Iowa Code
Chapter 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
Section 232.2 - Definitions.

232.2 Definitions.
As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Abandonment of a child” means the relinquishment or surrender, without reference to any particular person, of the parental rights, duties, or privileges inherent in the parent-child relationship. Proof of abandonment must include both the intention to abandon and the acts by which the intention is evidenced. The term does not require that the relinquishment or surrender be over any particular period of time.
2. “Adjudicatory hearing” means a hearing to determine if the allegations of a petition are true.
3. “Adult” means a person other than a child.
4. “Case permanency plan” means the plan, mandated by Pub. L. No. 96-272 and Pub. L. No. 105-89, as codified in 42 U.S.C. §622(b)(10), 671(a)(16), and 675(1),(5), which is designed to achieve placement in the most appropriate, least restrictive, and most family-like setting available and in close proximity to the parent’s home, consistent with the best interests and special needs of the child, and which considers the placement’s proximity to the school in which the child is enrolled at the time of placement. The plan shall be developed by the department or agency involved and the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian. If the child is fourteen years of age or older, the plan shall be developed in consultation with the child and, at the option of the child, with up to two persons chosen by the child to be members of the child’s case planning team if such persons are not a foster parent of, or caseworker for, the child. The department may reject a person selected by a child to be a member of the child’s case planning team at any time if the department has good cause to believe that the person would not act in the best interests of the child. One person selected by a child to be a member of the child’s case planning team may be designated to be the child’s advisor or, if necessary, the child’s advocate with respect to the application of the reasonable and prudent parent standard. The plan shall specifically include all of the following:
a. Plans for carrying out the voluntary placement agreement or judicial determination pursuant to which the child entered care.
b. The type and appropriateness of the placement and services to be provided to the child.
c. The care and services that will be provided to the child, biological parents, and foster parents.
d. How the care and services will meet the needs of the child while in care and will facilitate the child’s return home or other permanent placement.
e. The most recent information available regarding the child’s health and education records, including the date the records were supplied to the agency or individual who is the child’s foster care provider. If the child remains in foster care until the age of majority, the child is entitled to receive prior to discharge the most recent information available regarding the child’s health and educational records.
f. Plans for retaining any suitable existing medical, dental, or mental health providers providing medical, dental, or mental health care to the child when the child entered foster care.
g. (1) When a child is fourteen years of age or older, a written transition plan of services, supports, activities, and referrals to programs which, based upon an assessment of the child’s needs, would assist the child in preparing for the transition from foster care to adulthood. The transition plan and needs assessment shall be developed with a focus on the services, other support, and actions necessary to facilitate the child’s successful entry into adulthood. The transition plan shall be personalized at the direction of the child and shall be developed with the child present, honoring the goals and concerns of the child, and shall address the following areas of need for the child’s successful transition from foster care to adulthood, including but not limited to all of the following:
(a) Education.
(b) Employment services and other workforce support.
(c) Health and health care coverage.
(d) Housing and money management.
(e) Relationships, including local opportunities to have a mentor.
(f) If the needs assessment indicates the child is reasonably likely to need or be eligible for services or other support from the adult service system upon reaching age eighteen, the transition plan shall provide for the child’s application for adult services.
(2) The transition plan shall be considered a working document and shall be reviewed and updated during a periodic case review, which shall occur at a minimum of once every six months. The transition plan shall also be reviewed and updated during the ninety calendar-day period preceding the child’s eighteenth birthday and during the ninety calendar-day period immediately preceding the date the child is expected to exit foster care, if the child remains in foster care after the child’s eighteenth birthday. The transition plan may be reviewed and updated more frequently.
(3) The transition plan shall be developed and reviewed by the department in collaboration with a child-centered transition team. The transition team shall be comprised of the child’s caseworker and persons selected by the child, persons who have knowledge of services available to the child, and any person who may reasonably be expected to be a service provider for the child when the child becomes an adult or to become responsible for the costs of services at that time. If the child is reasonably likely to need or be eligible for adult services, the transition team membership shall include representatives from the adult services system. The membership of the transition team and the meeting dates for the team shall be documented in the transition plan.
(4) The final transition plan shall specifically identify how the need for housing will be addressed.
(5) If the child is interested in pursuing higher education, the transition plan shall provide for the child’s participation in the college student aid commission’s program of assistance in applying for federal and state aid under section 261.2.
(6) If the needs assessment indicates the child is reasonably likely to need or be eligible for services or other support from the adult service system upon reaching age eighteen, the transition plan shall be reviewed and approved by the transition committee for the area in which the child resides, in accordance with section 235.7, before the child reaches age seventeen and one-half. The transition committee’s review and approval shall be indicated in the case permanency plan.
(7) The transition plan shall include a provision for the department or a designee of the department on or before the date the child reaches age eighteen, unless the child has been placed in foster care for less than thirty days, to provide to the child written verification of the child’s foster care status, and a certified copy of the child’s birth certificate, social security card, and driver’s license or government-issued nonoperator’s identification card. The fee for the certified copy of the child’s birth certificate that is otherwise chargeable under section 144.13A, 144.46, or 331.605 shall be waived by the state or county registrar.
h. The actions expected of the parent, guardian, or custodian in order for the department or agency to recommend that the court terminate a dispositional order for the child’s out-of-home placement and for the department or agency to end its involvement with the child and the child’s family.
i. If reasonable efforts to place a child for adoption or with a guardian are made concurrently with reasonable efforts as defined in section 232.102, the concurrent goals and timelines may be identified. Concurrent case permanency plan goals for reunification, and for adoption or for other permanent out-of-home placement of a child shall not be considered inconsistent in that the goals reflect divergent possible outcomes for a child in an out-of-home placement.
j. A provision that a designee of the department or other person responsible for placement of a child out-of-state shall visit the child at least once every six months.
k. If it has been determined that the child cannot return to the child’s home, documentation of the steps taken to make and finalize an adoption or other permanent placement.
l. If it is part of the child’s records or it is otherwise known that the child has behaved in a manner that threatened the safety of another person, has committed a violent act causing bodily injury to another person, or has been a victim or perpetrator of sexual abuse, that information shall be addressed in the plan and shall be provided to the child’s parent, guardian, or foster parent or other person with custody of the child. The information shall be provided whether the child’s placement is voluntary or made pursuant to a court determination. The information shall be provided at the time it is learned by the department or agency developing the plan and, if possible, at the time of the child’s placement. The information shall only be withheld if ordered by the court or it is determined by the department or agency developing the plan that providing the information would be detrimental to the child or to the family with whom the child is living. In determining whether providing the information would be detrimental, the court, department, or agency shall consider any history of abuse within the child’s family or toward the child.
m. The provisions involving sibling visitation or interaction required under section 232.108.
n. Documentation of the educational stability of the child while in foster care. The documentation shall include but is not limited to all of the following:
(1) Evidence there was an evaluation of the appropriateness of the child’s educational setting while in placement and of the setting’s proximity to the educational setting in which the child was enrolled at the time of placement.
(2) An assurance either that the department coordinated with appropriate local educational agencies to identify how the child could remain in the educational setting in which the child was enrolled at the time of placement or, if it was determined it was not in the child’s best interest to remain in that setting, that the affected educational agencies would immediately and appropriately enroll the child in another educational setting during the child’s placement and ensure that the child’s educational records were provided for use in the new educational setting. For the purposes of this subparagraph, “local educational agencies” means the same as defined in the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, §9101, as codified in 20 U.S.C. §7801(26).
o. Any issues relating to the application of the reasonable and prudent parent standard and the child’s participation in age or developmentally appropriate activities while in foster care.
5. “Child” means a person under eighteen years of age.
6. “Child in need of assistance” means an unmarried child:
a. Whose parent, guardian, or other custodian has abandoned or deserted the child.
b. Whose parent, guardian, other custodian, or other member of the household in which the child resides has physically abused or neglected the child, or is imminently likely to abuse or neglect the child.
c. Who has suffered or is imminently likely to suffer harmful effects as a result of any of the following:
(1) Mental injury caused by the acts of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.
(2) The failure of the child’s parent, guardian, custodian, or other member of the household in which the child resides to exercise a reasonable degree of care in supervising the child.
(3) The child’s parent, guardian, or custodian, or person responsible for the care of the child, as defined in section 232.68, has knowingly disseminated or exhibited obscene material as defined in section 728.1 to the child.
d. Who has been, or is imminently likely to be, sexually abused by the child’s parent, guardian, custodian, or other member of the household in which the child resides.
e. Who is in need of medical treatment to cure, alleviate, or prevent serious physical injury or illness and whose parent, guardian, or custodian is unwilling or unable to provide such treatment.
f. Who is in need of treatment to cure or alleviate serious mental illness or disorder, or emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or untoward aggressive behavior toward self or others and whose parent, guardian, or custodian is unwilling to provide such treatment.
g. Whose parent, guardian, or custodian fails to exercise a minimal degree of care in supplying the child with adequate food, clothing, or shelter and refuses other means made available to provide such essentials.
h. Who has committed a delinquent act as a result of pressure, guidance, or approval from a parent, guardian, custodian, or other member of the household in which the child resides.
i. Who has been the subject of or a party to sexual activities for hire or who poses for live display or for photographic or other means of pictorial reproduction or display which is designed to appeal to the prurient interest and is patently offensive; and taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, scientific, political, or artistic value.
j. Who is without a parent, guardian, or other custodian.
k. Whose parent, guardian, or other custodian for good cause desires to be relieved of the child’s care and custody.
l. Who for good cause desires to have the child’s parents relieved of the child’s care and custody.
m. Who is in need of treatment to cure or alleviate chemical dependency and whose parent, guardian, or custodian is unwilling or unable to provide such treatment.
n. Whose parent’s or guardian’s mental capacity or condition, imprisonment, or drug or alcohol abuse results in the child not receiving adequate care.
o. In whose body there is an illegal drug present as a direct and foreseeable consequence of the acts or omissions of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian. The presence of the drug shall be determined in accordance with a medically relevant test as defined in section 232.73.
p. Whose parent, guardian, custodian, or other adult member of the household in which a child resides does any of the following: unlawfully uses, possesses, manufactures, cultivates, or distributes a dangerous substance in the presence of a child; or knowingly allows such use, possession, manufacture, cultivation, or distribution by another person in the presence of a child; possesses a product with the intent to use the product as a precursor or an intermediary to a dangerous substance in the presence of a child; or unlawfully uses, possesses, manufactures, cultivates, or distributes a dangerous substance specified in subparagraph (2), subparagraph division (a), (b), or (c), in a child’s home, on the premises, or in a motor vehicle located on the premises.
(1) For the purposes of this paragraph, “in the presence of a child” means in the physical presence of a child or occurring under other circumstances in which a reasonably prudent person would know that the use, possession, manufacture, cultivation, or distribution may be seen, smelled, ingested, or heard by a child.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, “dangerous substance” means any of the following:
(a) Amphetamine, its salts, isomers, or salts of its isomers.
(b) Methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, or salts of its isomers.
(c) A chemical or combination of chemicals that poses a reasonable risk of causing an explosion, fire, or other danger to the life or health of persons who are in the vicinity while the chemical or combination of chemicals is used or is intended to be used in any of the following:
(i) The process of manufacturing an illegal or controlled substance.
(ii) As a precursor in the manufacturing of an illegal or controlled substance.
(iii) As an intermediary in the manufacturing of an illegal or controlled substance.
(d) Cocaine, its salts, isomers, salts of its isomers, or derivatives.
(e) Heroin, its salts, isomers, salts of its isomers, or derivatives.
(f) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate.
q. Who is a newborn infant whose parent has voluntarily released custody of the child in accordance with chapter 233.
6A. “Chronic runaway” means a child who is reported to law enforcement as a runaway more than once in any thirty-day period or three or more times in any year.
7. “Complaint” means an oral or written report which is made to the juvenile court by any person and alleges that a child is within the jurisdiction of the court.
8. “Court” means the juvenile court established under section 602.7101.
9. “Court appointed special advocate” means a person duly certified by the child advocacy board created in section 237.16 for participation in the court appointed special advocate program and appointed by the court to represent the interests of a child in any judicial proceeding to which the child is a party or is called as a witness or relating to any dispositional order involving the child resulting from such proceeding.
10. “Criminal or juvenile justice agency” means any agency which has as its primary responsibility the enforcement of the state’s criminal laws or of local ordinances made pursuant to state law.
11. a. “Custodian” means a stepparent or a relative within the fourth degree of consanguinity to a child who has assumed responsibility for that child, a person who has accepted a release of custody pursuant to subchapter IV, or a person appointed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over a child.
b. The rights and duties of a custodian with respect to a child are as follows:
(1) To maintain or transfer to another the physical possession of that child.
(2) To protect, train, and discipline that child.
(3) To provide food, clothing, housing, and medical care for that child.
(4) To consent to emergency medical care, including surgery.
(5) To sign a release of medical information to a health professional.
c. All rights and duties of a custodian shall be subject to any residual rights and duties remaining in a parent or guardian.
12. “Delinquent act” means:
a. The violation of any state law or local ordinance which would constitute a public offense if committed by an adult except any offense which by law is exempted from the jurisdiction of this chapter.
b. The violation of a federal law or a law of another state which violation constitutes a criminal offense if the case involving that act has been referred to the juvenile court.
c. The violation of section 123.47 which is committed by a child.
d. The violation of sections 716.7 and 716.8, which is committed by a child.
13. “Department” means the department of human services and includes the local, county, and service area officers of the department.
14. “Desertion” means the relinquishment or surrender for a period in excess of six months of the parental rights, duties, or privileges inherent in the parent-child relationship. Proof of desertion need not include the intention to desert, but is evidenced by the lack of attempted contact with the child or by only incidental contact with the child.
15. “Detention” means the temporary care of a child in a physically restricting facility designed to ensure the continued custody of the child at any point between the child’s initial contact with the juvenile authorities and the final disposition of the child’s case.
16. “Detention hearing” means a hearing at which the court determines whether it is necessary to place or retain a child in detention.
17. “Director” means the director of the department of human services or that person’s designee.
18. “Dismissal of complaint” means the termination of all proceedings against a child.
19. “Dispositional hearing” means a hearing held after an adjudication to determine what dispositional order should be made.
20. “Family in need of assistance” means a family in which there has been a breakdown in the relationship between a child and the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.
21. a. “Guardian” means a person who is not the parent of a child, but who has been appointed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over the child, to have a permanent self-sustaining relationship with the child and to make important decisions which have a permanent effect on the life and development of that child and to promote the general welfare of that child. A guardian may be a court or a juvenile court. Guardian does not mean conservator, as defined in section 633.3, although a person who is appointed to be a guardian may also be appointed to be a conservator.
b. Unless otherwise enlarged or circumscribed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over the child or by operation of law, the rights and duties of a guardian with respect to a child shall be as follows:
(1) To consent to marriage, enlistment in the armed forces of the United States, or medical, psychiatric, or surgical treatment.
(2) To serve as guardian ad litem, unless the interests of the guardian conflict with the interests of the child or unless another person has been appointed guardian ad litem.
(3) To serve as custodian, unless another person has been appointed custodian.
(4) To make periodic visitations if the guardian does not have physical possession or custody of the child.
(5) To consent to adoption and to make any other decision that the parents could have made when the parent-child relationship existed.
(6) To make other decisions involving protection, education, and care and control of the child.
22. a. “Guardian ad litem” means a person appointed by the court to represent the interests of a child in any judicial proceeding to which the child is a party, and includes a court appointed special advocate, except that a court appointed special advocate shall not file motions or petitions pursuant to section 232.54, subsection 1, paragraphs “a” and “d”, section 232.103, subsection 2, paragraph “c”, and section 232.111.
b. Unless otherwise enlarged or circumscribed by a court or juvenile court having jurisdiction over the child or by operation of law, the duties of a guardian ad litem with respect to a child shall include the following:
(1) Conducting in-person interviews with the child, if the child’s age is appropriate for the interview, and interviewing each parent, guardian, or other person having custody of the child, if authorized by counsel.
(2) Conducting interviews with the child, if the child’s age is appropriate for the interview, prior to any court-ordered hearing.
(3) Visiting the home, residence, or both home and residence of the child and any prospective home or residence of the child, including each time placement is changed.
(4) Interviewing any person providing medical, mental health, social, educational, or other services to the child, before any hearing referred to in subparagraph (2).
(5) Obtaining firsthand knowledge, if possible, of the facts, circumstances, and parties involved in the matter in which the person is appointed guardian ad litem.
(6) Attending any hearings in the matter in which the person is appointed as the guardian ad litem.
(7) If the child is required to have a transition plan developed in accordance with the child’s case permanency plan and subject to review and approval of a transition committee under section 235.7, assisting the transition committee in development of the transition plan.
c. The order appointing the guardian ad litem shall grant authorization to the guardian ad litem to interview any relevant person and inspect and copy any records relevant to the proceedings, if not prohibited by federal law. The order shall specify that the guardian ad litem may interview any person providing medical, mental health, social, educational, or other services to the child, may attend any departmental staff meeting, case conference, or meeting with medical or mental health providers, service providers, organizations, or educational institutions regarding the child, if deemed necessary by the guardian ad litem, and may inspect and copy any records relevant to the proceedings.
d. If authorized by the court, a guardian ad litem may continue a relationship with and provide advice to a child for a period of time beyond the child’s eighteenth birthday.
23. “Health practitioner” means a licensed physician or surgeon, osteopathic physician or surgeon, dentist, optometrist, podiatric physician, or chiropractor, a resident or intern of any such profession, and any registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
24. “Informal adjustment” means the disposition of a complaint without the filing of a petition and may include but is not limited to the following:
a. Placement of the child on nonjudicial probation.
b. Provision of intake services.
c. Referral of the child to a public or private agency other than the court for services.
25. “Informal adjustment agreement” means an agreement between an intake officer, a child who is the subject of a complaint, and the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian providing for the informal adjustment of the complaint.
26. “Intake” means the preliminary screening of complaints by an intake officer to determine whether the court should take some action and if so, what action.
27. “Intake officer” means a juvenile court officer or other officer appointed by the court to perform the intake function.
28. “Judge” means the judge of a juvenile court.
29. “Juvenile” means the same as “child”. However, in the interstate compact for juveniles, section 232.173, “juvenile” means a person defined as a juvenile in the compact.
30. “Juvenile court officer” means a person appointed as a juvenile court officer under section 602.7202 and a chief juvenile court officer appointed under section 602.1217.
31. “Juvenile court social records” or “social records” means all records made with respect to a child in connection with proceedings over which the court has jurisdiction under this chapter other than official records and includes but is not limited to the records made and compiled by intake officers, predisposition reports, and reports of physical and mental examinations.
32. “Juvenile detention home” means a physically restricting facility used only for the detention of children.
32A. “Juvenile diversion program” means an organized effort to coordinate services for a child who is alleged to have committed a delinquent act, when the organized effort results in the dismissal of a complaint alleging the commission of the delinquent act or results in informally proceeding without a complaint being filed against the child, and which does not result in an informal adjustment agreement involving juvenile court services or the filing of a delinquency petition.
33. “Juvenile parole officer” means a person representing an agency which retains jurisdiction over the case of a child adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act, placed in a secure facility and subsequently released, who supervises the activities of the child until the case is dismissed.
34. “Juvenile shelter care home” means a physically unrestricting facility used only for the shelter care of children.
35. “Mental injury” means a nonorganic injury to a child’s intellectual or psychological capacity as evidenced by an observable and substantial impairment in the child’s ability to function within the child’s normal range of performance and behavior, considering the child’s cultural origin.
36. “Nonjudicial probation” means the informal adjustment of a complaint which involves the supervision of the child who is the subject of the complaint by an intake officer or juvenile court officer for a period during which the child may be required to comply with specified conditions concerning the child’s conduct and activities.
37. “Nonsecure facility” means a physically unrestricting facility in which children may be placed pursuant to a dispositional order of the court made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
38. “Official juvenile court records” or “official records” means official records of the court of proceedings over which the court has jurisdiction under this chapter which includes but is not limited to the following:
a. The docket of the court and entries therein.
b. Complaints, petitions, other pleadings, motions, and applications filed with a court.
c. Any summons, notice, subpoena, or other process and proofs of publication.
d. Transcripts of proceedings before the court.
e. Findings, judgments, decrees, and orders of the court.
39. “Parent” means a biological or adoptive mother or father of a child; or a father whose paternity has been established by operation of law due to the individual’s marriage to the mother at the time of conception, birth, or at any time during the period between conception and birth of the child, by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by administrative order when authorized by state law. “Parent” does not include a mother or father whose parental rights have been terminated.
40. “Peace officer” means a law enforcement officer or a person designated as a peace officer by a provision of the Code.
41. “Petition” means a pleading the filing of which initiates formal judicial proceedings in the juvenile court.
42. “Physical abuse or neglect” or “abuse or neglect” means any nonaccidental physical injury suffered by a child as the result of the acts or omissions of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian or other person legally responsible for the child.
42A. “Preadoptive care” means the provision of parental nurturing on a full-time basis to a child in foster care by a person who has signed a preadoptive placement agreement with the department for the purposes of proceeding with a legal adoption of the child. Parental nurturing includes but is not limited to furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, treatment, and other care.
43. “Predisposition investigation” means an investigation conducted for the purpose of collecting information relevant to the court’s fashioning of an appropriate disposition of a delinquency case over which the court has jurisdiction.
44. “Predisposition report” is a report furnished to the court which contains the information collected during a predisposition investigation.
45. “Probation” means a legal status which is created by a dispositional order of the court in a case where a child has been adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act, which exists for a specified period of time, and which places the child under the supervision of a juvenile court officer or other person or agency designated by the court. The probation order may require a child to comply with specified conditions imposed by the court concerning conduct and activities, subject to being returned to the court for violation of those conditions.
45A. “Reasonable and prudent parent standard” means the same as defined in section 237.1.
46. “Registry” means the central registry for child abuse information as established under chapter 235A.
46A. “Relative” for purposes of subchapters III and IV includes the parent of a sibling.
47. “Residual parental rights and responsibilities” means those rights and responsibilities remaining with the parent after transfer of legal custody or guardianship of the person of the child. These include but are not limited to the right of visitation, the right to consent to adoption, and the responsibility for support.
48. “Secure facility” means a physically restricting facility in which children adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act may be placed pursuant to a dispositional order of the court.
49. “Sexual abuse” means the commission of a sex offense as defined by the penal law.
50. “Shelter care” means the temporary care of a child in a physically unrestricting facility at any time between a child’s initial contact with juvenile authorities and the final judicial disposition of the child’s case.
51. “Shelter care hearing” means a hearing at which the court determines whether it is necessary to place or retain a child in shelter care.
52. “Sibling” means an individual who is related to another individual by blood, adoption, or affinity through a common legal or biological parent.
53. “Social investigation” means an investigation conducted for the purpose of collecting information relevant to the court’s fashioning of an appropriate disposition of a child in need of assistance case over which the court has jurisdiction.
54. “Social report” means a report furnished to the court which contains the information collected during a social investigation.
55. “Taking into custody” means an act which would be governed by the laws of arrest under the criminal code if the subject of the act were an adult. The taking into custody of a child is subject to all constitutional and statutory protections which are afforded an adult upon arrest.
56. “Termination hearing” means a hearing held to determine whether the court should terminate a parent-child relationship.
57. “Termination of the parent-child relationship” means the divestment by the court of the parent’s and child’s privileges, duties, and powers with respect to each other.
58. “Voluntary placement” means a foster care placement in which the department provides foster care services to a child according to a signed placement agreement between the department and the child’s parent or guardian.
59. “Waiver hearing” means a hearing at which the court determines whether it shall waive its jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed a delinquent act so that the state may prosecute the child as if the child were an adult.
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Referred to in §13B.9, 135.119, 232.68, 232.71B, 232.82, 232.83, 232.98, 232.101A, 232.102, 232.117, 232.147, 235.7, 235A.15, 237.3, 237.15, 282.30, 709.13, 709A.5, 915.36, 915.37

Structure Iowa Code

Iowa Code

Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES

Chapter 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE

Section 232.1 - Rules of construction.

Section 232.1A - Foster care placement — annual goal.

Section 232.2 - Definitions.

Section 232.3 - Concurrent court proceedings.

Section 232.4 - Jurisdiction — support obligation.

Section 232.5 - Abortion performed on a minor — waiver of notification proceedings.

Section 232.6 - Jurisdiction — adoptions and terminations of parental rights.

Section 232.7 - Iowa Indian child welfare Act.

Section 232.7A - Rules of juvenile procedure.

Section 232.7B - Applicability of this chapter prior to July 1, 1979.

Section 232.8 - Jurisdiction.

Section 232.9 - Motion for change of judge.

Section 232.10 - Venue.

Section 232.11 - Right to assistance of counsel.

Section 232.12 - Duties of county attorney.

Section 232.13 - State liability.

Section 232.19 - Taking a child into custody.

Section 232.20 - Admission of child to shelter care or detention.

Section 232.21 - Placement in shelter care.

Section 232.22 - Placement in detention.

Section 232.23 - Detention — youthful offenders.

Section 232.28 - Intake.

Section 232.28A - Victim rights.

Section 232.29 - Informal adjustment.

Section 232.35 - Filing of petition.

Section 232.36 - Contents of petition.

Section 232.37 - Summons, notice, subpoenas, and service — order for removal.

Section 232.38 - Presence of parents at hearings.

Section 232.39 - Exclusion of public from hearings.

Section 232.40 - Other issues adjudicated.

Section 232.41 - Reporter required.

Section 232.42 - Continuances.

Section 232.43 - Answer — plea agreement — acceptance of plea admitting allegations of petition.

Section 232.44 - Detention or shelter care hearing — release from detention upon change of circumstance.

Section 232.45 - Waiver hearing and waiver of jurisdiction.

Section 232.45A - Waiver to and conviction by district court — processing.

Section 232.46 - Consent decree.

Section 232.47 - Adjudicatory hearing — findings — adjudication.

Section 232.48 - Predisposition investigation and report.

Section 232.49 - Physical and mental examinations.

Section 232.50 - Dispositional hearing.

Section 232.51 - Disposition of child with mental illness.

Section 232.52 - Disposition of child found to have committed a delinquent act.

Section 232.52A - Disposition of certain juvenile offenders.

Section 232.53 - Duration of dispositional orders.

Section 232.54 - Termination, modification, or vacation and substitution of dispositional order.

Section 232.55 - Effect of adjudication and disposition.

Section 232.56 - Youthful offenders — transfer to district court supervision.

Section 232.57 - Reasonable efforts defined — effect of aggravated circumstances.

Section 232.58 - Permanency hearings.

Section 232.61 - Jurisdiction.

Section 232.62 - Venue.

Section 232.67 - Legislative findings — purpose and policy.

Section 232.68 - Definitions.

Section 232.69 - Mandatory and permissive reporters — training required.

Section 232.70 - Reporting procedure.

Section 232.71

Section 232.71A

Section 232.71B - Duties of the department upon receipt of report.

Section 232.71C - Court action following assessment — guardian ad litem.

Section 232.71D - Founded child abuse — central registry.

Section 232.72 - Jurisdiction — transfer.

Section 232.73 - Medically relevant tests — immunity from liability.

Section 232.73A - Retaliation prohibited — remedy.

Section 232.74 - Evidence not privileged or excluded.

Section 232.75 - Sanctions.

Section 232.76 - Publicity, educational, and training programs.

Section 232.77 - Photographs, X rays, and medically relevant tests.

Section 232.78 - Temporary custody of a child pursuant to ex parte court order.

Section 232.79 - Custody without court order.

Section 232.79A - Children without adult supervision.

Section 232.80 - Homemaker services.

Section 232.81 - Complaint.

Section 232.82 - Removal of sexual offenders and physical abusers from the residence pursuant to court order.

Section 232.83 - Child sexual abuse involving a person not responsible for the care of the child.

Section 232.84 - Transfer of custody — notice to adult relatives.

Section 232.87 - Filing of a petition — contents of petition.

Section 232.88 - Summons, notice, subpoenas, and service.

Section 232.89 - Right to and appointment of counsel.

Section 232.90 - Duties of county attorney.

Section 232.91 - Presence of child, parents, guardian ad litem, and others at hearings — additional parties — department recordkeeping.

Section 232.92 - Exclusion of public from hearings.

Section 232.93 - Other issues adjudicated.

Section 232.94 - Reporter required.

Section 232.94A - Records — subsequent hearings.

Section 232.95 - Hearing concerning temporary removal.

Section 232.96 - Adjudicatory hearing.

Section 232.97 - Social investigation and report.

Section 232.98 - Physical and mental examinations.

Section 232.99 - Dispositional hearing — findings.

Section 232.100 - Suspended judgment.

Section 232.101 - Retention of custody by parent.

Section 232.101A - Appointment of guardian.

Section 232.102 - Transfer of legal custody of child and placement.

Section 232.103 - Termination, modification, vacation, and substitution of dispositional order.

Section 232.103A - Transfer of jurisdiction related to child in need of assistance case — bridge order.

Section 232.104 - Permanency hearing — permanency order — subsequent proceedings.

Section 232.106 - Terms and conditions on child’s parent.

Section 232.107 - Parent visitation.

Section 232.108 - Visitation or ongoing interaction with siblings.

Section 232.109 - Jurisdiction.

Section 232.110 - Venue.

Section 232.111 - Petition.

Section 232.112 - Notice — service.

Section 232.113 - Right to and appointment of counsel.

Section 232.114 - Duties of county attorney.

Section 232.115 - Reporter required.

Section 232.116 - Grounds for termination.

Section 232.117 - Termination — findings — disposition.

Section 232.118 - Removal of guardian.

Section 232.119 - Adoption exchange established.

Section 232.120 - Preadoptive care — continued placement.

Section 232.122 - Jurisdiction.

Section 232.123 - Venue.

Section 232.125 - Petition.

Section 232.126 - Appointment of counsel and guardian ad litem.

Section 232.127 - Hearing — adjudication — disposition.

Section 232.128 - Reserved.

Section 232.129 - Reserved.

Section 232.130 - Reserved.

Section 232.131 - Reserved.

Section 232.132 - Reserved.

Section 232.133 - Appeal.

Section 232.141 - Expenses.

Section 232.142 - Maintenance and cost of juvenile homes — fund.

Section 232.143 - Service area group foster care budget targets.

Section 232.147 - Confidentiality of juvenile court records.

Section 232.148 - Fingerprints — photographs.

Section 232.149 - Records of criminal or juvenile justice agencies, intake officers, and juvenile court officers.

Section 232.149A - Confidentiality orders.

Section 232.149B - Public records orders.

Section 232.150 - Sealing of records.

Section 232.151 - Criminal penalties.

Section 232.152 - Rules of juvenile procedure.

Section 232.153 - Applicability of this chapter prior to July 1, 1979.

Section 232.158 - Interstate compact on placement of children.

Section 232.158A - Legal risk placement.

Section 232.159 - Financial responsibility.

Section 232.160 - Department of human services as public authority.

Section 232.161 - Department as authority in receiving state.

Section 232.162 - Authority to enter agreements.

Section 232.163 - Visitation, inspection, or supervision.

Section 232.164 - Court authority to place child in another state.

Section 232.165 - Executive head.

Section 232.166 - Statutes not affected.

Section 232.167 - Penalty.

Section 232.168 - Attorney general to enforce.

Section 232.171 - Interstate compact on juveniles.

Section 232.172 - Confinement of delinquent juvenile.

Section 232.173 - Interstate compact for juveniles.

Section 232.175 - Placement oversight.

Section 232.176 - Jurisdiction.

Section 232.177 - Venue.

Section 232.178 - Petition.

Section 232.179 - Appointment of counsel and guardian ad litem.

Section 232.180 - Duties of county attorney.

Section 232.181 - Social history report.

Section 232.182 - Initial determination.

Section 232.183 - Dispositional hearing.

Section 232.187 - Regional out-of-state placement committees.

Section 232.188 - Decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice funding initiative.

Section 232.189 - Reasonable efforts administrative requirements.

Section 232.190 - Community grant fund.

Section 232.191 - Early intervention and follow-up programs.

Section 232.195 - Runaway treatment plan.

Section 232.196 - Runaway assessment center.