226.9 - CUSTODY OF PATIENT. - Iowa Statutes

226.9 CUSTODY OF PATIENT. The superintendent, upon the receipt of a duly executed order of admission of a patient into the hospital for persons with mental illness, pursuant to section 229.13, shall take such patient into custody and restrain the patient as provided by law and the rules of the administrator, without liability on the part of such superintendent and all other officers of the hospital to prosecution of any kind on account thereof, but no person shall be detained in the hospital who is found by the superintendent to be in good mental health.          Section History: Early Form [C73, § 1411; C97, § 2278; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3491; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 226.9]          Section History: Recent Form 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113