Iowa Code § 230.2

If a person’s legal settlement status is disputed, legal settlement shall be determined in accordance with section 225C.8. Otherwise, the district court may, when the person is ordered placed in a hospital for psychiatric examination and appropriate treatment, or as soon thereafter as the court obtains the proper information, determine and enter of record whether the legal settlement of the person is one of the following:

1. In the county from which the person was placed in the hospital;

2. In some other county of the state;

3. In some foreign state or country; or

4. Unknown.

Referred to in

Acquisition of legal settlement; see §252.16