Statutes > Iowa Statutes > Title 6 - Human Services > Subtitle 2 - Human Services - Institutions > CHAPTER 217 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES > 217.23 - PERSONNEL -- MERIT SYSTEM -- REIMBURSEMENT FOR DAMAGED PROPERTY.

217.23 - PERSONNEL -- MERIT SYSTEM -- REIMBURSEMENT FOR DAMAGED PROPERTY.

        217.23  PERSONNEL -- MERIT SYSTEM -- REIMBURSEMENT FOR
      DAMAGED PROPERTY.
         1.  The director of human services or the director's designee,
      shall employ such personnel as are necessary for the performance of
      the duties and responsibilities assigned to the department.  All
      employees shall be selected on a basis of fitness for the work to be
      performed with due regard to training and experience and shall be
      subject to the provisions of chapter 8A, subchapter IV.
         2.  The department may expend moneys from the support allocation
      of the department as reimbursement for replacement or repair of
      personal items of the department's employees damaged or destroyed by
      clients of the department during the employee's tour of duty.
      However, the reimbursement shall not exceed three hundred dollars for
      each item.  The department shall establish rules in accordance with
      chapter 17A to carry out the purpose of this section.
         Section History: Early Form
         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 217.23]
         Section History: Recent Form
         85 Acts, ch 253, §7; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §208; 2007 Acts, ch 218,
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