135G.4  Licensure.
  1.  A person shall not establish, operate, or maintain a subacute care facility unless the person obtains a license for the subacute care facility under this chapter.
  2.  An intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness licensed under chapter 135C may convert to a subacute care facility by providing written notice to the department that the facility has employed a full-time psychiatrist and desires to make the conversion.
2012 Acts, ch 1120, §43
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