1929_public local laws_450_5
CHAPTER 449 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 600, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1925, BEING AN ACT TO ENABLE LEE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That section eight of said chapter six hundred be amended by striking out all of said section and by inserting in lieu thereof a new section, as follows: Sec. 8 That the hospital established under this act shall be for the benefit of the inhabitants of such townships of Lee County as may vote for said bonds-at said election, or at any subsequent election, and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within their limits; but every inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to such board of trustees or such officers as it shall designate for such hospital a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, or attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said board, such hospital always being subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the said board may adopt, in order to render the use of said hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number; and said board may exclude from the use of said hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who shall wilfully violate such rules and regulations. And said board may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persor~ residing outside of such townships in said county, upon such terms and conditions as said board may, from time to time by its rules and regulations, prescribe, provided a larger charge may be made for all persons residing outside such townships as may vote said bonds. That in the event said bonds are ratified by any township within said county, and said hospital is established, it shall be lawful for and the duty of said board of county commissioners to hold additional elections for the other townships, upon petition as herein provided, and if any other townships in said county shall vote for said hospital, then such township shall be included within the territory served by said hospital, and shall be subject to their proportionate portion of the tax to be levied for the payment of said bonds and the maintenance of said hospital, and its citizens and residents shall be entitled without discrimination to the use of said hospital.