14-693.   Extension of territorial limits for hospital purposes incertain cities.Where any city of the second class having a population of less thanthree thousand (3,000) or any city of the second class located in a countyhaving a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) and not more thanthirteen thousand (13,000) and an assessed tangible valuation of more thantwenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) and less than thirty milliondollars ($30,000,000) has provided for a hospital under the provisions ofK.S.A. 14-602 to 14-614, both sections inclusive, and any amendmentsthereto, the territorial limits of said city may for hospital purposes beextended to include territory outside the regular city limits and whichterritory is not in any hospital district in the manner hereinafterprovided and such added territory shall be considered within such city onlyfor the purposes specified in said sections or any amendments thereto, andfor the further purposes of this act.

      When any territory has been added to a city as provided by this act theprovisions of this act shall be supplemented to the provisions of saidsections or any amendments thereto. Hospital purposes shall include nurses'training and nurses' assistants training, if there be such.

      History:   L. 1949, ch. 166, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 87, §1; July 1.