Missouri Laws 285.500 – Definitions
For the purposes of sections 285.500 to 285.515 the following terms mean:
(1) “Employee”, any individual who performs services for an employer that would indicate an employer-employee relationship in satisfaction of the factors in IRS Rev. Rule 87-41, 1987-1 C.B.296.;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 285.500
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) “Employer”, any individual, organization, partnership, political subdivision, corporation, or other legal entity which has or had in the entity’s employ five or more individuals performing public works as defined in section 290.210;
(3) “Knowingly”, a person acts knowingly or with knowledge:
(a) With respect to the person’s conduct or to attendant circumstances when the person is aware of the nature of the person’s conduct or that those circumstances exist; or
(b) With respect to a result of the person’s conduct when the person is aware that the person’s conduct is practically certain to cause that result.