CHAPTER 174

iN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 32-276, 32-278, 32-285, and 32-288
of the Code of 1950, so as to provide that the provisions of
Chapter 14, including §§ 32-276 through 32-290 of Title 32 of
Code of 1950, relating to Hospital or Health Center Commis-
sions, shall be applicable to cities as well as to counties and
towns.

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Approved March 14, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

l. That §§ 32-276, 32-278, 32-285, and 32-288 of the Code of 1950
be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 32-276. Creation of Commission.—In each city, county and
town, and in each group of two or more of such political sub-
divisions of which the governing bodies thereof shall declare by
proper resolution that there is need of a hospital or health center
to function therein, there shall be created a public body corporate,
with such public and corporate powers as are set forth in this
chapter, to be known as the hospital or health center commission
thereof; provided, however, that such commission shall not transact
any business or exercise its powers hereunder until or unless the
governing body of the subdivision, or the governing bodies of the
subdivisions in the event more than one unite for the purpose, shall
declare that there is need for a hospital or health center com-
mission to function therein.

§ 32-278. Effect of adoption of resolution.—In any suit, action,
or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating
to any contract of the hospital or health center commission, such
commission shall be conclusively deemed to have become created as
a body corporate, and to have become established and authorized
to transact business and exercise its powers hereunder, upon proof
of the adoption of a resolution by the governing body of each city,
county or town for which the commission is created declaring that
there is need for such commission, and, if more than one political
subdivision is involved, that it unites with the other political sub-
divisions in declaring such needs. A copy of such resolution, duly
certified by the clerk of the city, county or town by which it is
adopted, shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action or pro-
ceeding.

§ 32-285. Bonds payable from revenues of hospital or health
centers.—Any bonds issued under this chapter shall be payable
only from the revenues and receipts of the hospital or health center
for the acquisition, establishment or construction of which the
bonds were issued. The bonds and other obligations of the com-
mission shall not be a debt of any city, county or town or of the
Commonwealth, and neither the members of the commission nor
any person executing the bonds or other obligations shall be liable
personally thereon by reason of the issuance thereof.

§ 32-288. Eminent domain.—The commission shall have the
right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including
fixtures and improvements, which it may deem necessary to carry
out the purposes of this chapter after the adoption by it of a reso-
lution declaring that the acquisition of the property described
therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use. The
commission may exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant
to the provisions of any applicable statutory provisions now in
force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent
domain by any city, county or town.

Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired, pro-
vided, that no property belonging to any city, county or town or to
any government or to any religious. or charitable corporation may
be acquired without its consent. |