Emergency detention — medical officer absent from facility. If the facility to
Rules For Involuntary Hospitalization Of
which the respondent is delivered pursuant to Iowa Code section 229.22 lacks a chief medical officer, the person then in charge of the facility shall, if treatment appears necessary to protect the respondent, immediately notify a physician. The person in charge of the facility shall then immediately notify the magistrate. [Supreme Court Report 1979; November 9, 2001, effective February 15, 2002]
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