Texas Special District Local Laws Code Title 3, Chapter 1091 - Rice Hospital District

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1091.001 - 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 1091.002 - Authority For Operation
  The Rice Hospital District operates and is financed as provided by Section 9, Article IX, Texas Constitution, and by this chapter. Added by Acts 2009,...
• Texas Section 1091.003 - Essential Public Function
  The district is a public entity performing an essential public function. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.01, eff....
• Texas Section 1091.004 - District Territory
  The boundaries of the district are coextensive with the boundaries of Rice Consolidated Independent School District of Colorado County, Texas, as those boundaries existed on...
• Texas Section 1091.005 - District Support Or Maintenance Not State Obligation
  The state may not become obligated for the support or maintenance of the district. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619),...

SUBCHAPTER B DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 1091.006 - 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 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1091.051 - Board Election; Term
  (a) The district is governed by a board of nine directors elected from the district at large. (b) Unless four-year terms are established under Section...
• Texas Section 1091.052 - 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 1091.053 - Ballot Petition
  A person seeking to have the person's name printed on the ballot as a candidate for director must file with the board secretary a petition...
• Texas Section 1091.054 - Qualifications For Office
  (a) To be eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as a director, a person must be: (1) a resident of the district;...
• Texas Section 1091.055 - Bond; Record Of Bond
  (a) Before assuming the duties of office, each director must execute a bond for $5,000 that is: (1) payable to the district; and (2) conditioned...
• Texas Section 1091.056 - 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 2009, 81st...
• Texas Section 1091.057 - 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 1091.058 - 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 1091.059 - Voting Requirement
  A concurrence of a majority of the directors voting is necessary in any matter relating to district business. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1091.060 - 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 1091.061 - 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 1091.062 - Assistant District Administrator; Attorney
  (a) The board may appoint qualified persons as: (1) the assistant district administrator; and (2) the attorney for the district. (b) The assistant district administrator...
• Texas Section 1091.063 - Appointment And Recruitment Of Staff And Employees
  (a) The board may: (1) appoint to the staff any doctors whose appointment the board considers necessary for the efficient operation of the district; (2)...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 1091.064 - 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 1091.101 - District Responsibility
  The district has full responsibility for: (1) operating hospital facilities; and (2) providing medical and hospital care for the district's needy inhabitants. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 1091.102 - Management, Control, And Administration
  The board shall manage, control, and administer the hospital system and the money and resources of the district. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1091.103 - Rules
  The board may adopt rules governing: (1) the operation of the hospital and hospital system; and (2) the duties, functions, and responsibilities of district staff...
• Texas Section 1091.104 - 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 1091.105 - District Property, Facilities, And Equipment
  (a) The board shall determine: (1) the type, number, and location of buildings required to maintain an adequate hospital system; and (2) the type of...
• Texas Section 1091.106 - Eminent Domain
  (a) The district may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire a fee simple or other interest in property located in district territory if...
• Texas Section 1091.107 - 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 1091.108 - 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 direction, limitation, or...
• Texas Section 1091.109 - 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 1091.110 - Operating And Management Contracts
  The board may enter into an operating or management contract for the district relating to a hospital facility. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S.,...
• Texas Section 1091.111 - Contracts For Services
  (a) The board may contract with a public or private hospital, a political subdivision of this state, or a state or federal agency for the...
• Texas Section 1091.112 - Provision Of Certain Health Services
  The district may: (1) operate or provide for the operation of a mobile emergency medical service; and (2) operate or provide for home health services,...
• Texas Section 1091.113 - Payment For Treatment; Procedures
  (a) If an individual who resides in the district is admitted as a patient to a district facility, the district administrator may have an inquiry...
• Texas Section 1091.114 - 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 1091.115 - Authority To Sue And Be Sued
  The board may sue and be sued on behalf of the district. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.01,...
• Texas Section 1091.151 - 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 1091.152 - Notice; Hearing; Adoption Of Budget
  (a) The board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed annual budget. (b) Not later than the 10th day before the date of the...
• Texas Section 1091.153 - Amendments To Budget
  After the annual budget is adopted, the budget may be amended on the board's approval. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B....
• Texas Section 1091.154 - Fiscal Year
  (a) The district operates according to a fiscal year established by the board. (b) The fiscal year may not be changed: (1) during a period...
• Texas Section 1091.155 - Annual Audit
  The board annually shall have an audit made of the district's financial condition. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec....
• Texas Section 1091.156 - 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 2009, 81st...
• Texas Section 1091.157 - Financial Report
  As soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year, the district administrator shall prepare for the board: (1) a sworn statement of the...
• Texas Section 1091.158 - Short-term Financing
  The district may borrow money through short-term financing. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2011.
• Texas Section 1091.159 - 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...

SUBCHAPTER E BONDS

• Texas Section 1091.160 - Spending And Investment Restrictions
  (a) Except as provided by Sections 1091.109, 1091.201, 1091.204, and 1091.205, the district may not incur a debt payable from district revenue other than the...
• Texas Section 1091.201 - General Obligation Bonds
  If authorized by an election, the board may issue and sell general obligation bonds in the name and on the faith and credit of the...
• Texas Section 1091.202 - Tax To Pay General Obligation Bonds
  (a) At the time general obligation bonds are issued by the district under Section 1091.201, the board shall impose an ad valorem tax at a...
• Texas Section 1091.203 - 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 voting at an election...
• Texas Section 1091.204 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds to: (1) purchase, construct, acquire, repair, equip, or renovate buildings or improvements for hospital purposes; (2) acquire sites...
• Texas Section 1091.205 - Refunding Bonds
  (a) The board may issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding indebtedness issued or assumed by the district. (b) Refunding bonds may be: (1) sold, with...
• Texas Section 1091.206 - Maturity Of Bonds
  District bonds must mature not later than 50 years after the date of issuance. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1139 (H.B. 2619),...
• Texas Section 1091.207 - Execution Of Bonds
  (a) The board president shall execute the district's bonds in the district's name. (b) The board secretary shall countersign the bonds in the manner provided...

SUBCHAPTER F TAXES

• Texas Section 1091.208 - 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 1091.251 - 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 1091.252 - 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...

SUBCHAPTER G DISSOLUTION

• Texas Section 1091.253 - 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...
• Texas Section 1091.301 - Dissolution; Election
  (a) The district may be dissolved and the district's assets and liabilities sold or transferred to another person only on approval of a majority of...
• Texas Section 1091.302 - 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 1091.303 - Ballot
  The ballot for an election under this subchapter must be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The dissolution of the Rice Hospital...
• Texas Section 1091.304 - Election Results
  (a) If the board finds that the election results favor the proposition to dissolve the district, the board shall: (1) issue an order declaring the...
• Texas Section 1091.305 - Sale Or Transfer Of Assets And Liabilities
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, the district may not be dissolved unless the board provides for the sale or transfer of the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016