Code of Virginia - Title 15.2 Counties, Cities And Towns - Chapter 53 Hospital Authorities

15.2-5300 Finding and declaration of necessity
It is declared that conditions resulting from the concentration of population of various cities of the Commonwealth require the construction, maintenance and operation of adequate ...

15.2-5301 Definitions
As used or referred to in this chapter unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: "Authority" or "hospital authority" means a body corporate ...

15.2-5302 Creation of hospital authorities
In each city there shall be a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, with such public and corporate powers as are set forth in this chapter, ...

15.2-5303 Not to function until council declares need
No authority shall transact any business or exercise its powers until or unless the council of the city by resolution declares at any time hereafter ...

15.2-5304 How need determined
The determination as to whether there is a need for an authority to function may be made by the governing body on its own motion ...

15.2-5305 What constitutes need
The council may adopt a resolution declaring that there is need for a hospital authority in the city if it finds (i) that there are ...

15.2-5306 Effect and sufficiency of resolution declaring need
In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of the authority, the authority shall be conclusively ...

15.2-5307 Appointment, qualifications, tenure and compensation of commissioners
An authority shall consist of not more than 15 commissioners appointed by the mayor, and he shall designate the first chairman. No more than three ...

15.2-5308 Officers and agents
When the office of the first chairman of the authority becomes vacant, the authority shall select a chairman from among its commissioners. An authority shall ...

15.2-5309 Effect of inclusion of existing hospital
If the authority and the trustees, directors or managers of any nonprofit or charitable hospital in a city should agree upon and consummate a transaction ...

15.2-5310 Authority and commissioners must comply with law and contracts
The authority and its commissioners shall be under a statutory duty to comply or to cause compliance strictly with all provisions of this chapter and ...

15.2-5311 Removal of commissioner on charges of mayor
The mayor may remove a commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but only after the commissioner has been given a ...

15.2-5312 Removal of commissioner on charges of obligee
Any obligee of the authority may file with the mayor written charges that the authority is willfully violating any law of the Commonwealth or any ...

15.2-5313 Service on commissioner by mail
If, after due and diligent search, a commissioner to whom charges are required to be delivered hereunder cannot be found within the city where the ...

15.2-5314 When commissioner deemed to have acquiesced in violation
A commissioner shall be deemed to have acquiesced in a willful violation by the authority of a law of this Commonwealth or of any term, ...

15.2-5315 Record of removal proceedings
In the event of the removal of any commissioner, the mayor shall file in the office of the city clerk a record of the proceedings ...

15.2-5316 Removed commissioner may appeal
Any commissioner thus removed may, within ten days after the mayor's action, appeal to the circuit court of the city, and the decision of such ...

15.2-5317 Planning and zoning laws
All hospital projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning and zoning laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the ...

15.2-5318 Reports
The authority shall at least once a year file with the mayor of the city an audit report by a certified public accountant of its ...

15.2-5319 Appropriations by city
The governing body of any city in which the authority is located may make appropriations for the improvement, maintenance or operation of any public hospital ...

15.2-5320 Conveyance, lease or transfers of property by city to authority
In order to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair or management of any hospital or hospital project or in order to accomplish any of ...

15.2-5321 Chapter controlling
Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling. Nothing ...

15.2-5322 In general
An authority shall constitute a body politic and corporate with perpetual succession, exercising public powers, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry ...

15.2-5323 Study and investigation concerning plan
An authority shall have power to investigate hospital, medical and health conditions and the means and methods of improving such conditions; to determine where inadequate ...

15.2-5324 Preparation and operation of hospital projects; facilities relating to health care; additional powe...
An authority shall have power to prepare, carry out and operate hospital projects and to establish facilities to provide goods and services relating to health ...

15.2-5325 Clinics and instruction programs
An authority shall have power to provide and operate outpatient departments, maternity clinics and any other clinics customarily operated in hospitals in metropolitan centers and ...

15.2-5326 Physicians and employees
An authority shall have power to provide and maintain continuous resident physician and intern medical services; to appoint an administrator or superintendent and necessary assistants, ...

15.2-5327 Powers of nonstock corporations
An authority shall have all powers granted to corporations under the provisions of § 13.1-826, including, without limitation, the power to own or control stock ...

15.2-5328 Bylaws and rules and regulations
An authority shall have power to adopt bylaws for the conduct of its business and to adopt necessary rules and regulations for the government of ...

15.2-5329 Committees
An authority shall have power to appoint such committees or subcommittees as it deems advisable and fix their duties and responsibilities. (Code 1950, § 32-242; ...

15.2-5330 Construction, repair and management
An authority shall have power to do all things necessary in connection with the construction, improvement, alteration, repair, reconstruction, management, supervision, control and operation of ...

15.2-5331 Donations
An authority shall have power to accept donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of the authority and take title thereto ...

15.2-5332 Regulating practice and nursing in hospital
An authority shall have power to determine and regulate the conditions under which the privilege of practicing within any hospital operated by the authority may ...

15.2-5333 Rules as to patients
An authority shall have power to make rules governing the admission of patients to, and the care, conduct, and treatment of patients in, any hospital ...

15.2-5334 Purchases or leases of hospital projects
An authority shall have power to take over by purchase, lease or otherwise any hospital project located within its boundaries undertaken by any government or ...

15.2-5335 Acting with federal government
An authority shall have power to act as agent for the federal government in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation and management of a hospital ...

15.2-5336 Cooperation with subdivision of Commonwealth
An authority shall have power: 1. To arrange with any city or with a government for the (i) furnishing, planning, replanning, installing, opening or closing ...

15.2-5337 Purchase or lease of property; sale of property
An authority shall have power to purchase, lease, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise any property real or personal or ...

15.2-5338 Owning property
An authority shall have power to own, hold, clear and improve property and to insure or provide for the insurance of the property or operations ...

15.2-5339 Borrowing money
An authority shall have power to borrow money upon its bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the same by pledges ...

15.2-5340 Contracts
An authority shall have power to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority. ...

15.2-5340.1 Joint ventures; subsidiaries; investments
An authority shall have the power to: 1. Assist in or provide for the creation of domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability ...

15.2-5340.2 Insurance
An authority shall have the power to procure such insurance, participate in such insurance plans or provide such self-insurance, or any combination thereof, as it ...

15.2-5341 Rules and regulations not to be inconsistent
An authority shall have power to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to ...

15.2-5342 Incidental powers
An authority shall have power, in addition to all of the other powers herein conferred upon it, to do all things necessary and convenient to ...

15.2-5343 Eminent domain
The authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry ...

15.2-5344 Contracts with federal government
The authority is empowered to borrow money and accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any hospital project ...

15.2-5345 Security for funds deposited by authorities; deposit in certain savings accounts, etc., authorize...
The authority may by resolution provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured: 1. By obligations of the United States or of the ...

15.2-5346 Authority to issue
The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time in its discretion to issue bonds for any of its purposes, including ...

15.2-5347 How payable
The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable from such sources as the authority may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the ...

15.2-5348 Commissioners not liable
Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. ...

15.2-5349 Bond indebtedness
The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of ...

15.2-5350 Form
The bonds of the authority shall be authorized by its resolution and shall be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date ...

15.2-5351 Sale
The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices as the authority determines. (Code 1950, § 32-266; 1973, c. ...

15.2-5352 Interim certificates
Pending the authorization, preparation, execution or delivery of definitive bonds, the authority may issue interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, to the purchaser of such ...

15.2-5353 Signature of former officers
If any of the officers whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons cease to be such officers before the delivery of the bonds, their ...

15.2-5354 Purchase by authority
The authority shall have the power out of any funds available therefor to purchase any bonds issued by it. Bonds payable exclusively from the revenues ...

15.2-5355 Negotiability
Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds, interim certificates, or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable. ...

15.2-5356 Provisions of bonds and trust indentures
In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of any obligations and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, ...

15.2-5357 Further provisions as to trust indenture or bond resolution; security required of depository of pro...
In the discretion of the authority, any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by and between ...

15.2-5358 Fees, rents and charges for use of project and facilities; sinking fund
The authority is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect fees, rents and other charges for the use of any project and the facilities ...

15.2-5359 Moneys received deemed trust funds
All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to ...

15.2-5360 Protection and enforcement of rights and duties under chapter
Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust ...

15.2-5361 Exemption from taxation
The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth and for ...

15.2-5362 Bonds legal investments; deposit with public agencies
Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the ...

15.2-5363 Chapter supplemental; application of other laws; consent of local governing bodies or other agencie...
The foregoing sections of this chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby and shall ...

15.2-5364 Severability; liberal construction
The provisions of this chapter are severable, and if any of its provisions shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, ...

15.2-5365 Proceedings for dissolution
Whenever it appears to the commissioners of an authority that the need, as provided in § 15.2-5305, for such authority in the city in which ...

15.2-5366 When powers and duties cease to exist
If the court enters an order, as provided in § 15.2-5365, that the need for such authority no longer exists, except for completing its affairs ...

15.2-5367 Appeal
An appeal may be granted by the Supreme Court of Virginia, or any judge thereof, to either the authority or the city from the judgment ...