230.14  Legal settlement in cases involving nonresidence or unknown settlement.

If an alternative dispute resolution of the dispute filed under section 230.12, subsection 2, stipulates or the court finds that the legal settlement of the person with mental illness, at the time of admission or commitment, was in a foreign state or country, or was unknown, an order shall be entered that the person shall be maintained in the hospital for persons with mental illness at the expense of the state. In such case the state shall refund to any county, with interest, all legal costs and expenses arising out of the legal settlement dispute and paid by a county. Any stipulation filed or decision by the court shall be final.

Section History: Early form

  [C73, § 1402; C97, § 2270; S13, § 2270; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3594; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 230.14]

Section History: Recent form

  94 Acts, ch 1170, §6; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113


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