1. When any unit of government of this state acts as a receiving agency, employees of the sending agency who are assigned under authority of sections 105.600 to 105.650 may be considered to be on detail to the receiving agency.

2. Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to the laws or regulations governing the selection of employees of the receiving agency. The person shall be in the unclassified service of the state.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 105.640

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. Employees who are detailed to the receiving agency shall not by virtue of the detail be considered to be employees thereof, except as provided in subsection 4 of this section, nor shall they be paid a salary or wage by the receiving agency during the period of their detail. The supervision of the duties of employees during the period of detail may be governed by agreement between the sending agency and the receiving agency.

4. Any employee of a sending agency assigned in this state who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of the assignment, or sustained in the performance of duties in connection therewith, shall be treated for the purpose of receiving agency’s employee compensation program, as an employee, as defined in the act, who has sustained the injury in the performance of the duty, but shall not receive benefits under that act for any period for which he elects to receive similar benefits as an employee under the sending agency’s employee compensation program.