CHAPTER 3. TAX LEVIES AND APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONS BY THIRD CLASS CITIES
IC 16-23-3
Chapter 3. Tax Levies and Appropriations for Hospital
Associations by Third Class Cities
IC 16-23-3-1
Application of chapter
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a third class city that meets the
following conditions:
(1) Has no hospital facilities for the third class city's citizens.
(2) Has a nonprofit hospital corporation that meets the
following conditions:
(A) Has the hospital corporation's principal office and place
of business designated in the hospital corporation's articles
of incorporation as located in, or within one (1) mile of the
limits of, the city.
(B) Desires to construct or has constructed in the city, or
within one (1) mile of the city, a nonprofit hospital to be
operated for charitable purposes.
(C) Has a governing board that meets the following
conditions:
(i) Manages the construction, maintenance, and operation
of the hospital.
(ii) Is entirely nonsectarian and nonpolitical.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.
IC 16-23-3-2
Construction and equipment of facilities; payment of obligations;
contracts
Sec. 2. The city fiscal body may do the following:
(1) Appropriate money to aid in the construction and equipment
of hospital buildings and purchase of suitable grounds, in an
amount not more than the amount provided for the purchase and
construction by the nonprofit hospital corporation under section
1 of this chapter.
(2) Appropriate money to pay the obligations of the nonprofit
hospital corporation under section 1 of this chapter for the
purchase of grounds and equipment for and the construction of
the hospital.
(3) Enter into a contract, upon terms the city fiscal body
considers advantageous to the citizens of the city, with the
nonprofit hospital corporation under section 1 of this chapter
and donors of a fund for the following purposes:
(A) To purchase grounds and construct and equip the
hospital building.
(B) To name the hospital.
(C) To hold title to the hospital building and grounds.
(D) To receive donations and determine the terms upon
which donations may be accepted.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.
IC 16-23-3-3
Defrayment of deficiencies
Sec. 3. If the city has provided assistance to the nonprofit
corporation under section 2 of this chapter and the revenues derived
from patient fees in any one (1) year and all other income of the
association are not sufficient to maintain the hospital and grounds,
the city may appropriate and pay to the nonprofit hospital
corporation annually a sufficient amount to defray the deficiency.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.
IC 16-23-3-4
Hospital admittance
Sec. 4. A hospital described in this chapter must be open to all of
the following:
(1) Persons on reasonable terms.
(2) Physicians on reasonable terms who desire to place patients
in the hospital.
(3) Employees of the city, without charge, who are injured in
the course of employment.
(4) Poor and indigent persons on reasonable rates to be paid by
the proper officers having charge of the care of those persons.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.
IC 16-23-3-5
Bonds; tax levy
Sec. 5. (a) The city fiscal body may issue and sell bonds of the
city, under the regulations followed for the issuance and sale of
bonds for the construction of other city buildings, to provide money
to do the following:
(1) Aid in the purchase, equipment, and construction of the
hospital buildings and grounds.
(2) Pay the obligations of the hospital association.
(b) The fiscal body may also levy and collect taxes to pay and
satisfy bonds when due.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.
IC 16-23-3-6
Maintenance tax
Sec. 6. The city fiscal body may annually levy and collect a tax of
not more than two and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.0267) on
each one hundred dollars ($100) of the taxable property in the city to
provide money to aid in the maintenance of the hospital as provided
in this chapter.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.6-1997, SEC.171.