Terms Used In Missouri Laws 650.110

  • Crime laboratory: a laboratory operated or supported financially by the state or any unit of city, county, or other local Missouri government that employs at least one scientist who examines physical evidence in criminal matters and provides expert or opinion testimony with respect to such physical evidence in a state court of law. See Missouri Laws 650.100
  • Department: the Missouri department of public safety. See Missouri Laws 650.100

In addition to any other laboratories funded by the Missouri crime laboratory assistance program, the department of public safety shall provide funds for the operation of a crime laboratory in any first class county without a charter form of government which adjoins both a first class county with a charter form of government and at least two counties which are counties of the second class on August 28, 1989. Such funding shall be by contractual arrangement as provided by section 650.105, and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions established by the department to fund other crime laboratories under that section.