30:9-74 - Use of hospital; charges
30:9-74. Use of hospital; charges
A city hospital for communicable diseases shall be devoted exclusively to the treatment of communicable diseases and disinfection of clothing, bedding or other materials. Patients shall be received whether indigent or nonindigent and the board of health in its discretion may send for contagious or infectious cases anywhere within the county and receive them in the city hospital.
Reasonable and uniform rates shall be charged against nonindigent patients and corporate authorities of other municipalities from which indigent patients are received. All sums so received shall be used for maintenance of the hospital.