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VA Code § 15.2-5333 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5333. Rules as to patients

An authority shall have power to make rules governing the admission of patients to, and the care, conduct, and treatment of patients in, any hospital operated by the authority; to determine whether patients presented to the hospital for treatment are subjects for charity, to fix the compensation to be paid by patients other than those unable to assist themselves; and to maintain and operate isolation wards for the care and treatment of mental, contagious or other similar diseases.Code 1950, § 32-246; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1567; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5334 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5334. Purchases or leases of hospital projects

An authority shall have power to take over by purchase, lease or otherwise any hospital project located within its boundaries undertaken by any government or by any city.Code 1950, § 32-247; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1568; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5335 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5335. Acting with federal government

An authority shall have power to act as agent for the federal government in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation and management of a hospital project or any part thereof.Code 1950, § 32-248; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1569; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5336 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5336. Cooperation with subdivision of Commonwealth

An authority shall have power:1. To arrange with any city or with a government for the (i) furnishing, planning, replanning, installing, opening or closing of streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks, or other places or facilities, (ii) acquisition by such city or government of property, options or property rights, and (iii) furnishing of property or services in connection with a project;2. To arrange with the Commonwealth, its subdivisions and agencies, and any locality of the Commonwealth, to the extent that it is within the scope of each of their respective functions, (i) to cause the services customarily provided by each of them to be rendered for the benefit of such hospital authority, (ii) to provide and maintain parks and sewerage, water and other facilities adjacent to or in connection with hospital projects, and (iii) to lease or rent any of the dwellings or other accommodations or any of the lands, buildings, structures or facilities embraced in any hospital project and to establish and revise the rents or charges therefor.Code 1950, § 32-249; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1570; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5337 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5337. Purchase or lease of property; sale of property

An authority shall have power to purchase, lease, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise any property real or personal or any interest therein from any person, locality or government.An authority shall have power to sell, exchange, transfer, or assign any of its property real or personal or any interest therein to any person, locality or government.Code 1950, §§ 32-250, 32-251; 1979, c. 719, §§ 15.1-1571, 15.1-1572; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5338 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5338. Owning property

An authority shall have power to own, hold, clear and improve property and to insure or provide for the insurance of the property or operations of the authority against such risks as the authority may deem advisable.Code 1950, § 32-252; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1573; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5339 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5339. Borrowing money

An authority shall have power to borrow money upon its bonds, notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness and to secure the same by pledges of its revenues in the manner and to the extent hereinafter provided and, in connection with any loan by a government, to agree to limitations upon the exercise of any powers conferred upon the authority by this chapter. This power shall include the power to refinance all or any portion of such debt, to renegotiate the terms of all or any portion of such debt, and to retire all or any portion of such debt prior to its maturity date.Code 1950, § 32-253; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1574; 1997, c. 587; 2006, c. 658.
VA Code § 15.2-5340 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5340. Contracts

An authority shall have power to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority.Code 1950, § 32-255; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1575; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5340.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5340.1. Joint ventures; subsidiaries; investments

An authority shall have the power to:1. Assist in or provide for the creation of domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations or other entities and to purchase, receive, subscribe for or otherwise acquire, own, hold, vote, use, employ, sell, mortgage, lend, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, shares of or other interests in, or obligations of, any domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations, joint ventures or other entities organized for any purpose, or direct or indirect obligations of the United States, or of any other government, state, territory, governmental district or municipality or of any other obligations of any domestic or foreign stock or nonstock corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, association, foundation or other supporting organization, joint venture or other entity organized for any purpose or any individual. The investments of any entity wholly owned or controlled by a hospital authority that is an "institution," as such term is defined in § 64.2-1100 shall be governed by the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (§ 64.2-1100 et seq.).2. Participate in joint ventures with individuals, domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations or other entities for providing medical care or related services or other activities that the authority may undertake to the extent that such undertakings assist the authority in carrying out the purposes and intent of this chapter.3. Provide domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations, joint ventures or other entities owned in whole or in part or controlled, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by the authority with appropriate assistance, including making loans and providing time of employees, in carrying out any activities authorized by this chapter.4. Make loans and provide other assistance to domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations, joint ventures or other entities.5. Transact its business, locate its offices and control, directly or through domestic or foreign stock and nonstock corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships, associations, foundations or other supporting organizations, joint ventures or other entities, facilities that will assist or aid the authority in carrying out the purposes and intent of this chapter.2006, c. 658; 2008, c. 184.
VA Code § 15.2-5340.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5340.2. Insurance

An authority shall have the power to procure such insurance, participate in such insurance plans or provide such self-insurance, or any combination thereof, as it deems necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter. The purchase of insurance, participation in an insurance plan, or creation of a self-insurance plan by an authority shall not be deemed a waiver or relinquishment of any sovereign immunity to which the authority or its commissioners, members, officers, directors, employees, or agents are otherwise entitled.2006, c. 658.
VA Code § 15.2-5341 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5341. Rules and regulations not to be inconsistent

An authority shall have power to make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority.Code 1950, § 32-256; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1576; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5342 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5342. Incidental powers

An authority shall have power, in addition to all of the other powers herein conferred upon it, to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the powers expressly given in this chapter.Code 1950, § 32-257; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1577; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5343 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5343. Eminent domain

The authority shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use. The authority may exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2 (§ 25.1-200 et seq.) of Title 25.1 and any applicable statutory provisions in force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by cities.Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired. No property belonging to any locality, government, religious corporation, unincorporated church or charitable corporation may be acquired without its consent.Code 1950, § 32-258; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1578; 1997, c. 587; 2003, c. 940; 2005, c. 928; 2006, c. 673.
VA Code § 15.2-5344 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5344. Contracts with federal government

The authority is empowered to borrow money and accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any hospital project which such authority is authorized by this chapter to undertake, to take over any land acquired by the federal government for the construction of a hospital project, to take over or lease or manage any hospital project constructed or owned by the federal government, and to these ends, to enter into such contracts, trust indentures, leases, or other agreements that the federal government shall have the right to supervise and approve the construction, maintenance and operation of such hospital project. Pursuant to this chapter an authority may do any and all things necessary to secure the financial aid and the cooperation of the federal government in the construction, maintenance and operation of any hospital project of the authority.Code 1950, § 32-259; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1579; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5345 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5345. Security for funds deposited by authorities; deposit in certain savings accounts, etc., authorized

The authority may by resolution provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured:1. By obligations of the United States or of the Commonwealth of a market value equal at all times to the amount of such deposits;2. By any securities in which trustees, guardians, executors, administrators and others acting in a fiduciary capacity may legally invest funds within their control; or3. By an undertaking with such sureties as shall be approved by the authority faithfully to keep and pay over upon the order of the authority any such deposits and agreed interest thereon.All banks and trust companies are authorized to give any such security for such deposits.Deposit of such funds in savings accounts and certificates of savings institutions which are under state supervision and of federal associations organized under the laws of the United States and under federal supervision, is hereby authorized, provided that such institution's deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or other federal insurance agency.Code 1950, § 32-260; 1976, c. 281, § 15.1-1580; 1979, c. 719; 1990, c. 3; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5346 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5346. Authority to issue

The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time in its discretion to issue bonds for any of its purposes, including the payment of all or any part of the cost of any hospital project and the refunding of any bonds previously issued by it. Bonds may be issued under this chapter notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed in any statute and without obtaining the consent of any locality, government or any commission, board, bureau or agency of any of the foregoing; and without any other proceedings or the happening of other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this chapter.Code 1950, § 32-261; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1581; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5347 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5347. How payable

The principal and interest on such bonds shall be payable from such sources as the authority may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) (i) its revenues generally, (ii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of a particular hospital project, or (iii) exclusively from the revenues and receipts of certain designated hospital projects, whether they are financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds. The bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant or contribution from any locality or from any government or governmental authority.Code 1950, § 32-262; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1582; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5348 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5348. Commissioners not liable

Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof.Code 1950, § 32-263; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1583; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5349 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5349. Bond indebtedness

The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of any city in which the authority is located or of the Commonwealth, and neither the Commonwealth nor any such city shall be liable thereon. In no event shall they be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the authority. The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation of the laws of the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 32-264; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1584; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5350 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5350. Form

The bonds of the authority shall be authorized by its resolution and shall be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding sixty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such time or times, be in such denominations (which may be made interchangeable), be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution or its trust indenture may provide.Code 1950, § 32-265; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1585; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5351 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5351. Sale

The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at such price or prices as the authority determines.Code 1950, § 32-266; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1586; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5352 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5352. Interim certificates

Pending the authorization, preparation, execution or delivery of definitive bonds, the authority may issue interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, to the purchaser of such bonds. Such interim certificates, or other temporary obligations, shall be in such form, contain such terms, conditions and provisions, bear such date or dates, and evidence such agreements, relating to their discharge or payment or the delivery of definitive bonds as the authority may by resolution or trust indenture determine.Code 1950, § 32-267; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1587; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5353 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5353. Signature of former officers

If any of the officers whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons cease to be such officers before the delivery of the bonds, their signatures shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if they had remained in office until such delivery.Code 1950, § 32-268; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1588; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5354 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5354. Purchase by authority

The authority shall have the power out of any funds available therefor to purchase any bonds issued by it. Bonds payable exclusively from the revenues of a designated project or projects shall only be purchased with the revenues available therefor. All bonds so purchased shall be canceled. This section shall not apply to the redemption of bonds.Code 1950, § 32-269; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1589; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5355 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5355. Negotiability

Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds, interim certificates, or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.Code 1950, § 32-270; 1979, c. 719, § 15.1-1590; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5357 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5357. Further provisions as to trust indenture or bond resolution; security required of depository of proceeds of bonds

In the discretion of the authority, any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the Commonwealth. Such trust indenture or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds may pledge or assign the fees, rents and other charges to be received or proceeds of or rights under any contract or contracts pledged. Such trust indenture or resolution may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including particularly the appointment of a receiver for any hospital project or other property of the authority from which the revenues have been pledged and such other provisions as have hereinabove been specifically authorized to be included in any trust indenture or resolution of the authority. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth acting as depository of the proceeds of bonds or of revenues or other moneys may furnish such indemnifying bonds or pledge such securities as may be required by the authority. Any such trust indenture or resolution may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee or trustees and may restrict individual rights of action by bondholders. In addition to the foregoing, any such trust indenture or resolution may contain such other provisions as the authority may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust indenture or resolution may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of a project.Code 1950, § 32-271.1; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1592; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.
VA Code § 15.2-5358 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 15.2 - Counties, Cities and Towns|Chapter 53 - Hospital Authorities|§ 15.2-5358. Fees, rents and charges for use of project and facilities; sinking fund

The authority is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect fees, rents and other charges for the use of any project and the facilities thereof. Such fees, rents and other charges shall be so fixed and adjusted as to provide, together with other revenues determined by the authority to be available, a fund sufficient to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the project, the principal of and interest on such bonds as they become due and payable and the amounts necessary to create and maintain reserves for such purposes and for other purposes of the authority. Such fees, rents and charges shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any locality or by any commission, board, bureau or agency of any of the foregoing. The authority may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, or in the trust indenture securing the same, for setting aside any part or all of the fees, rents and other charges received by it in a sinking or other similar fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds, as they become due, and the redemption price or the purchase price of such bonds retired by call or purchase as therein provided. Such pledge shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The fees, rents and charges so pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor trust indenture need be filed or recorded except in the records of the authority. The use and disposition of moneys to the credit of a sinking or other similar fund shall be subject to the provisions of such resolution or trust indenture. Except as may otherwise be provided in such resolution or trust indenture, the sinking or other similar fund shall be a fund for all such bonds without distinction or priority of one over another.Code 1950, § 32-271.2; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1593; 1979, c. 719; 1997, c. 587.