Mo. Rev. Stat. § 209.180: State and its political subdivisions and tax money recipients to employ visually handicapped on same terms as other employees, exception.

The blind and the visually handicapped shall be employed in the state service, the service of the political subdivisions of the state, in the public schools, and in all other employment supported in whole or in part by public funds on the same terms and conditions as the able-bodied, unless it is shown that the particular disability prevents the performance of the work involved.