Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                         CHAPTER 32-H.F.No. 131 
           An act relating to Meeker county; authorizing the 
          county board to provide for an addition to the county 
          hospital. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [COSTS.] 
    Meeker county, by a majority vote of its board of 
commissioners, may enter into a project for the construction of 
an addition to its presently existing county hospital without 
submitting the question of the need for the project to a vote by 
the people.  This exemption from Minnesota Statutes, chapter 
376, shall apply only if the entire cost of the addition is 
$435,000 or less and is provided by a depreciation fund already 
in existence, and does not require the borrowing of funds by the 
county, through the issuance of bonds or otherwise. 
    Sec. 2.  [CONSTRUCTION; LOCATION; EQUIPMENT.] 
    The addition to the current hospital may include 
construction of buildings physically separate from the present 
hospital building facility, as well as additions to the present 
building, if the buildings are on the hospital premises, Block 
D, Butler's Addition to the city of Litchfield.  The cost of the 
addition to the present hospital facility shall include the cost 
of materials necessary for its construction and equipment 
necessary to properly equip it. 
    Sec. 3.  [OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.] 
    This act does not effect the ability of the hospital board 
to approve funds for improvements or remodeling of the present 
hospital facility under other law. 
    Sec. 4.  [MUST COMPLY WITH THE HOSPITAL BED MORATORIUM.] 
    Minnesota Statutes, section 144.551, applies to any project 
authorized by this act.  Nothing in this act authorizes an 
increase in the licensed capacity of the hospital, or the 
licensing, relocation, or redistribution of hospital beds, 
except as allowed under Minnesota Statutes, section 144.551, 
subdivision 1, paragraph (b). 
    Sec. 5.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act takes effect the day after the Meeker county board 
complies with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 
3.  It expires December 31, 1996. 
    Presented to the governor April 18, 1991 
    Signed by the governor April 22, 1991, 3:12 p.m.