222.10 - DUTY OF PEACE OFFICER. - Iowa Statutes

222.10 DUTY OF PEACE OFFICER. When any person with mental retardation departs without proper authority from an institution in another state and is found in this state, any peace officer in any county in which such patient is found may take and detain the patient without warrant or order and shall report such detention to the administrator. The administrator shall provide for the return of the patient to the authorities in the state from which the unauthorized departure was made. Pending return, such patient may be detained temporarily at one of the institutions of this state governed by the administrator or by the administrator of the division of child and family services of the department of human services. The provisions of this section relating to the administrator shall also apply to the return of other nonresident persons with mental retardation having legal settlement outside the state of Iowa.          Section History: Early Form [C58, 62, § 222.55; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.10]          Section History: Recent Form 83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113