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222.88 - SPECIAL MENTAL RETARDATION UNIT.

        222.88  SPECIAL MENTAL RETARDATION UNIT.
         The director of human services may organize and establish a
      special mental retardation unit at an existing institution which may
      provide:
         1.  Psychiatric and related services to children with mental
      retardation and adults who are also emotionally disturbed or
      otherwise mentally ill.
         2.  Specific programs to meet the needs of such other special
      categories of persons with mental retardation as may be designated by
      the director.
         3.  Appropriate diagnostic evaluation services.
         Section History: Early Form
         [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.88]
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 51, 113
         Referred to in § 222.1, 222.2, 222.13, 222.91