229.43 - NONRESIDENTS OR NO-SETTLEMENT PATIENTS.
229.43 NONRESIDENTS OR NO-SETTLEMENT PATIENTS.
The administrator may place patients of mental health institutes
who have no county of legal settlement, who are nonresidents, or
whose legal settlement is unknown on convalescent leave to a private
sponsor or in a health care facility licensed under chapter 135C,
when in the opinion of the administrator the placement is in the best
interests of the patient and the state of Iowa. If the patient was
involuntarily hospitalized, the district court which ordered
hospitalization of the patient must be informed when the patient is
placed on convalescent leave, as required by section 229.15,
subsection 5. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3446; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 222.36;
C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 229.43] Section History: Recent Form
2000 Acts, ch 1112, §40