IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
232.142 - MAINTENANCE AND COST OF JUVENILE HOMES -- FUND.
232.142 MAINTENANCE AND COST OF JUVENILE HOMES --
FUND.
1. County boards of supervisors which singly or in conjunction
with one or more other counties provide and maintain juvenile
detention and juvenile shelter care homes are subject to this
section.
2. For the purpose of providing and maintaining a county or
multicounty home, the board of supervisors of any county may issue
general county purpose bonds in accordance with sections 331.441 to
331.449. Expenses for providing and maintaining a multicounty home
shall be paid by the counties participating in a manner to be
determined by the boards of supervisors.
3. A county or multicounty juvenile detention home approved
pursuant to this section shall receive financial aid from the state
in a manner approved by the director. Aid paid by the state shall be
at least ten percent and not more than fifty percent of the total
cost of the establishment, improvements, operation, and maintenance
of the home.
4. The director shall adopt minimal rules and standards for the
establishment, maintenance, and operation of such homes as shall be
necessary to effect the purposes of this chapter. The rules shall
apply the requirements of section 237.8, concerning employment and
evaluation of persons with direct responsibility for a child or with
access to a child when the child is alone and persons residing in a
child foster care facility, to persons employed by or residing in a
home approved under this section. The director shall, upon request,
give guidance and consultation in the establishment and
administration of the homes and programs for the homes.
5. The director shall approve annually all such homes established
and maintained under the provisions of this chapter. A home shall
not be approved unless it complies with minimal rules and standards
adopted by the director and has been inspected by the department of
inspections and appeals.
6. A juvenile detention home fund is created in the state
treasury under the authority of the department. The fund shall
consist of moneys deposited in the fund pursuant to sections 321.218A
and 321A.32A. The moneys in the fund shall be used for the costs of
the establishment, improvement, operation, and maintenance of county
or multicounty juvenile detention homes in accordance with annual
appropriations made by the general assembly from the fund for these
purposes. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 254-a20, -a26, -a29, -a30; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
3653--3655; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 232.35--232.37; C66, 71, 73,
75, 77, § 232.21--232.26; C79, 81, S81, § 232.142; 81 Acts, ch 117, §
1031] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 123, § 91, 209; 88 Acts, ch 1134, §55; 90 Acts, ch
1204, § 47; 90 Acts, ch 1239, § 13; 91 Acts, ch 138, § 4; 92 Acts, ch
1229, § 9; 2001 Acts, ch 191, §38
Referred to in § 232.69, 237.4, 321.210B, 321.218A, 321A.32A,
331.382, 709.16