When a patient in a state hospital-school for persons with mental retardation, a mental health institute, or an institution under the administration of the administrator of the division of mental health and developmental disabilities of the department of human services, has become so mentally disturbed as to constitute a danger to self, to other patients in the institution, or to the public, and the institution cannot provide adequate security, the administrator, with the consent of the director of the Iowa department of corrections, may order the patient to be transferred to the Iowa medical and classification center, if the executive head of the institution from which the patient is to be transferred, with the support of a majority of the medical staff, recommends the transfer in the interest of the patient, other patients, or the public. If the patient transferred was hospitalized pursuant to sections 229.6 to 229.15, the transfer shall be promptly reported to the court which hospitalized the patient, as required by section 229.15, subsection 4. The Iowa medical and classification center has the same rights, duties, and responsibilities with respect to the patient as the institution from which the patient was transferred had while the patient was hospitalized there. The cost of the transfer shall be paid from the funds of the institution from which the transfer is made.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.92; 82 Acts, ch 1100, § 5]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 69, 159; 89 Acts, ch 83, § 34; 94 Acts, ch 1170, §33; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113
See also § 226.30
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