Terms Used In Missouri Laws 217.946

  • Correctional center: any premises or institution where incarceration, evaluation, care, treatment, or rehabilitation is provided to persons who are under the department's authority. See Missouri Laws 217.010
  • Department: the department of corrections of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 217.010
  • Division: a statutorily created agency within the department or an agency created by the departmental organizational plan. See Missouri Laws 217.010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, neither the correctional center nursery program nor the department, with respect to the program, is subject to any regulation, licensing or oversight by the department of health and senior services, department of social services, children’s division, juvenile officer of any jurisdiction or the office of childhood unless the department voluntarily agrees to services, regulation, licensing, or oversight from any of the aforementioned entities.