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FL Stat § 155.12 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.12 - County Hospitals; General Powers of Trustees; Duties; Tax Levies; Etc.

155.12 County hospitals; general powers of trustees; duties; tax levies; etc.—The board of hospital trustees shall have power to appoint a suitable superintendent or matron, or both, and necessary assistants, and fix their compensation and shall also have power to remove such appointees and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of this law in establishing and maintaining a county hospital. The board of hospital trustees shall hold meetings at least once each month and keep a complete record of all its transactions. Three members of said board shall be required to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and two or more of said trustees shall visit and examine said hospital twice each month. The board shall, prior to July 1 of each year, file with the board of county commissioners of said county a report of their proceedings with reference to such hospital and a statement of all receipts and expenditures made during the year and shall certify to the said board of county commissioners the amount necessary for the improvement and maintenance of such public hospital, so established, during the ensuing year, and the said board of county commissioners shall, at its annual meeting for the purpose of determining the amount to be raised for all county purposes, levy a sufficient tax upon all the assessed value of the taxable property in the county as will produce the sum required by the said board of trustees’ report, but said hospital levy, together with the levy necessary to liquidate the bonds aforesaid, shall not exceed 10 mills on the assessed valuation. No trustee shall have a personal, pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase of any supplies for said hospital, unless the same are purchased by competitive bidding.History.—s. 9, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 1, ch. 61-321; s. 2, ch. 76-21.
FL Stat § 155.13 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.13 - County Hospitals; Vacancies in Trustees.

155.13 County hospitals; vacancies in trustees.—Vacancies in the board of trustees occasioned by resignations, removal, or otherwise, shall be reported to the Governor of the state, who shall fill such vacancies in a like manner as the original appointments; appointees shall hold office for the remainder of the term in which the vacancy occurred.History.—s. 10, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.14 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.14 - County Hospitals; Bonds; Maturities; Interest; Etc.

155.14 County hospitals; bonds; maturities; interest; etc.—Whenever any county in this state shall have provided for the appointment of hospital trustees and has voted a tax for hospital purposes, as authorized by law, the said county shall issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of such tax in such sum and amounts as the board of hospital trustees shall certify to the board of county commissioners of said county to be necessary for the purpose contemplated by such tax, but such funds in the aggregate shall not exceed the amount which might be realized by said tax based on the amount which may be yielded on the property valuation of the year in which the tax is voted, and such bonds shall mature in not to exceed 30 years from date and shall be in sums of not less than $100, nor more than $1,000, drawing interest at a rate not exceeding 7.5 percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually; said bonds shall be payable at the pleasure of the county after 5 years and each of said bonds shall provide that it is subject to this condition and shall not be sold for less than provided by law for other county bonds and shall be substantially in the form provided for county bonds, but subject to changes that will conform them to the provisions of this law, and be numbered consecutively and redeemable in the order of their issue.History.—s. 11, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 2, ch. 26513, 1951; s. 8, ch. 73-302.
FL Stat § 155.15 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.15 - County Hospitals; Procuring Lands for Hospital.

155.15 County hospitals; procuring lands for hospital.—If the board of hospital trustees and the owners 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 board of county commissioners and condemnation proceedings shall be instituted by the said board of county commissioners and prosecuted in the name of the county by the attorney for the county commissioners of such county.History.—s. 12, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.16 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.16 - County Hospitals; Residents; Nonresidents; Fees; Contagious Diseases; Etc.

155.16 County hospitals; residents; nonresidents; fees; contagious diseases; etc.—Every hospital established under this law shall be for the benefit of the inhabitants of such county and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but the board of hospital trustees may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of such county upon terms and conditions as such board of trustees may from time to time, by its rules and regulations, prescribe. Every such inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to such board or such officer as it shall designate, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, and attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the said board. Such hospital always shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board may adopt in order to render the use of said hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number; and said board may exclude from treatment and care any indigent or pay case having a communicable or contagious disease where such disease may be a detriment to the best interest of such hospital and a source of contagion or infection to the patient in its care, and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate any rules and regulations of such hospital.History.—s. 13, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.17 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.17 - County Hospitals; Rules for Physicians, Nurses, Etc.

155.17 County hospitals; rules for physicians, nurses, etc.—When such hospital is established, the physician, nurses, attendants, the person sick therein and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of same, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board of trustees may prescribe.History.—s. 14, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.18 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.18 - County Hospitals; Discrimination Against Doctors; Etc.

155.18 County hospitals; discrimination against doctors; etc.—The board of trustees of any hospital organized under this chapter is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations governing the granting and revoking of privileges to treat patients in the hospital. Such rules shall provide that only those persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery, i.e., medical doctors and osteopathic physicians, may be granted privileges to treat patients in the hospital. Such doctors and physicians may retain their privileges so long as they comply with the rules and regulations of the board of trustees.History.—s. 15, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 1, ch. 61-378.
FL Stat § 155.19 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.19 - County Hospitals; Training School for Nurses.

155.19 County hospitals; training school for nurses.—The board of trustees may establish and maintain in connection with such hospital and as part thereof, a training school for nurses, and upon completion of the prescribed course of training shall give to such nurses who satisfactorily complete the said course, a diploma.History.—s. 16, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.20 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.20 - County Hospitals; Charity Patients; Hospital Charges.

155.20 County hospitals; charity patients; hospital charges.—The board of hospital trustees shall have power to determine whether or not patients presented to such public hospital for treatment are subjects of charity, and shall fix the charges for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, and attendance, other than medical or surgical attendance, of those persons able to pay for same, as the board of trustees may deem just and proper, the receipts therefor to be paid by him or her to the hospital fund.History.—s. 17, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 880, ch. 95-147.
FL Stat § 155.21 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.21 - County Hospitals; Donations; Etc.

155.21 County hospitals; donations; etc.—Any person or persons, firm, organization, corporation or society, public or private, desiring to make donations of money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of such hospital shall have the right to vest title of the money, personal property, or real estate so donated in said county, to be controlled when accepted by the board of hospital trustees of said hospital, according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise, or bequest of such property.History.—s. 18, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.22 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.22 - County Hospitals; Purposes Are Public.

155.22 County hospitals; purposes are public.—The purpose for which any county hospital established under the provisions of this law shall be used are hereby declared public purposes. Such purposes shall include the operation and maintenance of ambulance service in any county where the board of county commissioners so authorizes.History.—s. 19, ch. 20905, 1941; s. 1, ch. 67-373.
FL Stat § 155.23 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.23 - County Hospitals; Federal Loans, Aid, Etc.

155.23 County hospitals; federal loans, aid, etc.—The board of county commissioners of any county desiring to establish and maintain a hospital under the provisions of this law shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate and make agreements with any federal agency lending or granting money for the purpose of erecting public hospitals and may match any funds so loaned or granted by such federal agency for the purpose of establishing or constructing a public hospital under the provisions of this law.History.—s. 20, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.24 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.24 - County Hospitals; Additional Funds.

155.24 County hospitals; additional funds.—In addition to the tax which may be levied under the provisions of this law, the board of county commissioners may allocate to the hospital funds any other public moneys in possession of said board of county commissioners, not otherwise appropriated or allocated to other uses.History.—s. 21, ch. 20905, 1941.
FL Stat § 155.25 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.25 - Levy Authorized for County Hospital Purposes.

155.25 Levy authorized for county hospital purposes.—(1) Whenever any board of county commissioners shall deem it necessary to erect, equip, or repair a public hospital in the county or erect and equip an addition or additions to any public hospital, they shall give notice at least once each week for 2 consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in said county, or in some newspaper published in the judicial circuit, if there be none published in the county, that at the next regular meeting of the board after the publication of said notice, such question or questions will be acted upon by said board. If, at said meeting, a majority of said board shall determine that it is necessary to erect, equip, repair, or build an addition or additions to such public hospital, they may levy a hospital building, repair, and equipment tax not exceeding 5 mills per annum, for not more than 15 consecutive years. The tax shall be assessed and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other state and county taxes are levied and collected.(2) The tax, levied, assessed, and collected as aforesaid, shall be accumulated from year to year until utilized and expended for the public hospital purposes aforesaid.(3) The provisions hereof shall be cumulative and in addition to all the other provisions of this chapter, and nothing herein contained shall be held to repeal, alter, or amend any of the provisions of this chapter nor repeal, alter, or amend any of the provisions of any special or local law.(4) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Okaloosa County nor shall the provisions hereof confer the authority hereinabove provided for upon or to the county commissioners of said county.History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, ch. 57-393; s. 6, ch. 90-279.
FL Stat § 155.401 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.401 - Power of Special Taxing District to Appropriate Proceeds From Sale or Lease of Hospital or Health Care System to Economic Development Trust Fund.

155.401 Power of special taxing district to appropriate proceeds from sale or lease of hospital or health care system to economic development trust fund.—Notwithstanding any other general or special law, the purposes for which a special taxing district may appropriate funds from the sale or lease of a hospital or health care system to an economic development fund include the promotion and support of economic growth in such district and in the county in which such district is located and the furthering of the purposes of such district, as provided by law.History.—s. 2, ch. 2012-66.
FL Stat § 155.4011 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.4011 - Conflicts.

155.4011 Conflicts.—To the extent that any general or special law is inconsistent with or otherwise in conflict with ch. 2012-66, Laws of Florida, such conflicting provisions are specifically superseded by ch. 2012-66, Laws of Florida. A special tax district, public hospital, or municipal hospital is not exempt from ch. 2012-66, Laws of Florida.History.—s. 3, ch. 2012-66.
FL Stat § 155.41 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.41 - Exceptions for Sales or Leases.

155.41 Exceptions for sales or leases.—Section 155.40(3), as created by this act, shall apply retroactively to all sales, leases, or other contracts entered into pursuant to this section prior to the effective date of this act, except for:(1) Any not-for-profit corporation if the lease or financial support agreement has been declared invalid in a final, nonappealable court order entered prior to April 1, 1996;(2) Any sale, lease, or contract that has been declared valid in a final, nonappealable court order entered prior to April 1, 1996; or(3) Any public hospital leased by a not-for-profit corporation that filed for protection under the federal Bankruptcy Code prior to March 1, 1993.History.—s. 2, ch. 96-304.
FL Stat § 155.45 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 155 - Hospitals|155.45 - Retirement Annuities Authorized.

155.45 Retirement annuities authorized.—A hospital which provides retirement coverage under the Florida Retirement System and which is terminating coverage because the hospital is closing is authorized to purchase annuities for all personnel with 25 or more years of creditable service who have reached age 55 and who have applied for retirement under the Florida Retirement System. No such annuity shall provide for more than the total difference in retirement income between the retirement benefit based on average monthly compensation and creditable service as of the member’s early retirement date and the early retirement benefit. Hospitals as described in this section are authorized to invest funds, purchase annuities, or provide local supplemental retirement programs for purposes of providing annuities for their personnel. All retirement annuities shall comply with s. 14, Art. X of the State Constitution.History.—s. 1, ch. 88-77.
FL Stat § 157.01 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 157 - Drainage by Counties|157.01 - Public Ditch, Drain or Canal.

157.01 Public ditch, drain or canal.—Whenever it shall be deemed necessary or expedient, for sanitary or agricultural purposes or conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare, or public utility, or for the benefit of any lands that are low, wet, submerged or liable to become submerged, to establish a public ditch, drain or canal in any of the counties of this state by a majority of those owning the lands through which such proposed ditch, drain or canal shall run or by those owning the greater part of the lands through which such proposed ditch, drain or canal shall run, and by a majority of those owning lands or by those owning the greater part of the lands contiguous thereto, that are benefited by such ditch, drain or canal, the majority of those owning such lands or those owning the greater part of such lands as aforesaid, shall present a petition to the county commissioners of the county in which such ditch, drain or canal is to be located, with a plat of said lands, showing the general course of such proposed ditch, drain or canal, setting forth the cause for the same, its length and the lands to be benefited thereby. Upon filing such petition and plat with the county commissioners, they shall lay the same over until the next regular meeting and give notice by publication at least once each week for 2 consecutive weeks, in some newspaper published in the county, of the date when they will consider said petition, citing all persons who may be interested to appear and present any reason why such petition should not be granted.History.—s. 1, ch. 5035, 1901; GS 950; s. 1, ch. 6457, 1913; s. 1, ch. 6958, 1915; s. 1, ch. 7307, 1917; RGS 1734; CGL 2785; s. 7, ch. 90-279.
FL Stat § 157.02 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 157 - Drainage by Counties|157.02 - Action on Petition by County Commissioners.

157.02 Action on petition by county commissioners.—Should the county commissioners, when the petition mentioned in s. 157.01, has been considered, deem it improper to grant the same it shall then be denied, but should they deem it proper to grant the same, they shall then enter an order of record that the said petition be granted.History.—s. 2, ch. 5035, 1901, GS 951; s. 2, ch. 6457, 1913; RGS 1735; CGL 2786.
FL Stat § 157.03 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 157 - Drainage by Counties|157.03 - Commissioners to Appoint Committee; Report of Plans and Estimate; Letting Contract; Right-of-Way for Drains.

157.03 Commissioners to appoint committee; report of plans and estimate; letting contract; right-of-way for drains.—When the county commissioners shall order that such ditch, drain or canal, shall be established, they shall appoint a committee of three disinterested freeholders who are citizens of the county, who may employ a surveyor, and shall cause an accurate survey to be made of the proposed ditch, drain or canal, and shall establish the commencement, route, and terminus of said ditch, drain or canal, the width, length, and depth thereof, and shall make and present to the county commissioners, at their next regular meeting, or at a meeting as soon thereafter as practicable, plans, specifications and profiles for said construction, together with an estimate of the approximate cost of said ditch, drain or canal, and the annual cost of its maintenance, and upon this report of the said committee, the board of county commissioners shall advertise once a week for 3 weeks, in a newspaper published in the said county, for bids for the construction of said ditch, drain or canal, and the same shall be given to the lowest responsible bidder; provided, the board of county commissioners may, if they deem it for the best interest of all concerned, reject all bids; and in case said bids are rejected they may advertise for further bids. Whenever the survey for any proposed ditch, drain or canal, shall run through the lands of anyone who shall object thereto, the board of county commissioners may proceed to condemn the right-of-way for such ditch, drain or canal, and pay therefor out of the funds arising from the levy and assessments hereinafter provided for.History.—s. 3, ch. 5035, 1901; GS 952; s. 3, ch. 6457, 1913; RGS 1736; CGL 2787.
FL Stat § 157.04 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 157 - Drainage by Counties|157.04 - Bond Required Before Letting Contract.

157.04 Bond required before letting contract.—Before letting contract for the construction of any such ditch, drain or canal, the board of county commissioners shall require the contractor to give a good and sufficient bond payable to the Governor of the state, for the construction and completion of said work according to plans and specifications and the terms and provisions of the contract.History.—s. 4, ch. 5035, 1901; GS 953; s. 4, ch. 6457, 1913; RGS 1737; CGL 2788.
FL Stat § 157.05 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XI - County Organization and Intergovernmental Relations|Chapter 157 - Drainage by Counties|157.05 - Work Done Under Supervision of Committee; When Completed, Report to Commissioners; Payments.

157.05 Work done under supervision of committee; when completed, report to commissioners; payments.—The work shall be done under the supervision of the committee as hereinbefore provided, and when completed, the committee shall report the same to the board of county commissioners, who shall also inspect such work together with the engineer in charge, and approve the same before final payment is made to the contractor, and the report of said work, together with the approval of the work by the board of county commissioners and the said engineer, shall be entered upon the minutes of the board of county commissioners; provided, that the board of county commissioners may, during the progress of the said work, if they think proper to do so, make payment in installments on said work of not to exceed 80 percent of the value of the work so done, to be certified by the engineer in charge, reporting to the board of county commissioners. Such engineer shall be appointed by said committee subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners.History.—s. 5, ch. 5035, 1901; GS 954; s. 5, ch. 6457, 1913; RGS 1738; CGL 2789.