PURPOSE: The purpose of this rule is to set forth the regulations of the University of Missouri for determining the residence of adult students including m.arried students under the age of twenty-one, emancipated minors and married students liuing apart from their spouse. This rule may be found at sections 7.14 and 7.15 of the Collected Rules and Regulations of the University of Missouri. 6 CSR 250-6 , m
- (1) A person is not considered as having established residence if his/her primary purpose in coming to Missouri was to attend school. A student from another state who has enrolled for a full program or a substantially fullprogramwill bepresumed to bein Missouri primarily for educational purposes and will be considered not to have established Missouri residence for the purpose of this rule. Continued residence during vacation periods or occasional periods of interruption of the course of study does not of itself overcome the presumption.
- (2) If it is clearly shown that a student came to Missouri for purposes of other than attending school, that s/he lived in Missouri for not less than twelve (12) consecutive months doing those things one usually does in making a place a permanent home and that school attendance was only incidental to other primary activities carried on in the state, s/he may be considered to have established a residence in Missouri.
- (3) Neither voting registration or voting in Missouri nor liability for and payment of taxes in Missouri conclusively establishes the fact of residence.
(4) If a student who is a Missouri resident and exempt from tuition marries a nonresident, such person shall be exempt from tuition so long as such person continues to live in Missouri. If a nonresident student marries a resident of Missouri, such student shall not, by virtue of that fact, be exempt from tuition.
Auth: section 172.100, RSMo (1986). Original rule filed Aprd 19, 1977, effectiue Sept. 11,1977.