Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1061 - Midland County Hospital District Of Midland County, Texas

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1061.001 - 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 1061.002 - Authority For Creation
  The Midland County Hospital District of Midland County, Texas, is created under the authority of Section 9, Article IX, Texas Constitution. Added by Acts 2009,...
• Texas Section 1061.003 - Essential Public Function
  The district performs an essential public function in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1061.004 - District Territory
  The boundaries of the district are coextensive with the boundaries of Midland County, Texas, as the boundaries existed on May 4, 1977. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 1061.005 - 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...
• Texas Section 1061.006 - District Support And Maintenance Not State Obligation
  The support and maintenance of the district may not become a charge against or obligation of this state. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...

SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 1061.007 - 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 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1061.051 - Board Election; Term
  (a) The board is governed by a board of seven directors elected from single-member districts. (b) Directors serve staggered four-year terms. (c) An election of...
• Texas Section 1061.052 - Alternative Director Election
  (a) The board on its own motion may order that not fewer than 50 percent of the directors be elected from single-member districts with the...
• Texas Section 1061.053 - Notice Of Election
  At least 10 days before the date of an election of directors, notice of the election shall be published one time in a newspaper of...
• Texas Section 1061.054 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) A person may not be elected or appointed as a director unless the person is: (1) a resident of the district; and (2) more...
• Texas Section 1061.055 - 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 1061.056 - 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 1061.057 - 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 1061.058 - Voting Requirement
  A concurrence of four directors is sufficient in any matter relating to district business. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619),...
• Texas Section 1061.059 - District Administrator; Assistant Administrator
  (a) The board may appoint a qualified person as district administrator. (b) The board may appoint assistant administrators. (c) The district administrator and any assistant...
• Texas Section 1061.060 - 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 1061.061 - Appointment And Dismissal Of Staff And Employees; Contracts
  (a) The board may appoint to or dismiss from the staff any doctors the board considers necessary for the efficient operation of the district and...
• Texas Section 1061.062 - Recruitment Of Medical Staff And Employees
  The board may spend district money, enter into agreements, and take other necessary action to recruit or otherwise obtain physicians and other personnel for the...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 1061.063 - Seniority; Retirement Benefits
  (a) The board may: (1) adopt rules relating to the seniority of district employees; and (2) establish or administer a retirement program or elect to...
• Texas Section 1061.101 - District Responsibility
  (a) The district has full responsibility for providing hospital care for the district's indigent residents. (b) The district shall provide all necessary hospital and medical...
• Texas Section 1061.102 - Restriction On Political Subdivision Taxation And Debt
  A political subdivision of this state, other than the district, may not impose a tax or issue bonds or other obligations for hospital purposes or...
• Texas Section 1061.103 - Management, Control, And Administration; General Board Power
  (a) The board shall manage, control, and administer the district's hospital or hospital system and the district's money and resources. (b) The board may exercise...
• Texas Section 1061.104 - Hospital System
  (a) The district has the responsibility to establish a hospital or hospital system, including medical facilities and other health facilities, within its boundaries to provide...
• Texas Section 1061.105 - 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 2009, 81st...
• Texas Section 1061.106 - Purchasing And Accounting Procedures
  (a) The board may prescribe: (1) the method and manner of making purchases and expenditures by and for the district; and (2) all accounting and...
• Texas Section 1061.107 - Ambulance Or Mobile Emergency Service
  The district may operate or provide for the operation of an ambulance or mobile emergency service. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139...
• Texas Section 1061.108 - District Property, Facilities, And Equipment
  (a) The board shall determine the type, number, and location of buildings and property required to maintain an adequate hospital system. (b) The board may...
• Texas Section 1061.109 - 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 1061.110 - 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 1061.111 - 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 1061.112 - Construction Or Purchase Contracts
  A construction or purchase contract that involves the expenditure of more than the amount provided by Section 252.021(a), Local Government Code, may be made only...
• Texas Section 1061.113 - Management Agreement; Liability
  (a) The board may enter into a management agreement with any person, including the Midland Memorial Foundation or its successors, for the management and operation...
• Texas Section 1061.114 - Contracts For Hospitalization, Treatment, And Training
  (a) The board may contract with any person located inside or outside the district's boundaries for the hospitalization and treatment of a sick or injured...
• Texas Section 1061.115 - Contract For Investigatory Or Other Services
  The board may contract with any person for the district to provide investigatory or other services for the medical, hospital, or welfare needs of district...
• Texas Section 1061.116 - Contract For Facilities To Support Surgical Residency Program
  (a) The board may contract with a state agency or public medical school, including the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, for the improvement and...
• Texas Section 1061.117 - Provision Of Services Outside District
  The district may provide primary care, emergency services, preventive medical services, and other health-related services outside the district, provided that the services serve the purpose...
• Texas Section 1061.118 - 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 1061.119 - Reimbursement For Services To Nonresidents
  If a welfare patient, who is not a district resident, is admitted to a district facility, the district may: (1) seek reimbursement from the patient's...
• Texas Section 1061.120 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The district, through the board, may sue and be sued. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.01, eff. April...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1061.121 - Employment Of District Peace Officers
  (a) The board may employ and commission peace officers for the district. (b) The jurisdiction of a peace officer commissioned under this section includes the...
• Texas Section 1061.151 - Budget
  (a) Unless otherwise provided in a management agreement, the district administrator shall prepare an annual budget for approval by the board. (b) The proposed budget...
• Texas Section 1061.152 - Notice; Hearing; Adoption Of Budget
  (a) The board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed annual budget. (b) At least 10 days before the date of the hearing, notice...
• Texas Section 1061.153 - Amendments To Budget
  The budget may be amended as required by circumstances. The board must approve all amendments. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1061.154 - Restriction On Expenditures
  Money may be spent only for an expense included in the budget or an amendment to the budget. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1061.155 - Fiscal Year
  The district operates according to a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The board may change the fiscal year....
• Texas Section 1061.156 - Audit
  The board shall have an independent audit made of the district's financial condition for each fiscal year. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 1061.157 - Inspection Of Audit And District Records
  The audit and other district records shall be open to inspection at the district's principal office. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139...
• Texas Section 1061.158 - Financial Report
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the district administrator or the managing entity of the hospital shall prepare for the...
• Texas Section 1061.159 - Depository
  (a) The board shall select one or more banks in the district to serve as a depository for district money. A selected bank serves for...

SUBCHAPTER E BONDS

• Texas Section 1061.160 - Spending And Investment Restrictions
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 1061.108(c) and by Subchapter E, the district may not incur an obligation payable from district revenue other than...
• Texas Section 1061.201 - General Obligation Bonds
  The board may issue and sell general obligation bonds in the name and on the full faith and credit of the district for: (1) the...
• Texas Section 1061.202 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
  (a) At the time general obligation bonds are issued by the district under Section 1061.201, the board shall impose an ad valorem tax at a...
• Texas Section 1061.203 - Bond Election
  (a) The district may issue tax bonds only if the bonds are authorized by a majority of the district voters voting at an election held...
• Texas Section 1061.204 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds for the purchase, construction, acquisition, and repair or renovation of buildings and improvements, and equipping any hospital facilities,...
• Texas Section 1061.205 - Payment Of Revenue Bonds; Security
  (a) Revenue bonds issued under Section 1061.204 must be payable from and secured by liens on and pledges of all or any part of the...
• Texas Section 1061.206 - Use Of Revenue Bond Proceeds
  (a) If permitted in the bond order, any required part of the proceeds from the sale of the revenue bonds may be used to: (1)...
• Texas Section 1061.207 - Charge For Occupancy Or Use Of Hospital Facility
  The board may establish and collect charges for the occupancy or use of a hospital facility and for related services in the amounts and manner...
• Texas Section 1061.208 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may, without an election, issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding indebtedness issued or assumed by the district. (b) Refunding bonds may be:...

SUBCHAPTER F TAXES

• Texas Section 1061.209 - Bonds Exempt From Taxation
  The following are exempt from taxation by this state or a political subdivision: (1) bonds issued or assumed by the district; (2) the transfer and...
• Texas Section 1061.251 - 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 1061.252 - Tax Rate
  (a) The board may impose the tax at a rate not to exceed 75 cents on each $100 valuation of taxable property in the district....
• Texas Section 1061.253 - Use Of Ad Valorem Taxes For Operation And Maintenance Expenses
  (a) If the board issues revenue bonds under Section 1061.204, the board: (1) shall use ad valorem taxes to pay the district's operation and maintenance...
• Texas Section 1061.254 - Assessment And Collection By County Tax Assessor-collector
  (a) This section applies unless the board by majority vote elects to have taxes assessed and collected under Section 1061.255 or 1061.256. (b) The tax...
• Texas Section 1061.255 - Assessment And Collection By District Tax Assessor-collector
  (a) The board may elect to have district taxes assessed and collected by a tax assessor-collector appointed by the board. An election under this subsection...
• Texas Section 1061.256 - Assessment And Collection By Tax Assessor-collector Of Another Political Subdivision
  (a) The board may elect to have all or part of the district's taxes assessed and collected by a political subdivision in which any part...

Last modified: September 28, 2016