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Iowa Code § 238.1 (2026)

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✓ Iowa Code 2026 (laws through the 2025 session)
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For the purpose of this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Child” means the same as defined in section 234.1.

2. “Child-placing agency” or “agency” means any agency, whether public, semipublic, or private, which represents that the agency places children permanently or temporarily in private family homes or receives children for placement in private family homes, or which actually engages for gain or otherwise in the placement of children in private family homes. “Agency” includes individuals, institutions, partnerships, voluntary associations, and corporations, other than institutions under the management or control of the department.

3. “Department” means the department of health and human services.

4. “Director” means the director of health and human services. [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a58; C39, §3661.072; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.1] 83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1279, §41; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §8; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §14; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §95; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §758; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §419 Referred to in §600A.2 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1960–2012 · leading case: In the Interest of W.W., 826 N.W.2d 706 (Iowa Ct. App. 2012).
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In the Interest of W.W., 826 N.W.2d 706 (Iowa Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 4× “6A unless the person filing the petition is a private child-placing agency as defined in section 238.1 or unless the court determines that the person filing the petition or the person on whose behalf the petition is filed is indigent.”
State ex rel. Schilling v. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 106 N.W.2d 80 (Iowa 1960). · cites it 2× “, Public Administrative Law, section 238.1, page 678. A right of appeal is purely a creature of statute and is not an inherent constitutional right, but is one which the legislature may grant or deny at pleasure.”
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