Missouri Revised Statutes Title XII. Public Health and Welfare § 210.1253. Definitions

(1)“Child”, a person who is under eighteen years of age;

(2)“Department”, the department of social services, or the children's division within the department of social services, as determined by the department;

(3)“Director”, a person who is responsible for the operation of the residential care facility;

(4)“Exempt-from-licensure” or “license-exempt”, a residential care facility that is not required to be licensed under section 210.516;

(5)“Person”, an individual, partnership, organization, association, or corporation;

(6)“Residential care facility”, any place, facility, or home operated by any person who receives children who are not related to the operator and whose parent or guardian is not a resident of the same facility and that provides such children with supervision, care, lodging, and maintenance for twenty-four hours a day, with or without transfer of custody.