96.160. Board of trustees--appointment.
Board of trustees--appointment.
96.160. 1. Each facility established or operated and maintainedunder the provisions of sections 96.150 to 96.228 shall be governed by aboard of trustees who shall serve without compensation. Each such board oftrustees shall consist of five trustees, who shall be citizens of the city,unless the council shall provide by ordinance for a larger board of notmore than fifteen trustees. Trustees shall be appointed by the mayor withthe approval of the council and shall be chosen with reference to theirfitness for such position; provided no member of the city council and nomember of the immediate family of a member of the city council shall be amember of the board.
2. An ordinance providing for a larger board of trustees may providethat some or all of the trustees need not be citizens of the city, butshall be citizens of the state of Missouri.
3. Any city establishing or maintaining and operating more than onehealth care facility may provide by ordinance that one board of trusteesshall manage and operate two or more health care facilities.
(RSMo 1939 § 7037, A.L. 1969 p. 171, A.L. 1979 S.B. 445, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1790)Prior revision: 1929 § 6891