Missouri Revised Statutes Title IV. Executive Branch § 31.030. Moneys due state institutions to be paid to whom

Hereafter, whenever, under any law of this state, or any rule or regulation made under the authority of any law of this state, any county, municipality, guardian, trustee or person is required to pay any sum or sums of money for the support of any person confined in any penal institution, or in any state hospital, reform, industrial or other eleemosynary institution belonging to this state, or established or maintained by this state, or is required to pay any sum for the maintenance, use or benefit of any such institution, the same shall be paid to the state director of revenue and deposited in the state treasury and placed to the credit of the fund to which they respectively belong so the money derived from each institution may be placed to the credit of the fund provided by section 31.010 for that institution. If no special fund is in existence to which such funds must be credited, they shall be credited to the general revenue fund, and state fiscal reports shall show separately the amount received from each such institution.