The corporate authorities of any town or city and the county commission of any county may each establish, within the town or city or within the county, hospitals, temporary or permanent, for the reception of the sick or infirm or of persons suspected of having infectious or contagious diseases, and may make all needful rules and regulations for the control and management thereof and may confer by contract upon any institution for the instruction of students of medicine located in the city, town or county in which such hospital is situated, upon such terms and for such number of years as they may determine, the right to select the visiting staff of physicians to such hospital for the collegiate course of each year and to hold clinics on the patients therein and have its students attend such clinics. The corporate authorities and the county commission may unite in the establishment of such hospitals, if deemed expedient, making them common for the use of the town or city and of the county, and in the making of rules and regulations for the control and management thereof and shall jointly have the same powers and authority above conferred upon each.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 22-21-1 - Establishment of Hospitals by Local Authorities.
Section 22-21-2 - Appropriations for Indigent Persons in Hospitals.
Section 22-21-3 - Scholarships for Professional and Technical Personnel at Public Hospitals.
Section 22-21-4 - Annual Audit of Books and Records of Publicly Owned Medical Institutions.
Section 22-21-5 - Incorporation of Public Bodies Created Under Chapter; Powers of Same.
Section 22-21-8 - Confidentiality of Accreditation, Quality Assurance Credentialling Materials, Etc.
Section 22-21-9 - Name Tags, etc., Required for Nurses.
Section 22-21-11 - Mandatory Reporting of Any Injury Resulting From Gunshot; Liability.