Sec. 27.5. (a) This section applies in a county when: (1) the board has authorized the hospital to enter into a lease or sublease contract or a loan agreement with the state authority under this chapter; and (2) the lease or sublease contract or the loan agreement provides that a portion of the lease or loan payment is to be paid from taxes. (b) The county council or the city-county council in the case of a county with a consolidated city shall annually levy a tax that is sufficient to produce each year along with other available funds an amount that is sufficient to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is required to be paid from taxes. (c) The board shall transfer the following to a fund to be used to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is not required to be paid from taxes: (1) Any net revenue of the hospital that is required to be used for the lease or loan payment. (2) Any net revenue of the hospital that is required to be retained as a reserve for a purpose that the board determines if the board determines that the money is not needed in reserve for additional construction, equipment, betterment, maintenance, or operation. (d) In fixing and determining the levy that is necessary for the lease or loan payment that is payable from taxes, the county council shall consider the amounts that have been transferred from the net revenues of the hospital under subsection (c). (e) If funds other than taxes are not available to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is required to come from taxes, a county is not relieved from the county's obligation to pay from taxes any lease or loan payment that is payable from taxes. (f) The tax levy provided in this section is reviewable in the manner that other tax levies are reviewable to ascertain that the levy is sufficient to produce the amount of the lease or loan payment that is required to be paid from taxes. (g) One-half (1/2) of the annual lease or loan payment shall be paid semiannually to the state authority after the semiannual settlement of tax collections. As added by P.L.43-1993, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.56-1995, SEC.8.
IC 16-22-3-28 Other powers of board Sec. 28. (a) The governing board may enter into agreements with credit card companies or organizations authorized to do business in Indiana and may accept credit card payments from patients for services provided. (b) The board may, in the establishment and maintenance of hospital records, use automated data processing systems and purchase, lease, operate, or contract for the use of automated data processing equipment subject to section 6 of this chapter and section 22 of this chapter. (c) In addition to IC 5-14-1.5-6.1(b), a hospital organized or operated under this article may hold executive sessions to do any of the following: (1) Discuss and prepare bids, proposals, or arrangements that will be competitively awarded among health care providers. (2) Discuss recruitment of health care providers. (3) Discuss and prepare competitive marketing strategies. (4) Engage in strategic planning. (5) Participate in a motivational retreat with staff or personnel, if the hospital does not conduct any official action (as defined in IC 5-14-1.5-2(d)). (d) IC 5-14-1.5-5, IC 5-14-1.5-6.1, and IC 5-14-1.5-7 apply to executive sessions held under subsection (c). (e) A hospital organized or operated under this article may hold confidential, until the information contained in the records is announced to the public, records of a proprietary nature that if revealed would place the hospital at a competitive disadvantage, such as the following: (1) Terms and conditions of preferred provider arrangements. (2) Health care provider recruitment plans. (3) Competitive marketing strategies regarding new services and locations. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-24 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.35-1997, SEC.10; P.L.91-2002, SEC.10 and P.L.100-2002, SEC.11.