Similar language appears in the enabling statutes of each hospital district.
Acts 1963, 58th Leg. You suggest that ambulance service constitutes 'medical care' within the Constitution and enabling acts, so that the county may not levy taxes or issue obligations of indebtedness in order to provide it. That opinion concluded that the Terry County Hospital District, created under the authority of article IX, section 9, could operate an ambulance service in cooperation with Terry County and a city within the district. It found provision of an ambulance service to be an auxiliary function of a hospital district and determined that a district could undertake it, but did not have the exclusive duty to do so. The operation of an ambulance service by the hospital district did not preclude a similar undertaking by another political subdivision within the district or the cooperative effort inquired about.