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1 1 Section 1. Section 347.9, Code Supplement 2001, is amended
1 2 to read as follows:
1 3 347.9 TRUSTEES – APPOINTMENT – TERMS OF OFFICE.
1 4 When it has been determined by the voters of a county to
1 5 establish a county public hospital, the board shall appoint
1 6 seven trustees chosen from among the resident citizens of the
1 7 county with reference to their fitness for office, and not
1 8 more than four of the trustees shall be residents of the city
1 9 at which the hospital is located. The trustees shall hold
1 10 office until the following general election, at which time
1 11 their successors shall be elected, two for a term of two
1 12 years, two for four years, and three for six years, and they
1 13 shall determine by lot their respective terms, and thereafter
1 14 their successors shall be elected for regular terms of six
1 15 years each. A person or spouse of a person with medical or
1 16 special staff privileges in the county public hospital or who
1 17 receives direct or indirect compensation in an amount greater
1 18 than one thousand five hundred dollars in a calendar year from
1 19 the county public hospital or direct or indirect compensation
1 20 in an amount greater than one thousand five hundred dollars in
1 21 a calendar year from a person contracting for services with
1 22 the hospital shall not be eligible to serve as a trustee for
1 23 that county public hospital. However, this section does not
1 24 prohibit a licensed health care practitioner from serving as a
1 25 hospital trustee if the practitioner's sole use of the county
1 26 hospital is to provide health care service to an individual
1 27 with mental retardation as defined in section 222.2. In
1 28 addition, in counties having a population of less than fifteen
1 29 thousand, this section does not prohibit a person from serving
1 30 as a county hospital trustee if the person's spouse is an
1 31 emergency medical care provider as defined in section 147A.1
1 32 at that county hospital.
1 33 EXPLANATION
1 34 This bill provides that, in counties having a population of
1 35 less than 15,000, a person is not prohibited from serving as a
2 1 county hospital trustee if the person's spouse is an emergency
2 2 medical care provider as defined in Code section 147A.1 at
2 3 that county hospital.
2 4 LSB 5031HH 79
2 5 tj/pj/5
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