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KS Stat § 14-602 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-602 Hospital site and building; tax levy, use of proceeds; petition and election.

14-602. Hospital site and building; tax levy, use of proceeds; petition and election. The governing body of any city of the second class may levy a tax on each dollar of assessed valuation of all property in the city, for the purpose of acquiring a site and building a hospital in the city and paying a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by such city under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto. Before such tax is levied, a petition fixing the amount of the levy, the cost of the site, and the cost of the building, signed by not less than 40% of the electors of such city, as shown by the official vote cast at the last preceding general election in the city, shall be presented to such governing body, asking that such a tax be levied for such purpose. Upon receipt and approval of the petition by the governing body thereof, the governing body shall pass a resolution approving such petition, declaring such hospital to be a public benefit and ordering that the levy of the tax be made.The resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official newspaper published in the city. If a petition signed by at least 40% of the electors of the city and protesting the acquisition of the site, the building of the hospital and the levying of the tax is presented to the governing body within 60 days from the date of the passage of the resolution, the governing body shall submit the proposition to make such levy, stating the amount of such levy, to a vote of the qualified electors of the city at an election called for that purpose. The election shall be held at a date not more than 90 days from the date of the filing of the protest petition. If a majority of the qualified voters of the city voting at such election vote in favor of the levying of the tax, the governing body shall at once proceed to make the levy.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-602; L. 1975, ch. 494, § 24; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 70; L. 1981, ch. 173, § 46; July 1.
KS Stat § 14-604 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-604 Board of trustees; membership; term; election.

14-604. Board of trustees; membership; term; election. A hospital having been established, the governing body shall proceed at once to appoint three trustees, chosen from the citizens of the city with reference to their fitness for such office, who shall constitute a board of trustees for said hospital. The said trustees shall hold their offices until the next following city election, when three trustees shall be elected and hold their offices, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years. At each subsequent city election, the trustee whose term is about to expire shall be filled by the nomination and election of hospital trustee in the same manner as other officers are elected, none of whom shall be physicians. In any city in which a regular city election as provided by law may be held only once every two years, then there shall be elected one trustee for a two-year term of office and one trustee for a four-year term of office or until their successors shall have been respectively elected and qualified, and the person receiving the greater number of votes shall be deemed elected to the four-year term of office. Any trustee now holding office whose term will expire in an even-numbered year shall hold over and continue in office until a successor shall be duly elected and qualified as provided herein.Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions to the contrary, from and after the effective date of this act the governing body by resolution may increase the number of trustees to serve on the board to five (5) or seven (7) members. In the event the governing body does not increase by resolution the number of members to serve on the board of trustees, said board of trustees shall consist of three (3) members. Whenever the number of members of an existing board of trustees is increased by resolution of the governing body, said governing body shall provide by resolution for the initial appointment or election of the new members. The governing body shall also provide by resolution for the expiration of the terms of the members initially appointed or elected to new positions on the board of trustees.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-604; L. 1949, ch. 167, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 63, § 3; July 1.
KS Stat § 14-606 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-606 Same; vacancies.

14-606. Same; vacancies. Vacancies in the board of trustees, occasioned by removals, resignations or otherwise, shall be reported to the governing body, and be filled in like manner as original appointments, appointees to hold office until the next following city election, when such vacancies shall be filled by election in the usual manner.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 5; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-606.
KS Stat § 14-607 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-607 Same; eminent domain.

14-607. Same; eminent domain. If the board of hospital trustees and the owner of any property desired by them for hospital purposes cannot agree as to the price to be paid therefor, they shall report the facts to the governing body, and condemnation proceedings shall be instituted by the governing body, and prosecuted in the name of the city by the city attorney under the provisions of the law in similar cases.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 6; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-607.
KS Stat § 14-608 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-608 Same; plans.

14-608. Same; plans. No hospital buildings shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications have been made therefor and adopted by the board of hospital trustees, and bids advertised for according to law for other public buildings.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 7; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-608.
KS Stat § 14-609 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-609 Same; use of hospital; fees; regulations.

14-609. Same; use of hospital; fees; regulations. Every hospital established under this act shall be for the benefit of all the inhabitants of said city, and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but every such inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to the board of hospital trustees, or such officer as it shall designate for such city hospital, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine or attendants, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said board, such hospital always being subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said board shall adopt in order to render the use of such hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number. And said board may exclude from the use of such hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate such rules and regulations; and said board may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of such city upon such terms and conditions as said board may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 8; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-609.
KS Stat § 14-610 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-610 Same; rules and regulations.

14-610. Same; rules and regulations. When such hospital is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within said hospital, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 9; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-610.
KS Stat § 14-611 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-611 Same; donations.

14-611. Same; donations. Any person or persons, firm, organization, corporation or society, desiring to make a donation of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such hospital, shall have the right to vest title of the money or real estate so donated in said city, to be controlled when accepted by the board of hospital trustees according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 10; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-611.
KS Stat § 14-612 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-612 Same; physicians; rights of patients.

14-612. Same; physicians; rights of patients. In the management of such hospital no discrimination shall be made against practitioners of any school of medicine or healing recognized by the laws of Kansas, and all such legal practitioners shall have equal privileges in treating patients in said hospital. The patient shall have the absolute right to employ, at his or her own expense, his or her own physician, and when acting for any patient in such hospital the physician employed by such patient shall have exclusive charge of the care and treatment of such patient, and nurses therein shall, as to such patient, be subject to the directions of such physician, subject always to such general rules and regulations as shall be established by the board of trustees under the provisions of this act.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 11; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-612.
KS Stat § 14-613 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-613 Same; training school for nurses.

14-613. Same; training school for nurses. The board of trustees of such city hospital may establish and maintain in connection therewith, and as a part of said city hospital, a training school for nurses.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 12; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-613.
KS Stat § 14-614 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-614 Same; fees; account of receipts.

14-614. Same; fees; account of receipts. The board of hospital trustees shall have power to determine whether or not patients presented at said city hospital for treatment are subjects of charity, and shall fix such prices for compensation for patients, other than those who may be able to assist themselves, as the said board deems proper, the receipts therefor to be paid to the treasurer of said board and credited by the treasurer to the hospital funds.History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 13; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-614.
KS Stat § 14-618 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-618 Government of hospital.

14-618. Government of hospital. The government of any such hospital shall be as provided in chapter 104 of the Session Laws of the state of Kansas of 1917.History: L. 1923, ch. 96, § 3; March 23; R.S. 1923, § 14-618.
KS Stat § 14-633 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-633 Bonds for acquiring site, building and equipment in certain cities between 5,000 and 8,000; limitation; election.

14-633. Bonds for acquiring site, building and equipment in certain cities between 5,000 and 8,000; limitation; election. The governing body of any city of the second class having a population of not less than five thousand nor more than eight thousand and located in a county having a population of not less than eleven thousand nor more than fourteen thousand is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of said city in an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of acquiring a site, building and equipping a hospital: Provided, That before any such bonds shall be issued the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to a vote of the people at a regular city primary or city election or at a special election called for the purpose of submitting said question, and no bonds shall be issued until a majority of the qualified electors who shall vote on the question at such election shall declare by their votes in favor of issuing said bonds. All bonds authorized by this act shall be issued, sold, delivered and retired under the provisions of article 1, chapter 10, of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1941, ch. 157, § 1; February 19.
KS Stat § 14-634 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-634 Same; lease of hospital.

14-634. Same; lease of hospital. Upon the establishment and building of a hospital in said city of the second class, the governing body of said city shall have the power by resolution to rent, lease or let said hospital unto any person, persons, corporation or society upon such terms and conditions as the governing body of said city may deem to the best interests of said city; and upon the expiration of the lease so made, the governing body of said city at the time of the expiration of such lease shall have the power to make and execute a new lease to any person, persons, corporation or society upon such terms and conditions as said governing body may deem to the best interests of said city.History: L. 1941, ch. 157, § 2; February 19.
KS Stat § 14-635 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-635 Same; federal aid.

14-635. Same; federal aid. The governing bodies of such cities of the second class are hereby authorized and empowered to accept and secure any benefits of federal aid in the construction of any such hospital.History: L. 1941, ch. 157, § 3; February 19.
KS Stat § 14-640d (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-640d Hospital maintenance and improvements; tax levy, use of proceeds.

14-640d. Hospital maintenance and improvements; tax levy, use of proceeds. Whenever any city of the second class shall have heretofore established a hospital in such city and issued bonds pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 14-636 and 14-637, the governing body of such city may levy annually a tax for the purpose of equipping, maintaining and improving such hospital on all taxable tangible property within the limits of said city and to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by such city under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1963, ch. 115, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 81, § 4; L. 1975, ch. 494, § 25; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 71; July 1.
KS Stat § 14-641 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-641 Bonds for acquiring site, building and equipment of hospital and training school for nurses in certain cities of 12,000 or over; limitation; election; war memorial; federal and state aid.

14-641. Bonds for acquiring site, building and equipment of hospital and training school for nurses in certain cities of 12,000 or over; limitation; election; war memorial; federal and state aid. The governing body of any city of the second class having a population of not less than twelve thousand and having an assessed valuation exceeding nine million dollars is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of such city in an amount not exceeding three hundred fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of acquiring a site, building and equipping a hospital and training school for nurses. Before any of such bonds shall be issued, the question of issuing same shall be submitted to the vote of the people at the next city election or at an election called for that purpose, and no bonds shall be issued until a majority of the qualified electors who shall vote on the question at such an election shall have declared by their votes in favor of issuing said bonds.Such proposal to vote bonds may be submitted to the electors of such city as a proposal to make such hospital a war memorial municipal hospital to the inhabitants of such city who have served in the armed forces of the United States, and may be named on the ballots as such, and the cost thereof may include funds for the purpose of acquiring, erecting and the placing of plaques or tablets setting out the names of those citizens who gave their lives in the service of their country. All bonds authorized by this act shall be issued, sold, delivered and retired under the provisions of article one of chapter 10 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and amendments thereto, and none of the debt limitations provided by law shall apply to bonds issued under this act. Such city is hereby authorized and empowered to receive and use the benefits of any federal or state aid, or both, in the construction of such hospital and training school, or the acquiring of a site, which aid may be in addition to the proposed bond issue.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 1; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-645 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-645 Same; eminent domain.

14-645. Same; eminent domain. If the governing body of said city and the owner of any property desired by them for hospital and training school purposes cannot agree as to the price to be paid therefor, said governing body is authorized and empowered to institute and prosecute to completion condemnation proceedings in the name of the city by the city attorney under the provisions of the law in similar cases.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 5; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 4; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-646 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-646 Same; plans and specifications; bids.

14-646. Same; plans and specifications; bids. No hospital or training school buildings shall be erected or constructed until the plans and specifications have been made therefor and adopted by the governing body of the city, and bids advertised for according to law for other public buildings.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 6; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 5; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-647 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-647 Same; use of hospital; fees; rules and regulations.

14-647. Same; use of hospital; fees; rules and regulations. Every hospital established under this act shall be for the benefit of all the inhabitants of said city, and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but every such inhabitant or person shall pay to the governing body of the city, or such officer as it shall designate for such city hospital, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine or attendants, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said governing body, such hospital always being subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said governing body shall adopt in order to render the use of such hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number. Said governing body may waive the payment to such governing body of compensation from any person who by reason of misfortune is unable to pay therefor; and said governing body may exclude from the use of such hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate such rules and regulations; and said governing body may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of such city upon such terms and conditions as said governing body may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 7; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 6; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-648 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-648 Same; control of staff, employees, patients and grounds.

14-648. Same; control of staff, employees, patients and grounds. When such hospital and training school for nurses are established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within said hospital and nurses training school and the ground immediately surrounding the school, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said governing body may prescribe.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 8; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 7; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-649 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-649 Same; donations to hospital.

14-649. Same; donations to hospital. Any person or persons, firm, organization, corporation or society, desiring to make a donation of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such hospital or training school for nurses, shall have the right to vest title of the money or real estate so donated in said city, to be controlled when accepted by the governing body of the city according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 9; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 8; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-650 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-650 Same; training school for nurses.

14-650. Same; training school for nurses. A training school for nurses may be established and maintained in connection with such hospital, and as a part of same.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 10; February 21.
KS Stat § 14-651 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-651 Same; fixing of patients' fees; account of receipts.

14-651. Same; fixing of patients' fees; account of receipts. The governing body of the city shall have power to determine whether or not patients presented at said city hospital for treatment are subject to charity, and shall fix such prices for compensation for patients, as the said governing body deems proper, the receipts therefor to be paid to the treasurer of said city and credited by the treasurer to the hospital funds.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 11; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 9; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-652 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-652 Same; bylaws, rules and regulations.

14-652. Same; bylaws, rules and regulations. The governing body of such city is hereby authorized and required to make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations as are necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto in the establishment, management, care and control of such hospital and training school for nurses.History: L. 1941, ch. 159, § 12; L. 1945, ch. 137, § 10; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-652a (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-652a Same; existing statutes not affected by act.

14-652a. Same; existing statutes not affected by act. This act and all the provisions thereof shall not alter, amend, limit, repeal, modify, or otherwise affect the provisions of any existing statutes, or any part thereof, whereby any city of the second class may acquire and operate a hospital, but shall be in addition thereto, and as herein provided, an alternative and additional method whereby cities of the second class may acquire and operate a hospital, nor shall any part or provision hereof be held to alter, amend, limit, modify or repeal any presently existing statute providing for the maintenance, operation or government of any hospital already built or acquired under the provisions of any now existing statute.History: L. 1945, ch. 137, § 11; February 23.
KS Stat § 14-654 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 14 - Cities Of The Second Class|Article 6 - Hospitals|14-654 Same; invalidity of part.

14-654. Same; invalidity of part. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. No caption to any section shall in any way affect the interpretation of this act, or any part thereof.History: L. 1945, ch. 137, § 12; February 23.