Iowa Statutes
§ 226.13 — Patients allowed to write
Iowa § 226.13
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Bluebook
Iowa Code § 226.13 (2026).
Text
The name and address of the director shall be posted in every ward in each mental health
institute. Every patient shall be allowed to write once a week what the patient pleases to the
director and to any other person. The superintendent may send letters addressed to other
parties to the director for inspection before forwarding them to the individual addressed.
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Legislative History
[C73, §1436; C97, §2300; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3495; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
79, 81, §226.13]
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§ 226.10
Equal treatment§ 226.11
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Monthly reports§ 226.13
Patients allowed to write§ 226.14
Writing material§ 226.15
Letters to director§ 226.17
Expense attending retaking§ 226.19
Discharge — certificate§ 226.22
Clothing furnished§ 226.23
Convalescent leave of patients§ 226.26
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Bluebook (online)
Iowa § 226.13, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/ia/226.13.