35D.1  Purpose of home — definitions.
  1.  The Iowa veterans home, located in Marshalltown, shall be maintained as a long-term health care facility providing multiple levels of care, with attendant health care services, for honorably discharged veterans and their dependent spouses and for surviving spouses of honorably discharged veterans. Eligibility requirements for admission to the Iowa veterans home shall coincide with the eligibility requirements for hospitalization in a United States department of veterans affairs facility pursuant to 38 U.S.C. §  1710, and regulations promulgated under that section, as amended.
  2.  As used in this chapter:
  a.  “Commandant” means the commandant of the Iowa veterans home appointed pursuant to section 35D.13.
  b.  “Commission” means the commission of veterans affairs established in section 35A.2.
  c.  “Member” means a patient or resident of the home.
[C97, §2601, 2602, 2606; S13, §2601, 2602, 2606; SS15, §2606; C24, 27, 31, 35, §3366, 3367; C39, §3384.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §219.1]
84 Acts, ch 1277, §1; 92 Acts, ch 1140, §22
C93, §35D.1
2009 Acts, ch 26, §5