229.38 CRUELTY OR OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.
If any person having the care of a person with mental illness who
has voluntarily entered a hospital or other facility for treatment or
care, or who is responsible for psychiatric examination care,
treatment, and maintenance of any person involuntarily hospitalized
under sections 229.6 to 229.15, whether in a hospital or elsewhere,
with or without proper authority, shall treat such patient with
unnecessary severity, harshness, or cruelty, or in any way abuse the
patient or if any person unlawfully detains or deprives of liberty
any person with mental illness or any person who is alleged to have
mental illness, or if any officer required by the provisions of this
chapter and chapters 226 and 227, to perform any act shall willfully
refuse or neglect to perform the same, the offending person shall,
unless otherwise provided, be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
229.38 CRUELTY OR OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.
If any person having the care of a person with mental illness who
has voluntarily entered a hospital or other facility for treatment or
care, or who is responsible for psychiatric examination care,
treatment, and maintenance of any person involuntarily hospitalized
under sections 229.6 to 229.15, whether in a hospital or elsewhere,
with or without proper authority, shall treat such patient with
unnecessary severity, harshness, or cruelty, or in any way abuse the
patient or if any person unlawfully detains or deprives of liberty
any person with mental illness or any person who is alleged to have
mental illness, or if any officer required by the provisions of this
chapter and chapters 226 and 227, to perform any act shall willfully
refuse or neglect to perform the same, the offending person shall,
unless otherwise provided, be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
229.38 CRUELTY OR OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.
If any person having the care of a person with mental illness who
has voluntarily entered a hospital or other facility for treatment or
care, or who is responsible for psychiatric examination care,
treatment, and maintenance of any person involuntarily hospitalized
under sections 229.6 to 229.15, whether in a hospital or elsewhere,
with or without proper authority, shall treat such patient with
unnecessary severity, harshness, or cruelty, or in any way abuse the
patient or if any person unlawfully detains or deprives of liberty
any person with mental illness or any person who is alleged to have
mental illness, or if any officer required by the provisions of this
chapter and chapters 226 and 227, to perform any act shall willfully
refuse or neglect to perform the same, the offending person shall,
unless otherwise provided, be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
