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227.15 - AUTHORITY TO CONFINE IN HOSPITAL.

        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