§ 18-8-102 — Prerequisites to appointment of board of trustees; indebtedness authorized for construction; annual tax levy for maintenance

(a) When the board of county commissioners has received
sufficient guaranties that not less than fifteen thousand
dollars ($15,000.00) is available for constructing, acquiring or
equipping a county hospital, wing or portion of a building
suitable for operation of a county hospital so arranged as to be
capable of future enlargement, or where a county has acquired a
hospital valued at not less than twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000.00), it shall appoint a nonpartisan board of trustees
of the hospital, none of which shall be a county commissioner or
an employee of the county hospital.
(b) A county indebtedness may be created and county bonds
authorized and issued for the construction, acquisition and
equipment of the hospital in the manner then provided by law for
the creation of indebtedness and the issuance of bonds for the
construction of a courthouse and jail. When the hospital has
been constructed or acquired and equipped the board of county
commissioners shall annually levy a sufficient tax on all the
taxable property in the county to provide for the maintenance of
the hospital or wing or portion thereof. The tax shall be levied
and collected as other county taxes and the amount collected
shall be set apart as the county memorial hospital fund. No
money shall be expended from the fund without the approval of
the board of county commissioners.