222.55  Procedure regarding a person with mental illness.

If it appears at any time that a person has under the provisions of this chapter been committed to a private institution and should be evaluated and treated in a hospital for persons with mental illness, the person may be hospitalized under any of the provisions of sections 229.2 to 229.15.

Section History: Early form

  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3457; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 222.47; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.55]

Section History: Recent form

  84 Acts, ch 1299, § 7; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113

Footnotes

  Hospitalization of persons with mental illness, chapter 229


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