2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 131E - Health Care Facilities and Services.
§ 131E-17. Creation of a hospital authority.

§ 131E‑17.  Creation of a hospital authority.

(a)        A hospital authority may be created whenever a city council or a county board of commissioners finds and adopts a resolution finding that it is in the interest of the public health and welfare to create a hospital authority.

(b)        After the adoption of a resolution creating a hospital authority, the mayor or the chairman of the county board of commissioners shall appoint commissioners in accordance with G.S. 131E‑ 18.

(c)        The commissioners shall be a public body and a body corporate and politic upon the completion of the procedures described in G.S. 131E‑19. (1943, c. 780, s. 4; 1971, c. 799; 1983, c. 775, s. 1.)

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