Any county hospital operated and maintained pursuant to a lease as authorized by the Hospital Funding Act which has mill levies levied and collected for its maintenance and operation pursuant to that act may expend those funds for the operation and maintenance of the hospital and the use of the funds is declared to be an incidental benefit to the lessee which is far outweighed by the greater benefits to the public as a whole. The operation and maintenance of a county hospital under lease to the extent of and the use of the funds levied pursuant to that act is deemed to be funding to the hospital as a public institution, and the hospital facility and lessee thereof are subject to the laws of this state regarding the expenditures of public money and the auditing requirements of same and to the provisions of any rules or regulations as are required.
History: 1978 Comp., § 4-48-11.1, enacted by Laws 1980, ch. 46, § 3; recompiled as § 4-48B-13 by Laws 1981, ch. 83, § 13.
Structure 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.