30:9-72 - City hospitals for communicable diseases; certificate of board of health; appropriations
30:9-72. City hospitals for communicable diseases; certificate of board of health; appropriations
Whenever the board of health of any city shall adopt a resolution by a majority vote of its members declaring it to be necessary to establish a hospital for communicable diseases and setting forth the estimated cost it shall forthwith transmit a copy of the resolution certified by its president or chairman and secretary or clerk to the board or body having charge and control of the finances of the city which financial board shall thereupon by resolution appropriate funds and issue bonds for the purchase of lands, if required, and the erection and furnishing of suitable buildings by the board of health.
Appropriations shall be limited as follows:
Cities having not more than fifteen thousand population, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars;
Cities having a population exceeding fifteen thousand and not exceeding thirty thousand, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars;
Cities having a population exceeding thirty thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand, a sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars;
Cities having a population exceeding one hundred thousand, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
The minimum of any such appropriation shall be not less than one-fourth the permitted maximum.
Whenever the city has erected such hospital it may issue additional bonds to furnish and equip the same, when it has not sufficient funds to so furnish and equip out of the proceeds of the bonds issued under authority of section 30:9-70 of this title, but the total of such additional bonds together with those already issued for establishing the hospital shall in no case exceed the limitation above prescribed.