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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 4 - Counties
Section 48A Special Hospital Districts
Section 4-48A-2 Definitions.
NM Stat § 4-48A-2 (2014) What's This?
4-48A-2. Definitions.
As used in the Special Hospital District Act:
A. "board of trustees" means the governing board of the special hospital district;
B. "qualified elector" means a natural person resident in a proposed or existing special hospital district who is registered to vote in state general elections;
C. "special hospital district" means a district wherein a public hospital is located or is proposed to be created and which:
(1) is composed of contiguous and compact territory lying wholly within a single county; or
(2) is composed of contiguous and compact territory which includes all or a portion of two or more counties or any combination thereof; and
(3) contains within its boundaries one or more incorporated municipalities; or whose boundaries coincide and are concurrent with the territorial areas of one or more political subdivisions within such county or counties;
D. "hospital facility" includes a medical facility or an outpatient clinic or both; and
E. "subdistrict" means, in the case of a special hospital district composed of all or a portion of two or more counties, the portion of the special hospital district which is located in one county.
History: 1978 Comp., 4-48A-2, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 29, 2; 1979, ch. 134, 1; 1981, ch. 84, 1; 1987, ch. 273, 1.
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