Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 205

County Health and Welfare Programs

←205.820

Section 205.830.1

205.840→

August 28, 2015

Board to furnish relief--investigations--prosecutions (second class counties).

205.830. 1. It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by

himself, herself, or another apply for relief to make immediate inquiry into

the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he

or she is in such indigent circumstances as to require temporary relief, the

said board shall furnish, out of the funds in their hands, such relief as the

circumstances of the case may require; provided, that in all cases where the

applicant for aid may be found dependent and said applicant or member of said

applicant's family is an able-bodied male person capable of performing manual

labor, said board shall require such person to perform work to the value of

the aid given, and the city engineer and the street commissioners of such

cities in their respective departments are required to utilize the services of

such able-bodied persons upon receiving notice from said board that such

person has received or is entitled to such aid. Where the applicant or a

member of the applicant's family is an able-bodied female, said board shall,

whenever practicable, require that labor to the value of the aid given be

performed. They shall make investigations of cases of dependence for

individuals or other charitable organizations and furnish such reports upon

the same as in their judgment seems advisable.



2. Their office shall be a center of intercommunication between the

various charitable agencies in the city. They shall foster harmonious

cooperation between them and endeavor to eradicate the evils of overlapping

relief, and for this purpose shall maintain a confidential registration

bureau.



3. When it is impossible to repress mendicancy by the above means they

shall prosecute imposters. They shall carefully work out such plans for

helping families to self-dependence as may seem most practicable. They shall

make concentrated attack on social causes of hardship, such as unsanitary

housing, child labor, extortionate charges by pawnshops, salary loan and

chattel mortgage agreements.



(RSMo 1939 § 9584)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 12944; 1919 § 12193; 1909 § 1327







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