§ 25-3-301 — Establishment of public hospital

Colorado § 25-3-301

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 25: Public
• Art.: Hospitals

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(1) Whenever the board of
county commissioners of any county which has a population of at least three
thousand is presented with a petition signed by five hundred resident registered
qualified electors, or by fifty percent of the resident registered qualified electors of
such county, at least two hundred fifty of whom are residents of other than the
county seat or town where it is proposed to locate such public hospital, asking that
a public hospital board be appointed and that an annual tax be levied for the
establishment and maintenance of a public hospital at a place in the county named
therein, and which petition shall specify the maximum amount of money proposed
to be expended in purchasing or building said hospital, such board of county
commissioners shall have the power to create, by resolution, such public hospital
board, to levy such tax, and to appropriate to such public hospital board the funds
for purchasing or building such hospital and for maintaining the hospital, as well as
the power to turn to the control and maintenance of such public hospital board any
public or other hospital then being conducted by the board of county
commissioners. Said tax shall not exceed three mills on the dollar for each year.

(2) If it is proposed in such petition, or in a petition later filed with like
number of resident registered qualified elector signers, to create an indebtedness
of the county for purchasing, erecting, or enlarging of buildings or equipment for
such public hospital, then the board of county commissioners shall submit such
question in the manner provided by law for creating debt for erecting public
buildings and, if the vote authorizes it, shall issue such bonds, so authorized, as the
public hospital board requests. In those counties having a population of less than
three thousand, a public hospital board may be created by the petition of not less
than fifty-one percent of the resident registered qualified electors or two hundred
such resident registered qualified electors, regardless of where they live in the
county. In such counties, an annual levy of not to exceed five mills on the dollar
shall be assessed to purchase, build, and maintain such a county hospital.

Legislative History

Source: L. 43: p. 275, � 1. CSA: C. 78, � 151(1). L. 53: p. 342, � 1. CRS 53: � 66-7-1. C.R.S. 1963: � 66-7-1. L. 70: p. 140, � 9. L. 71: p. 634, � 1.