General Organization, Information Requests and Board Compensation

PURPOSE: This rule describes the organization and general courses and methods of operation of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to comply with the requirements of section 536.023, RSMo. (1) Based on the authority granted by the legislature, the mission of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts is to protect the citizens of the state through the licensing of physicians and other health designated professionals, assessing their competence to practice and their moral character. It is also the board’s duty to investigate all complaints against its licensees in a fair and equitable manner. (2) The public may obtain information, make submissions or direct requests to the board by communications in writing with the executive secretary, Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, P.O. Box 4, Jefferson City, MO 65102. (3) The amount of compensation to be paid to each member of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts shall be determined as follows: (A) Each member of the board whose term of office begins on or after September 28, 1981 shall receive as compensation the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for each day that member devotes to the affairs of the board; (B) In addition to the compensation fixed in this rule, each member is entitled to reimbursement of his/her expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his/her official duties; and (C) No request for the compensation provided in this rule shall be processed for payment unless sufficient funds are available for that purpose within the appropriations for this board. AUTHORITY: sections 334.120.1, RSMo Supp. 1988 and 334.125, RSMo 1986.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-1.010. Original rule filed Dec. 19, 1975, effective Dec. 29, 1975. Emergency amendment filed Jan. 12, 1982, effective Jan. 22, 1982, expired May 22, 1982. Amended: Filed Feb. 10, 1982, effective June 11, 1982. Amended: Filed July 3, 1989, effective Dec. 1, 1989, Amended: Filed April 2, 1992, effective Dec. 3, 1992. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-1.010, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 334.120, RSMo 1945, amended 1949, 1959, 1981, 1988; 334.125, RSMo 1959.