.

2. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any person listed insubsection 1 of this section from applying for a license or receiving alicense if the adult day care program owned or operated by such personconforms to the provisions of sections 199.025, RSMo, and 660.403 to 660.420and all applicable rules promulgated pursuant thereto.

(L. 1984 H.B. 1131 § 6)