227.15 - AUTHORITY TO CONFINE IN HOSPITAL. - Iowa Statutes

227.15 AUTHORITY TO CONFINE IN HOSPITAL. No person shall be involuntarily confined and restrained in any private institution or hospital or county hospital or other general hospital with a psychiatric ward for the care or treatment of persons with mental illness, except by the procedure prescribed in sections 229.6 to 229.15.          Section History: Early Form [S13, § 2727-a66; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3532; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 227.15]          Section History: Recent Form 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113