2005 Idaho Code - 31-3706 — POWERS OF HOSPITAL BOARD -- EXPENSES OF OPERATION

                                  TITLE  31
                           COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
                                  CHAPTER 37
                       JOINT CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITALS
    31-3706.  POWERS OF HOSPITAL BOARD -- EXPENSES OF OPERATION. All hospital
boards, including boards of trustees of joint county-city hospital
authorities, so appointed are authorized, subject to such special regulations
as may be from time to time imposed by the county commissioners and/or city
council appointing said board, or, in the case of joint county-city hospital
authorities, as may be provided in the agreement creating such authority:
    1.  To take entire charge of and run, manage and operate the hospital for
which they were appointed.
    2.  To promulgate such rules and regulations for the management and
operation of such hospital and the conduct of its business and the business of
the board as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with law or the special
regulations imposed by the county commissioners and/or city council appointing
the board, or, in the case of a county-city hospital authority, with the
agreement creating such authority.
    3.  To employ such persons as they may deem necessary for or in the
operation of said hospital and/or the conduct of the business of the board, to
fix their compensation and to discharge them at pleasure.
    4.  To collect and receive all funds accruing from the operation of said
hospital and all those appropriated or provided for the management, operation
and/or conduct thereof by the city and/or county, and all such funds shall be
paid over to the hospital board and held and disbursed by it as herein
provided.
    5.  To exercise such other powers as the appointing authority may delegate
to the board.
    Said hospital board shall allow and pay all expenses for the management,
maintenance and operation of said hospital and the expenses of said board from
such funds or any other funds in said board's control, without allowance by
either the board of county commissioners or the city council, but no funds in
the custody of said hospital board or its treasurer shall be paid out except
on order of such hospital board, and said board shall not, without special
authorization of the board of county commissioners, create any debt or debts
chargeable against the county, nor without special authorization of the city
council create any debt or debts chargeable against the city, exceeding in the
aggregate the total of the cash in the custody of the hospital board and the
appropriations previously made by the city and/or county, available for the
payment thereof.