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