The county commissioners and the hospital governing board shall have full power and authority to accept federal funds for the erection or enlargement of county hospitals and the maintenance and operation thereof, and to contract as a condition to the acceptance of such funds for the perpetual care in such hospitals of Indian patients at a per diem cost to be set out in the contracts between the appropriate agency of the federal government and the hospital governing boards or county commissioners.
History: 1941 Comp., § 15-5011, enacted by Laws 1949, ch. 95, § 2; 1953 Comp., § 15-48-11; 1978 Comp., § 4-48-10, recompiled as § 4-48B-11 by Laws 1981, ch. 83, § 11.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Article 48B - Hospital Funding
Section 4-48B-1 - Short title.
Section 4-48B-2 - Purpose of act.
Section 4-48B-3 - Definitions.
Section 4-48B-4 - Annual report.
Section 4-48B-5 - Power of counties.
Section 4-48B-7 - Power to lease hospitals.
Section 4-48B-8 - Sick and indigent persons; agreements for care with state and county agencies.
Section 4-48B-11 - Federal aid.
Section 4-48B-12 - Tax levies authorized.
Section 4-48B-13 - County hospital; power to lease; expenditure of proceeds from tax levy.
Section 4-48B-14 - Payment of charges; persons committed by district court.
Section 4-48B-15 - Election on special levy.
Section 4-48B-16 - Validation of earlier elections.
Section 4-48B-18 - Hospital revenue bonds; authority to issue; pledge of revenues.
Section 4-48B-19 - Use of proceeds of bond issue.
Section 4-48B-20 - Revenue bonds; terms.
Section 4-48B-21 - Ordinance authorizing revenue bonds.
Section 4-48B-22 - Hospital revenue bonds not general county obligations.
Section 4-48B-23 - Revenue bonds; security; restrictions and limitations.
Section 4-48B-24 - Revenue bonds; exemption from taxation.
Section 4-48B-25 - Election not required.
Section 4-48B-26 - No notice or publication required.
Section 4-48B-27 - Hospitals declared necessary public buildings.