California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2 - Powers

• Section 32121.
  Each local district shall have and may exercise the following powers:(a) To have and use a corporate seal and alter it at its pleasure.(b) To sue and...
• Section 32121.1.
  By resolution, the board of directors of a local hospital district may delegate to its administrator the power to employ (subject to the pleasure of...
• Section 32121.2.
  Except as provided in this section, by resolution, the board of directors of a local hospital district may authorize the disposition of any surplus property...
• Section 32121.3.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district, or any affiliated nonprofit corporation upon a finding by the board of directors of the...
• Section 32121.4.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation, upon a finding by the board of directors of the district...
• Section 32121.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a health care district may enter into a contract of employment with a hospital administrator, including a hospital...
• Section 32121.6.
  If a health care district enters into a written employment agreement with a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as a chief...
• Section 32121.7.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the transfer of assets by El Camino Hospital, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation (“El Camino Hospital-Corporation”) that owns...
• Section 32121.8.
  The El Camino Hospital-Corporation may provide for the operation and maintenance through tenants of the whole or any part of the El Camino Hospital, and...
• Section 32121.9.
  A district that leases or transfers its assets to a corporation pursuant to this division, including, but not limited to, subdivision (p) of Section 32121...
• Section 32122.
  The board of directors may purchase all necessary surgical instruments and hospital equipment and equipment for nurses’ homes and all other property necessary for equipping...
• Section 32123.
  The board of directors may purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip such buildings or building, room or rooms as may be...
• Section 32124.
  The board of directors may establish a nurses’ training school in connection with the hospital, prescribe a course of study for such training and after...
• Section 32125.
  (a)  The board of directors shall be responsible for the operation of all health care facilities owned or leased by the district, according to the...
• Section 32126.
  (a) The board of directors may provide for the operation and maintenance through tenants of the whole or any part of any hospital acquired or constructed...
• Section 32126.3.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the lease in existence immediately preceding January 1, 2006, between the Grossmont Healthcare District and the Grossmont...
• Section 32126.5.
  (a)  The board of directors of a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation may do any of the following when it determines that the...
• Section 32127.
  The hospital district shall establish its own treasury and shall appoint a treasurer charged with the safekeeping and disbursal of the funds in the treasury...
• Section 32127.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors of any district which is licensed to have 85 beds and located within a county...
• Section 32127.2.
  Exclusively for the purpose of securing state insurance of financing for the construction of new health facilities, the expansion, modernization, renovation, remodeling and alteration of...
• Section 32127.3.
  (a) Exclusively for the purpose of securing federal mortgage insurance, federal loans, federal loans or grants or guaranteed loans issued pursuant to the federal Consolidated Farm...
• Section 32127.5.
  (a)  Upon the adoption of a resolution of the board of directors of the district so providing, all funds on hand in the treasury of...
• Section 32128.
  (a) The rules of the hospital, established by the board of directors pursuant to this article, shall include all of the following:(1) Provision for the organization of...
• Section 32128.10.
  No hospital established by the board of directors pursuant to this article which permits sterilization operations for contraceptive purposes to be performed therein, nor the...
• Section 32129.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Medical Practice Act, the board of directors of a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation may contract with physicians...
• Section 32129.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors of a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation may contract with a physician and...
• Section 32130.
  A district may borrow money and incur indebtedness in an amount not to exceed 85 percent of all estimated income and revenue for the current...
• Section 32130.1.
  A district is also authorized, when funds are needed to meet current expenses of maintenance and operation, to borrow money on certificates of indebtedness or...
• Section 32130.2.
  (a)  A district may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the district board, issue negotiable promissory notes to acquire funds for any district purposes...
• Section 32130.5.
  The first board of directors of a district may, within a period of two years from and after the formation of the district, pursuant to...
• Section 32130.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district may do any of the following by resolution adopted by a majority of the district board:(a) (1) Enter into...
• Section 32131.
  The board of directors may maintain membership in any local, state or national group or association organized and operated for the promotion of the public...
• Section 32132.
  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this section, or in Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 4217.10) of Division 5 of Title 1 of the Government...
• Section 32132.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon approval by its board of directors, a health care district may use the design-build procedure described in...
• Section 32132.5.a.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other provision of law, upon approval by the board of directors of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, the design-build...
• Section 32132.7.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon approval by the board of directors of the Last Frontier Health Care District, the design-build procedure described...
• Section 32132.8.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon approval by the board of directors of the Mayers Memorial Hospital District, the design-build procedure described in...
• Section 32132.9.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon approval by the board of directors of the Beach Cities Health District, the design-build process described in...
• Section 32132.95.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon approval by the board of directors of the Peninsula Health Care District, the design-build process described in...
• Section 32133.
  At least once each year the board shall engage the services of a qualified accountant of accepted reputation to conduct an audit of the books...
• Section 32134.
  The effective date of any contract entered into for the construction and leasing of any hospital building or facilities shall be the date of execution...
• Section 32136.
  The board of directors may, without following the bidding provisions in Section 32132 hereof, let contracts for work to be done or for materials and...
• Section 32137.
  The board of directors may, by resolution, change the name of the district. The change in the name of the district shall be effective upon...
• Section 32138.
  (a)  The board of directors shall acquire electronic data processing and telecommunications goods and services with a cost to the district of more than twenty-five...
• Section 32139.
  The board of directors shall do all of the following:(a) Adopt an annual budget in a public meeting, on or before September 1 of each year,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018