Missouri Laws 650.020 – Operation payback — reimbursement for crime tips — rules
1. A program to be called “Operation Payback” is hereby established within the department of public safety. Subject to appropriation, “operation payback” may upon request by a crime tip organization, reimburse such organization up to two hundred fifty dollars per reward paid by the organization for a drug-related crime tip involving the sale or manufacture of methamphetamine that leads to a methamphetamine seizure.
2. A crime tip organization is a community-based partnership between the community, law enforcement and the media to work together in the community’s fight against crime by encouraging citizens via cash rewards and anonymity to provide law enforcement information leading to the arrest of criminals.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 650.020
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Department: the Missouri department of public safety. See Missouri Laws 650.100
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
3. The director of the department of public safety may authorize expenditures to reimburse a crime tip organization if such organization satisfies the following requirements:
(1) The organization must demonstrate that it has an active board of directors including at least one representative of the community’s municipal or county law enforcement agency;
(2) The organization must be registered with the department of public safety prior to application for funds; and
(3) The organization must provide documentation of payment for a drug-related tip involving the sale or manufacture of methamphetamine and proof that the tip led to a methamphetamine and proof that the tip led to a methamphetamine seizure.
4. Under no circumstance may a crime tip organization receive more than five thousand dollars during any fiscal year.
5. The department of public safety shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary for the administration of this section, pursuant to chapter 536 and section 650.005.