Title 15.2, Title 15.2. Counties, Cities and Towns

The determination as to whether there is a need for an authority to function may be made by the governing body on its own motion or upon the filing of a petition, signed by 100 registered voters of the city, asserting that there is need for an authority to function in the city an…

The council may adopt a resolution declaring that there is need for a hospital authority in the city if it finds (i) that there are inadequate hospital facilities and medical accommodations from the operations of private enterprises in the city and the surrounding area, or (ii) t…

In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of the authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers hereunder upon proof of the a…

An authority shall consist of not more than 15 commissioners appointed by the mayor, and he shall designate the first chairman. No more than three commissioners shall be practicing physicians. No officer or employee of the city, with the exception of the director of a local healt…

When the office of the first chairman of the authority becomes vacant, the authority shall select a chairman from among its commissioners. An authority shall select from among its members a vice-chairman, and it may employ a secretary, technical experts, and such other officers, …

If the authority and the trustees, directors or managers of any nonprofit or charitable hospital in a city should agree upon and consummate a transaction whereby the nonprofit or charitable hospital should thereafter be included within the hospital project or projects of the auth…

The authority and its commissioners shall be under a statutory duty to comply or to cause compliance strictly with all provisions of this chapter and the laws of the Commonwealth and, in addition thereto, with each and every term, provision and covenant in any contract of the aut…

The mayor may remove a commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but only after the commissioner has been given a copy of the charges against him, which may be made by the mayor, at least ten days prior to the hearing thereon and has had an opportu…

Any obligee of the authority may file with the mayor written charges that the authority is willfully violating any law of the Commonwealth or any term, provision or covenant in any contract to which the authority is a party. The mayor shall give each of the commissioners a copy o…

If, after due and diligent search, a commissioner to whom charges are required to be delivered hereunder cannot be found within the city where the authority is located, such charges shall be deemed served upon the commissioner if mailed to him at his last known address as it appe…

A commissioner shall be deemed to have acquiesced in a willful violation by the authority of a law of this Commonwealth or of any term, provision or covenant contained in a contract to which the authority is a party if, before a hearing is held on charges against him, he has not …

In the event of the removal of any commissioner, the mayor shall file in the office of the city clerk a record of the proceedings together with the charges made against the commissioner and the findings thereon.

Any commissioner thus removed may, within ten days after the mayor's action, appeal to the circuit court of the city, and the decision of such court shall be final.

All hospital projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning and zoning laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the hospital project is situated.

The authority shall at least once a year file with the mayor of the city an audit report by a certified public accountant of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make any recommendations with reference to any additional legislation or other action that may be necessar…

The governing body of any city in which the authority is located may make appropriations for the improvement, maintenance or operation of any public hospital or hospital project constructed, maintained, or operated by or to be constructed, maintained or operated by an authority.

In order to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair or management of any hospital or hospital project or in order to accomplish any of the purposes of this chapter, any city may, with or without consideration or for a nominal consideration, lease, sell, …

Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any city from establishing, equipping, and operating a hospital or hospitals or improving or…

An authority shall constitute a body politic and corporate with perpetual succession, exercising public powers, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter. It may sue and be sued and have a seal with p…

An authority shall have power to investigate hospital, medical and health conditions and the means and methods of improving such conditions; to determine where inadequate hospital and medical facilities exist; to study and make recommendations concerning the plan of any city in r…

An authority shall have power to prepare, carry out and operate hospital projects and to establish facilities to provide goods and services relating to health care. The powers granted to an authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be exercised in cities or countie…

An authority shall have power to provide and operate outpatient departments, maternity clinics and any other clinics customarily operated in hospitals in metropolitan centers and to provide teaching and instruction programs and schools for medical students, interns, physicians an…

An authority shall have power to provide and maintain continuous resident physician and intern medical services; to appoint an administrator or superintendent and necessary assistants, and any and all other employees deemed necessary or advisable and fix their compensation; and t…

An authority shall have all powers granted to corporations under the provisions of § 13.1-826, including, without limitation, the power to own or control stock and nonstock subsidiaries.

An authority shall have power to adopt bylaws for the conduct of its business and to adopt necessary rules and regulations for the government of the authority and its employees.

An authority shall have power to appoint such committees or subcommittees as it deems advisable and fix their duties and responsibilities.

An authority shall have power to do all things necessary in connection with the construction, improvement, alteration, repair, reconstruction, management, supervision, control and operation of its business, including but not limited to the hospitals and all departments thereof.

An authority shall have power to accept donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of the authority and take title thereto from any person desiring to make such donations.

An authority shall have power to determine and regulate the conditions under which the privilege of practicing within any hospital operated by the authority may be available to physicians, to promulgate reasonable rules governing the conduct of physicians and nurses while on duty…

An authority shall have power to make rules governing the admission of patients to, and the care, conduct, and treatment of patients in, any hospital operated by the authority; to determine whether patients presented to the hospital for treatment are subjects for charity, to fix …

An authority shall have power to take over by purchase, lease or otherwise any hospital project located within its boundaries undertaken by any government or by any city.

An authority shall have power to act as agent for the federal government in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation and management of a hospital project or any part thereof.

An authority shall have power: 1. To arrange with any city or with a government for the (i) furnishing, planning, replanning, installing, opening or closing of streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places or facilities, (ii) acquisition by such city or government …

An authority shall have power to purchase, lease, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise any property real or personal or any interest therein from any person, locality or government. An authority shall have power to sell, exchange, transfer, o…

An authority shall have power to own, hold, clear and improve property and to insure or provide for the insurance of the property or operations of the authority against such risks as the authority may deem advisable.

An authority shall have power to borrow money upon its bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the same by pledges of its revenues in the manner and to the extent hereinafter provided and, in connection with any loan by a government, to agree to…

An authority shall have power to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority.

An authority shall have the power to: 1. Assist in or provide for the creation of domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations or other entities an…

An authority shall have the power to procure such insurance, participate in such insurance plans or provide such self-insurance, or any combination thereof, as it deems necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter. The purchase of insurance, pa…

An authority shall have power to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority.

An authority shall have power, in addition to all of the other powers herein conferred upon it, to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the powers expressly given in this chapter.

The authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property de…

The authority is empowered to borrow money and accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any hospital project which such authority is authorized by this chapter to undertake, to take over any land acquired by the federal government for the con…

The authority may by resolution provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured: 1. By obligations of the United States or of the Commonwealth of a market value equal at all times to the amount of such deposits; 2. By any securities in which trustees, guardians, executor…

The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time in its discretion to issue bonds for any of its purposes, including the payment of all or any part of the cost of any hospital project and the refunding of any bonds previously issued by it. Bonds may be is…

The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable from such sources as the authority may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) (i) its revenues generally, (ii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of a particular hospital project, o…