Pennsylvania Act 1887-264 — STATE HOSPITAL OF MIDDLE COAL FIELD - RELATING TO

Act text

AN ACT

To provide for the selection of a site and erection of a State Hospital for injured persons, to be located at or near Hazleton, in the county of Luzerne, to be called the State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Middle Coal Field, and for the management of the same, and making an appropriation therefor.

Section 8. Board of trustees; powers

The said commissioners, upon the completion of said hospital, shall surrender their trust to a board of managers or trustees, to consist of nine members, to be appointed by the Governor from the counties or parts of counties embraced in the said middle coal field; said managers or trustees shall be a body politic or corporate, by the name and style of "the trustees of the state Hospital of the Middle Coal Field of Pennsylvania;" they shall serve without compensation, shall manage and direct the concerns of the institution, in consonance with the provisions of this act, and shall make all necessary by-laws and regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth. 1887, June 14, P.L. 399, Sec. 8.

Section 9. (9 repealed Oct. 4, 1978, P.L.909, No.173)

Section 10. Certain patients may be charged for treatment

The trustees of said hospital may, from time to time, charge any patient, other than the classes named in section nine of this act, an amount sufficient to cover the cost of treatment. 1887, June 14, P.L. 399, Sec. 10.

Section 11. Donations; quarterly statement

It shall be lawful for the trustees of said hospital to receive contributions or donations from any person, firm or corporation offering to contribute or donate any money or other valuable consideration, whether by will, deed, gift or otherwise, to aid in the support, maintenance, and for improving the property of said hospital: Provided, That the proceeds of all contributions or donations received by the said trustees, under the provisions of this section, shall be specially appropriated for the purposes herein stated: Provided further, That an itemized statement of the same, showing the whole amount of money received by the said trustees, under the provisions of this section, and the name or names of any person, firm or corporation contributing or donating the same, together with an itemized statement of the expenditures of said money, shall be made quarterly, under oath, to the Auditor General, the same as Statements for state appropriations are now required by law. 1887, June 14, P.L. 399, Sec. 11.

Section 12. Visitors

The Governor, judges of the several courts of record in the Counties of Luzerne, Carbon and Schuylkill, and members of the Legislature, shall be ex officio visitors of the institution. 1887, June 14, P.L. 399, Sec. 12.