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Chapter 70.44 RCW

PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICTS

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HTMLPDF 70.44.003Purpose.
HTMLPDF 70.44.007Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70.44.010Districts authorized.
HTMLPDF 70.44.015Validation of existing districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.016Validation of districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.020Resolution—Petition for countywide district—Conduct of elections.
HTMLPDF 70.44.028Limitation on legal challenges.
HTMLPDF 70.44.030Petition for lesser district—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 70.44.035Petition for district lying in more than one county—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 70.44.040Elections—Commissioners, terms, districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.041Validity of appointment or election of commissioners—Compliance with 1994 c 223.
HTMLPDF 70.44.042Commissioner districts—Resolution to abolish—Proposition to reestablish.
HTMLPDF 70.44.045Commissioners—Vacancies.
HTMLPDF 70.44.047Redrawn boundaries—Assignment of commissioners to districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.050Commissioners—Compensation and expenses—Insurance—Resolutions by majority vote—Officers—Rules.
HTMLPDF 70.44.053Increase in number of commissioners—Proposition to voters.
HTMLPDF 70.44.054Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.056Increase in number of commissioners—Appointments—Election—Terms.
HTMLPDF 70.44.059Chaplains—Authority to employ.
HTMLPDF 70.44.060Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 70.44.062Commissioners' meetings, proceedings, and deliberations concerning health care providers' clinical or staff privileges to be confidential—Final action in public session.
HTMLPDF 70.44.067Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
HTMLPDF 70.44.070Superintendent—Appointment—Removal—Compensation.
HTMLPDF 70.44.080Superintendent—Powers.
HTMLPDF 70.44.090Superintendent—Duties.
HTMLPDF 70.44.110Plan to construct or improve—General obligation bonds.
HTMLPDF 70.44.130Bonds—Payment—Security for deposits.
HTMLPDF 70.44.140Contracts for material and work—Call for bids—Alternative procedures—Exemptions.
HTMLPDF 70.44.171Treasurer—Duties—Funds—Depositaries—Surety bonds, cost.
HTMLPDF 70.44.185Change of district boundary lines to allow farm units to be wholly within one hospital district—Notice.
HTMLPDF 70.44.190Consolidation of districts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.200Annexation of territory.
HTMLPDF 70.44.210Alternate method of annexation—Contents of resolution calling for election.
HTMLPDF 70.44.220Alternate method of annexation—Publication and contents of notice of hearing—Hearing—Resolution—Special election.
HTMLPDF 70.44.230Alternate method of annexation—Conduct and canvass of election—Notice—Ballot.
HTMLPDF 70.44.235Withdrawal or reannexation of areas.
HTMLPDF 70.44.240Contracting or joining with other districts, hospitals, corporations, or individuals to provide services or facilities.
HTMLPDF 70.44.260Contracts for purchase of real or personal property.
HTMLPDF 70.44.300Sale of surplus real property.
HTMLPDF 70.44.310Lease of surplus real property.
HTMLPDF 70.44.315Evaluation criteria and requirements for acquisition of district hospitals.
HTMLPDF 70.44.320Disposal of surplus personal property.
HTMLPDF 70.44.350Dividing a district.
HTMLPDF 70.44.360Dividing a district—Plan.
HTMLPDF 70.44.370Dividing a district—Petition to court, hearing, order.
HTMLPDF 70.44.380Dividing a district—Election—Creation of new districts—Challenges.
HTMLPDF 70.44.400Withdrawal of territory from public hospital district.
HTMLPDF 70.44.450Rural public hospital districts—Cooperative agreements and contracts.
HTMLPDF 70.44.460Rural public hospital district defined.
HTMLPDF 70.44.470Chapter not applicable to certain transfers of property.
HTMLPDF 70.44.900Severability—Construction—1945 c 264.
HTMLPDF 70.44.901Severability—Construction—1974 ex.s. c 165.
HTMLPDF 70.44.903Savings—1982 c 84.
HTMLPDF 70.44.910Construction—1945 c 264.

NOTES:

County hospitals: Chapter 36.62 RCW.
Limitation of indebtedness prescribed: RCW 39.36.020.
Tortious conduct of political subdivisions, municipal corporations and quasi municipal corporations, liability for damages: Chapter 4.96 RCW.