Michigan Compiled Laws Act 47 Of 1945 Hospital Authority (331.1 - 331.11)



AN ACT to authorize 2 or more cities, townships, and villages, or any combination of cities, townships, and villages, to incorporate a hospital authority for planning, promoting, acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, owning, maintaining, and operating 1 or more community hospitals and related buildings or structures and related facilities; to provide for the sale, lease, or other transfer of a hospital owned by a hospital authority to a nonprofit corporation established under the laws of this state for no or nominal monetary consideration; to define hospitals and community hospitals; to provide for changes in the membership therein; to authorize the cities, townships, and villages to levy taxes for community hospital purposes; to provide for the issuance of bonds; to provide for the pledge of assessments; to provide for borrowing money for operation and maintenance and issuing notes for operation and maintenance; to validate elections heretofore held and notes heretofore issued; to validate bonds heretofore issued; to authorize condemnation proceedings; to grant certain powers of a body corporate; to validate and ratify the organization, existence, and membership of entities acting as hospital authorities under the act and the actions taken by hospital authorities and by the members of the hospital authorities; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies.


History: 1945, Act 47, Imd. Eff. Mar. 15, 1945 ;-- Am. 1949, Act 62, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1952, Act 170, Imd. Eff. Apr. 24, 1952 ;-- Am. 1960, Act 65, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1960 ;-- Am. 1967, Act 31, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1967 ;-- Am. 1973, Act 161, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1973 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 2, Imd. Eff. Feb. 6, 1978 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 617, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 1979 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 117, Imd. Eff. July 14, 1987 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 186, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999
Popular Name: Municipal Hospital Authority Act


Last modified: October 10, 2016