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IN Code § 16-22-3-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-16. Deposit of Funds

Sec. 16. Money in the hospital funds shall be deposited in the manner determined by the governing board.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-14.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-3-18.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-18.5. Conveyance of Real or Personal Property to State Authority for Lease Back to Hospital

Sec. 18.5. (a) Notwithstanding any requirement or restriction in this chapter on the transfer of real or personal property of the hospital, this section applies if the board determines to obtain financing for capital improvements through the state authority.(b) The board may convey real or personal property of the hospital by sale or lease to the state authority for lease back to the hospital from the state authority.As added by P.L.43-1993, SEC.13.
IN Code § 16-22-3-19 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-19. Medical Care Trust Board

Sec. 19. (a) This section applies to a medical care trust board appointed by a county executive to govern a nonexpendable trust fund established under section 17(j) or 18(e) of this chapter.(b) The county executive may adopt an ordinance providing that the medical care trust board is subject to this section.(c) After the effective date of an ordinance adopted under subsection (b), the medical care trust board may do the following:(1) Approve and the treasurer may disburse payment of a claim against the trust for payment of hospital and medical services provided to an indigent person and reasonable administrative expenses, without the necessity of filing a claim with the county auditor for approval by the county executive.(2) Except as provided in section 19.5 of this chapter, invest the funds of the trust:(A) in accordance with IC 5-13-9 and guidelines adopted by the board under IC 5-13-9-1; and(B) without being subject to guidelines adopted by the county executive under IC 5-13-9-1.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-12.1-3-15.5; 16-12.1-3-15.7.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.35-1997, SEC.9; P.L.257-2019, SEC.88.
IN Code § 16-22-3-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-20. Investment of Hospital Funds

Sec. 20. (a) As used in this section, "financial institution" has the meaning set forth in IC 5-13-4-10.(b) The board may invest money in the hospital funds within the county or the state as the board determines. The money may be invested in the following:(1) Any account paying interest and subject to withdrawal by negotiable orders of withdrawal, unlimited as to amount or number (NOW accounts).(2) Passbook savings accounts.(3) Certificates of deposit.(4) Money market deposit accounts.(5) Any interest bearing account that is authorized to be set up and offered by a financial institution or brokerage firm registered and authorized to do business in Indiana.(6) Repurchase or resale agreements involving the purchase and guaranteed resale of any interest bearing obligations issued or fully insured or guaranteed by the United States or any United States government agency in which type of agreement the amount of money must be fully collateralized by interest bearing obligations as determined by the current market value computed on the day the agreement is effective.(7) Mutual funds offered by a financial institution or brokerage firm registered and authorized to do business in Indiana.(8) Securities backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury or fully insured or guaranteed by the United States or any United States government agency.(9) Pooled fund investments for participating hospitals offered, managed, and administered by a financial institution or brokerage firm registered or authorized to do business in Indiana.This subsection does not prevent the board from using money in the hospital funds to capitalize projects undertaken under section 1(b) and 1(c) of this chapter.(c) Any interest derived from an investment under subsection (b) becomes a part of the hospital funds invested. Interest derived from the investment of money raised by bonded or other indebtedness in excess of funds needed for hospital buildings may be applied by the governing board to the appropriate bond redemption, interest, or sinking fund.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-16.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-3-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-21. Insurance

Sec. 21. (a) The governing board may contract for and purchase, for the protection of the hospital, all types of insurance provided for in the Indiana insurance law in amounts and under terms and conditions the board considers reasonable and necessary. The insurance may include liability or malpractice coverage for the members of the board, the officers, employees, volunteers, and members of medical staff committees while performing services for the hospital. The board may, for the purpose of acquiring malpractice coverage, assist in the formation of a nonassessable mutual insurance company under IC 27-1-6 and IC 27-1-7-19.(b) The governing board of a hospital organized or operated under this article may enter into a group purchasing agreement to purchase medical malpractice insurance with the following:(1) One (1) or more hospitals organized or operated under this article.(2) One (1) or more hospitals organized or operated under IC 16-23.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-17.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.91-2002, SEC.9 and P.L.100-2002, SEC.10.
IN Code § 16-22-3-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-22. Leases

Sec. 22. (a) The governing board may lease a part of the hospital buildings if the board determines that the use of the leased premises will aid the hospital in the performance of the hospital's services. A lease must:(1) be in writing;(2) be for definite periods; and(3) require payment of lease rentals at least monthly.(b) If the board enters into a lease or sublease contract with the state authority, the board may pledge as security for payment under the contract the funds that the governing board receives from a tax levy under section 27 of this chapter.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-18.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.43-1993, SEC.14.
IN Code § 16-22-3-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-23. Related Facilities and Services

Sec. 23. The governing board may do the following:(1) Permit the hospital to provide services for the mentally disordered under IC 12-29 and may limit the services to short term care.(2) Contract for or establish and maintain a training school for nurses and for paramedical personnel, with a curriculum that conforms to the requirements of the Indiana state board of nursing or other appropriate board.(3) Acquire suitable facilities for housing graduate and student nurses in training or employed by the hospital.(4) Provide suitable facilities for the temporary detention and examination of persons whose sanity is being officially inquired into preparatory to admission to hospitals for the insane.However, a person known to be dangerously insane or who has been adjudged insane shall not be confined in or about the hospital unless specific facilities necessary for the temporary confinement of these patients, separate and apart from the other patients, have been provided in the hospital.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-19.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-3-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-24. Legal Status of Board; Allowable Name of the Board; Actions Legalized

Sec. 24. (a) The board is a body corporate and politic. In that capacity, the board may do the following:(1) Sue and be sued and plead and be impleaded but all actions against the board must be brought in the circuit or superior courts of the county in which the hospital is located.(2) Possess the real and personal property of the hospital and the hospital funds in the hospital's corporate name for the hospital's use and benefit.(3) Exercise the other powers, duties, and responsibilities set forth in this article.(b) This subsection is retroactively effective beginning January 1, 1971. The name of the board may be styled as:(1) "The Board of Trustees of ______ Hospital", to include the full name of the hospital;(2) the full name of the hospital; or(3) an assumed business name under which the board conducts the board's affairs.Any legal action taken by a board after December 31, 1970, that is questioned solely because of the board's name under this section is hereby legalized and validated.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-20.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.149-2017, SEC.2.
IN Code § 16-22-3-25 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-25. Eminent Domain Powers

Sec. 25. If the governing board and the owners of real property needed for hospital purposes cannot agree on the price to be paid for the real property, the board may report the facts to the commissioners who have the power of eminent domain, and condemnation proceedings shall be instituted by the county executive and prosecuted in the name of the county where the hospital is located or to be located by an attorney representing the county.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-21.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-3-26 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-26. Loans; Sale or Factor of Accounts Receivable; Federal Loans or Guaranties

Sec. 26. (a) The governing board may obtain loans for hospital expenses in amounts and on terms and conditions agreeable to the board and may secure the loans by pledging accounts receivable or other security in hospital funds. If the board enters into a loan agreement for the borrowing of funds from the state authority, the board may pledge as security for payment under the agreement the funds the board receives from a tax levy under section 27 of this chapter.(b) The board may sell or factor accounts receivable on terms and conditions agreeable to the board.(c) A county, city, or health and hospital corporation owning and maintaining or leasing at least one (1) hospital or related facilities, a county hospital association under IC 16-22-6, and a building authority under IC 36-9-13 may enter into an agreement with the United States or a department, an agency, or an instrumentality of the United States with respect to loans or guaranties for hospital or related purposes and may borrow money on the terms and conditions of the agreement.(d) The loans may be:(1) evidenced by bonds, notes, contractual agreements, or other evidences of indebtedness;(2) secured in whole or in part by:(A) pledge of the full faith and credit as a general obligation of the borrower;(B) the income and revenues of the hospital or related facilities;(C) rental from the lease of hospital facilities; or(D) any combination of clauses (A) through (C); and(3) additionally secured by a mortgage or deed of trust of all or part of the real or personal property, or both, of the hospital.(e) Bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued in connection with a federal loan under this section may be sold and delivered at private sale without the necessity of public sale or public offering.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-12-25-1; 16-12-25-2; 16-12-25-3; 16-12.1-3-22.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.43-1993, SEC.15.
IN Code § 16-22-3-27 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-27. Tax Levy Support of Hospital

Sec. 27. (a) The governing board may request support from the county, either by appropriation from the county general fund or by a separate tax levy, by filing with the county executive on or before August 1 a written budget of the amount estimated to be required to maintain, operate, or improve the hospital for the ensuing year.(b) If the county provides a direct financial subsidy to a hospital from a tax levy at the time the board exercises the powers under section 1(b) of this chapter, the board may not provide the funds from a tax levy to an entity created under section 1(b) of this chapter for more than three (3) years. After three (3) years, all funds, with interest, must be repaid within ten (10) years.(c) If the board enters into a lease or sublease contract or a loan agreement with the state authority, the board may request the county to adopt a separate tax levy to support the board's obligation to make payments under that contract or agreement.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-23.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.43-1993, SEC.16.
IN Code § 16-22-3-27.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-27.5. Payment of Lease or Loan From Taxes

Sec. 27.5. (a) This section applies in a county when:(1) the board has authorized the hospital to enter into a lease or sublease contract or a loan agreement with the state authority under this chapter; and(2) the lease or sublease contract or the loan agreement provides that a portion of the lease or loan payment is to be paid from taxes.(b) The county council or the city-county council in the case of a county with a consolidated city shall annually levy a tax that is sufficient to produce each year along with other available funds an amount that is sufficient to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is required to be paid from taxes.(c) The board shall transfer the following to a fund to be used to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is not required to be paid from taxes:(1) Any net revenue of the hospital that is required to be used for the lease or loan payment.(2) Any net revenue of the hospital that is required to be retained as a reserve for a purpose that the board determines if the board determines that the money is not needed in reserve for additional construction, equipment, betterment, maintenance, or operation.(d) In fixing and determining the levy that is necessary for the lease or loan payment that is payable from taxes, the county council shall consider the amounts that have been transferred from the net revenues of the hospital under subsection (c).(e) If funds other than taxes are not available to pay the portion of the lease or loan payment that is required to come from taxes, a county is not relieved from the county's obligation to pay from taxes any lease or loan payment that is payable from taxes.(f) The tax levy provided in this section is reviewable in the manner that other tax levies are reviewable to ascertain that the levy is sufficient to produce the amount of the lease or loan payment that is required to be paid from taxes.(g) One-half (1/2) of the annual lease or loan payment shall be paid semiannually to the state authority after the semiannual settlement of tax collections.As added by P.L.43-1993, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.56-1995, SEC.8.
IN Code § 16-22-3-28 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-28. Other Powers of Board

Sec. 28. (a) The governing board may enter into agreements with credit card companies or organizations authorized to do business in Indiana and may accept credit card payments from patients for services provided.(b) The board may, in the establishment and maintenance of hospital records, use automated data processing systems and purchase, lease, operate, or contract for the use of automated data processing equipment subject to section 6 of this chapter and section 22 of this chapter.(c) In addition to IC 5-14-1.5-6.1(b), a hospital organized or operated under this article may hold executive sessions to do any of the following:(1) Discuss and prepare bids, proposals, or arrangements that will be competitively awarded among health care providers.(2) Discuss recruitment of health care providers.(3) Discuss and prepare competitive marketing strategies.(4) Engage in strategic planning.(5) Participate in a motivational retreat with staff or personnel, if the hospital does not conduct any official action (as defined in IC 5-14-1.5-2(d)).(d) IC 5-14-1.5-5, IC 5-14-1.5-6.1, and IC 5-14-1.5-7 apply to executive sessions held under subsection (c).(e) A hospital organized or operated under this article may hold confidential, until the information contained in the records is announced to the public, records of a proprietary nature that if revealed would place the hospital at a competitive disadvantage, such as the following:(1) Terms and conditions of preferred provider arrangements.(2) Health care provider recruitment plans.(3) Competitive marketing strategies regarding new services and locations.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-24 part.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.35-1997, SEC.10; P.L.91-2002, SEC.10 and P.L.100-2002, SEC.11.
IN Code § 16-22-3-29 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-29. Safekeeping of Patient Valuables

Sec. 29. (a) The governing board may establish a policy with regard to providing a place for the safekeeping of valuable personal property of patients. The patients or the responsible relatives of the patients shall be notified by posting a notice in a public and conspicuous place or manner at the admitting desk or office in the hospital that a place is provided.(b) If the valuable personal property is not delivered to the person in charge of the place for deposit, the hospital and the hospital's officers, agents, or employees are not liable for any loss or damage to the property, unless an emergency admission occurs and the patient is unable to deliver the valuable personal property to the place for deposit and no responsible relative is present.(c) If the personal property is delivered for safekeeping to the person in charge of the office for deposit, the hospital is not liable for loss or damage to the property from any cause in an amount exceeding six hundred dollars ($600), even if the property is of greater value.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-7-2.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-3-30 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 3. Powers of Hospital Governing Boards|16-22-3-30. Liberal Construction of Board Powers

Sec. 30. The powers of the board described in this chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this article and to enable the hospital to be maintained and operated as a first class hospital.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-3-25.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-4-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 4. Hospital Sinking Funds|16-22-4-1. Authorization for Cumulative Building or Sinking Fund

Sec. 1. The county officers may establish a cumulative building fund under IC 6-1.1-41 or a sinking fund in compliance with the procedures for establishing a cumulative fund under IC 6-1.1-41 for the erection of new hospital buildings, the repairing, remodeling, and enlarging of old hospital buildings, and the equipment of new, enlarged, and old hospitals owned and operated by the county, a voluntary nonprofit association, or a nonprofit corporation.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-15-1.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.17-1995, SEC.18.
IN Code § 16-22-4-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 4. Hospital Sinking Funds|16-22-4-4. Tax Levy

Sec. 4. The county officers may, in compliance with IC 6-1.1-41, levy a tax on all taxable property within the county to provide money for a fund established under this chapter.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-15-4 part.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.17-1995, SEC.19.
IN Code § 16-22-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-1. Methods Authorized

Sec. 1. The methods set out in this chapter may be employed to establish, construct, enlarge, remodel, and acquire county hospital buildings.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-1.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-2. Continuation of Existing Cumulative Building Funds

Sec. 2. Cumulative building funds established under the following statutes are continued in full force and effect, and the county officers authorized and empowered to levy the taxes to provide those funds may continue to do so in accordance with the proposal or plans establishing those funds:(1) IC 16-12-16 (before its repeal on September 2, 1971).(2) IC 16-12-15 (before its repeal on July 1, 1993).(3) IC 16-12.1-4 (before its repeal on July 1, 1993).[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(a).]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-3. Establishment of Cumulative Building Funds; Petition

Sec. 3. (a) A cumulative building fund for the establishment, enlargement, construction, acquisition, equipping, or remodeling of county hospital buildings may be established in accordance with this article.(b) The board may petition the county executive to levy a tax to establish the fund, setting out in the petition the amount of the proposed tax levy and the number of years for which the tax is to be levied. The county executive shall approve or disapprove the petition and, if approved, establish the amount of the tax levy and the term to be levied.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(b).]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-4. Tax Levy for Cumulative Building Fund

Sec. 4. To provide for the cumulative building fund, a tax on all taxable property within the county may be levied annually for not more than twelve (12) years and may not exceed eleven and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.1167) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation of property in the county.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(c).]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.6-1997, SEC.167.
IN Code § 16-22-5-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-5. Hearing on Tax Levy

Sec. 5. The county executive shall set a date for a hearing on the approval of the tax levy and the county auditor shall publish a notice at least ten (10) days before the date of the public hearing. The notice shall state the date, time, and place of the hearing and the proposed tax levy and term to be levied.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(d).]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.
IN Code § 16-22-5-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 16. Health|Article 22. County Hospitals|Chapter 5. Financing Hospital Buildings|16-22-5-6. Resolution for Tax Levy

Sec. 6. If approved following the hearing, the county executive shall by resolution determine the amount of the tax levy and the time to be levied and shall certify the resolution to the county fiscal body for review.[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(e) part.]As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.