13-14b11: Same; rules and
regulations; employee benefit plans; investments in certain mutual
insurance companies; expenditures for recruitment or retention of professional
staff;
board members serve without compensation; annual reports.
The board of trustees shall have exclusive control of the management and
operation of the hospital and shall make and adopt such rules and
regulations for the government of the hospital as may be deemed expedient
for the economical and proper conduct thereof. The board of hospital trustees
is authorized to establish and fund pension and deferred compensation plans for
hospital employees and to procure contracts insuring hospital employees, their
dependents, or any class or classes thereof under a policy or policies of life,
disability income, health, accident, accidental death and dismemberment, and
hospital, surgical and medical expense insurance. The employee's contribution,
if any, to the plan and to the premium for such insurance may be deducted by
the employer from the employee's salary when authorized in writing by the
respective employee. The board is authorized to invest in any mutual insurance
company organized by an association of health care providers to which the
hospital belongs, enter into contracts with such company, pay any assessments
pursuant to such contracts and arrange for the issuance of a letter of credit
by any bank chartered by this state or which is a member bank of the federal
reserve system. The board may also expend funds deemed necessary in the
recruitment or retention of professional staff including, but not limited
to, the purchase
of professional liability insurance for such staff. No member of the board of
trustees shall receive any compensation for services. On or
before July 15 each year, the board shall file with
the governing body of the city a written report of the management of the
hospital, together with a statement of all receipts and expenditures during the
year ending June 30.
History: L. 1949, ch. 149, § 4; L. 1971, ch. 49, §
2; L. 1972, ch. 44, § 2;
L. 1988, ch. 147, § 10;
L. 1991, ch. 66, § 2; July 1.
13-14b12: Creation of board of trustees; tax levy, use of proceeds;
special improvement fund.
Upon and after the creation of a board of trustees to manage and control
a hospital, the governing body of the city shall levy annually,
in addition to other taxes provided by law, a tax on all tangible
taxable property within the limits of said city, for the purpose of
equipping, operating, maintaining and improving such hospital and to pay
a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by such city under
the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto.
The board may transfer annually such amounts as it deems advisable to
a special improvement fund to be used for the purpose of purchasing
major items of equipment and making capital improvements to the
hospital. The amount on hand in such fund shall at no time exceed two
hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) and such fund shall not be
subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 79-2925 and 79-2937 or acts
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto except that in making the
budget of the city the amounts credited to, and the amount on hand in
such special fund and the amount expended therefrom shall be shown for
the information of the taxpayers of the city.
History: L. 1949, ch. 149, § 5; L. 1951, ch. 160, § 1; L.
1957, ch. 118, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 77, § 7; L. 1975, ch. 494, § 19;
L. 1979, ch. 52, § 63; July 1.
13-14b13: Hospital maintenance and operation; emergency warrants.
During the year in which any such hospital is completed and for which no
tax levy has been made under the provisions of K.S.A. 13-14b12, the
governing body of the city is hereby authorized to issue emergency warrants
in a total amount of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the
purpose of raising funds to operate and maintain said hospital during such
year. Such warrants shall draw interest at a rate of not more than the
maximum rate of interest prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009 and may be issued
only for the purpose of paying the operating costs of the hospital during
the year. The governing body of the city shall each year, at the time of
fixing the rate of levy for such city, make provisions therein for raising
sufficient money to pay not less than twenty percent (20%) of the total
amount of warrants issued hereunder until all of said warrants have been
paid.
History: L. 1949, ch. 149, § 6; L. 1970, ch. 64, §
35; March 21.
13-14b14: Investment of special improvement funds.
The board of trustees
of a hospital of any city of the first class is
hereby authorized and empowered to invest any portion of
any special improvement
fund created under the provisions
of K.S.A. 13-14b12, and any acts amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto, in investments authorized by K.S.A. 12-1675, and amendments thereto,
in the manner prescribed therein, or in direct obligations of the United
States government, which
mature or are redeemable without loss of principal within one year of date
of purchase, the principal and interest whereof are guaranteed by the
government of the United States. All interest received on any such
investment shall upon receipt thereof be placed in the special improvement
fund authorized by K.S.A. 13-14b12.
History: L. 1951, ch. 161, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 54, § 15; July 1.
13-14b15: Bonds for addition to hospital and improvements; election,
when.
The governing body of any city of the first class which owns and
operates a hospital is hereby authorized to issue general obligation bonds
of such city in an amount not exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000)
for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing an addition to the
hospital owned by such city and furnishing and equipping the same, and
otherwise improving said hospital and the facilities thereof:
Provided, That no such bonds shall be issued until the question of
their issuance shall have been submitted to a vote of the electors of such
city at a regular city election or a special election called for such
purpose and a majority of the legal electors voting on the question shall
have voted in favor of their issuance: Provided further, That if the
governing body of any such city shall have submitted such a question to a
vote of the electors of such city prior to the effective date of this act,
with or without authority of law, and a majority of the legal electors
voting on the question shall have voted in favor of the issuance of the
bonds, said city may issue bonds for such purposes in an amount not
exceeding the amount voted at such election without submitting the question
at another election and said election and all proceedings in connection
therewith are hereby validated and confirmed. Said bond election shall be
called, held, conducted and canvassed and all bonds issued under the
authority of this act shall be issued, registered, sold, delivered and
retired as provided by the general bond law.
History: L. 1955, ch. 116, § 1; March 10.