2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.51 - DISPOSITION OF CHILD WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR MENTAL RETARDATION.

        232.51  DISPOSITION OF CHILD WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR
      MENTAL RETARDATION.
         If the evidence received at an adjudicatory or a dispositional
      hearing indicates that the child is mentally ill, the court may
      direct the juvenile court officer or the department to initiate
      proceedings or to assist the child's parent or guardian to initiate
      civil commitment proceedings in the juvenile court.  These
      proceedings in the juvenile court shall adhere to the requirements of
      chapter 229.  If the evidence received at an adjudicatory or a
      dispositional hearing indicates that the child is mentally retarded,
      the court may direct the juvenile court officer or the department to
      initiate proceedings or to assist the child's parent or guardian to
      initiate civil commitment proceedings in the juvenile court.  These
      proceedings shall adhere to the requirements of chapter 222.  If the
      child is committed as a child with mental illness or mental
      retardation, any order adjudicating the child to have committed a
      delinquent act shall be set aside and the petition shall be
      dismissed.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 232.51] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 186, § 10055, 10201; 86 Acts, ch 1186, § 5; 96 Acts,
      ch 1129, § 62
         Referred to in § 229.26