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PURPOSE: This rule provides guidelines to interested persons regarding the placement and licensing of publication vending machine spaces on interstate highway rest areas for distribution of publications to the public. (1) Section 8.710, RSMo, provides jurisdictional rights to regulate and administer vending on state of Missouri property through the Department of Social Services, Family Support Division, Rehabilitation Services for the Blind. (2) 7 CSR 10-16.020 through 7 CSR 1016.050 apply if Rehabilitation Services for the Blind declines to exercise its right to regulate and administer vending of publications in rest areas. However, the commission itself may not operate any commercial vending machines or other commercial facilities in rest areas, as provided in section 226.790, RSMo. (3) Information regarding publications vending operations in machines on rest areas may be obtained in person, or by writing, or phoning the General Services Director, General Services Division, Missouri Department of Transportation, PO Box 270, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0270. The phone number of the division director is (573) 751-1650. AUTHORITY: section 29 of Art. IV, Mo. Const., sections 226.020, 226.150, 226.750– 226.790, and 227.030, RSMo 2016,* Title 23, United States Code section 111(b), and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations part 752. Original rule filed July 2, 2010, effective Feb. 28, 2011. Amended: Filed Feb. 9, 2018, effective Sept. 30, 2018. *Original authority: 226.020, RSMo 1939; 226.150, RSMo 1939, amended 1977; 226.750–226.790, RSMo 1965; and 227.030, RSMo 1939.