2011 Iowa Code
TITLE VI HUMAN SERVICES
SUBTITLE 5 JUVENILES
CHAPTER 233 NEWBORN INFANT CUSTODY RELEASE PROCEDURES (NEWBORN SAFE HAVEN ACT)
233.1 Newborn safe haven Act — definitions.
233.1 Newborn safe haven Act definitions.
1. This chapter may be cited as the Newborn Safe Haven Act .
2. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. Institutional health facility means a hospital as defined in section 135B.1, including a facility providing medical or health services that is open twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week and is a hospital emergency room or a health care facility as defined in section 135C.1.
b. Newborn infant means a child who is, or who appears to be, fourteen days of age or younger.
2001 Acts, ch 67, §1, 13; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §33
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