218.4 - RECOMMENDATION FOR RULES. - Iowa Statutes

218.4 RECOMMENDATION FOR RULES. The administrators of particular institutions shall recommend to the council on human services for adoption such rules not inconsistent with law as they may deem necessary for the discharge of their duties, the management of each of such institutions, the admission of residents thereto and the treatment, care, custody, education and discharge of residents. It is made the duty of the particular administrators to establish rules by which danger to life and property from fire will be minimized. In the discharge of their duties and in the enforcement of their rules, they may require any of their appointees to perform duties in addition to those required by statute. Rules adopted by the council shall be uniform and shall apply to all institutions under the particular administrator and to all other institutions under the administrator's jurisdiction, and the primary rules for use in institutions where persons with mental illness are served shall, unless otherwise indicated, uniformly apply to county or private hospitals in which persons with mental illness are served, but the rules shall not interfere with proper medical treatment administered to patients by competent physicians. Annually, signed copies of the rules shall be sent to the superintendent of each institution or hospital under the control or supervision of a particular administrator and copies shall also be sent to the clerk of each district court, the chairperson of the board of supervisors of each county and, as appropriate, to the officer in charge of institutions or hospitals caring for persons with mental illness in each county who shall be responsible for seeing that the rules are posted in each institution or hospital in a prominent place. The rules shall be kept current to meet the public need and shall be revised and published annually. The state fire marshal shall cause to be made an annual inspection of all the institutions listed in section 218.1 and shall make written report thereof to the particular administrator of the state department of human services in control of such institution.          Section History: Early Form [S13, § 2727-a30, -a48, 5718-a3; SS15, § 2727-a50, -a96; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3290; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.4]          Section History: Recent Form 83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159, 160; 94 Acts, ch 1170, §30; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §4