222.68 - COSTS PAID IN FIRST INSTANCE. - Iowa Statutes

222.68 COSTS PAID IN FIRST INSTANCE. All necessary and legal expenses for the cost of admission or commitment of a person to a resource center or a special unit when the person's legal settlement is found to be in another county of this state shall in the first instance be paid by the county from which the person was admitted or committed. The county of legal settlement shall reimburse the county which pays for all such expenses. Where any county fails to make such reimbursement within forty- five days following submission of a properly itemized bill to the county of legal settlement, a penalty of not greater than one percent per month on and after forty-five days from submission of the bill may be added to the amount due.          Section History: Early Form [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3451; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 222.41; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.68]          Section History: Recent Form 98 Acts, ch 1218, §68; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §51 Referred to in § 225C.8, 331.381