348.518.  Livestock feed and crop input loan guarantee program established — rulemaking authority. — 1.  In addition to the duties and powers established in sections 348.005 to 348.505, the Missouri agricultural and small business development authority shall develop and implement a livestock feed and crop input loan guarantee program as provided in sections 348.515 to 348.533. The authority may promulgate rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 348.515 to 348.533.  The rules promulgated under sections 348.515 to 348.533 shall be designed to encourage maximum involvement and participation by lenders and financial institutions in the loan guarantee program.  The authority shall be the administrative agency for the implementation of the loan guarantee program, and may employ such persons as necessary, within the limits of appropriations made for that purpose, to administer the loan guarantee program.

  2.  Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028.  This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2008, shall be invalid and void.