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229.29 TRANSFER TO CERTAIN FEDERAL FACILITIES.
1. Upon receipt of a certificate stating that any person
involuntarily hospitalized under this chapter is eligible for care
and treatment in a facility operated by the United States department
of veterans affairs or another agency of the United States government
which is willing to receive the person without charge to the state of
Iowa or any county in the state, the chief medical officer may
transfer the person to that facility. Upon so doing, the chief
medical officer shall notify the court which ordered the person's
hospitalization in the same manner as would be required in the case
of a transfer under section 229.15, subsection 5, and the person
transferred shall be entitled to the same rights as the person would
have under that subsection.
2. No person shall be transferred under this section who is
confined pursuant to conviction of a public offense or whose
hospitalization was ordered upon contention of incompetence to stand
trial by reason of mental illness, without prior approval of the
court which ordered that person's hospitalization. Section History: Early Form
[C27, 31, 35, § 3562-b1; C39, § 3562.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
66, 71, 73, 75, § 229.20; C77, 79, 81, § 229.29] Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 26, §11
