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Section 229.1 - Definitions. - 229.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context...
Section 229.1A - Legislative intent. - 229.1A Legislative intent. As mental illness is often a continuing...
Section 229.1B - Regional administrator. - 229.1B Regional administrator. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to...
Section 229.2 - Application for voluntary admission — authority to receive voluntary patients. - 229.2 Application for voluntary admission — authority to receive voluntary...
Section 229.2A - Dual filings. - 229.2A Dual filings. Repealed by 2013 Acts, ch 130, §55.
Section 229.3 - Discharge of voluntary patients. - 229.3 Discharge of voluntary patients. Any voluntary patient who has...
Section 229.4 - Right to release on application. - 229.4 Right to release on application. A voluntary patient who...
Section 229.5 - Departure without notice. - 229.5 Departure without notice. If a voluntary patient departs from...
Section 229.5A - Preapplication screening assessment — program. - 229.5A Preapplication screening assessment — program. Prior to filing an...
Section 229.6 - Application for order of involuntary hospitalization. - 229.6 Application for order of involuntary hospitalization. 1. Proceedings for...
Section 229.6A - Hospitalization of minors — jurisdiction — due process. - 229.6A Hospitalization of minors — jurisdiction — due process. 1....
Section 229.7 - Service of notice upon respondent. - 229.7 Service of notice upon respondent. Upon the filing of...
Section 229.8 - Procedure after application is filed. - 229.8 Procedure after application is filed. As soon as practicable...
Section 229.9 - Respondent’s attorney informed. - 229.9 Respondent’s attorney informed. The court shall direct the clerk...
Section 229.9A - Advocate informed. - 229.9A Advocate informed. The clerk shall furnish the advocate appointed...
Section 229.10 - Physicians’ or mental health professionals’ examination — report. - 229.10 Physicians’ or mental health professionals’ examination — report. 1....
Section 229.11 - Judge may order immediate custody. - 229.11 Judge may order immediate custody. 1. If the applicant...
Section 229.12 - Hearing procedure. - 229.12 Hearing procedure. 1. At the hospitalization hearing, evidence in...
Section 229.13 - Evaluation order — treatment — unauthorized departure or failure to appear. - 229.13 Evaluation order — treatment — unauthorized departure or failure...
Section 229.14 - Chief medical officer’s report. - 229.14 Chief medical officer’s report. 1. The chief medical officer’s...
Section 229.14A - Placement order — notice and hearing. - 229.14A Placement order — notice and hearing. 1. With respect...
Section 229.14B - Escape from custody. - 229.14B Escape from custody. A person who is placed in...
Section 229.15 - Periodic reports required. - 229.15 Periodic reports required. 1. Not more than thirty days...
Section 229.16 - Discharge and termination of proceeding. - 229.16 Discharge and termination of proceeding. When the condition of...
Section 229.17 - Status of respondent during appeal. - 229.17 Status of respondent during appeal. If a respondent appeals...
Section 229.18 - Status of respondent if hospitalization is delayed. - 229.18 Status of respondent if hospitalization is delayed. When the...
Section 229.19 - Advocates — appointment — duties — employment and compensation. - 229.19 Advocates — appointment — duties — employment and compensation....
Section 229.21 - Judicial hospitalization referee — appeals to district court. - 229.21 Judicial hospitalization referee — appeals to district court. 1....
Section 229.22 - Hospitalization — emergency procedure. - 229.22 Hospitalization — emergency procedure. 1. The procedure prescribed by...
Section 229.23 - Rights and privileges of hospitalized persons. - 229.23 Rights and privileges of hospitalized persons. Every person who...
Section 229.24 - Records of involuntary hospitalization proceeding to be confidential. - 229.24 Records of involuntary hospitalization proceeding to be confidential. 1....
Section 229.25 - Medical records to be confidential — exceptions. - 229.25 Medical records to be confidential — exceptions. 1. a....
Section 229.26 - Exclusive procedure for involuntary hospitalization. - 229.26 Exclusive procedure for involuntary hospitalization. Sections 229.6 through 229.19...
Section 229.27 - Hospitalization not to equate with incompetency — procedure for finding incompetency due to mental illness. - 229.27 Hospitalization not to equate with incompetency — procedure for...
Section 229.28 - Hospitalization in certain federal facilities. - 229.28 Hospitalization in certain federal facilities. 1. When a court...
Section 229.29 - Transfer to certain federal facilities. - 229.29 Transfer to certain federal facilities. 1. Upon receipt of...
Section 229.30 - Orders of courts in other states. - 229.30 Orders of courts in other states. A judgment or...
Section 229.31 - Commission of inquiry. - 229.31 Commission of inquiry. A sworn complaint, alleging that a...
Section 229.32 - Duty of commission. - 229.32 Duty of commission. Said commission shall at once proceed...
Section 229.33 - Hearing. - 229.33 Hearing. If, on such report and statement, and the...
Section 229.34 - Finding and order filed. - 229.34 Finding and order filed. The finding and order of...
Section 229.35 - Compensation — payment. - 229.35 Compensation — payment. Said commissioners shall be entitled to...
Section 229.36 - Limitation on proceedings. - 229.36 Limitation on proceedings. The proceeding authorized in sections 229.31...
Section 229.37 - Habeas corpus. - 229.37 Habeas corpus. All persons confined as seriously mentally impaired...
Section 229.38 - Cruelty or official misconduct. - 229.38 Cruelty or official misconduct. If any person having the...
Section 229.39 - Status of persons hospitalized under former law. - 229.39 Status of persons hospitalized under former law. 1. Each...
Section 229.40 - Rules for proceedings. - 229.40 Rules for proceedings. Proceedings under this chapter are subject...
Section 229.41 - Voluntary admission. - 229.41 Voluntary admission. Persons making application pursuant to section 229.2...
Section 229.42 - Costs paid by county. - 229.42 Costs paid by county. 1. If a person wishing...
Section 229.43 - Nonresident patients. - 229.43 Nonresident patients. The administrator may place patients of mental...
Section 229.44 - Venue. - 229.44 Venue. 1. Venue for hospitalization proceedings shall be in...
Section 229.45 - Provision of summary of procedures to applicant in involuntary commitment. - 229.45 Provision of summary of procedures to applicant in involuntary...