218.3  Primary authority for management.

The primary authority and responsibility to control, manage, direct, and operate the institutions set forth in section 218.1 is assigned within the department of human services as follows:

1.  The director of the department of human services has primary authority and responsibility relative to the following institutions:  the state training school, and the Iowa juvenile home.

2.  The administrator of the division of mental health and developmental disabilities of the department of human services has primary authority and responsibility relative to the following institutions:  Glenwood state hospital-school, Woodward state hospital- school, mental health institute, Cherokee, Iowa, mental health institute, Clarinda, Iowa, mental health institute, Independence, Iowa, and mental health institute, Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Section History: Early form

  [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.3; 81 Acts, ch 78, § 20, 24; 82 Acts, ch 1260, § 19]

Section History: Recent form

  83 Acts, ch 96, § 67, 157, 159; 83 Acts, ch 101, § 38; 91 Acts, ch 258, §36; 94 Acts, ch 1170, §29


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