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Statutes > Missouri > T12 > C205 > 205_200Funds from special tax levy or from operation of hospital may be usedfor hospital construction, maintenance and additions--publicationof board's plans required, when.
205.200. 1. Except in counties operating under the charter form ofgovernment, the county commission in any county wherein a public hospitalshall have been established as provided in sections 205.160 to 205.340shall levy annually a rate of taxation on all property subject to itstaxing powers in excess of the rates levied for other county purposes todefray the amount required for the maintenance and improvement of suchpublic hospital and for constructing and furnishing necessary additionsthereto, as certified to it by the board of trustees of the hospital; thetax levied for such purpose shall not be in excess of one dollar on the onehundred dollars assessed valuation. The funds arising from the tax leviedfor such purpose shall be used for the purpose for which the tax was leviedand none other.
2. Any funds of the hospital, whether derived from the tax authorizedby this section or from the operation of the hospital, and whethercollected before or after October 13, 1965, may be used for constructingand furnishing necessary additions to the hospital.
3. For any ballot proposal in which the maximum levy exceeds fiftycents per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, the board of trusteesshall publish in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation andotherwise make available upon request a summary description of the board'splans for using the money for ongoing hospital operations.
(RSMo 1939 § 15195, A.L. 1945 p. 983, A.L. 1951 p. 776, A.L. 1965 p. 348, A.L. 1984 S.B. 576, A.L. 1999 S.B. 348)Prior revisions: 1929 § 13978; 1919 § 12612
