Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1045 - Hutchinson County Hospital District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1045.001 - 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 1045.002 - Authority For Operation
  The district operates and is financed as provided by Section 9, Article IX, Texas Constitution, and by this chapter and other laws relating to hospital...
• Texas Section 1045.003 - Essential Public Function
  The district is a public entity performing an essential public function. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02, eff....
• Texas Section 1045.004 - District Territory
  The boundaries of the district are coextensive with the boundaries of Hutchinson County, Texas. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...
• Texas Section 1045.005 - District Support And Maintenance Not State Obligation
  The state may not become obligated for the support or maintenance of the district. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...

SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 1045.006 - 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 1045.051 - Board Election And Appointment; Term
  (a) The board is governed by the following seven directors: (1) one director elected from each county commissioner precinct; and (2) three directors appointed by...
• Texas Section 1045.052 - Notice Of Election
  At least 35 days before the date of an election of directors, notice of the election shall be published one time in a newspaper with...
• Texas Section 1045.053 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) To be eligible to be a candidate for an elected position or to serve as an elected or appointed director, a person must be:...
• Texas Section 1045.054 - Board Vacancy
  If a vacancy occurs in the office of director, the remaining directors shall appoint a director for the unexpired term. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 1045.055 - Officers
  (a) The board shall elect a president and a vice president from among its members. (b) The board shall appoint a secretary, who need not...
• Texas Section 1045.056 - 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 1045.057 - Voting Requirement
  A concurrence of a majority of the directors voting is necessary in any matter relating to district business. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1045.058 - Administrators
  (a) The board may appoint qualified persons to serve as: (1) district administrator; and (2) ancillary health care facilities administrator. (b) The administrators serve at...
• Texas Section 1045.059 - General Duties Of District Administrator
  (a) The district administrator shall: (1) supervise the work and activities of the district facilities and the staff, employees, contractors, and agents of the district;...
• Texas Section 1045.060 - Attorney; Assistant Administrators
  (a) The board may appoint qualified persons as: (1) the attorney for the district; and (2) assistant administrators. (b) The attorney for the district and...
• Texas Section 1045.061 - 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 1045.062 - 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 to serve on the district's...
• Texas Section 1045.063 - Health Care Educational Programs
  The board may spend district money, enter into agreements, and take other necessary action to conduct, participate in, or otherwise assist in providing health care...
• Texas Section 1045.064 - 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...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 1045.065 - Retirement Benefits
  The board may provide retirement benefits for district employees by: (1) establishing or administering a retirement program; or (2) participating in: (A) the Texas County...
• Texas Section 1045.101 - District Responsibility
  The district has full responsibility for: (1) operating hospital and ancillary health care facilities; and (2) providing medical, hospital, and ancillary health care for the...
• Texas Section 1045.102 - Restriction On County Or Municipality Taxation And Debt
  Hutchinson County or a municipality in Hutchinson County may not impose a tax or issue bonds or other obligations for hospital purposes or to provide...
• Texas Section 1045.103 - Management, Control, And Administration
  The board shall manage, control, and administer the hospital system, the ancillary health care system, and the district's money and resources. Added by Acts 2007,...
• Texas Section 1045.104 - Rules
  The board may adopt rules governing: (1) the operation of the hospital, ancillary health care facilities, ancillary health care system, and hospital system; and (2)...
• Texas Section 1045.105 - Purchasing And Accounting Procedures
  The board may prescribe: (1) the method of making purchases and expenditures by and for the district; and (2) accounting and control procedures for the...
• Texas Section 1045.106 - Mobile Emergency Medical Service
  The district may operate or provide for the operation of a mobile emergency medical service. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1045.107 - District Property, Facilities, And Equipment
  (a) The board shall determine the type, number, and location, either inside or outside the district, of facilities required to maintain an adequate hospital system...
• Texas Section 1045.108 - 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 1045.109 - Cost Of Relocating Or Altering Property
  In exercising the power of eminent domain, if the board requires relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade, or altering the construction of any railroad,...
• Texas Section 1045.110 - Gifts And Endowments
  The board may accept for the district a gift or endowment to be held in trust for any purpose and under any written direction, limitation,...
• Texas Section 1045.111 - General Contract Power
  The board may contract for the district. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02, eff. April 1, 2009.
• Texas Section 1045.112 - Construction Contracts
  (a) The board may enter into construction contracts for the district. (b) The board may enter into a construction contract that involves the expenditure of...
• Texas Section 1045.113 - Operating And Management Contracts
  The board may enter into an operating or management contract for the district with one or more public or private entities relating to a hospital...
• Texas Section 1045.114 - Contracts With Governmental Entities For Certain Services
  The board may contract with a political subdivision of this state, a state, the federal government, an agency or political subdivision of those public entities,...
• Texas Section 1045.115 - Joint Ownership Arrangement
  (a) The board may enter into a joint ownership arrangement for the district with one or more public or private entities for: (1) the provision...
• Texas Section 1045.116 - Payment For Treatment; Procedures
  (a) When a patient is admitted to a district facility, the district administrator may have an inquiry made into the financial circumstances of: (1) the...
• Texas Section 1045.117 - 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 GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1045.118 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The board may sue and be sued on behalf of the district. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02,...
• Texas Section 1045.151 - Budget
  (a) The district administrator shall prepare a proposed annual budget for the district. (b) The proposed budget must contain a complete financial statement, including a...
• Texas Section 1045.152 - Notice; Hearing; Adoption Of Budget
  (a) The board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed annual budget. (b) The board shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper...
• Texas Section 1045.153 - Amendments To Budget
  After the annual budget is adopted, the budget may be amended on the board's approval. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1045.154 - 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 1045.155 - Fiscal Year
  The district operates on the fiscal year established by the board. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166), Sec. 1.02, eff....
• Texas Section 1045.156 - Annual Audit
  The board annually shall have an audit made of the district's financial records, accounts, and transactions. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920...
• Texas Section 1045.157 - Inspection Of Annual Audit And District Records
  The annual audit and other district records are open to inspection during regular business hours at the district's principal office. Added by Acts 2007, 80th...
• Texas Section 1045.158 - Financial Report
  As soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year, the district administrator or other district agent responsible for the district's financial affairs shall...
• Texas Section 1045.159 - Depository
  (a) The board shall select at least one bank to serve as a depository for district money. (b) District money, other than money invested as...
• Texas Section 1045.160 - Spending And Investment Restrictions
  (a) Except as provided by Sections 1045.112, 1045.202, 1045.205, and 1045.206, the district may not incur a debt payable from district revenue other than the...

SUBCHAPTER E BONDS

• Texas Section 1045.161 - Authority To Borrow Money; Security
  (a) The board may borrow money for district operating expenses in an amount not to exceed the amount of tax or other revenue the district...
• Texas Section 1045.201 - Obligations And Credit Agreements
  The district may issue, sell, and deliver obligations and execute credit agreements as provided by Chapters 1201 and 1371, Government Code. Added by Acts 2007,...
• Texas Section 1045.202 - 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 1045.203 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
  (a) At the time general obligation bonds are issued by the district under Section 1045.202, the board shall impose an ad valorem tax at a...
• Texas Section 1045.204 - 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 at an election...
• Texas Section 1045.205 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds to: (1) purchase, construct, acquire, repair, equip, or renovate buildings or improvements for hospital and ancillary health care...
• Texas Section 1045.206 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding bonds issued or assumed by the district. (b) A refunding bond may be: (1) sold,...
• Texas Section 1045.207 - Maturity Of Bonds
  District bonds must mature not later than 50 years after the date of issuance. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 920 (H.B. 3166),...

SUBCHAPTER F TAXES

• Texas Section 1045.208 - 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) any transaction...
• Texas Section 1045.251 - Imposition Of Ad Valorem Tax
  (a) The board may impose a tax on all property in the district subject to district taxation. (b) The tax may be used to pay:...
• Texas Section 1045.252 - Tax Rate
  (a) The board may impose the tax at a rate not to exceed the limit approved by the voters at the election authorizing the imposition...
• Texas Section 1045.253 - Election To Increase Maximum Tax Rate
  (a) The board may order an election to increase the district's maximum ad valorem tax rate to a rate of not more than 75 cents...
• Texas Section 1045.254 - Tax Assessor-collector
  The board may provide for the appointment of a tax assessor-collector for the district or may contract for the assessment and collection of taxes as...

Last modified: September 28, 2016