IA · rules
Iowa Ct. R. 12.29
Attorney appointed
As soon as practicable after the respondent’s delivery to a
facility under Iowa Code section 229.22, the magistrate shall identify or appoint an attorney for
the respondent and shall immediately notify such attorney of respondent’s emergency detention.
If counsel can be identified at the time of respondent’s arrival at a facility, or if legal services are
available through a legal aid or public defender office, the magistrate must immediately notify
such counsel and such counsel shall be afforded an opportunity to see the respondent and to make
such preparation as is appropriate before or after the magistrate’s order is issued.
History
[Supreme Court Report 1979; November 9, 2001, effective February 15, 2002]
Provenance
- Source
- www.legis.iowa.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
e739addd09595084d49bc49d5a0dd1865735112ebee6587b1f85b5c955d576c7
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.