2014 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE (188-215)
Chapter 205 County Health and Welfare Programs
Section 205.390 (Repealed L. 2007 S.B. 613 Revision § A)

205.390. 1. The county commission shall appoint five persons who shall constitute a board to be known as "The Board of Tuberculosis Hospital Commissioners". A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum and shall be authorized to transact the business of the board.

2. Said board shall have exclusive control of all moneys collected to the credit of the tuberculosis hospital fund, and of the supervision, care and custody of such hospital, and all moneys received for such hospital purposes, whether by sale of said bonds or by an appropriation from the taxes collected annually in each county for the maintenance and support of said hospital, or from any other source, shall be turned over to the treasurer of said board, and shall be duly accounted for in monthly and annual reports made to said board, a copy of which shall be filed with the clerk of the county commission. The board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners shall serve without compensation except actual traveling and incidental expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

3. They shall have resided in such county for at least three years prior to their appointment, shall be known for their intelligence, business qualifications and integrity, and shall be especially interested in the purposes of said hospital, either because of scientific knowledge in the prevention of tuberculosis or because of their beneficent attitude toward those afflicted with tuberculosis, and shall be selected without regard to their political affiliations, and not fewer than two of them shall be women nor fewer than two of them shall be men.

4. The board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners first appointed shall serve respectively for one, two, three, four and five years from the date of their appointment, and the term of each shall be fixed by the order of the county commission appointing them, and all such board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners after the first appointment shall be appointed for the full term of five years, except that in case of a vacancy, occurring from death, resignation, removal from the county or removal for cause, a board of tuberculosis hospital commissioner shall be appointed to fill the remainder of said term.

5. The board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners shall meet within sixty days after the date of appointment, and shall elect one of their number to be chairman of said board, another to be vice chairman and another to be secretary, for a period of one year, and thereafter annually said officers shall be elected by said board. Said board shall annually elect a treasurer who shall not be a member thereof, and shall require him to give a bond, to be approved by the prosecuting attorney of the county and by the county commission, in a sufficient sum to secure the faithful keeping and accounting for of all moneys which may come into his hand, and shall fix his compensation for the services to be rendered.

6. Said board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners shall have power and it shall be its duty to administer all affairs pertaining to the maintenance of said tuberculosis hospital and dispensary, including the control and direction of all officers and employees of said hospital and dispensary and to establish the rules and regulations for the control and restraint of all patients of such hospital and dispensary and otherwise to perform all acts needful for the proper execution of the powers and duties granted and imposed upon said board by the provisions of sections 205.380 to 205.450. Said board shall have power to employ a superintendent, or a superintending physician, or a superintending nurse, and such other nurses and employees as it deems necessary for the proper care of the hospital and its inmates and shall fix their respective salaries and compensation, but all expenses for such employees and the necessary maintenance of such hospital to be incurred or paid shall be kept within the limits of the annual income of said hospital.

7. All nurses so employed shall be lawfully licensed or registered according to the laws of the state. Any such employee may be removed by said board at any time if in its judgment such removal will promote the economic administration or best interests of said hospital, preference being given to nurses who have had training in a public tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium.

8. Said board shall also have power to prescribe rules and regulations for the sanitation, disinfection and healthful conditions of said hospital, and the kind of clothes to be worn by the inmates and attendants and the foods to be eaten by said inmates, and make other regulations pertaining to fresh air and healthful surroundings as to them may seem most helpful to the treatment of tuberculosis patients.

9. No expense or debt of any kind shall be incurred by the superintendent or any nurse or employee of said hospital except upon the authority of said board, and said board shall require the superintendent or some other employee to keep a faithful account of all expenses of every kind incurred in the maintenance of said hospital.

10. Said board shall make an annual report to the state department of social services, showing the number of patients or inmates in said hospital and the manner of caring for and treating them, and any other beneficial information, and such state department of social services shall furnish to said hospital board any beneficial or scientific information it may consider would be helpful to such hospital board in conducting same.

11. The said board shall establish an office in its county where all records, papers and documents of such board shall be kept open for public inspection during all reasonable hours, to be fixed by said board. It shall hold a regular meeting on the first Monday of each month, in the office so established, except that by unanimous consent said board may meet at any place in the county and without notice, and transact any such business as may be transacted at any regular meeting. The board shall also hold an annual meeting the first Monday of January of each year, and at said time require an annual certified report to be made to the county commission and to the governor of the state, embracing a full statement of the number of patients of all kinds, the amount of moneys received within the preceding year, and from what sources, and how expended, and especially the number of charity patients and the moneys received from the state and from the county therefor.