Title XII — PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

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…

407.1025. Definitions. — 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, town or village in which…

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…

[Repealed or reserved.]

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…

205.374. County hospital property, sale of, procedure for, receipts, how used. — 1. Upon filing with the county clerk of a resolution adopted by the board of hospital trustees to sell the county hospital property, both real and personal, for reasons specified in the resolution, t…

205.375. Nursing homes, county or township may acquire and erect — issuance of bonds, exceptions — leasing of homes, to whom. — 1. For the purposes of this section "nursing home" means a residential care facility, an assisted living facility, an intermediate care facility, or a s…

205.376. Nursing homes, county-owned, conveyance to nursing home district — procedure, consideration. — 1. The county commission of any county having a nursing home erected under the provisions of section 205.375 may order the conveyance of the county nursing home and appurtenant…

205.377. Sale of nursing home, requirements. — 1. The county commission of any county having a nursing home erected under the provisions of section 205.375 may, upon a determination by the county commissioners that the sale of such nursing home is desirable, appoint an agent, by …

205.378. Inmates of public institutions to pay for care — exceptions — county may collect, how — first class counties. — Every inmate in a public institution in all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government, except those incarcerated in a jail, correctio…

205.379. Authority to employ counsel granted — counsel, how paid. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any of the sections of chapter 56, the board of trustees of a county hospital organized and existing pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.160 through 205.378, may employ…

205.460. Tax for hospital purposes — petition for election. — 1. When twenty-five percent of the voters in any township or townships in this state, forty percent of whom shall not live at the time they subscribe thereto within any town of said township or townships shall petition…

205.470. County commission to appoint board of trustees. — When any such township or townships shall decide to establish and maintain a hospital under the provisions of sections 205.460 to 205.570, the county commission of such county of which said township or townships is a part…

205.480. Vacancies, how filled. — If a vacancy occurs in the office of director by death, resignation, refusal to serve, repeated neglect of duty or removal from the district of such hospital, the remaining trustees shall, before transacting any official business, appoint some su…

205.490. Members shall elect officers, adopt bylaws — quorum. — The members of said board shall meet at some place to be agreed upon by the trustees appointed within ten days after their appointments have been made and organize by electing one of their members president, and one …