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Iowa Code § 218.1 (2026)

Institutions controlled

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The director shall have the general and full authority given under statute to control, manage, direct, and operate the following institutions under the director’s jurisdiction, and may at the director’s discretion assign the powers and authorities given the director by statute to a superintendent:

1. Glenwood state resource center.

2. Woodward state resource center.

3. Mental health institute, Cherokee, Iowa.

4. Mental health institute, Independence, Iowa.

5. State training school.

6. Other facilities not attached to the campus of the main institution as program developments require. [S13, §2727-a8, -a77; SS15, §2713-n2, 2727-a96; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3287; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §218.1; 81 Acts, ch 73, §1; 82 Acts, ch 1260, §18] 83 Acts, ch 96, §66, 157, 159; 83 Acts, ch 101, §37; 92 Acts, ch 1140, §21; 2000 Acts, ch 1112, §1, 45; 2019 Acts, ch 100, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §355 Referred to in §218.2, 218.3, 232.69, 234.1, 237.4, 237C.1, 280.16, 282.33, 357H.1, 708.3A, 709.16 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11 cases, 1965–2017 · leading case: Danny Homan, Rich Taylor, Jerry Kearns, Mark Smith, Thomas Courtney, Janet Petersen, Bruce Hunter, Curt Hanson, Tony Bisignano, Herman Quirmbach, Dick Dearden, Art Staed, Ako Abdul-Samad, Jo Oldson, Ruth Ann Gaines, Sharon Steckman, Todd Taylor, Mary Gaskill, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Timi Brown-Powers, Dave Jacoby, Pam Jochum, Matt McCoy, Michael Gronstal, & Bruce Bearinger v. Terry E. Branstad, 887 N.W.2d 153 (Iowa 2016).
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Danny Homan, Rich Taylor, Jerry Kearns, Mark Smith, Thomas Courtney, Janet Petersen, Bruce Hunter, Curt Hanson, Tony Bisignano, Herman Quirmbach, Dick Dearden, Art Staed, Ako Abdul-Samad, Jo Oldson, Ruth Ann Gaines, Sharon Steckman, Todd Taylor, Mary Gaskill, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Timi Brown-Powers, Dave Jacoby, Pam Jochum, Matt McCoy, Michael Gronstal, & Bruce Bearinger v. Terry E. Branstad, 887 N.W.2d 153 (Iowa 2016). · cites it 32× “Iowa Code § 218.1 . The plaintiffs contend section 218.”
Tina Haskenhoff v. Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC, 897 N.W.2d 553 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 4× “And certainly the flavor of the majority opinion in Nassar does not reflect the command of Iowa Code section 218.1(2) to broadly construe provisions of the ICRA.”
Kersten Co., Inc. v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 207 N.W.2d 117 (Iowa 1973). · cites it 4× “" Section 218.1, The Code. Its appropriated funds for each year of the biennium ending June 30, 1971, amounted to more than $78,000,000.”
Turner v. Palmer, 84 F. Supp. 3d 880 (S.D. Iowa 2015). · cites it 4× “*882 The Iowa Juvenile Home is a state institution governed and controlled by the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) pursuant to Iowa Code § 218.1 . 1 The DHS is responsible for the control, management, direction, and operation of the Iowa Juvenile Home.”
Wilson v. Coughlin, 147 N.W.2d 175 (Iowa 1966). · cites it 4× “Section 218.1, Code, 1962-1966. Sections 218.”
Iowa Dep't of Soc. Servs., Iowa Men's Reformatory v. Iowa Merit Emp. Dep't, 261 N.W.2d 161 (Iowa 1977). · cites it 2× “See § 218.1, The Code. There is evidence in the record there are no male guards classified CO II at the women's reformatory.”
State v. Knipe, 349 N.W.2d 770 (Iowa 1984). · cites it 2× “1983) (formerly listed in Iowa Code § 218.1 (1983)). Therefore, the Luster Heights work camp, operated as a satellite of the men’s reformatory, must be considered a “detention facility or penal institution” within the context of the phrase as used in section 901.”
Tinius v. Carroll Cnty. Sheriff Dep't, 255 F. Supp. 2d 971 (N.D. Iowa 2003). “” Iowa Code 217.1, The director of the Iowa Human Services Department is responsible for the control, management, direction, and operation of the Cherokee Mental Health Institute.”
Amended January 25, 2017 Danny Homan, Rich Taylor, Jerry Kearns, Mark Smith, Thomas Courtney, Janet Petersen, Bruce Hunter, Curt Hanson, Tony Bisignano, Herman Quirmbach, Dick Dearden, Art Staed, Ako Abdul-Samad, Jo Oldson, Ruth Ann Gaines, Sharon Steckman, Todd Taylor, Mary Gaskill, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Timi Brown-Powers, Dave Jacoby, Pam Jochum, Matt Mccoy, Michael Gronstal, & Bruce Bearinger, Appe (Iowa 2016). · cites it 30× “Iowa Code § 218.1 . The plaintiffs contend section 218.”
Dukehart-Hughes Tractor & Equip. Co., Inc., a Corp. v. The United States, 341 F.2d 613 (Ct. Cl. 1965). “” The Iowa Board of Control administers Iowa’s Soldier’s Home, the State hospitals, the State orphanage, the State reformatories, and the State prisons, 11 Iowa Code Ann. § 218.1 (1950). The significance of this statute is that it demonstrates that the legislature of Iowa knew…”
Amended August 25, 2017 Tina Haskenhoff v. Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC (Iowa 2017). · cites it 2× “And certainly the flavor of the majority opinion in Nassar does not reflect the command of Iowa Code section 218.1(2) to broadly construe provisions of the ICRA.”
— Iowa Code § 218.1(2) — 2 cases
Tina Haskenhoff v. Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC, 897 N.W.2d 553 (Iowa 2017). “And certainly the flavor of the majority opinion in Nassar does not reflect the command of Iowa Code section 218.1(2) to broadly construe provisions of the ICRA.”
Amended August 25, 2017 Tina Haskenhoff v. Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC (Iowa 2017). “And certainly the flavor of the majority opinion in Nassar does not reflect the command of Iowa Code section 218.1(2) to broadly construe provisions of the ICRA.”
— Iowa Code § 218.1(8) — 2 cases
Danny Homan, Rich Taylor, Jerry Kearns, Mark Smith, Thomas Courtney, Janet Petersen, Bruce Hunter, Curt Hanson, Tony Bisignano, Herman Quirmbach, Dick Dearden, Art Staed, Ako Abdul-Samad, Jo Oldson, Ruth Ann Gaines, Sharon Steckman, Todd Taylor, Mary Gaskill, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Timi Brown-Powers, Dave Jacoby, Pam Jochum, Matt McCoy, Michael Gronstal, & Bruce Bearinger v. Terry E. Branstad, 887 N.W.2d 153 (Iowa 2016). “Iowa Code § 218.1 . The plaintiffs contend section 218.”
Amended January 25, 2017 Danny Homan, Rich Taylor, Jerry Kearns, Mark Smith, Thomas Courtney, Janet Petersen, Bruce Hunter, Curt Hanson, Tony Bisignano, Herman Quirmbach, Dick Dearden, Art Staed, Ako Abdul-Samad, Jo Oldson, Ruth Ann Gaines, Sharon Steckman, Todd Taylor, Mary Gaskill, Kirsten Running-Marquardt, Timi Brown-Powers, Dave Jacoby, Pam Jochum, Matt Mccoy, Michael Gronstal, & Bruce Bearinger, Appe (Iowa 2016). “Iowa Code § 218.1 . The plaintiffs contend section 218.”
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