14-695.   Extension of territorial limits for hospital purposes in certaincities; board of trustees; terms; pension and deferred compensationplans for employees; contracts insuring employees and dependents;expenditures for recruitment or retention of professional staff.Subject to the provisions ofK.S.A. 2009 Supp.12-16,128, and amendmentsthereto, within 30 days after the addition of the territory theboard of commissioners of such city or the mayor, by and with the consent ofthe council, shall appoint two electors residing in the added territory to theboard of trustees to serve until the next regular city election and until theirsuccessors are elected and qualified, and the board of hospital trustees shallthereafter consist of five trustees, but at all times at least two of thetrustees shall be residents of the city in the added territory. At the nextregular city election, two trustees from the added territory shall be elected,one for a term of one year and one for a term of two years, and a successor tothe trustee whose office expires under K.S.A. 14-604 and amendments theretowho may reside anywhere in the hospital territory. Successors to the short-termtrustees shall be elected for three-year terms.

      The boardof hospital trustees is authorized to establish and fund pension and deferredcompensation plans for hospital employees and to procure contracts insuringhospital employees, their dependents, or any class or classes thereof,under a policy or policies of life, disability income, health, accident,accidental death and dismemberment and hospital, surgical and medicalexpense insurance. The employee's contribution, if any, to the plan and to thepremium for such insurance may be deducted by the employer from the employee'ssalary when authorized in writing by the respective employee.

      The board of hospital trustees shall also have authority to expend funds deemednecessary in recruitment or retention of professional staff including,but not limited to,the purchase of professional liability insurance for such staff.

      History:   L. 1949, ch. 166, § 3;L. 1971, ch. 49, § 7;L. 1972, ch. 44, § 7;L. 1991, ch. 66, § 7;L. 2008, ch. 163, § 11; July 1.