The director of the department of human services, in respect to institutions under the director's control, the administrator of any of the divisions of the department, in respect to the institutions under the administrator's control, the director of the Iowa department of corrections, in respect to the institutions under the department's control, and the state board of regents in respect to the Iowa braille and sight saving school and the Iowa school for the deaf, may send any inmate, student, or patient of an institution, or any person committed or applying for admission to an institution, to the hospital of the medical college of the state university for treatment and care as provided in this chapter, without securing the order of court required in other cases. The department of human services, the Iowa department of corrections and the state board of regents, shall respectively pay the traveling expenses of a patient thus committed, and when necessary the traveling expenses of an attendant for the patient, out of funds appropriated for the use of the institution from which the patient is sent.
[SS15, § 254-k; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4030; C39, § 3828.159; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 255.28]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 109, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1067, § 25
Previous Section 255.27
Next Section 255.29
© 2001 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Mon Jan 22 17:13:42 CST 2001
URL: /DOCS/IACODE/2001/255/28.html
jhf