Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 7, Article 4 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities

• § 31-7-70 - Short Title
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Hospital Authorities Law."
• § 31-7-71 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Area of operation" means the area within the city or county activating an authority. Such term...
• § 31-7-72 - Creation of Hospital Authority in Each County and Municipality
  (a) There is created in and for each county and municipal corporation of the state a public body corporate and politic to be known...
• § 31-7-72.1 - Merger of Hospital Authorities
  (a) A hospital authority activated for a county pursuant to Code Section 31-7-73 may be merged with a hospital authority activated for that county...
• § 31-7-73 - Creation of Additional Hospital Authority in Counties With Large Populations
  (a) Any other provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, there is created in and for each county of this state having a...
• § 31-7-74 - Residency Requirement; Officers; Compensation; Rules and Regulations
  The members of a hospital authority shall be residents of the participating units comprising the authority. The requirement of residence shall not apply to...
• § 31-7-74.1 - Definitions; Disclosures Required; Prohibited Transactions; Exceptions; Sanctioning; Sanctioning of Members Violating Prohibition; Authorization of Authority to Make Stricter Rules; Preemption of Other Laws; Applicability
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Family" means spouse, child, or sibling. (2) "Financial interest" means the direct or indirect...
• § 31-7-74.2 - Oath to Be Taken by Members of Hospital Authority
  Each member of a hospital authority shall take in the presence of an officer authorized to administer same the following oath: I, , citizen...
• § 31-7-74.3 - Sale or Lease by Hospital Authority; Hearing Required; Factors to Be Considered At Hearing; Applicability; Requirements for Lease
  (a) No hospital which is owned by a hospital authority may be sold or leased to a for profit entity, a not for profit...
• § 31-7-75 - Functions and Powers
  Every hospital authority shall be deemed to exercise public and essential governmental functions and shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry...
• § 31-7-75.1 - Proceeds of Sale of Hospital Held in Trust to Fund Indigent Hospital Care
  (a) The proceeds from any sale or lease of a hospital owned by a hospital authority or political subdivision of this state, which proceeds...
• § 31-7-75.2 - Exemption From Disclosure for Potentially Commercially Valuable Plan, Proposal, or Strategy
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no Georgia nonprofit corporation in its operation of a hospital or other medical facility for...
• § 31-7-75.3 - Home Health Agency Services Operated by Hospitals
  Repealed by Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 31(1)/SB 103, effective May 11, 2007.
• § 31-7-76 - Procedure in Event of Failure of Authority to Perform Minimum Functions; Determination of Removal From Office; Appointments to Fill Vacancies Created by Removal
  (a) The General Assembly declares that it is the intent of this article to provide a mechanism for the operation and maintenance of needed...
• § 31-7-77 - Prohibition on For-Profit Projects; Rates and Charges; Utilization of Revenues to Pay Certain Obligations
  (a) No authority shall operate or construct any project for profit. It shall fix rates and charges consistent with this declaration of policy and...
• § 31-7-78 - Issuance and Sale of Negotiable Revenue Anticipation Certificates
  (a) Every authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance and sale of negotiable revenue anticipation certificates for the purpose of: (1)...
• § 31-7-79 - Liability on Revenue Certificates; Tax Exemption
  Neither the members of an authority nor any person executing certificates on behalf of an authority shall be personally liable thereon by reason of...
• § 31-7-80 - Form and Contents of Revenue Certificates; Validity of Signatures Thereon
  Certificates of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date...
• § 31-7-81 - Confirmation and Validation of Revenue Certificates
  (a) Certificates of an authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure of Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36;...
• § 31-7-82 - Enforcement of Rights of Revenue Certificate Holders; Procedure in Event of Default
  Obligations of an authority evidenced by certificates and trust indentures and mortgages executed in connection therewith may contain such provisions not inconsistent with law...
• § 31-7-83 - Investment of Surplus Moneys and Moneys Received Through Issuance of Revenue Certificates
  Pending use for the purpose for which received, each hospital authority created by and under this article is authorized and empowered to invest all...
• § 31-7-84 - Payment for Authority's Services and Facilities; Levy of Tax by Political Subdivisions; Compliance by Authority With County Budgetary Procedures
  (a) An authority shall have no power to tax, but upon the adoption of the resolution by the governing body or bodies of participating...
• § 31-7-85 - Contracts With Political Subdivisions
  (a) For the purpose of using such facilities, any city or county is authorized by action of its governing body to enter into contracts...
• § 31-7-86 - Manner of Operating Property Conveyed or Leased to Authority
  Any property conveyed or leased to an authority by cities or counties shall be operated by the authority to which the same is conveyed,...
• § 31-7-87 - Hypothecation or Mortgaging of Purchased Hospital Facilities
  Should an authority acquire by purchase existing hospital facilities of political subdivisions and pay the reasonable value therefor, nothing in this article shall be...
• § 31-7-88 - Payment of General Obligations
  Obligations of an authority other than certificates shall be payable from general funds of an authority and shall at no time be a charge...
• § 31-7-89 - Procedure for Dissolution; Disposition of Property
  By joint action of the board of trustees of an authority and the governing bodies of participating units, authorities created under and pursuant to...
• § 31-7-89.1 - "Control" Defined; Sale or Lease by Hospital Authority Subject to Requirements of Article 15 of This Chapter
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "control" means ownership of 50 percent or more of the assets of the entity in...
• § 31-7-90 - Annual Report; Budget
  The board of trustees of each authority created under this article shall file with the governing body or bodies of political subdivisions or participating...
• § 31-7-90.1 - Community Benefit Report; Report Disclosing Member Ownership in Entities Transacting Business With Authority
  (a) Each hospital authority created by and under this article shall annually prepare a community benefit report disclosing the cost of indigent and charity...
• § 31-7-91 - Required Annual Audit
  Each hospital authority created by and under this article shall ensure that an annual audit of the financial affairs, books, and records of such...
• § 31-7-92 - Filing of Audits
  All final audits provided for in Code Section 31-7-91 shall be reproduced in sufficient number and copies of the audit shall be filed with...
• § 31-7-93 - Failure to Provide for Audit
  In the event any hospital authority shall fail or refuse to provide for an annual audit and have such audit prepared and filed as...
• § 31-7-94 - Grants to Hospital Authorities
  The state is authorized to make grants, as funds are available, to hospital authorities for public health purposes, provided that any funds so granted...
• § 31-7-94.1 - Short Title; Legislative Findings; Certification of Rural Hospitals for Grant Eligibility; Rules and Regulations
  (a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the "Rural Hospital Assistance Act."(b) The General Assembly finds that hospital authorities...
• § 31-7-95 - Funding of Medical Education Provided by Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Designated teaching hospital" means a teaching hospital operated by other than a hospital authority,...
• § 31-7-96 - Construction of Article
  This article, being necessary for the welfare of the citizens of the state, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof; and insofar...

Last modified: October 14, 2016