Section 210.1253 - DefinitionsAs used in sections 210.1250 to 210.1286, unless the context clearly provides otherwise, the following terms mean:
(1)"Child", a person who is under eighteen years of age;(2)"Department", the department of social services, or the children's division within the department of social services, as determined by the department;(3)"Director", a person who is responsible for the operation of the residential care facility;(4)"Exempt-from-licensure" or "license-exempt", a residential care facility that is not required to be licensed under section 210.516;(5)"Person", an individual, partnership, organization, association, or corporation;(6)"Residential care facility", any place, facility, or home operated by any person who receives children who are not related to the operator and whose parent or guardian is not a resident of the same facility and that provides such children with supervision, care, lodging, and maintenance for twenty-four hours a day, with or without transfer of custody.Added by 2021 Mo. Laws, HB 557,s A, eff. 7/14/2021.