125.9 - POWERS OF DIRECTOR.
125.9 POWERS OF DIRECTOR.
The director may:
1. Plan, establish and maintain treatment, intervention,
education, and prevention programs as necessary or desirable in
accordance with the comprehensive substance abuse program.
2. Make contracts necessary or incidental to the performance of
the duties and the execution of the powers of the director, including
contracts with public and private agencies, organizations and
individuals to pay them for services rendered or furnished to
substance abusers, chronic substance abusers, or intoxicated persons.
3. Solicit and accept for use any gift of money or property made
by will or otherwise, and any grant of money, services or property
from the federal government, the state, or any political subdivision
thereof or any private source, and do all things necessary to
cooperate with the federal government or any of its agencies and the
department in making an application for any grant.
4. Coordinate the activities of the department and cooperate with
substance abuse programs in this and other states, and make contracts
and other joint or co-operative arrangements with state, local or
private agencies in this and other states for the treatment of
substance abusers, chronic substance abusers, and intoxicated persons
and for the common advancement of substance abuse programs.
5. Require that a written report, in reasonable detail, be
submitted to the director at any time by any agency of this state or
of any of its political subdivisions in respect to any substance
abuse prevention function, or program for the benefit of persons who
are or have been involved in substance abuse, which is being
conducted by the agency.
6. Submit to the governor a written report of the pertinent facts
at any time the director concludes that any agency of this state or
of any of its political subdivisions is conducting any substance
abuse prevention function, or program for the benefit of persons who
are or have been involved in substance abuse in a manner not
consistent with or which impairs achievement of the objectives of the
state plan to combat substance abuse, and has failed to effect
appropriate changes in the function or program.
7. Keep records and engage in research and the gathering of
relevant statistics.
8. Employ a deputy director who shall be exempt from the merit
system. The director may employ other staff necessary to carry out
the duties assigned to the director.
9. Do other acts and things necessary or convenient to execute
the authority expressly granted to the director. Section History: Early Form
[C62, 66, § 123A.5, 123A.7, 123A.8; C71, 73, § 123A.7, 123A.8,
123B.17; C75, 77, § 125.9, 224B.4, 224B.6; C79, 81, § 125.9] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1128; 87 Acts, ch 8, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1085, §
3; 2005 Acts, ch 175, §63
Referred to in § 125.3, 125.7
Merit system, see chapter 8A, subchapter IV