12-1615. Donations of property for hospital purposes; board of trustees, membership, terms of office, vacancies; administrator contracts; pension and deferred compensation plans for employees; contracts insuring employees and dependents; expenditure of funds for recruitment or retention of professional staff. (a) As used in this section, the term "hospital" means a medical care facility as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto, and includes within its meaning any clinic, school of nursing, long-term care facility and child-care facility operated in connection with the operation of the medical care facility.
(b) Any person desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate, or to bequeath or devise any such property, for the purpose of founding, establishing, building, furnishing or maintaining a hospital shall have the right to vest the title to the money or property so donated, bequeathed or devised in the board of directors or trustees of any city hospital that may be provided for by law or to vest such title in any city of this state, and when such gift, bequest or devise shall be to any city, if there is no public hospital belonging to or under the control of the city, then the mayor of the city with the consent of the council, or the commissioners of any city under commission government, shall immediately name a five member board of trustees for the hospital, and upon qualification of the trustees, the title shall vest in the trustees, and in any such case, the title shall thereafter be held and controlled by the board according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property; and as to such property, the board shall be held and considered to be special trustee. At any time subsequent to the initial appointment of a five member board of trustees, the governing body by resolution may increase the number of trustees to serve on the board to seven or nine members. In the event the governing body does not increase by resolution the number of members to serve on the board of trustees, the board of trustees shall consist of five members.
(c) The members of the first board shall hold office for one, two, three, four and five years respectively. Each year the term of one member shall expire and a successor shall be appointed for a term of five years. In case of a vacancy occurring other than by expiration of term of office a successor shall be appointed for the unexpired term. All appointments shall be made in the same manner as original appointments.
(d) Whenever the number of members of an existing board of trustees is increased by resolution of the governing body of the city, the governing body shall provide by resolution for the expiration of the terms of the members appointed to the new positions on the board of trustees to coincide with the expiration of the terms of the members serving on the board of trustees at the time of the creation of the new positions so that no more than a simple majority of the members of the board of trustees is appointed at the same time. Upon the expiration of the terms of those originally appointed pursuant to this subsection, their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years.
(e) The board of hospital trustees shall be authorized to enter into an employment contract to engage the services of an administrator or chief executive officer to manage the affairs of the hospital and which establishes compensation for such services and the terms of engagement; to establish and fund pension and deferred compensation plans for hospital employees; and to procure contracts insuring hospital employees, their dependents, or any class or classes thereof under a policy or policies of life, disability income, health, accident, accidental death and dismemberment, and hospital, surgical and medical expense insurance. The employee's contribution, if any, to the plan and to the premium for such insurance may be deducted by the employer from the employee's salary when authorized in writing by the respective employee so to do. The board may also expend funds deemed necessary in the recruitment or retention of professional staff including, but not limited to, the purchase of professional liability insurance for such staff.
(f) The person making a deed or gift, or the testator, may provide for an advisor or advisory board not exceeding five persons in number to advise and aid in carrying out the wishes of the donor or testator, but such advisor or advisors shall have no vote on the board of trustees unless a legal member thereof.
History: L. 1913, ch. 203, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 12-1615; L. 1971, ch. 49, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 44, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 63, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 71, § 1; L. 1991, ch. 66, § 1; L. 2008, ch. 31, § 1; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities
Article 16 - Miscellaneous Provisions
12-1608 Quarterly report by treasurer.
12-1610a Kansas Government Journal subscriptions.
12-1610b Same; compilation of information.
12-1610c League of Kansas municipalities; annual dues, expenses of attending meetings.
12-1610e Same; membership in, when; instrumentality; powers; act supplemental.
12-1610f Same; city delegates; powers and duties.
12-1613 Property of dormant cities.
12-1614 Same; election of officers; delivery of property to mayor.
12-1616b Same; approval of plans by chief engineer before bonds issued.
12-1617 Farm and aquaculture products; peddler's license or permit; fee.
12-1617a Delegates to firemen's association and school.
12-1617c Dissolution of certain inoperative sewer districts located wholly within cities.
12-1617d Dissolution of certain inoperative cemetery districts located wholly within cities.
12-1617f Weeds, removal or destruction; assessment and collection of costs; notice; procedure.
12-1617g Ordinances on nuisances.
12-1634 Same; cities in counties over 90,000; regulation of speed; bond issue.
12-1651 Official newspaper in cities of second and third classes; qualifications.
12-1654 Oil and gas leases; moneys to general fund.
12-1655 Same; validation of prior leases.
12-1658 Historical collections; housing and display.
12-1659 Same; supervisor or curator; compensation.
12-1660 Same; historical society as supervisor or curator, when; compensation.
12-1661 Same; tax levy, use of proceeds.
12-1662 Federal aid to public agencies; definitions.
12-1665 Same; temporary notes; refunding notes; sale or exchange.
12-1667 Same; tax levies; outside aggregate limits.
12-1668 Same; act not exclusive.
12-1670 Same; approval or disapproval; resubmission, when.
12-1671 Certain investments; exception to cash-basis law.
12-1672 Certain investments; exception to budget law.
12-1674 Same; special services fund; use; no-fund warrants.
12-1676 Inapplicability of act to certain moneys; rates.
12-1676a Weekly advisory memorandum as to rates of interest to county treasurers.
12-1677a Municipal investment pool fund; investments; requirements; rules and regulations.
12-1677d Municipally established foundations; investment of funds.
12-1677f Investment of public funds by governmental entities; reinvestment of matured funds.
12-1680b Same; resolution; publication; petition.
12-1680c Same; special election upon protest.
12-1681 Community historical museums authorized; property and employees.
12-1683 Conduct of activities of museums; acceptance of gifts.
12-1684 Petition for establishment; election; tax levies.
12-1685 Same; filing of petition; joint meeting; notice of receipt and meeting.
12-1687 Membership of museum commissions; terms; officers; powers.
12-1688 Community historical museums; tax levies; increases, election.
12-1690 Same; supervisor and curator; appointment and compensation; duties.
12-1691 Same; acceptance of gifts and articles of historical value.
12-1692 Promotion of tourism and conventions; definitions.
12-1694b Same; interest and penalties for failure to pay or untimely payment of transient guest tax.
12-1695 Convention and tourism committee; appointment; terms; contracts for programs.
12-1696 Promotion of tourism and conventions; definitions.
12-1698a Same; interest and penalties for failure to pay or untimely payment of transient guest tax.
12-1699 Same; levy of tax prohibited, when.
12-16,100 Same; transient guest tax refund fund.
12-16,101 Convention and tourism committee; appointment; terms; contracts and programs.
12-16,103 Acquisition of fee title to realty; sale of realty; record.
12-16,104 Release of easement; notice; fee.
12-16,105 Use of property no longer needed for school building in McPherson, Kansas.
12-16,106 Human relations commission; enforcement and review of orders.
12-16,107 Same; enforcement of subpoenas.
12-16,108 State grants or loans to municipalities; definitions.
12-16,109 Same; authority to borrow money for temporary financing of service or improvement.
12-16,110 Same; general obligation of municipality; excluded from debt limit.
12-16,111 Same; not subject to budget limitations.
12-16,112 Same; amount of bonds, if issued.
12-16,113 Accounting required of expenditures of transient guest tax moneys.
12-16,114 Housing trust funds; purpose; funding of; administration.
12-16,115 Imitation firearms; civil penalty for sale, manufacture or distribution.
12-16,116 Transfer of title to public streets, avenues, alleys or lanes; cities in Crawford county.
12-16,118 Transfer of certain money and royalty interest to city of Oxford; procedure.
12-16,119 Booking or processing fee; disbursement; fee limitation.
12-16,121 Paving materials provided by cities and counties; limitations.
12-16,122 Paving materials; mining and manufacturing for use by cities and counties; limitations.
12-16,123 Cities and counties prohibited from requiring lists of tenants; exceptions.
12-16,124 Firearms and ammunition; regulation by city or county, limitations.
12-16,124a Same; limitation on liability of municipality.
12-16,124b Same; prohibiting use of tax proceeds for firearms buyback programs.
12-16,126 Kansas emergency communications preservation act.
12-16,128 Mayoral appointments; governing body approval; time limits; other requirements.
12-16,129 Accident response service fee prohibited.
12-16,132 Cities; certain ordinances void as against public policy.
12-16,134 Knives and knife making components; regulation by municipality, limitations.
12-16,136 Regulating consumer incentive items and nutrition labeling of food; definitions.