Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.44 Public Hospital Districts

70.44.003 Purpose
The purpose of chapter 70.44 RCW is to authorize the establishment of public hospital districts to own and operate hospitals and other health care facilities ...

70.44.007 Definitions
As used in this chapter, the following words have the meanings indicated: (1) "Other health care facilities" means nursing home, extended care, long-term care, outpatient ...

70.44.010 Districts authorized
Municipal corporations, to be known as public hospital districts, are hereby authorized and may be established within the several counties of the state as hereinafter ...

70.44.015 Validation of existing districts
Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore attempted to be organized into public hospital districts under the provisions of this chapter are ...

70.44.016 Validation of districts
Each and all of the respective areas of land attempted to be organized into public hospital districts prior to June 10, 1982, under the provisions ...

70.44.020 Resolution -- Petition for county-wide district -- Conduct of elections
At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose the county legislative authority of a county may, or ...

70.44.028 Limitation on legal challenges
Unless commenced within thirty days after the date of the filing of the certificate of the canvass of an election on the proposition of creating ...

70.44.030 Petition for lesser district -- Procedure
Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe a less area than the entire county in which the petition is filed, ...

70.44.035 Petition for district lying in more than one county -- Procedure
Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe an area lying in more than one county, the boundaries of which shall ...

70.44.040 Elections -- Commissioners, terms, districts
(1) The provisions of Title 29A RCW relating to elections shall govern public hospital districts, except as provided in this chapter. A public hospital district ...

70.44.041 Validity of appointment or election of commissioners -- Compliance with 1994 c 223
No appointment to fill a vacant position on or election to the board of commissioners of any public hospital district made after June 9, 1994, ...

70.44.042 Commissioner districts -- Resolution to abolish -- Proposition to reestablish
Notwithstanding any provision in RCW 70.44.040 to the contrary, any board of public hospital district commissioners may, by resolution, abolish commissioner districts and permit candidates ...

70.44.045 Commissioners -- Vacancies
A vacancy in the office of commissioner shall occur as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW or by nonattendance at meetings of the commission for sixty ...

70.44.047 Redrawn boundaries -- Assignment of commissioners to districts
If, as the result of redrawing the boundaries of commissioner districts as permitted or required under the provisions of this chapter, *chapter 29.70 RCW, or ...

70.44.050 Commissioners -- Compensation and expenses -- Insurance -- Resolutions by majority vote -- Officers -- Rules
Each commissioner shall receive ninety dollars for each day or portion thereof spent in actual attendance at official meetings of the district commission, or in ...

70.44.053 Increase in number of commissioners -- Proposition to voters
At any general or special election which may be called for that purpose the board of public hospital district commissioners may, or on petition of ...

70.44.054 Increase in number of commissioners -- Commissioner districts
If the voters of the district approve the ballot proposition authorizing the increase in the number of commissioners to either five or seven members, the ...

70.44.056 Increase in number of commissioners -- Appointments -- Election -- Terms
In all existing public hospital districts in which an increase in the number of district commissioners is proposed, the additional commissioner positions shall be deemed ...

70.44.059 Chaplains -- Authority to employ
Public hospital districts may employ chaplains for their hospitals, health care facilities, and hospice programs.[1993 c 234 § 1.]Notes: Contingent effective date -- 1993 c ...

70.44.060 Powers and duties
All public hospital districts organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have power: (1) To make a survey of existing hospital and other health ...

70.44.062 Commissioners' meetings, proceedings, and deliberations concerning health care providers' clinical or staff privileges to be confidential -- Final action in public session
(1) All meetings, proceedings, and deliberations of the board of commissioners, its staff or agents, concerning the granting, denial, revocation, restriction, or other consideration of ...

70.44.065 Levy for emergency medical care and services
See RCW 84.52.069. ...

70.44.067 Community revitalization financing -- Public improvements
In addition to other authority that a public hospital district possesses, a public hospital district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020, ...

70.44.070 Superintendent -- Appointment -- Removal -- Compensation
(1) The public hospital district commission shall appoint a superintendent, who shall be appointed for an indefinite time and be removable at the will of ...

70.44.080 Superintendent -- Powers
(1) The superintendent shall be the chief administrative officer of the public district hospital and shall have control of administrative functions of the district. The ...

70.44.090 Superintendent -- Duties
(1) The public hospital district superintendent shall have the power, and duty: (a) To carry out the orders of the commission, and to see that ...

70.44.110 Plan to construct or improve -- General obligation bonds
Whenever the commission deems it advisable that the district acquire or construct a public hospital, or other health care facilities, or make additions or betterments ...

70.44.130 Bonds -- Payment -- Security for deposits
The principal and interest of such general bonds shall be paid by levying each year a tax upon the taxable property within the district sufficient, ...

70.44.140 Contracts for material and work -- Call for bids -- Alternative procedures -- Exemptions
(1) All materials purchased and work ordered, the estimated cost of which is in excess of fifty thousand dollars, shall be by contract. Before awarding ...

70.44.171 Treasurer -- Duties -- Funds -- Depositaries -- Surety bonds, cost
The treasurer of the county in which a public hospital district is located shall be treasurer of the district, except that the commission by resolution ...

70.44.185 Change of district boundary lines to allow farm units to be wholly within one hospital district -- Notice
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including RCW 70.44.040, whenever the boundary line between contiguous hospital districts bisects an irrigation block unit placing part of ...

70.44.190 Consolidation of districts
Two or more contiguous hospital districts, whether the territory therein lies in one or more counties, may consolidate by following the procedure outlined in chapter ...

70.44.200 Annexation of territory
(1) A public hospital district may annex territory outside the existing boundaries of such district and contiguous thereto, whether the territory lies in one or ...

70.44.210 Alternate method of annexation -- Contents of resolution calling for election
As an alternate method of annexation to public hospital districts, any territory adjacent to a public hospital district may be annexed thereto by vote of ...

70.44.220 Alternate method of annexation -- Publication and contents of notice of hearing -- Hearing -- Resolution -- Special election
Notice of such hearing shall be published once a week for at least two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within ...

70.44.230 Alternate method of annexation -- Conduct and canvass of election -- Notice -- Ballot
An election on the annexation of territory to a public hospital district shall be conducted and canvassed in the same manner as provided for the ...

70.44.235 Withdrawal or reannexation of areas
(1) As provided in this section, a public hospital district may withdraw areas from its boundaries, or reannex areas into the public hospital district that ...

70.44.240 Contracting or joining with other districts, hospitals, corporations, or individuals to provide services or facilities
Any public hospital district may contract or join with any other public hospital district, publicly owned hospital, nonprofit hospital, legal entity, or individual to acquire, ...

70.44.260 Contracts for purchase of real or personal property
Any public hospital district may execute an executory conditional sales contract with any other municipal corporation, the state, or any of its political subdivisions, the ...

70.44.300 Sale of surplus real property
(1) The board of commissioners of any public hospital district may sell and convey at public or private sale real property of the district if ...

70.44.310 Lease of surplus real property
The board of commissioners of any public hospital district may lease or rent out real property of the district which the board has determined by ...

70.44.315 Evaluation criteria and requirements for acquisition of district hospitals
(1) When evaluating a potential acquisition, the commissioners shall determine their compliance with the following requirements: (a) That the acquisition is authorized under chapter 70.44 ...

70.44.320 Disposal of surplus personal property
The board of commissioners of any public hospital district may sell or otherwise dispose of surplus personal property of the district which the board has ...

70.44.350 Dividing a district
An existing public hospital district upon resolution of its board of commissioners may be divided into two new public hospital districts, in the manner provided ...

70.44.360 Dividing a district -- Plan
The plan of division authorized by RCW 70.44.350 shall include: Proposed names for the new districts; a description of the boundaries of the new districts, ...

70.44.370 Dividing a district -- Petition to court, hearing, order
After adoption of a resolution approving the plan of division by the board of commissioners of an existing district pursuant to RCW 70.44.350 through 70.44.380, ...

70.44.380 Dividing a district -- Election -- Creation of new districts -- Challenges
Following the entry of the court order pursuant to RCW 70.44.370, the county officer authorized to call and conduct elections in the county in which ...

70.44.400 Withdrawal of territory from public hospital district
Territory within a public hospital district may be withdrawn therefrom in the same manner provided by law for withdrawal of territory from water-sewer districts, as ...

70.44.450 Rural public hospital districts -- Cooperative agreements and contracts
In addition to other powers granted to public hospital districts by chapter 39.34 RCW, rural public hospital districts may enter into cooperative agreements and contracts ...

70.44.460 Rural public hospital district defined
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definition in this section applies throughout RCW 70.44.450. "Rural public hospital district" means a public hospital district authorized ...

70.44.470 Chapter not applicable to certain transfers of property
This chapter does not apply to transfers of property under *sections 1 and 2 of this act.[2006 c 35 § 9.]Notes: *Reviser's note: The reference ...

70.44.900 Severability -- Construction -- 1945 c 264
Adjudication of invalidity of any section, clause or part of a section of this act [1945 c 264] shall not impair or otherwise affect the ...

70.44.901 Severability -- Construction -- 1974 ex.s. c 165
If any section, clause, or other provision of this 1974 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder ...

70.44.902 Severability -- 1982 c 84
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...

70.44.903 Savings -- 1982 c 84
All debts, contracts, and obligations made or incurred prior to June 10, 1982, by or in favor of any public hospital district, and all bonds, ...

70.44.910 Construction -- 1945 c 264
This act [1945 c 264 § 22] shall not be deemed or construed to repeal or affect any existing act, or any part thereof, relating ...