Title XII, PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

205.010. Petition of voters — maximum tax rate — submission of question. — Any county, subject to the provisions of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, may establish, maintain, manage and operate a public health center in the following manner: whenever the county commissio…

205.020. Form of ballot — vote necessary to adopt. — 1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall there be a maximum tax of ______ per hundred dollars assessed valuation for a county health center and the maintenance and operation of same? 2. If a…

205.031. Trustees, qualifications — appointment, election, terms — certain fourth class city, officers to be elected for four years (Raytown). — 1. The county governing body shall appoint five trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such off…

205.041. Trustees, election, ballot — vacancies, how filled. — 1. Each candidate for the office of health center trustee shall file with the county election authority an announcement of candidacy in writing. The announcement shall indicate whether the individual is a candidate fo…

205.042. Trustees — organization — powers and duties — expenses. — 1. The trustees, within ten days after their appointment or election, shall qualify by taking the oath of civil officers and organize as a board of health center trustees by the election of one of their number as …

205.050. Purpose of health center. — The public health center is established, maintained and operated for the improvement of health of all inhabitants of said county or counties. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 969 § 11)

205.060. Limitations on use of facilities. — The board of county health center trustees shall not enter into contracts for the private practice of medicine, nor shall any of its personnel practice medicine nor dispense drugs, vaccines or serums for personal gain, nor shall its fa…

205.070. Center may accept gifts. — Any person, firm, organization, society or corporation desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such health center, shall have the right to vest title of such property so donated, in the county or…

205.080. Building plans — bids. — All buildings that may be erected or constructed under sections 205.010 and 205.020 shall have the plans and specifications approved by the board of health center trustees and bids advertised for according to law for other county public buildings…

205.090. Report to county commission — estimated budget. — 1. On or before the seventh day of January in each year, the board of health center trustees shall file with the county commission a report of their proceedings with reference to the county health center and a sworn state…

205.100. Director of public health center — appointment. — The county commission or commissions shall annually at their February meeting, appoint the director of the public health center as county health officer and such county health officer shall exercise all of the rights and …

205.110. Qualifications of employees. — The qualifications of all persons employed in the operation of said health center shall be at least equal to the minimum standard of qualifications as set forward by the department of health or its successors for positions of like importanc…

205.115. Retirement and insurance plans to be provided for administrators and employees of county health center — costs, how paid — duties of board of trustees. — The board of trustees for the county health center may either through purchase of plans or through plans of self-insu…

205.120. No discrimination in healing methods. — Each school of healing licensed by the state of Missouri shall have equal rights in said health center. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 969 § 12)

205.141. Tax levy noncharter first class counties, exception. — The county commission in all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government, except first class noncharter counties containing any part of a city with a population of three hundred thousand or mo…

205.150. Determination of tax levy (first class counties). — The rate of tax levy provided for in section 205.141 and this section shall be determined and fixed at the same time the rate of tax is determined and fixed for county purposes. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. II p. 335 § 2, A.L…

205.160. Establishment and maintenance of hospitals — bonds. — The county commissions of the several counties of this state, both within and outside such counties, except in counties of the third or fourth classification (other than the county in which the hospital is located) wh…

205.161. County commission may issue revenue bonds — purpose — how payable. — 1. In addition to the bonds authorized by section 205.160, the county commission in any county exercising the rights conferred by sections 205.160 to 205.340 may issue and sell revenue bonds for the pur…

205.162. Bonds, rate, denomination, maturity — negotiable. — 1. Revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.161 to 205.169 shall be such denomination, shall bear such rate or rates of interest not to exceed the highest rate permitted by law, and shall mature a…

205.165. Investment of moneys in an investment company, when. — 1. The board of trustees of any hospital authorized under this subsection and organized under the provisions of sections 205.160 to 205.340 may invest its funds not required for immediate disbursement in obligations …

205.169. Bonds, form and covenants to be made by county commission — rights of holders — provisions not exclusive. — 1. The county commission issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 205.161 to 205.169 shall prescribe the form, details and incidents of the bonds, and the co…

205.170. Board of trustees — tenure — vacancies. — 1. The county commission shall appoint five trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such office, all residents of the county, not more than three of such trustees to be residents of the city…

205.180. Election of trustees, when required — ballot. — 1. Each candidate for the office of hospital trustee shall file with the county clerk an announcement of candidacy in writing. The announcement shall indicate whether the individual is a candidate for a full or an unexpired…

205.190. Organization of board of trustees — regulations — duties — operation or leasing of hospital, powers — day care centers for employees' children, may establish. — 1. The trustees shall, within ten days after their appointment or election, qualify by taking the oath of civi…

205.192. Retirement, health, life and employment insurance may be part of compensation, when. — The board of hospital trustees may also as part of their compensation either through purchase of plans or through plans of self-insurance provide for suitable retirement, health, life …

205.195. Bylaws of board of trustees, contents — applications to practice, contents. — 1. The board of hospital trustees shall include in its bylaws that every physician, a podiatrist and dentist requesting permission to practice in its hospital shall submit an application for st…

205.200. Funds from special tax levy or from operation of hospital may be used for hospital construction, maintenance and additions — publication of board's plans required, when. — 1. Except in counties operating under the charter form of government, the county commission in any …

205.202. Certain districts may impose sales tax instead of property tax — vote required — fund created, use of moneys — repeal of tax — dissolution of district, effect of (Ripley County). — 1. The governing body of any hospital district established under sections 205.160 to 205.3…

205.205. Hospital district sales tax authorized (Iron and Madison counties) — approval by voters — fund created, use of moneys — repeal of tax, procedure. — 1. The governing body of any hospital district established under sections 205.160 to 205.379 in any county of the third cla…

205.210. Hospital tax levy (first class charter counties). — The governing body in all counties of the first class having a charter form of government, in addition to the power to levy taxes for county purposes as otherwise provided by law, shall have the power to levy upon all r…

205.220. Determination of tax levy (first class counties). — The rate of tax levy provided for in sections 205.200 and 205.210 shall be determined and fixed at the same time the rate of tax is determined and fixed for county purposes. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 986 § 2, A.L. 1961 p. …

205.230. Appropriation of general fund, when. — In counties exercising the rights conferred by sections 205.160 to 205.340, the county commission may appropriate each year, in addition to tax for hospital fund herein provided for, not exceeding five percent of its general fund fo…

205.240. Property condemned, when. — If the board of hospital trustees and the owners of any property desired by them for hospital purposes cannot agree as to the price to be paid therefor, they shall report the facts to the county commission, and condemnation proceedings shall b…

205.250. Specifications — bids — notice. — No hospital buildings shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications have been made therefor and adopted by the board of hospital trustees, and bids advertised for according to law for other county public buildings. ­…

205.260. Jurisdiction of towns. — The jurisdiction of the city, town or village in or near which such public hospital is located shall extend over all lands used for hospital purposes outside the corporate limits if so located, and all ordinances of such cities and towns shall be…

205.270. Beneficiaries of hospital. — Every hospital established under sections 205.160 to 205.340 shall be for the benefit of the inhabitants of such county and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but every such inhabitant or person who is no…

205.280. Board to prescribe rules. — When such hospital is established the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of same, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there shall be subject to such…

205.290. Title to donations. — Any person or persons, firm, organization, corporation or society desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such hospital, shall have the right to vest title of the money or real estate so donated in sa…

205.300. Equal privileges to practitioners — rights of patient. — 1. In the management of such public hospital no discrimination shall be made against practitioners of any school of medicine recognized by the laws of Missouri, and all such legal practitioners shall have equal pri…

205.310. Training school for nurses. — The board of trustees of such county public hospital may establish and maintain in connection therewith and as a part of said public hospital a training school for nurses. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15206) Prior revisions: 1929 § 13989; 1919 § …

205.320. Board to provide detention room. — The board of trustees shall provide a suitable room for the detention and examination of all persons who are brought before the probate division of the circuit court of such county for incapacity or disability proceedings, if such hospi…

205.330. Board to determine charity patients. — The board of hospital trustees shall have power to determine whether or not patients presented at said public hospital for treatment are subjects for charity, and shall fix such price for compensation for patients, other than those …

205.340. Tuberculous residents, how cared for. — The county commission of any county, where no suitable provision has been made for the care of its indigent tuberculous residents, may contract with the board of hospital trustees of any public hospital for the care of such persons…

205.350. County commission may purchase land for county hospitals — issuance of bonds. — The county commission of any county in this state is hereby authorized to purchase, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of land, and locate, build and maintain thereon a county hospital…

205.354. Sale of county hospitals, certain second class counties — election procedure — ballot form (Boone County). — 1. The county commission of any second class county having a population of at least one hundred thousand and which operates a county hospital may call a nonbindin…

205.360. County poor to be kept in county hospital. — Whenever a county hospital is established and built by the county commission, as provided in section 205.350, it shall be the duty of such county commission to place therein all of the poor persons that the county commission s…

205.370. County commission to make rules and regulations — expenses, how paid. — The county commission of any such county shall make all rules and regulations for the government of such a hospital, appoint and employ such officers and attendants as in their judgment may be proper…

205.371. Revenue bonds authorized, when — not an indebtedness of the issuing authority. — 1. In addition to the bonds authorized by section 205.375, the county commission in any county, or the township board of any township, exercising the rights conferred by section 205.375, may…

205.372. Revenue bonds, form of, interest rate, maximum maturity date — to be negotiable instruments. — 1. Revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.371 to 205.373 shall be of such denomination, shall bear such rate or rates of interest not to exceed the hig…

205.373. County commission or board to prescribe form, make necessary covenants, restrictions — bondholders, remedies of — revenue bonds not to be exclusive method of financing. — 1. The county commission or township board issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 205.371 to…