Missouri Revised Statutes Title XL. Additional Executive Departments § 643.175. Small business ombudsman, duties--appointment

(1) Monitor the small business technical assistance program established in section 643.173;

(2) Advise and assist small businesses regulated under sections 643.010 to 643.190;

(3) Recommend to the committee and the commission appropriate changes in the rules which would facilitate small business compliance with sections 643.010 to 643.190;

(4) Receive and review complaints about the administration of sections 643.010 to 643.190 as such administration affects small business; and

(5) Issue a report with recommendations to the department within one hundred twenty days of receiving a complaint from a small business. The department shall take action to remedy the complaint and notify the ombudsman of its action within thirty days of receipt or submit a written explanation of its reasons for not complying with the recommendations of the ombudsman.