2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.77 - PHOTOGRAPHS, X RAYS, AND MEDICALLY RELEVANT TESTS.

        232.77  PHOTOGRAPHS, X RAYS, AND MEDICALLY RELEVANT
      TESTS.
         1.  A person who is required to report a case of child abuse may
      take or cause to be taken, at public expense, photographs, X rays, or
      other physical examinations or tests of a child which would provide
      medical indication of allegations arising from a child abuse
      assessment.  A health practitioner may, if medically indicated, cause
      to be performed radiological examination, physical examination, or
      other medical tests of the child.  A person who takes any photographs
      or X rays or performs physical examinations or other tests pursuant
      to this section shall notify the department that the photographs or X
      rays have been taken or the examinations or other tests have been
      performed.  The person who made notification shall retain the
      photographs or X rays or examination or test findings for a
      reasonable time following the notification.  Whenever the person is
      required to report under section 232.69, in that person's capacity as
      a member of the staff of a medical or other private or public
      institution, agency or facility, that person shall immediately notify
      the person in charge of the institution, agency, or facility or that
      person's designated delegate of the need for photographs or X rays or
      examinations or other tests.
         2.  If a health practitioner discovers in a child physical or
      behavioral symptoms of the effects of exposure to cocaine, heroin,
      amphetamine, methamphetamine, or other illegal drugs, or combinations
      or derivatives thereof, which were not prescribed by a health
      practitioner, or if the health practitioner has determined through
      examination of the natural mother of the child that the child was
      exposed in utero, the health practitioner may perform or cause to be
      performed a medically relevant test, as defined in section 232.73, on
      the child.  The practitioner shall report any positive results of
      such a test on the child to the department.  The department shall
      begin an assessment pursuant to section 232.71B upon receipt of such
      a report.  A positive test result obtained prior to the birth of a
      child shall not be used for the criminal prosecution of a parent for
      acts and omissions resulting in intrauterine exposure of the child to
      an illegal drug.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, § 235A.11; C79, 81, § 232.77] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 90 Acts, ch 1264, § 29; 93 Acts, ch
      93, §3; 94 Acts, ch 1130, §6; 96 Acts, ch 1092, § 4; 97 Acts, ch 35,
      §10, 25
         Referred to in § 232.68, 232.73