Title 331, HOSPITALS

Sec. 3. (1) The resolution creating a hospital authority shall designate the cities, villages, and townships to be included in the hospital authority and shall set forth the fact that a sum of money not to exceed the tax limitation provided in this act may be requested and certif…

Sec. 4. The legislative bodies of the cities, villages, and townships belonging to the hospital authority may annually raise by a tax, to be levied on the taxable property within their respective jurisdictions, a sum of money to be used to assist in planning, promoting, acquiring…

Sec. 5. (1) The hospital authority shall be directed and governed by a hospital board consisting of 1 member for the first 20,000 population and 1 for each additional 40,000, or fraction thereof, according to the latest or each succeeding federal decennial census for each city, v…

Sec. 6. (1) After organization, the hospital board, by resolution, shall establish the times for holding regular meetings of the board. Business which the hospital board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267,…

Sec. 7. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 6, by April 1 of each year, the hospital board shall cause a balanced budget to be prepared containing an itemized statement of the estimated current expenses and the expenses for capital outlay, including the amount necessary t…

Sec. 8. (1) The hospital authority board may issue self-liquidating bonds of the authority in accordance with the provisions of this act, for the purpose of acquiring, purchasing, constructing, improving, enlarging, or repairing community hospitals or refunding any outstanding bo…

Sec. 8a. (1) The hospital board operating a community hospital under this act may, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the entire governing board, borrow money and issue notes, which shall mature not more than 1 year from the date of their issuance, for the purpose of m…

Sec. 8b. If the authority desires to issue bonds for capital improvements in anticipation of the collection of any additional tax levy not exceeding 2 mills, voted by the electors as provided in section 4, the hospital board may provide for their issuance in accordance with secti…

Sec. 8c. Unless a referendum petition is filed as provided in this act, a hospital authority board by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of its members may authorize and issue bonds and provide for such matters necessary or desirable with respect thereto and …

Sec. 8d. (1) The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall state a brief description of the contemplated project, the estimated cost thereof, the estimated period of usefulness thereof, and the amount and maximum rate of interest and time of payment of the bonds. The bon…

Sec. 8e. (1) There shall be created in the authorizing resolution a lien, by this act made a statutory lien upon all net revenues, including as a part thereof, the assessments against a member city, township, or village as provided in this act pledged to the payment of the princi…

Sec. 8f. Except as provided herein, bonds may not be sold except at public sale, after notice by publication at least 14 days before the sale in a publication printed in the English language and circulated in this state which carries as part of its regular service notices of sale…

Sec. 8g. Such bonds shall have all the qualities of a negotiable instrument by the law merchant and the uniform commercial code.

Sec. 8h. (1) The hospital authority shall require the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued under this act to be deposited in an account separate from other moneys of the hospital authority in 1 or more banks or savings and loan associations each having unimpaired capital and surp…

Sec. 8i. Free service may not be furnished by a hospital, the revenues of which are pledged for the payment of bonds, to a person, firm, or corporation, public or private, or to a public agency or instrumentality. The reasonable cost and value of a service rendered to a public ag…

Sec. 8j. (1) A hospital authority issuing bonds pursuant to this act may provide in the authorizing resolution for issuance of additional bonds of equal standing: (a) For completion of the project for which the bonds were issued if the bonds first authorized are insufficient ther…

Sec. 8k. The resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall fix the dates of the beginning and ending of the operating year for the projects financed, subject to the right of the department of treasury to require that it corresponds with the fiscal year of the hospital author…

Sec. 8m. In the authorizing resolution the hospital authority board shall pledge the revenues of the hospital or hospitals for the purpose of the following funds and shall provide that the revenues as collected, except amounts assessed by a hospital authority against a member cit…

Sec. 8n. Moneys in the several funds established by the resolution authorizing the bonds shall be deposited with 1 or more banks designated by the hospital authority board. Moneys in the bond and interest redemption fund, including reserve moneys, shall be kept on deposit with th…

Sec. 8p. The hospital authority board may make provision in the authorizing resolution for the redemption prior to maturity of bonds authorized under the provisions of this act or any part thereof. Except in the case of refunding, bonds of an issue less than all the outstanding b…

Sec. 8r. A hospital authority issuing bonds under this act shall install, maintain, and keep proper books of record and accounts separate entirely from other records and accounts of the hospital authority, in which full and correct entries shall be made of the dealings or transac…

Sec. 8s. A hospital authority, heretofore organized and operating pursuant to this act, shall have all the authority and rights granted under this act or any amendments thereto, relative to the construction of community hospitals, operation of same, issuance of bonds therefor, an…

Sec. 8t. A hospital authority heretofore organized and operating pursuant to this act shall, prior to expending any authority funds for the expansion of facilities or bonding for the construction of new facilities and/or the purchase of additional existing facilities shall obtain…

Sec. 9. (1) For purposes of a hospital authority established under this act, the hospital board may purchase, lease, accept by gift or devise, or condemn private property. The hospital board may sell, exchange or otherwise transfer, lease, hold, manage, and control a property, as…