238.2  "Child-placing agency" defined.

Any agency, public, semipublic, or private, which represents itself as placing children permanently or temporarily in private family homes or as receiving children for such placement, or which actually engages, for gain or otherwise, in such placement, shall be deemed to operate a child-placing agency.

Section History: Early form

  [C27, 31, 35, § 3661-a59; C39, § 3661.073; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 238.2]

Internal References

  Referred to in § 238.17, 600.15, 600A.2


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