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Honorable Homer L. Moss, Page 3
that during the time of its operation in the
county the hospital has been rimbursed by the
Comgtssioner 's Court of the county for half of
the cost of caring for certain indigent patients
when the suns received from such county amount
to not over 16% of the services donated to the
care and treatment of charity oases generally
over the same period of timely"
Article 8, Seetion 2 of the State Constitution
provides that s
"s Legislature may by general laws exempt
from taxation . . . intitutions of purely public
charity;I and all laws exempting property from
taxation ---other than the above mentioned shall be
null and void."
Section .7 of Article 7150, Veasrnn's Annotated Civil
Statutes, was elated in pursuance to the above institutional
provision, ad reads as follows s
. "7. Public hsarities.--All buildings be-
Slongipgto insltcation of purely public charity,
togther with the lands belongonging to an d oa-
pied b safth institutions not leased or other-
ise ..used with a view to. profit, unless uich
S rents d profits and al moneys and re d dit are
S-': approparated by such institutions solely tQ sus-
' "tam t;oh instit; tions and for the benefit of
the s ik a disabled sabers and ''their faalles
and the bri. t of .the am, or for the snte-
nnane"of persons when nabl to provide for the-
selves. whether such pesons a:r members of such
institutasidas or not. An insln tuition of purely
public ch rity under this article i1 one which
dispenses it aid to it. mabers and other in
sickness. or distress, or at death, without it-
'gard to pOvetrty 6r Piches of the reolpient, also
when the funds, property and assets of such in-
stitutions are placed and bound by its lav to
relieve, aid and administer in any way to the
relief of its members when in want, sickness and
distress, and provide homes for its helpless and
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5527, text, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth262803/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.