30:9-85 - Construction and maintenance
30:9-85. Construction and maintenance
The governing body of a town or township deeming it advisable to provide a hospital for communicable diseases and other hospital purposes may select a site; acquire and own in the corporate name of the municipality lands for hospital purposes whether such lands are within or without the municipality; erect and maintain a hospital; pay for the same from any money not otherwise appropriated; obtain temporary loans therefor and provide for the payment thereof in the succeeding tax levy and convey any such lands or portion thereof not needed for hospital purposes. The total expenditure for lands and buildings for hospital purposes shall not exceed one-tenth of one per cent of the total sum of the municipal tax assessments for the previous year.
Before lands without the municipal limits shall be used for hospital purposes the consent to such use shall first be obtained from the board of health or governing body of the municipality in which the lands lie.