222.68  COSTS PAID IN FIRST INSTANCE.
 All necessary and legal expenses for the cost of admission or
 commitment of a person to a resource center or a special unit when
 the person's legal settlement is found to be in another county of
 this state shall in the first instance be paid by the county from
 which the person was admitted or committed.  The county of legal
 settlement shall reimburse the county which pays for all such
 expenses.  Where any county fails to make such reimbursement within
 forty- five days following submission of a properly itemized bill to
 the county of legal settlement, a penalty of not greater than one
 percent per month on and after forty-five days from submission of the
 bill may be added to the amount due.
         Section History: Early Form

 [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3451; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, § 222.41;
 C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 222.68]
         Section History: Recent Form

 98 Acts, ch 1218, §68; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §51
 Referred to in § 225C.8, 331.381