House Journal: Page 1014: Thursday, April 1, 1999

H-1195

 1     Amend House File 224, as passed by the House, as
 2   follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
 4   following:
 5     "Section 1.  Section 37.9, unnumbered paragraphs 1
 6   and 5, Code l999, are amended to read as follows:
 7     When the proposition to erect any such building or
 8   monument has been carried by a majority vote, the
 9   board of supervisors or the city council, as the case
10   may be, shall appoint a commission consisting of five
11   or seven members, in the manner and with the
12   qualifications provided in this chapter, which shall
13   have charge and supervision of the erection of the
14   building or monument, and when erected, the management
15   and control of the building or monument.
16     Commencing with the commissioners appointed to take
17   office after January 1, 1952, one commissioner shall
18   be appointed for a term of one year, 
two commissioners
19   shall be appointed for a term of two 
years, and two
20   commissioners shall be appointed for a term 
of three
21   years, or in each instance until a 
successor is
22   appointed and qualified the terms of office of the
23   commissioners shall be staggered so that all
24   commissioners' terms will not end in the same year.
25   Thereafter, the successors in each instance shall hold
26   office for a term of three years or until a successor
27   is appointed and qualified."
28     2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 8 the
29   following:
30     "Sec. ___.  Section 347.9, Code 1999, is amended to
31   read as follows:
32     347.9  TRUSTEES - APPOINTMENT - TERMS OF OFFICE.
33     When it has been determined by the voters of a
34   county to establish a county public hospital, the
35   board shall appoint seven trustees chosen from among
36   the resident citizens of the county with reference to
37   their fitness for office, and not more than four of
38   the trustees shall be residents of the city at which
39   the hospital is located.  The trustees shall hold
40   office until the following general election, at which
41   time their successors shall be elected, two for a term
42   of two years, two for four years, and three for six
43   years, and they shall determine by lot their
44   respective terms, and thereafter their successors
45   shall be elected for regular terms of six years each.
46   A person or spouse of a person with medical or special
47   staff privileges in the county public hospital or who
48   receives direct or indirect compensation in an amount
49   greater than one thousand five hundred dollars in a
50   calendar year from the county public hospital or

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