If a county care facility fails to comply with rules and standards adopted under this chapter, the administrator may remove all mentally ill and mentally retarded persons cared for in the county care facility at public expense, to the proper state mental health institute or hospital-school, or to some private or county institution or hospital for the care of the mentally ill or mentally retarded that has complied with the rules prescribed by the administrator. Residents being transferred to a state mental health institute or hospital-school shall be accompanied by an attendant or attendants sent from the institute or hospital-school. If a resident is transferred under this section, at least one attendant shall be of the same sex. If the administrator finds that the needs of mentally ill and mentally retarded residents of any other county or private institution are not being adequately met, those residents may be removed from that institution upon order of the administrator.
[S13, § 2727-a63; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3522; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 227.6; 81 Acts, ch 78, § 20, 35]
90 Acts, ch 1204, §46
Referred to in § 229.15
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