450.255 - Mortgage or pledge of personal property of hospital; acquisition of real property for expansion.

450.255  Mortgage or pledge of personal property of hospital; acquisition of real property for expansion.  The board of trustees of a county hospital, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, if the board of county commissioners is not the board of hospital trustees, may, by resolution:

      1.  Mortgage or pledge the personal property of the hospital, including accounts receivable, and enter into agreements for the sale and leasing back to the hospital of its personal property to provide security for acquiring money for the operation of the hospital; and

      2.  Acquire real property for the expansion of the hospital by entering into a contract for purchase of a type and duration and on such terms as the governing body determines, including a contract secured by a mortgage or other security interest in the real property.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 295; A 1997, 3100)