Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1001 - City Of Amarillo Hospital District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1001.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the board of hospital managers of the district. (2) "District" means the City of Amarillo Hospital District. (3) "Governing...
• Texas Section 1001.002 - Nature Of District
  (a) The district is: (1) a public entity performing an essential public function; and (2) a body politic and corporate. (b) The functions of the...
• Texas Section 1001.003 - Duty To Name District
  The governing body shall specify the name of the district. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1,

SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 1001.004 - District Territory
  The boundaries of the district are coextensive with the boundaries of the City of Amarillo unless the district territory is expanded under: (1) Subchapter D;...
• Texas Section 1001.051 - Board; Term
  (a) The board consists of not fewer than five and not more than seven managers appointed by the governing body. (b) Managers serve two-year terms...
• Texas Section 1001.052 - Manager Removal
  By majority vote, the governing body may remove a manager with or without cause. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec....
• Texas Section 1001.053 - Officers
  (a) The board shall select from among the managers a presiding officer. (b) The presiding officer shall preside over the board. A presiding officer pro...
• Texas Section 1001.054 - Compensation
  A manager serves without pay. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2007.
• Texas Section 1001.055 - Records Of Proceedings
  (a) The secretary shall keep suitable records of all proceedings of each board meeting. (b) After each meeting: (1) the presiding officer or the presiding...
• Texas Section 1001.056 - District Administrator
  (a) The board shall: (1) appoint a person qualified by training and experience as district administrator; and (2) determine the administrator's compensation. (b) The board...
• Texas Section 1001.057 - General Duties Of District Administrator
  Subject to the limitations prescribed by the board, the district administrator shall: (1) perform the duties required by the board; (2) supervise the work and...
• Texas Section 1001.058 - Assistant Administrator
  (a) The board may designate an assistant administrator to discharge a duty or function of the district administrator in the event of the administrator's incapacity,...
• Texas Section 1001.059 - Legal Counsel
  (a) The attorneys who represent the City of Amarillo in civil matters may represent the board in all legal matters. (b) The district shall contribute...
• Texas Section 1001.060 - Employees
  (a) The board may employ doctors, nurses, technicians, and other employees considered advisable for the efficient operation of the hospital or hospital system. (b) The...
• Texas Section 1001.061 - Physician Qualification
  The board may use district money to ensure the initial and continued qualification of physicians and other personnel. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch....
• Texas Section 1001.062 - Health Care Educational Programs
  (a) The board may spend district money, enter into an agreement, or take other necessary action to conduct, participate in, or assist in providing health...
• Texas Section 1001.063 - Retirement Program
  The board may establish or continue a retirement program for the benefit of the district's employees or contract with this state or the federal government...
• Texas Section 1001.064 - Liability Insurance
  The board may purchase insurance to protect the managers from any liability that results from service on the board. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 1001.065 - Seal
  The board may use a seal engraved with the district's name to authenticate the acts of the board. The secretary of the board shall keep...
• Texas Section 1001.101 - District Responsibility
  The district has full responsibility for providing medical and hospital care for the district's needy and indigent residents. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch....
• Texas Section 1001.102 - Restriction On Municipal Or County Taxation
  The City of Amarillo or a county may not impose a tax for hospital purposes on property within the district. Added by Acts 2005, 79th...
• Texas Section 1001.103 - Management, Control, And Administration
  (a) The board shall manage, control, and administer the hospital or hospital system. (b) The Potter County Commissioners Court may participate in the operation of...
• Texas Section 1001.104 - Hospital System
  (a) The district may own and operate a hospital or hospital system for indigent and needy persons. (b) The district may provide for the establishment...
• Texas Section 1001.105 - Rules
  The board may adopt rules for the operation of the hospital or hospital system. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B. 2019), Sec....
• Texas Section 1001.106 - Purchasing And Accounting Procedures
  (a) The governing body may prescribe: (1) the method and manner of making purchases and expenditures by and for the district; and (2) all accounting...
• Texas Section 1001.107 - Eligibility Standards; Pricing
  (a) Not later than the first day of each fiscal year, the board shall adopt requirements for the district to use in determining whether a...
• Texas Section 1001.108 - District Property, Facilities, And Equipment
  (a) The district may purchase or lease land inside or outside the district as required for district purposes. (b) Subject to Subsection (c), the district...
• Texas Section 1001.109 - Eminent Domain
  (a) The district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire a fee simple or other interest in any type of property, real, personal,...
• Texas Section 1001.110 - Gifts And Endowments
  (a) The board may accept for the district a gift or endowment to be held in trust or otherwise and administered by the board for...
• Texas Section 1001.111 - Contracts For Services To Certain Persons
  Subject to the approval of the governing body, the board may contract with: (1) a county or municipality for the care and treatment of a...
• Texas Section 1001.112 - Joint Administration Or Delivery Of Health Care Services
  To provide joint administration or delivery of health care services, the district may affiliate with or enter into an arrangement with: (1) a managed care...
• Texas Section 1001.113 - Payment For Treatment; Procedures
  (a) When a patient from Potter County or the district has been admitted to a district facility, the district administrator shall have an inquiry made...
• Texas Section 1001.114 - Reimbursement For Services To Nonresidents
  (a) The board shall require a county, municipality, or public hospital located outside the boundaries of the district to reimburse the district for the district's...

SUBCHAPTER D CHANGE IN BOUNDARIES

• Texas Section 1001.115 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The district, through the board, may sue and be sued in the name of the district. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 729 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1001.151 - Petition To Expand District Territory
  (a) Registered voters of a defined territory not included in the district may file a petition with the board requesting inclusion of the territory in...
• Texas Section 1001.152 - Notice Of Hearing
  (a) The board by order shall set a time and place to hold a hearing on a petition to include a defined territory in the...
• Texas Section 1001.153 - Order Of Annexation
  (a) If, after a hearing under Section 1001.152, the board and the governing body determine that annexation of a defined territory into the district would...
• Texas Section 1001.154 - Ratification Election
  (a) Annexation of territory is final when approved by a majority of the voters at: (1) an election held in the district; and (2) a...
• Texas Section 1001.155 - Notice Of Ratification Election
  (a) The governing body shall give notice of an election under Section 1001.154 by publishing once a week for two consecutive weeks a substantial copy...
• Texas Section 1001.156 - Assumption Of Debt And Taxes
  If the district has outstanding debts or taxes, the voters in an election to approve annexation under Section 1001.154 must determine whether the annexed territory...

SUBCHAPTER E EXPANSION OF SERVICE

• Texas Section 1001.157 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under Section 1001.154 shall be printed to permit voting for or against the following, as applicable: (1) "Adding (description of...
• Texas Section 1001.201 - Election On Expansion Of Service
  (a) On presentation of a petition for an authorization election signed by at least five percent of the qualified voters of Randall County who do...
• Texas Section 1001.202 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under this subchapter shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The assumption by the City of...
• Texas Section 1001.203 - Election Results
  If a majority of the votes in an election under this subchapter favor the expansion proposition: (1) the district, by resolution, shall assume: (A) the...
• Texas Section 1001.204 - Taxes
  A tax imposed by the Randall County Commissioners Court under this subchapter may not exceed 75 cents on each $100 valuation of all property in...
• Texas Section 1001.205 - Participation In Operation Of District
  The Randall County Commissioners Court and the governing body, acting for the board, may agree on terms under which the commissioners court may participate in...

SUBCHAPTER F DISCONTINUATION OF SERVICE TO RANDALL COUNTY TERRITORY

• Texas Section 1001.206 - Cumulative Effect
  This subchapter and Subchapter F are cumulative of any other law establishing the manner in which Randall County, or any portion of Randall County, may...
• Texas Section 1001.251 - Election On Discontinuation Of Service
  (a) On presentation of a petition for a discontinuation election signed by at least five percent of the qualified voters of the area receiving services...
• Texas Section 1001.252 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under this subchapter shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "Discontinuation by the City of...
• Texas Section 1001.253 - Election Results
  If a majority of the votes in an election favor the proposition to discontinue service under this subchapter, the district is relieved of the duty...

SUBCHAPTER G GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1001.254 - Taxes
  The district is entitled to receive taxes from the area in which services are discontinued under this subchapter in an amount sufficient to pay expenses...
• Texas Section 1001.301 - Budget
  (a) The district administrator, under the direction of the board, shall prepare an annual budget. (b) The governing body and the board shall: (1) provide...
• Texas Section 1001.302 - Financial Report
  (a) As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the district administrator shall prepare a report that includes: (1) a complete sworn...

SUBCHAPTER H BONDS

• Texas Section 1001.303 - Depository
  (a) The board shall select one or more depositories for the district in the manner provided by law for the selection of a county depository....
• Texas Section 1001.351 - General Obligation Bonds
  The governing body may issue and sell general obligation bonds in the name and on the faith and credit of the district to purchase, construct,...
• Texas Section 1001.352 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
  (a) The governing body shall impose an ad valorem tax at a rate sufficient to create an interest and sinking fund to pay the principal...
• Texas Section 1001.353 - General Obligation Bond Election
  (a) The district may issue general obligation bonds only if the bonds are authorized by a majority of the voters voting at an election held...
• Texas Section 1001.354 - Execution Of General Obligation Bonds
  (a) The mayor of the City of Amarillo shall execute the general obligation bonds in the district's name. (b) The city secretary shall countersign the...
• Texas Section 1001.355 - Investment Of General Obligation Bond Proceeds
  Proceeds from the sale of general obligation bonds may be invested in direct obligations of the United States government. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 1001.356 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) The governing body may issue and sell revenue bonds for and in the name of the district to: (1) purchase, construct, acquire, repair, renovate,...
• Texas Section 1001.357 - Payment Of Revenue Bonds; Security
  (a) The governing body may: (1) issue revenue bonds payable from and secured by liens on and pledges of all or any part of the...
• Texas Section 1001.358 - Use Of Revenue Bond Proceeds
  (a) If permitted in the bond ordinance, any required part of the proceeds from the sale of the revenue bonds may be used to: (1)...
• Texas Section 1001.359 - Charge For Occupancy Or Use Of Hospital Facility
  The governing body and the board shall establish and collect charges for the occupancy or use of a hospital facility and for related services in...
• Texas Section 1001.360 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may, without an election, issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding general obligation bonds issued or assumed by the district. (b) Refunding bonds...

SUBCHAPTER I TAXES

• Texas Section 1001.361 - Bonds Exempt From Taxation
  The following are exempt from taxation by this state or a political subdivision of this state: (1) bonds issued by the district; (2) a transaction...
• Texas Section 1001.401 - Imposition Of Ad Valorem Tax
  (a) The governing body shall impose on all taxable property in the district, for the benefit of the district, a tax at a rate not...
• Texas Section 1001.402 - Duty To Impose Tax
  (a) The ordinance authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds may pledge the proceeds of an annual ad valorem tax for the payment of the district's...
• Texas Section 1001.403 - Potter County Tax
  (a) The Potter County Commissioners Court may impose an ad valorem tax on all property inside the county and outside the boundaries of the City...
• Texas Section 1001.404 - Tax Assessor-collector
  (a) The tax assessor and collector for the City of Amarillo shall collect taxes imposed on all property subject to district taxation in the same...
• Texas Section 1001.405 - Interest, Penalties, And Discounts
  Interest, penalties, and discounts on taxes paid to the district shall be the same as those on taxes paid to the city. Added by Acts...

Last modified: September 28, 2016