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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 197.200

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Known as the Missouri Certificate of Need Law

The act spans §§ 197–197 (106 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Planned Parenthood Assn. of Kansas City, Mo., Inc. v. Ashcroft (1983)

Most recently applied in Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains v. Hawley (September 2018)

Effective: 24 Oct 2017, 3 histories, see footnote; (L. 1975 S.B. 1 § 1, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1162, A.L. 1991 H.B. 444, A.L. 2007 H.B. 1055, A.L. 2017 2d Ex

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in sections 197.200 to 197.240, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean:

(1) "Abortion facility", as such term is defined in section 188.015;

(2) "Ambulatory surgical center", any public or private establishment operated primarily for the purpose of performing surgical procedures or primarily for the purpose of performing childbirths, and which does not provide services or other accommodations for patients to stay more than twenty-three hours within the establishment, provided, however, that nothing in this definition shall be construed to include the offices of dentists currently licensed pursuant to chapter 332;

(3) "Dentist", any person currently licensed to practice dentistry pursuant to chapter 332;

(4) "Department", the department of health and senior services;

(5) "Governmental unit", any city, county or other political subdivision of this state, or any department, division, board or other agency of any political subdivision of this state;

(6) "Person", any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, or association and the legal successors thereof;

(7) "Physician", any person currently licensed to practice medicine pursuant to chapter 334;

(8) "Podiatrist", any person currently licensed to practice podiatry pursuant to chapter 330.

Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.