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CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.3.

32121.3.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district, or any affiliated nonprofit corporation upon a finding by the board of directors of the district that it will be in the best interests of the public health of the communities served by the district and in order to obtain a licensed physician and surgeon to practice in the communities served by the district, may do any of the following: (1)  Guarantee to a physician and surgeon a minimum income for a period of no more than three years from the opening of the physician and surgeon’s practice. (2)  Guarantee purchases of necessary equipment by the physician and surgeon. (3)  Provide reduced rental rates of office space in any building owned or leased by the district or any of its affiliated entities, or subsidize rental payments for office space in any other buildings, for a term of no more than three years. (4)  Provide other incentives to a physician and surgeon in exchange for consideration and upon terms and conditions the hospital district’s board of directors deems reasonable and appropriate. (b)  Any provision in a contract between a physician and surgeon and a hospital district or affiliated nonprofit corporation is void which does any of the following: (1)  Imposes as a condition any requirement that the patients of the physician and surgeon, or a quota of the patients of the physician and surgeon, only be admitted to a specified hospital. (2)  Restricts the physician and surgeon from establishing staff privileges at, referring patients to, or generating business for another entity. (3)  Provides payment or other consideration to the physician and surgeon for the physician and surgeon’s referral of patients to the district hospital or an affiliated nonprofit corporation. (c)  Contracts between a physician and surgeon and a hospital district or affiliated nonprofit corporation that provide an inducement for the physician and surgeon to practice in the community served by the district hospital shall contain both of the following: (1)  A provision which requires the inducement to be repaid with interest if the inducement is repayable. (2)  A provision which states that no payment or other consideration shall be made for the referral of patients to the district hospital or an affiliated nonprofit corporation. (d)  To the extent that this section conflicts with Section 650 of the Business and Professions Code, Section 650 of the Business and Professions Code shall supersede this section. (e)  The Legislature finds that this section is necessary to assist district hospitals to attract qualified physicians and surgeons to practice in the communities served by these hospitals, and that the health and welfare of the residents in these communities require these provisions. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1358, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1993.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.4.

32121.4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation, upon a finding by the board of directors of the district that it will be in the best interests of the district to provide additional diversification of facilities, may lease and operate the realty, facilities, and business of another hospital district in California, or create a leasehold interest in its own realty, improvements, and business in favor of another hospital district, if all of the following apply:(a)  That the lease when taken together with any extensions of the lease shall not exceed a total of 30 years. (b)  That the lessee district shall not finance any capital improvements through the use of the lessor district’s credit. (c)  That the lessor district shall have successfully completed any feasibility studies required by its board of directors as will reasonably ensure that the lessor hospital’s financial stability will not be endangered by the lease transaction. (d)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair or limit the authority of the California Medical Assistance Commission to contract for the provision of inpatient hospital services under the Medi-Cal program with local hospital district hospitals as sole distinct entities, even though one or more hospital districts may have entered into leasehold or joint-venture arrangements. Any lease made pursuant to this section to one or more nonprofit corporations affiliated with a district, that is part of or contingent upon a transfer of 50 percent or more of the district’s assets, in sum or by increment, to the affiliated nonprofit corporation shall be subject to the requirements of subdivision (p) of Section 32121.(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 698, Sec. 2. Effective October 4, 1993.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.5.

32121.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a health care district may enter into a contract of employment with a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as chief executive officer, the duration of which shall not exceed four years, but which may periodically be renewed for a term of not more than four years.(b) A contract entered into, or renewed, on or after January 1, 2014, shall not authorize retirement plan benefits to be paid to a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as chief executive officer, prior to his or her retirement.(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 92, Sec. 1. (AB 130) Effective January 1, 2014.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.6.

32121.6.  If a health care district enters into a written employment agreement with a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as a chief executive officer, the written employment agreement shall include all material terms and conditions agreed to between the district and the hospital administrator regarding compensation, deferred compensation, retirement benefits, severance or continuing compensation after termination of the agreement, vacation pay and other paid time off for illness or personal reasons, and other employment benefits that differ from those available to other full-time employees. (Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 322, Sec. 1. (AB 2180) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.8.

32121.8.  The El Camino Hospital-Corporation may provide for the operation and maintenance through tenants of the whole or any part of the El Camino Hospital, and for that purpose may enter into any lease agreement that it believes will best serve the interest of the El Camino Hospital District. A lease entered into with one or more corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies or other entities or persons for the operation of 50 percent or more of the El Camino Hospital, or that is part of or contingent upon a transfer of 50 percent or more of the El Camino Hospital-Corporation’s assets, in sum or by increment, as described in Section 32127.7 shall be subject to the requirements of Section 32121.7. Any lease for the operation of El Camino Hospital shall require the tenant or lessee to comply with Section 32128. No lease for the operation of the entire hospital shall run for a term in excess of 30 years. No lease for the operation of less than the entire hospital shall run for a term in excess of 10 years.(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 151, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32121.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32121.9.

32121.9.  A district that leases or transfers its assets to a corporation pursuant to this division, including, but not limited to, subdivision (p) of Section 32121 or Section 32126, shall act as an advocate for the community to the operating corporation. The district shall annually report to the community on the progress made in meeting the community’s health needs.(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 798, Sec. 3. Effective September 28, 2000.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32122 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32122.

32122.  The board of directors may purchase all necessary surgical instruments and hospital equipment and equipment for nurses’ homes and all other property necessary for equipping a hospital and nurses’ home.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 932.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32123 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32123.

32123.  The board of directors may purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip such buildings or building, room or rooms as may be necessary for the hospital.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 932.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32124 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32124.

32124.  The board of directors may establish a nurses’ training school in connection with the hospital, prescribe a course of study for such training and after the completion of the course, provide for the issuance of diplomas to graduate nurses.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 932.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32125 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32125.

32125.  (a)  The board of directors shall be responsible for the operation of all health care facilities owned or leased by the district, according to the best interests of the public health and shall make and enforce all rules, regulations and bylaws necessary for the administration, government, protection and maintenance of health care facilities under their management and all property belonging thereto and may prescribe the terms upon which patients may be admitted thereto. Minimum standards of operation as prescribed in this article shall be established and enforced by the board of directors. (b)  A district shall not contract to care for indigent county patients at below the cost for care. In setting the rates the board shall, insofar as possible, establish rates as will permit the district health care facilities to be operated upon a self-supporting basis. The board may establish different rates for residents of the district than for persons who do not reside within the district. (c)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless prohibited from doing so by action of the board of directors, the chief executive officer may establish a task force to assist the chief executive officer in operating the district’s facilities. The chief executive officer shall, if required to do so by action of the board, select task force members from individuals nominated by the board. Once established, the task force may be dissolved by action of the chief executive officer or the board. Any action by the board under this subdivision shall require four votes from a board on which there are five members or five votes from a board on which there are seven members. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 696, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1995.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32126 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32126.

32126.  (a) The board of directors may provide for the operation and maintenance through tenants of the whole or any part of any hospital acquired or constructed by it pursuant to this division, and for that purpose may enter into any lease agreement that it believes will best serve the interest of the district. A lease entered into with one or more corporations for the operation of 50 percent or more of the district’s hospital, or that is part of, or contingent upon, a transfer of 50 percent or more of the district’s assets, in sum or by increment, as described in subdivision (p) of Section 32121, shall be subject to the requirements of subdivision (p) of Section 32121. Any lease for the operation of any hospital shall require the tenant or lessee to conform to, and abide by, Section 32128. No lease for the operation of an entire hospital shall run for a term in excess of 30 years. No lease for the operation of less than an entire hospital shall run for a term in excess of 10 years.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a sublease, an assignment of an existing lease, or the release of a tenant or lessee from obligations under an existing lease in connection with an assignment of an existing lease shall not be subject to the requirements of subdivision (p) of Section 32121 so long as all of the following conditions are met:(1) The sublease or assignment of the existing lease otherwise remains in compliance with subdivision (a).(2) The district board determines that the total consideration that the district shall receive following the assignment or sublease, or as a result thereof, taking into account all monetary and other tangible and intangible consideration to be received by the district including, without limitation, all benefits to the communities served by the district, is no less than the total consideration that the district would have received under the existing lease.(3) The existing lease was entered into on or before July 1, 1984, upon approval of the board of directors following solicitation and review of no less than five offers from prospective tenants.(4) If substantial amendments are made to an existing lease in connection with the sublease or assignment of that existing lease, the amendments shall be fully discussed in advance of the district board’s decision to adopt the amendments in at least two properly noticed open and public meetings in compliance with Section 32106 and the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).(c) A health care district shall report to the Attorney General, within 30 days of any lease of district assets to one or more corporations, the type of transaction and the entity to whom the assets were leased.(Amended (as amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 194, Sec. 4) by Stats. 2010, Ch. 699, Sec. 25.6. (SB 894) Effective January 1, 2011.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32126.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32126.3.

32126.3.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the lease in existence immediately preceding January 1, 2006, between the Grossmont Healthcare District and the Grossmont Hospital Corporation that was entered into on May 29, 1991, may be renegotiated or extended for up to an additional 30-year term. The renegotiations or extension shall be presented to, and approved by a majority of, the voters of the district.(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 195, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32126.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32126.5.

32126.5.  (a)  The board of directors of a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation may do any of the following when it determines that the action is necessary for the provision of adequate health services to communities served by the district: (1)  Enter into contracts with health provider groups, community service groups, independent physicians and surgeons, and independent podiatrists, for the provision of health services. (2)  Provide assistance or make grants to nonprofit provider groups and clinics already functioning in the community. (3)  Finance experiments with new methods of providing adequate health care. (b)  Nothing in this section shall authorize activities which corporations and other artificial legal entities are prohibited from conducting by Section 2400 of the Business and Professions Code. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 981, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1993.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32127.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32127.1.

32127.1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors of any district which is licensed to have 85 beds and located within a county of 2,000,000 or more population, as determined by the 1950 census, may, without establishing a fund for capital outlays and without the approval of the district electors, use all or any funds in the possession of, or held by, the district on the effective date of the amendment made to this section at the 1967 Regular Session which were derived from previous tax levies, for the acquisition of additional patient bed capacity by lease or purchase of any hospital buildings or facilities or for new construction of additional patient bed capacity for an existing hospital.(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 102.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32127.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32127.2.

32127.2.  Exclusively for the purpose of securing state insurance of financing for the construction of new health facilities, the expansion, modernization, renovation, remodeling and alteration of existing health facilities, and the initial equipping of any such health facilities under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 129000) of Part 6 of Division 107, and notwithstanding any provision of this division or any other provision or holding of law, the board of directors of any district may (a) borrow money or credit, or issue bonds, as well as by the financing methods specified in this division, and (b) execute in favor of the state first mortgages, first deeds of trust, and other necessary security interests as the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development may reasonably require in respect to a health facility project property as security for the insurance. No payments of principal, interest, insurance premium and inspection fees, and all other costs of state-insured loans obtained under the authorization of this section shall be made from funds derived from the district’s power to tax. It is hereby declared that the authorizations for the executing of the mortgages, deeds of trust and other necessary security agreements by the board and for the enforcement of the state’s rights thereunder is in the public interest in order to preserve and promote the health, welfare, and safety of the people of this state by providing, without cost to the state, a state insurance program for health facility construction loans in order to stimulate the flow of private capital into health facilities construction to enable the rational meeting of the critical need for new, expanded and modernized public health facilities.(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 296. Effective September 29, 1996.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32127.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32127.3.

32127.3.  (a) Exclusively for the purpose of securing federal mortgage insurance, federal loans, federal loans or grants or guaranteed loans issued pursuant to the federal Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. Sec. 1921, et seq.), as amended by Public Law 109-171 on February 8, 2006, or federally insured loans issued pursuant to the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Secs. 1715w and 1715z-7) for financing or refinancing the construction of new health facilities, the expansion, modernization, renovation, remodeling, or alteration of existing health facilities, and the initial equipping of those health facilities under the federal mortgage insurance programs as are now or may hereafter become available to a local hospital district, and notwithstanding any provision of this division, or any other provision or holding of law, the board of directors of any district may do either or both of the following:(1) Borrow money or issue bonds, in addition to other financing methods authorized under this division.(2) Execute, in favor of the United States, appropriate federal agency, or federally designated mortgagor, first mortgages, first deeds of trust, or other necessary security interests as the federal government may reasonably require with respect to a health facility project property as security for that insurance.(b) No payments of principal, interest, insurance premiums and inspection fees, and all other costs of financing obtained as authorized by this section shall be made from funds derived from the district’s power to tax.(c) The Legislature hereby determines and declares that the authorizations for executing the mortgages, deeds of trust, or other necessary security agreements by the board and for the enforcement of the federal government’s rights thereunder are in the public interest in order to preserve and promote the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the state by providing, without cost to the state, a federal mortgage insurance program for health facility construction loans in order to stimulate the flow of private capital into health facilities construction to enable the critical need for new, expanded, and modernized public health facilities to be met.(d) The Legislature further determines and declares that the United States, appropriate federal agency, or federally designated mortgagor named as beneficiary of any first mortgage or other security interest delivered as authorized by this section is not a private person or body within the meaning of Section 11 of Article XI of the California Constitution.(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 46, Sec. 1. (AB 2731) Effective January 1, 2011.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 32127.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 23 - HOSPITAL DISTRICTS|CHAPTER 2 - Board of Directors|ARTICLE 2 - Powers|Section 32127.5.

32127.5.  (a)  Upon the adoption of a resolution of the board of directors of the district so providing, all funds on hand in the treasury of the district may, be paid over to the county treasurer of the county in which the district was organized, in which case and from and after the date of the adoption of such resolution the functions of the district treasurer shall be performed by the county treasurer. Except as to principal and interest of bonds, moneys in the treasury of the district shall be paid out by the county treasurer for purposes of the district upon warrants issued by the county auditor on orders signed by the president of the district and countersigned by the secretary of the district. (b)  At any time, the district board may, by resolution, reestablish the office of district treasurer and, upon receipt of a copy of such resolution, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county treasurer shall transfer all funds of the district to the district treasurer. (Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 623.)