Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 185

State Council on the Arts

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Section 185.210.1

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August 28, 2015

Appropriation of funds for grants to public television stations, requirements, use of funds, amounts for grants, unused funds returned to state.

185.210. The general assembly may appropriate funds to the state council

on the arts for use as grants to public television stations. Such grants

shall be distributed to each of the public television stations in this state

after receipt of the station's certification of operating and programming

expenses for the prior fiscal year. Certification shall consist of the most

recent fiscal year financial statement submitted by a station to the

corporation for public broadcasting. At least twenty percent of the state

funds received under sections 185.200 to 185.230 by any public television

station shall be used for instructional television services to be provided

through local agreements. A substantial portion of the state funds received

under this or any other act by any public television station shall be used for

local programming related to the needs and problems of the community served

by the broadcast licensee. The grants shall be divided into two categories,

an annual basic service grant and an operating grant. The basic service

grant shall be equal to thirty-five percent of the total amount appropriated

and shall be divided equally among the public television stations receiving

grants. The remaining amount of the appropriation shall be distributed as an

operating grant to the stations on the basis of the proportion that the total

operating expenses of the individual station in the prior fiscal year bears

to the aggregate total of operating expenses for the same fiscal year for all

Missouri public television stations receiving state grants. State funds

received by a public television station under sections 185.200 to 185.230 and

not expended shall be returned to the state of Missouri.



(L. 2006 S.B. 870)



Effective 7-01-06







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