34-10-1. Purpose of chapter–Types of institutions included. The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the establishment of public hospital districts, which shall have power to own and operate and equip public hospitals, or to lease and operate public hospitals, or to maintain or aid in the maintenance and operation of a public hospital, and […]
34-10-10. Annexation of territory by district–Petition, hearing, and order. The boundaries of any public hospital district may be altered and outlying districts annexed from territory contiguous thereto in the following manner: a petition signed by sixty percent of the resident electors within the territory proposed to be annexed, designating the boundaries of such contiguous territory […]
34-10-11. Board of trustees to manage district. Said public hospital district shall be governed and managed by a board of seven trustees elected by the persons within the district. The trustees must be elected from among the persons resident within said district. Source: SL 1959, ch 135, §10; SDC Supp 1960, §27.19B10.
34-10-12. Terms of office of trustees–Election of first board. The hospital district trustees elected for the first board shall serve for terms commencing upon their being elected and qualified and all trustees shall serve until their respective successors be elected and qualified. The term of office shall be for four years, except that the terms […]
34-10-13. Nomination of trustees–Date and notice of elections. Any elector may sign as many nominating petitions for hospital district trustee as there are persons to be elected. All regular elections after the first shall be held on the primary election date specified in §12-2-1 and notice thereof shall be given as required by the laws […]
34-10-14. Trustees unpaid–Vacancy on board–Records of actions. The trustees of the hospital district shall serve without pay. A vacancy upon the board of trustees shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members and the appointee shall serve until the next ensuing regular election for trustees. The trustees shall keep accurate minutes and records of […]
34-10-15. Rules, regulations, and bylaws of district–Officers–Place of business–Legal counsel. The trustees at their first meeting shall adopt rules, regulations, and bylaws deemed suitable and necessary for the government and management of the district. The trustees shall elect one of its members as chairman, one as treasurer, and one as secretary. The trustees shall designate […]
34-10-16. Power to acquire hospital facilities–Authorization, issuance and sale of bonds–Amount limited. The district may purchase, construct, equip, lease, or otherwise acquire public hospital facilities and issue bonds for the cost thereof. All bonds shall be authorized, issued, and sold by the board of trustees as provided in chapter 6-8B, except that no bonds may […]
34-10-18. Failure of bond issue on failure of district. If the bond issue receives sixty percent of the votes cast and the creation of the district fails to receive sixty percent of the votes cast under §34-10-9, the bond issue is deemed to have failed. Source: SL 1959, ch 135, §9; SDC Supp 1960, §27.19B09; […]
34-10-2. Electors’ petition for establishment of district–Number of signers required–Filing–Petition for hospital bond election. Whenever a petition praying that a public hospital district be established signed by not less than ten percent of the resident electors residing within the boundaries of the proposed public hospital district, which petition shall definitely describe the boundaries of the […]
34-10-21. Tax levy for retirement of bonds. At the time bonds are issued pursuant to §34-10-16 the trustees shall by resolution provide for the levy of an irrepealable tax upon all of the property within the hospital district for the years and in the amounts, sufficient to pay the principal and interest when due, without […]
34-10-22. Reduction of tax levy on payment of other moneys into debt service fund. If the board of trustees at any time shall transfer and irrevocably appropriate to the debt service fund maintained by it for the payment of bonds issued pursuant to §34-10-16 moneys received from sources other than tax levies pursuant to §34-10-21, […]
34-10-23. Payment of bonds when debt service fund insufficient–Reimbursement from subsequent tax levies–Additional levies. If the moneys in the debt service fund are at any time insufficient for the payment of principal and interest due on bonds of the district, such payment shall nevertheless be made from any other funds of the district available therefor, […]
34-10-24. Collection of taxes levied–Transfer of collections to district treasurer. The procedures for the collection of the tax shall be in accordance with the existing laws of the State of South Dakota. The funds collected under the tax levy shall be transferred to the treasurer of the hospital district by the county treasurer or county […]
34-10-25. Tax levy in lieu of bonds–Accumulation of construction fund–Election on use of fund. In lieu of issuing bonds, the hospital district board may levy an annual tax not to exceed five mills for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, equipping, leasing, or otherwise acquiring and maintaining a hospital, and shall direct the treasurer of the […]
34-10-26. Tax levy for operation and maintenance of hospital–Maximum levy. The board of trustees of any public hospital district shall have authority to levy an annual tax not to exceed one dollar per thousand dollars of taxable valuation of all real and personal property taxable within said district for the purpose of operating and maintaining […]
34-10-27. Accounting for district funds–Disbursements. The treasurer of the hospital district shall keep a detailed account of all tax moneys paid into the public hospital district fund, of all other moneys from any source received by the district, and of all payments and disbursements from the fund. Funds shall be paid out on warrants issued […]
34-10-28. Lease of hospital facilities to others. The board shall have authority to lease any hospital facilities of the district to persons and private or public corporations for the purpose of operation, provided that in the opinion of the board the needs of the community can best be served thereby. Source: SL 1959, ch 135, […]
34-10-29. Annual audit of district affairs–Report of audit. The hospital district board, at the close of each year of business, shall cause an audit to be made by the State Department of Legislative Audit, or an auditor approved by the State Department of Legislative Audit of the books, records, and financial affairs of the district, […]
34-10-3. Election on district establishment and for trustees–Election officials and precincts. The board of county commissioners at the next regular, adjourned, or special session shall canvass the petition or petitions and if signed by the requisite number of resident electors, it shall order an election to be held in all voting precincts in the proposed […]
