147A.28 - PROHIBITED ACTS. - Iowa Statutes

147A.28 PROHIBITED ACTS. A hospital or emergency care facility that imparts or conveys, or causes to be imparted or conveyed, that it is a trauma care facility, or that uses any other term to indicate or imply that the hospital or emergency care facility is a trauma care facility without having obtained a certificate of verification under this subchapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars per day for each offense. In addition, the director may apply to the district court for a writ of injunction to restrain the use of the term "trauma care facility". However, nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to restrict a hospital or emergency facility from providing any services for which it is duly authorized.          Section History: Recent Form 95 Acts, ch 40, §9; 95 Acts, ch 209, §21