225C.13 - AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND LEASE FACILITIES.
225C.13 AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND LEASE
FACILITIES.
1. The administrator assigned, in accordance with section 218.1,
to control the state mental health institutes and the state resource
centers may enter into agreements under which a facility or portion
of a facility administered by the administrator is leased to a
department or division of state government, a county or group of
counties, or a private nonprofit corporation organized under chapter
504. A lease executed under this section shall require that the
lessee use the leased premises to deliver either disability services
or other services normally delivered by the lessee.
2. The division administrator may work with the appropriate
administrator of the department's institutions to establish mental
health and mental retardation services for all institutions under the
control of the director of human services and to establish an autism
unit, following mutual planning and consultation with the medical
director of the state psychiatric hospital, at an institution or a
facility administered by the department to provide psychiatric and
related services and other specific programs to meet the needs of
autistic persons, and to furnish appropriate diagnostic evaluation
services. Section History: Early Form
[S81, § 225C.12; 81 Acts, ch 78, § 14, 20] Section History: Recent Form
94 Acts, ch 1170, §17; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §34; 2004 Acts, ch
1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §393; 2006 Acts, ch 1115, §25