Iowa Code 227.14 – Caring for persons with mental illness from other counties
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 227.14
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
- persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
The regional administrator for a county that does not have proper facilities for caring for persons with mental illness may, with the consent of the department, provide for such care at the expense of the mental health and disability services region in any convenient and proper county or private facility for persons with mental illness which is willing to receive the persons.