1. For the purposes of this subchapter, the terms “department of health and human services”, “department”, or “county attorney” ordinarily refer to the local office of the department or of the county attorney’s office serving the county in which the child’s home is located.
2. If the person making a report of child abuse pursuant to this chapter does not know where the child’s home is located, the report may be made to the department or to the local office serving the county where the person making the report resides or the county where the health practitioner examines, attends, or treats the child. These agencies shall promptly proceed as provided in section 232.71B, unless the matter is transferred as provided in this section.
3. If the child’s home is located in a county not served by the office receiving the report, the department shall promptly transfer the matter by transmitting a copy of the report of injury and any other pertinent information to the office and the county attorney serving the other county. The office and the county attorney shall promptly proceed as provided in section 232.71B. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §235A.6; C79, 81, §232.72] 83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 97 Acts, ch 35, §8, 25; 2004 Acts, ch 1116, §7; 2018 Acts, ch 1041, §62; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §94; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §127; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §609 Referred to in §232.68 \n
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
21
cases (
1 in the last 5 years), 1971–2022 · leading case:
State v. Halverson, 192 N.W.2d 765 (Iowa 1971).
State v. Halverson, 192 N.W.2d 765 (Iowa 1971).
· cites it 37× “See Code, 1971, § 232.72. On August 24, 1969, fires occurred in two school buildings in Elkader, Iowa.”
State v. Speck, 242 N.W.2d 287 (Iowa 1976).
· cites it 18× “Defendant maintains the standard “best interest of the minor or the public” employed in section 232.72, The Code, is unconstitutionally void for vagueness.”
In the Interest of Johnson, 257 N.W.2d 47 (Iowa 1977).
· cites it 4× “White, supra ; Code section 232.72. II. Several constitutional procedural rights were delineated in the landmark decision of In Re Gault, 387 U.”
In the Interest of Brown, 183 N.W.2d 731 (Iowa 1971).
· cites it 10× “Brennecke then called the court’s attention to section 232.72 of the 1966 Code Annotated and pointed out that this section requires a “hearing” and a specific finding by the court that the transfer will be in the best interest of the child or the public before it is ordered.”
State v. Harrington, 284 N.W.2d 244 (Iowa 1979).
· cites it 2× “After a petition alleging delinquency by defendant in connection with the murder was filed in juvenile court under Chapter 232, The Code 1977, the court, after application and hearing under section 232.72, transferred the case to the Pottawattamie County Attorney for proper…”
State v. Kempf, 282 N.W.2d 704 (Iowa 1979).
· cites it 2× “If defendant is found competent, or if he is found incompetent but his competency is restored, further proceedings are dependent on our disposition of another of his assignments of error. This is his claim that the trial court erred in sustaining the State’s motion to transfer…”
State v. Davis, 269 N.W.2d 434 (Iowa 1978).
· cites it 2× “December 15, 1976, a § 232.72 juvenile court transfer hearing was held.”
Bergman v. Nelson, 241 N.W.2d 14 (Iowa 1976).
· cites it 3× “On the same date the assistant county attorney also filed an application for transfer of the case for prosecution under the criminal law pursuant to § 232.72, The Code. After a hearing, the juvenile court sustained the application for transfer by order entered June 26, 1975.”
State v. White, 223 N.W.2d 173 (Iowa 1974).
· cites it 3× “On April 4, 19 days after defendant’s initial detention, the juvenile court, after hearing, sustained an application by the State to transfer defendant for prosecution under the criminal law pursuant to Code § 232.72. On April 19, 34 days after his arrest and 15 days after the…”
Sieg Co. v. Kelly, 568 N.W.2d 794 (Iowa 1997).
· cites it 2× “2d 402, 404 (Iowa 1992) (holding term “good faith” in Iowa Code section 232.72 “rests on a defendant’s subjective honest belief’), Meyers v.”
State v. Anthony, 239 N.W.2d 850 (Iowa 1976).
· cites it 3× “Our law requires every juvenile accused of a crime (with exceptions not applicable here) to be referred first to juvenile court.”
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