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                                  TITLE  41
                                  INSURANCE
                                  CHAPTER 37
                      IDAHO HOSPITAL LIABILITY TRUST ACT
    41-3702.  DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this act unless context
otherwise requires:
    (1)  "Director" is the director of the department of insurance of this
state.
    (2)  "Administrator" is a person, if other than the trustee, employed by
the trustee to administer a hospital trust.
    (3)  "Trustee" is the trustee, whether a single or multiple trustee, of
the hospital trust.
    (4)  "Person" is any individual, corporation, association, firm,
syndicate, organization or other entity.
    (5)  "Contribution" is the amount paid or payable by a member into a trust
fund.
    (6)  "Hospital trust" is any trust established pursuant to the provisions
of this act by agreement of any hospitals, properly licensed by the state of
Idaho, with such hospitals as grantors and beneficiaries of the trust, for the
purpose of insuring against general public liability claims based upon acts or
omissions of such hospitals, including but not limited to, claims based upon
malpractice. A hospital trust may also insure against general public liability
claims, including but not limited to, malpractice claims based upon acts or
omissions of any employee, authorized volunteer worker or member of a medical
staff committee, while acting within the scope of his duties as such, of a
member hospital.
    (7)  "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and
operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than
twenty-four (24) hours in any week of two (2) or more nonrelated individuals
suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or requiring care because
of old age, or a place devoted primarily to providing for not less than
twenty-four (24) hours in any week of obstetrical or other medical or nursing
care for two (2) or more nonrelated individuals. The term "hospital" includes
public health centers in general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease and
other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories,
out-patient departments, hospital-affiliated nursing homes, nurses' homes and
training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection
with hospitals.