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Iowa Code § 229.31 (2026)

Commission of inquiry

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A sworn complaint, alleging that a named person is not seriously mentally impaired and is unjustly deprived of liberty in any hospital in the state, may be filed by any person with the clerk of the district court of the county in which such named person is so confined, or of the county in which such named person is a resident. Upon receiving the complaint, a judge of that court shall appoint a commission of not more than three persons to inquire into the truth of the allegations. One of the commissioners shall be a physician and if additional commissioners are appointed, one of the additional commissioners shall be a lawyer. [C73, §1442; C97, §2304; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3571; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §229.31] 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §103, 130 Referred to in §229.36

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2014–2017 · leading case: In the Matter of M.E., Alleged to Be Seriously Mentally Impaired, M.E. (Iowa Ct. App. 2017).
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In the Matter of M.E., Alleged to Be Seriously Mentally Impaired, M.E. (Iowa Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 2× “Iowa Code § 229.31 . People confined as seriously mentally impaired also have “the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus.”
In Re the Matter of S.L., Alleged to Be Seriously Mentally Impaired, S.L. (Iowa Ct. App. 2014). “3 Iowa Code sections 229.31 and 229.37 provide the means for challenging a patient’s current status of serious mental impairment.”
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