230A.12 - CENTER ORGANIZED AS NONPROFIT CORPORATION -- AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY.
230A.12 CENTER ORGANIZED AS NONPROFIT CORPORATION --
AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY.
Each community mental health center established or continued in
operation pursuant to section 230A.3 shall be organized under the
Iowa nonprofit corporation Act appearing as chapter 504A, Code and
Code Supplement 2003, except that a community mental health center
organized after January 1, 2005, and a community mental health center
continued in operation after July 1, 2005, shall be organized under
the revised Iowa nonprofit corporation Act appearing as chapter 504,
and except that a community mental health center organized under
former chapter 504 prior to July 1, 1974, and existing under the
provisions of chapter 504, Code 1989, shall not be required by this
chapter to adopt the Iowa nonprofit corporation Act or the revised
Iowa nonprofit corporation Act if it is not otherwise required to do
so by law. The board of directors of each such community mental
health center shall enter into an agreement with the county or
affiliated counties which are to be served by the center, which
agreement shall include but need not be limited to the period of time
for which the agreement is to be in force, what services the center
is to provide for residents of the county or counties to be served,
standards the center is to follow in determining whether and to what
extent persons seeking services from the center shall be considered
able to pay the cost of the services received, and policies regarding
availability of the center's services to persons who are not
residents of the county or counties served by the center. The board
of directors, in addition to exercising the powers of the board of
directors of a nonprofit corporation, may:
1. Recruit, promote, accept and use local financial support for
the community mental health center from private sources such as
community service funds, business, industrial and private
foundations, voluntary agencies, and other lawful sources.
2. Accept and expend state and federal funds available directly
to the community mental health center for all or any part of the cost
of any service the center is authorized to provide.
3. Enter into a contract with an affiliate, which may be an
individual or a public or private group, agency or corporation,
organized and operating on either a profit or a nonprofit basis, for
any of the services described in section 230A.2, to be provided by
the affiliate to residents of the county or counties served by the
community mental health center who are patients or clients of the
center and are referred by the center to the affiliate for service.
Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 230A.12] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 101, § 42; 98 Acts, ch 1181, §3; 2003 Acts, ch 108,
§44; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §182, 192
Referred to in § 225C.15, 230A.3