Title XII — PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

206.010. District created, how — territory included — name — powers. — 1. A hospital district may be created, incorporated and managed as provided in this chapter and may exercise the powers herein granted or necessarily implied. A hospital district may include municipalities or …

206.020. Petition of voters for district, where filed, contents. — Whenever the creation of a hospital district is desired, a number of voters residing in the proposed district equal to ten percent of the vote cast in the proposed district in the next preceding general election m…

206.030. Notice of hearing on petition — costs of notice. — 1. Upon the filing of the petition with the county clerk, he shall present it to the commissioners of the county commission who shall thereupon set the petition for hearing within not less than thirty nor more than forty…

206.040. Procedure where several petitions filed — amendments. — If two or more petitions covering in part the same territory are filed prior to the public hearing upon the petition which is first filed, the petitions shall be consolidated for public hearing, and hearing thereon …

206.050. If petition sufficient county commission to order election. — If the territory, petition and proceedings meet the requirements of this chapter, the commissioners of the county commission shall in and by the order finding and determining the sufficiency of the petition an…

206.060. Notice of election — tax levy, maximum tax rate — publication of board's plans required, when. — 1. Each notice shall state briefly the purpose of the election, setting forth the question to be voted upon, form of ballot to be used and a description of the territory. The…

206.070. Form of ballot. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall there be organized in the counties of ______, state of Missouri, a hospital district for the establishment and operation of a hospital to be located at* ______ in ______ County, …

206.080. Results of election to be entered in county records. — The county commissioners shall cause the order determining and declaring results of the election to be entered upon the records of the commission and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the county clerk of e…

206.090. Election districts — election of directors — terms, qualifications, vacancies, declaration of candidacy — no election, when — abolishing election districts, procedure — election of directors at large. — 1. After the hospital district has been declared organized, the decl…

206.100. Powers of board of directors — first meeting — officers — bylaws — time for meetings. — 1. The board of directors of a district shall possess and exercise all of its legislative and executive powers. Within thirty days after the election of the initial directors, the boa…

206.105. 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…

206.110. Powers of hospital district. — 1. A hospital district, both within and outside such district, except in counties of the third or fourth classification (other than within the district boundaries) where there already exists a hospital organized pursuant to chapters 96, 205…

206.120. Indebtedness for hospital — election — form of ballot — defeat of proposal, effect — limits — annual tax. — 1. For the purpose of purchasing hospital sites, erecting hospitals and related facilities and furnishing the same, building additions to and repairing old buildin…

206.122. Revenue bonds authorized, when. — As an alternative to the authorization for an indebtedness provided by section 206.120, for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, erection, equipment and furnishing of hospitals and related facilities, includi…

206.124. Revenue bonds not an indebtedness of the issuing authority. — Any bonds issued under and pursuant to sections 206.122 to 206.128 shall not be deemed to be an indebtedness of the state of Missouri, or of any city or of the board of directors, or of the individual members …

206.126. Revenue bonds, form of, interest rate — to be negotiable instruments. — 1. Revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of section 206.122 shall be of such denomination, shall bear such rate of interest not to exceed the highest rate permitted by law, and shall mature…

206.128. Board of directors to prescribe form, make necessary covenants, restrictions — bondholders, remedies of — revenue bonds not to be exclusive method of financing. — 1. The board of directors, issuing bonds under the provisions of section 206.122, shall prescribe the form, …

206.130. Annexation of territory to district — election — form of ballot. — 1. A petition for annexation of land to a hospital district shall be signed by not less than ten percent or fifty voters, whichever is fewer, residing within the territory therein described proposed for a…

206.140. Records of district — officers and employees to give bond. — 1. The board shall provide for the proper and safekeeping of its permanent records and for the recording of the corporate action of the district. It shall keep a true and accurate account of its receipts and an…

206.150. Board as trustee may accept and hold property donated — duties. — Any person desiring to donate property for the benefit of a hospital, constructed or to be constructed under this chapter, may vest title to the property so donated in the board of directors created under …

206.157. Excess property, sale of authorized — procedure — proceeds, how used. — 1. A hospital district may sell and convey property of the district, both real and personal, in the manner provided in subsection 2 of this section for real property and in the manner provided in sub…

206.160. Citation of law. — The chapter shall be known and may be referred to as "The Hospital District Law". ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 524 § 1)