The board is a body corporate under the name of the board of trustees of the miners' hospital of New Mexico and has the power to sue and be sued, contract, acquire land by purchase or donation and to do all other things necessary to carry out its duties. The board shall supervise and control all functions of the operation and management of the miners' hospital of New Mexico.
History: 1953 Comp., § 13-6-3, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 19, § 2.
Restrictions on the appropriation of the miner's hospital trust fund revenues contained in the 1988 appropriations bill were consistent with the rule that legislative conditions on appropriations be limited to the fiscal period covered by the bill and did not conflict with this section. 1989 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 89-30.
Miners' hospital board has power to remove or discharge any employee, but it must exercise this power in accordance with the rules promulgated by the personnel board. 1964 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 64-130.
Removal of physician. — The miners' hospital board may dismiss a physician in its employment for not abiding by the rules and regulations of the hospital board, but the physician has the right to appeal the dismissal to the personnel board. 1964 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 64-130.
Authority to rent, lease or sell facilities and equipment. — The renting or leasing of facilities and equipment would not be outside the authority granted. And further, a sale of laboratory and X-ray equipment owned by the state may be made by the chairman of the board in accordance with the provisions of 13-6-2 NMSA 1978. 1957 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 57-209.
Expansion of facilities. — The board of trustees for miners' hospital can commit the miners' trust and the state of New Mexico to acquire northern Colfax county hospital and agree to operate a general hospital to provide at least the health care services of the scope and quality appropriate to the needs of the population of Colfax county. The board does not violate the terms of the trust by placing $1 million in escrow for 75 years for the purchase of the facility that, under one method of valuation, had no significant value at the date of acquisition. 1988 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 88-21.