227.15  Authority to confine in hospital.

No person shall be involuntarily confined and restrained in any private institution or hospital or county hospital or other general hospital with a psychiatric ward for the care or treatment of persons with mental illness, except by the procedure prescribed in sections 229.6 to 229.15.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 2727-a66; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3532; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 227.15]

Section History: Recent form

  96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113


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