PURPOSE: This rule fixes the compensation for the members of the State Board of Optometry in compliance with the mandates of section 336.140, RSMo (1986). (1) Each member of the board shall receive the sum of fifty dollars ($50) as compensation for each day that member devotes to the affairs of the board. (2) In addition to the compensation fixed in this rule, each member is entitled to reimbursement of his/her expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his/her official duties.

1. (3) No request for compensation provided shall be processed for payment unless sufficient funds are available for that purpose within the appropriations for this board.

AUTHORITY: sections 336.140 and 336.160, RSMo Supp. 2007.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 210-1.020. Emergency rule filed Sept. 17, 1981, effective Sept. 28, 1981, expired Dec. 28, 1981. Original rule filed Sept. 17, 1981, effective Jan. 14, 1982. Moved to 20 CSR 2210-1.020, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Dec. 5, 2007, effective June 30, 2008.