Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1018 - Dallam-hartley Counties Hospital District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1018.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the board of directors of the district. (2) "Director" means a member of the board. (3) "District" means the...
• Texas Section 1018.002 - Authority For Operation
  The district operates and is administered and financed in accordance with Section 9, Article IX, Texas Constitution, and has the rights, powers, and duties provided...
• Texas Section 1018.003 - Essential Public Function
  The district performs an essential public function in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1018.004 - District Territory
  The boundaries of the district are coextensive with the boundaries of Dallam and Hartley Counties, Texas, except that the district does not include land located...
• Texas Section 1018.005 - District Support And Maintenance Not State Obligation
  The support or maintenance of the district may not become a charge against or obligation of this state. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S.,...

SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 1018.006 - Restriction On State Financial Assistance
  The legislature may not make a direct appropriation for the construction, maintenance, or improvement of a district facility. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1018.051 - Board Appointment; Term
  (a) The board consists of seven directors appointed as follows: (1) three directors appointed by the Commissioners Court of Dallam County; (2) three directors appointed...
• Texas Section 1018.052 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) A person may not be appointed as a director unless the person is: (1) a district resident; and (2) a qualified voter. (b) A...
• Texas Section 1018.053 - Bond; Record Of Bond And Oath Or Affirmation Of Office
  (a) Each director shall execute a good and sufficient bond for $5,000 that is: (1) approved by the commissioners courts of Dallam and Hartley Counties;...
• Texas Section 1018.054 - Board Vacancy
  A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment in the same manner as the office was previously...
• Texas Section 1018.055 - Officers
  (a) The board shall elect: (1) a president and a vice president from among its members; and (2) a secretary, who need not be a...
• Texas Section 1018.056 - Compensation; Expenses
  A director or officer serves without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. The expenses must be:...
• Texas Section 1018.057 - Voting Requirement
  A concurrence of four directors is sufficient in any matter relating to district business. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 1018.058 - District Administrator
  (a) The board may appoint a qualified person as district administrator. (b) The district administrator serves at the will of the board and is entitled...
• Texas Section 1018.059 - General Duties Of District Administrator
  Subject to the limitations prescribed by the board, the district administrator shall: (1) supervise the work and activities of the district; and (2) direct the...
• Texas Section 1018.060 - Attorney; Assistant District Administrator
  (a) The board may appoint qualified persons as: (1) the attorney for the district; and (2) the assistant district administrator. (b) The attorney for the...
• Texas Section 1018.061 - Employees; Appointment Of Staff
  (a) The board may appoint to the staff any doctors the board considers necessary for the efficient operation of the district and may make temporary...
• Texas Section 1018.0615 - Employment Of Physicians
  (a) The board may employ a physician and retain all or part of the professional income generated by the physician for medical services provided at...
• Texas Section 1018.062 - Recruitment Of Medical Staff And Employees
  The board may spend district money, enter into agreements, and take other necessary action to recruit physicians and other persons for appointment to the district's...
• Texas Section 1018.063 - Health Care Educational Programs
  The board may spend district money, enter into agreements, or take other necessary action to conduct, participate in, or assist in providing health care educational...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 1018.064 - Liability Insurance; Indemnification
  (a) For an officer, director, board appointee, member of the medical staff, or district employee, the board may: (1) purchase and maintain liability insurance to...
• Texas Section 1018.101 - District Responsibility
  The district has full responsibility for: (1) operating all hospital facilities; and (2) providing medical and hospital care for the district's needy inhabitants. Added by...
• Texas Section 1018.102 - Restriction On Political Subdivision Taxation And Debt
  A political subdivision located wholly or partly within the district may not impose a tax or issue bonds or other obligations for hospital purposes or...
• Texas Section 1018.103 - Management, Control, And Administration
  The board shall manage, control, and administer the hospital system and the district's money and resources. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 1018.104 - Hospital System
  (a) The district may: (1) provide for the establishment of a hospital system by: (A) purchasing, constructing, acquiring, repairing, or renovating buildings and equipment; (B)...
• Texas Section 1018.105 - Rules
  The board may adopt rules governing the operation of the hospital, the hospital system, and the district's staff and employees. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 1018.106 - Purchasing And Accounting Procedures
  The board may prescribe: (1) the method and manner of making purchases and expenditures by and for the district; and (2) all accounting and control...
• Texas Section 1018.107 - District Property, Facilities, And Equipment
  (a) The board shall determine the type, number, and location of buildings required to maintain an adequate hospital system. (b) The board may lease all...
• Texas Section 1018.108 - Assisted Living Facility
  The board may construct and maintain an assisted living facility and a related facility that is necessary to operate and maintain an assisted living facility....
• Texas Section 1018.109 - 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 located in...
• Texas Section 1018.110 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
  In exercising the power of eminent domain, if the board requires relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade of, or altering the construction of any...
• Texas Section 1018.111 - Gifts And Endowments
  The board may accept for the district a gift or endowment to be held in trust for the purposes and under the directions, limitations, or...
• Texas Section 1018.112 - Construction Contracts
  A construction contract that involves the expenditure of the amount specified by Section 271.024, Local Government Code, may be made only after advertising in the...
• Texas Section 1018.113 - Operating And Management Contracts
  The board may enter into an operating or management contract relating to a district facility. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1018.114 - Contracts For Medical And Hospital Care
  The district may contract with public or private institutions and physicians to provide medical and hospital care for the district's indigent and needy residents. Added...
• Texas Section 1018.115 - Contracts With Governmental Entities For Care And Treatment
  (a) The board may contract with a county or municipality located outside the district's boundaries to reimburse the district for the care and treatment of...
• Texas Section 1018.116 - Contracts With Governmental Entities For Investigatory Or Other Services
  The board may contract with a political subdivision or governmental agency for the district to provide investigatory or other services as to facilities for the...
• Texas Section 1018.117 - Joint Administration Or Delivery Of Health Care Services
  (a) To provide joint administration or delivery of health care services, the district may contract with, affiliate with, have an ownership interest in, or enter...
• Texas Section 1018.118 - Payment For Treatment; Procedures
  (a) When a patient who resides in the district is admitted to a district facility, the district administrator may have an inquiry made into the...
• Texas Section 1018.119 - Nonprofit Corporation
  (a) The district may create, sponsor, and have a membership interest in a nonprofit corporation under the Business Organizations Code and may contribute money to...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1018.120 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The district, through the board, may sue and be sued. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02, eff. April...
• Texas Section 1018.151 - Budget
  (a) The district administrator shall prepare an annual budget for approval by the board. (b) The proposed budget must contain a complete financial statement of:...
• Texas Section 1018.152 - Notice; Hearing; Adoption Of Budget
  (a) The board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed annual budget. (b) Notice of the hearing must be published one time in a...
• Texas Section 1018.153 - Amendments To Budget
  The budget may be amended as required by circumstances. The board must approve all amendments. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1018.154 - Restriction On Expenditures
  Money may be spent only for an expense included in the budget or an amendment to the budget. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1018.155 - Fiscal Year
  (a) The district operates on a fiscal year established by the board. (b) The fiscal year may not be changed more than once in a...
• Texas Section 1018.156 - Annual Audit
  The board annually shall have an audit made of the district's financial condition. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec....
• Texas Section 1018.157 - Inspection Of Annual Audit And District Records
  The annual audit and other district records shall be open to inspection at the district's principal office. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 1018.158 - Financial Report
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the district administrator shall prepare for the board: (1) a complete sworn statement of...
• Texas Section 1018.159 - Depository
  (a) The board shall select one or more banks inside or outside the district to serve as a depository for district money. (b) District money,...
• Texas Section 1018.160 - Spending And Investment Restrictions
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Sections 1018.107(c) and 1018.161 and Subchapter E, the district may not incur an obligation payable from district revenue other...

SUBCHAPTER E BONDS

• Texas Section 1018.161 - General Authority To Borrow Money; Security
  (a) The board may borrow money at a rate not to exceed the maximum annual percentage rate allowed by law for district obligations at the...
• Texas Section 1018.201 - General Obligation Bonds
  The board may issue and sell general obligations bonds in the name and on the faith and credit of the district for any purpose relating...
• Texas Section 1018.202 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
  (a) At the time general obligation bonds are issued by the district under Section 1018.201, the board shall impose an ad valorem tax at a...
• Texas Section 1018.203 - General Obligation Bond Election
  (a) The district may issue general obligation bonds only if the bonds are authorized by a majority of the district voters. (b) The board, in...
• Texas Section 1018.204 - Maturity Of General Obligation Bonds
  District general obligation bonds must mature not later than 40 years after the date of issuance. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 1018.205 - Execution Of General Obligation Bonds
  (a) The board president shall execute the general obligation bonds in the district's name. (b) The board secretary shall countersign the bonds in the manner...
• Texas Section 1018.206 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds to: (1) purchase, construct, acquire, repair, renovate, or equip buildings or improvements for hospital purposes; or (2) acquire...
• Texas Section 1018.207 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may, without an election, issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding indebtedness issued or assumed by the district. (b) A refunding bond may...
• Texas Section 1018.208 - 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) the transfer...
• Texas Section 1018.209 - Additional Means Of Securing Repayment Of Bonds
  In addition to the authority to issue general obligation bonds and revenue bonds under this subchapter, the board may provide for the security and payment...

SUBCHAPTER F TAXES

• Texas Section 1018.210 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
  The district may use the proceeds of bonds issued under this subchapter to pay: (1) any expense the board determines is reasonable and necessary to...
• Texas Section 1018.251 - Imposition Of Ad Valorem Tax
  (a) The board may impose a tax on all property in the district subject to district taxation. (b) The board may impose the tax to...
• Texas Section 1018.252 - Tax Rate
  (a) The board may impose the tax at a rate not to exceed 75 cents on each $100 valuation of all taxable property in the...
• Texas Section 1018.253 - Assessment And Collection By County Tax Assessor-collector
  (a) This section applies unless the board elects to have taxes assessed and collected under Section 1018.254. (b) The tax assessors-collectors of Dallam and Hartley...

SUBCHAPTER G DISSOLUTION

• Texas Section 1018.254 - Assessment And Collection By District Assessor-collector
  (a) The board, by majority vote, may elect to have district taxes assessed and collected by a tax assessor-collector appointed by the board. An election...
• Texas Section 1018.301 - Dissolution; Election
  (a) The district may be dissolved only on approval of a majority of the district voters voting in an election held for that purpose. (b)...
• Texas Section 1018.302 - Notice Of Election
  (a) The board shall give notice of an election under this subchapter by publishing once a week for two consecutive weeks a substantial copy of...
• Texas Section 1018.303 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under this subchapter must be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The dissolution of the Dallam-Hartley Counties...
• Texas Section 1018.304 - Election Results
  (a) If a majority of the votes in an election under this subchapter favor dissolution, the board shall find that the district is dissolved. (b)...
• Texas Section 1018.305 - Transfer Of Administration Of Assets
  (a) If a majority of the votes in the election held under this subchapter favor dissolution, the board shall: (1) transfer the land, buildings, improvements,...
• Texas Section 1018.306 - Imposition Of Tax And Return Of Surplus Taxes
  (a) After the board finds that the district is dissolved, the board shall: (1) determine the debt owed by the district; and (2) impose on...
• Texas Section 1018.307 - Report; Dissolution Order
  (a) After the district has paid all district debts and has disposed of all district money and other assets as prescribed by this subchapter, the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016