225C.13  Authority to establish and lease facilities.

1.  The administrator assigned, in accordance with section 218.1, to control the state mental health institutes and the state resource centers may enter into agreements under which a facility or portion of a facility administered by the administrator is leased to a department or division of state government, a county or group of counties, or a private nonprofit corporation organized under chapter 504A. A lease executed under this section shall require that the lessee use the leased premises to deliver either disability services or other services normally delivered by the lessee.

2.  The administrator of the division of mental health and developmental disabilities may work with the appropriate administrator of the department's institutions to establish mental health and mental retardation services for all institutions under the control of the director of human services and to establish an autism unit, following mutual planning and consultation with the medical director of the state psychiatric hospital, at an institution or a facility administered by the department to provide psychiatric and related services and other specific programs to meet the needs of autistic persons, and to furnish appropriate diagnostic evaluation services.

Section History: Early form

  [S81, § 225C.12; 81 Acts, ch 78, § 14, 20]

Section History: Recent form

  94 Acts, ch 1170, §17; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §34


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