226.8 - PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION NOT RECEIVABLE -- EXCEPTION.
226.8 PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION NOT RECEIVABLE
-- EXCEPTION.
No person who is mentally retarded, as defined by section 222.2,
shall be admitted, or transferred pursuant to section 222.7, to a
state mental health institute unless a professional diagnostic
evaluation indicates that such person will benefit from psychiatric
treatment or from some other specific program available at the mental
health institute to which it is proposed to admit or transfer the
person. Charges for the care of any person with mental retardation
admitted to a state mental health institute shall be made by the
institute in the manner provided by chapter 230, but the liability of
any other person to any county for the cost of care of such person
with mental retardation shall be as prescribed by section 222.78. Section History: Early Form
[R60, § 1468, 1491; C73, § 1434; C97, § 2298; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39,
§ 3490; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 226.8]
Section History: Recent Form
96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113