CHAPTER 346A
COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS

  346A.1  Definitions.
  When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
  1.  “Board” means the board of supervisors of the county.
  2.  “Health center” means a building or buildings, together with necessary equipment, furnishings, facilities, accessories and appurtenances and the site or sites therefor used primarily for the purposes of providing centralized locations, at which a county may:
  a.  Provide those health, welfare and social services which such a county is presently or hereafter authorized or required by law to provide;
  b.  Lease space in such building or buildings to other public corporations, public agencies and private nonprofit agencies which provide health, welfare and social services.
  3.  “Project” means the acquisition by purchase or construction of health centers, additions thereto and facilities therefor, the reconstruction, completion, equipment, improvement, repair or remodeling of health centers, additions thereto and facilities therefor, and the acquisition of property therefor of every kind and description, whether real, personal or mixed, by gift, purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise and the improvement of the property. “Project” also means the use of funds for the provision of health services by local boards of health pursuant to chapter 137 and the provision of health, welfare or social services which a county is permitted or required by law to provide.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §346A.1; 82 Acts, ch 1156, §1]
83 Acts, ch 12, §1, 4

  346A.2  Authorized in certain counties.
  Counties may undertake and carry out any project as defined in section 346A.1, and the boards may operate, control, maintain and manage health centers and additions to and facilities for health centers. The boards may appoint committees, groups, or operating boards as they deem necessary and advisable to facilitate the operation and management of health centers, additions and facilities. A board may lease space in any health center to other public corporations, public agencies and private nonprofit agencies engaged in furnishing health, welfare and social services which lease shall be on terms and conditions the board deems advisable. All contracts for the construction, reconstruction, completion, equipment, improvement, repair or remodeling of any buildings, additions or facilities shall be let in accordance with section 331.341, subsection 1.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §346A.2; 81 Acts, ch 117, §1060; 82 Acts, ch 1156, §2]
83 Acts, ch 12, §2, 4; 83 Acts, ch 123, §157, 209
346A.3 through 346A.5Repealed by 81 Acts, ch 117, §  1097.