222.10 - DUTY OF PEACE OFFICER.
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