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222.60 Costs paid by county or state.

All necessary and legal expenses for the cost of admission or commitment or for the treatment, training, instruction, care, habilitation, support and transportation of patients in a state hospital-school for the mentally retarded, or in a special unit, or any public or private facility within or without the state, approved by the director of the department of human services, shall be paid by either:

1. The county in which such person has legal settlement as defined in section 252.16.

2. The state when such person has no legal settlement or when such settlement is unknown.

Section History: Early form

[C39, § 3477.3, 3477.4, 3477.7; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 223.14, 223.15, 223.18; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.60]

Section History: Recent form

83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159

Internal References

Referred to in § 222.78, 331.381

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