Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1035 - Dewitt Medical District
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 1035.001 - 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 1035.002 - Authority For Creation
The DeWitt Medical District is created under the authority of Section 9, Article IX, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139...
- Texas Section 1035.003 - Political Subdivision
The district is a political subdivision of this state. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1,
- Texas Section 1035.004 - District Territory
(a) The district is composed of the territory described by Section 1, Chapter 310, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965. (b) The boundaries...
- Texas Section 1035.005 - Correction Of Invalid Procedures
If a court holds that any procedure under this chapter violates the constitution of this state or of the United States, the district by resolution...
SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
- Texas Section 1035.006 - District Support And Maintenance Not State Obligation
The support and maintenance of the district's hospital system may not become a charge against or obligation of this state. Added by Acts 2009, 81st...
- Texas Section 1035.051 - Board Election; Term
(a) The district is governed by a board of five directors elected from the district at large. (b) Directors serve staggered three-year terms. (c) An...
- Texas Section 1035.052 - Notice Of Election
Notice of a directors' election shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the district in accordance with Section 4.003, Election Code. Added...
- Texas Section 1035.053 - Qualifications For Office
(a) To be qualified to serve as a director, a person must: (1) reside in the district; and (2) be at least 21 years of...
- Texas Section 1035.054 - Bond; Record Of Bond And Oath Or Affirmation Of Office
(a) Each director shall qualify by executing a good and sufficient bond for $5,000 that is: (1) approved by the board; (2) payable to the...
- Texas Section 1035.055 - Board Vacancy
(a) If a vacancy occurs in the office of director, the remaining directors shall appoint a director for the unexpired term. (b) If the number...
- Texas Section 1035.056 - Officers
(a) At the board's first regular meeting following the annual election of the directors, the board shall elect a chair, vice chair, and secretary from...
- Texas Section 1035.057 - Compensation; Expenses
A director serves without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties on approval of the expenses by...
- Texas Section 1035.058 - Voting Requirement
A concurrence of a majority of the directors is sufficient in any matter relating to district business. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch....
- Texas Section 1035.059 - District Administrator
(a) The board shall appoint a qualified person as district administrator. (b) The district administrator serves at the will of the board and is entitled...
- Texas Section 1035.060 - 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 1035.061 - Recruitment Of Medical Staff And Employees
The board may spend district money to recruit physicians, nurses, or other trained medical personnel. The board may pay the tuition or other costs or...
- Texas Section 1035.062 - Continuing Education; Retraining
The board may spend district money for continuing education and retraining of employees. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec....
SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES
- Texas Section 1035.063 - Doctors And Other Employees
The board may contract with doctors or appoint doctors to the medical staff and may employ technicians, nurses, and other employees the board considers necessary...
- Texas Section 1035.101 - District Responsibility
The district has full responsibility for providing medical and hospital care for the district's needy inhabitants. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139...
- Texas Section 1035.102 - Restriction On Political Subdivision Taxation And Debt
A political subdivision in DeWitt County, other than the district, may not impose a tax or issue bonds or other obligations for hospital purposes or...
- Texas Section 1035.103 - Management And Control
(a) The board has all powers necessary, convenient, or incidental to carry out the purposes for which the district was created. (b) The board has...
- Texas Section 1035.104 - Hospital System
The district shall provide for: (1) the establishment of a hospital or hospital system in the district to furnish medical and hospital care to district...
- Texas Section 1035.105 - Provision Of Certain Health Services
The district may provide: (1) emergency medical services; (2) home health care services; (3) long-term health care services; (4) assisted living services; or (5) any...
- Texas Section 1035.106 - 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 1035.107 - Gifts And Endowments
The board may accept for the district a gift or endowment to be held in trust and administered by the board for the purposes and...
- Texas Section 1035.108 - Contract With Nixon Hospital District
The district, through the board, may contract with the Nixon Hospital District of Gonzales and Wilson Counties, Texas, for the district to lease, manage, or...
- Texas Section 1035.109 - Payment For Treatment; Procedures
(a) Each year, the board may set criteria for determining residency, eligibility for service, and the type of services available. (b) When a patient who...
- Texas Section 1035.110 - Reimbursement For Services
(a) The board shall require a county, municipality, or public hospital located outside the district to reimburse the district for the district's care and treatment...
SUBCHAPTER D CHANGE IN BOUNDARIES
- Texas Section 1035.111 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
As a governmental agency, the district may sue and be sued in its own name in any court of this state. Added by Acts 2009,...
- Texas Section 1035.151 - Expansion Of Territory; Board Order
(a) The board may order an election on the question of: (1) expanding the district's boundaries to include all of the territory in DeWitt County...
- Texas Section 1035.152 - Annexation Of Territory; Petition
(a) The district may annex one or more tracts of territory in accordance with the method provided by this subchapter. (b) A registered voter who...
- Texas Section 1035.153 - Approval Or Denial Of Annexation Petition
(a) If the board finds that annexation of territory into the district is in the district's best interest, the board shall, not later than the...
- Texas Section 1035.154 - Election Order
(a) The order calling an election under this subchapter must state: (1) the nature of the election, including the proposition to appear on the ballot;...
- Texas Section 1035.155 - Election Date
(a) The election in the district and the election in the territory to be added or annexed must be held on the same day. (b)...
- Texas Section 1035.156 - 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 1035.157 - Ballot
(a) The ballot for an expansion election ordered under Section 1035.151 must be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Expanding the DeWitt...
SUBCHAPTER E GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 1035.158 - Election Results
(a) The district boundaries may be expanded or territory may be annexed to the district under this subchapter only if the expansion or annexation, the...
- Texas Section 1035.201 - Depository
(a) The board by resolution shall designate a bank in the county as the district's depository. A designated bank serves for two years and until...
SUBCHAPTER F BONDS
- Texas Section 1035.202 - 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 1035.251 - General Obligation Bonds
The board may issue and sell general obligation bonds authorized by an election in the name and on the faith and credit of the district...
- Texas Section 1035.252 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
(a) At the time general obligation bonds are issued under Section 1035.251, an ad valorem tax shall be imposed at a rate sufficient to create...
- Texas Section 1035.253 - 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 voting in an election...
- Texas Section 1035.254 - Execution Of Bonds
(a) The board president shall execute district bonds in the district's name. (b) The board secretary shall countersign the bonds. Added by Acts 2009, 81st...
- Texas Section 1035.255 - Investment Of Bond Proceeds
Until the proceeds from the sale of district bonds are needed to carry out the bond purpose, the proceeds may be: (1) invested in direct...
SUBCHAPTER G TAXES
- Texas Section 1035.256 - Revenue Bonds
(a) The board may issue and sell revenue bonds in the name and on the faith and credit of the district to purchase, construct, acquire,...
- Texas Section 1035.301 - Imposition Of Ad Valorem Tax
(a) The board shall impose a tax on all property in the district subject to district taxation. (b) The board shall impose the tax to:...
- Texas Section 1035.302 - Tax Rate
The board shall impose the tax at a rate not to exceed 75 cents on each $100 valuation of all taxable property in the district....
- Texas Section 1035.303 - Tax Assessor-collector
The board may: (1) appoint a tax assessor-collector for the district; or (2) contract for the assessment and collection of taxes as provided by the...
Last modified: September 28, 2016