1935_public local laws_308_8
CHAPTER 307 AN ACT TO ENABLE CABARRUS COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL, TO LEVY A TAX AND ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR, APPOINT HOSPITAL TRUSTEES, MAINTAIN A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, ETC. The Genera? Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The hospital established under this Act shall be for the benefit of the inhabitants of Cabarrus County, and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits; but every inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to such executive committee or such officers as it shall designate for such county public hospital a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, and/or attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said executive committee, such hospital always being subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said committee may adopt in order to render the use of szid hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number; and said executive committee may exclude from the use of such hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate such rules and regulations; and said committee may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of Cabarrus County upon such terms and conditions as said executive committee may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe.