Missouri Revised Statutes Title XL. Additional Executive Departments § 650.020. Operation payback--reimbursement for crime tips--rules

1. A program to be called “Operation Payback” is hereby established within the department of public safety. Subject to appropriation, “operation payback” may upon request by a crime tip organization, reimburse such organization up to two hundred fifty dollars per reward paid by the organization for a drug-related crime tip involving the sale or manufacture of methamphetamine that leads to a methamphetamine seizure.

2. A crime tip organization is a community-based partnership between the community, law enforcement and the media to work together in the community's fight against crime by encouraging citizens via cash rewards and anonymity to provide law enforcement information leading to the arrest of criminals.

3. The director of the department of public safety may authorize expenditures to reimburse a crime tip organization if such organization satisfies the following requirements:

4. Under no circumstance may a crime tip organization receive more than five thousand dollars during any fiscal year.

5. The department of public safety shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the administration of this section, pursuant to chapter 536 and section 650.005.