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Office of the flttornep general
btate of Texas
DAN MORALES 22 1995
ATTORNEY GENERAL December
rhe Honorable John T. Montford Letter Opinion No,.95-088
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romance Committee Re: Whether the salary and expenses of
meas State Senate the medical examiner's office are authorized
.O. Box 12068 medical and hospital care expenses which
ustin, Texas 78711 can be funded by the Lubbock County
Hospital District (ID# 32192)
)ear Senator Montford:
You have requested an opinion from this office regarding the authority of the
Lubbock County Hospital District to fund the salaries and expenses of the Lubbock
County Medical Examiner's Office. On behalf of the Lubbock County Commissioners
Court and the Lubbock County Hospital District, you specifically ask whether the salaries
and expenses of such office can be funded by the hospital district as authorized medical
and hospital care expenses.
Article IX, section 9 of the Texas Constitution authorizes the creation of county
hospital districts and provides:
The Legislature may by general or special law provide fbor the
creation, establishment, maintenance and operation of hospital
districts composed of one or more counties or all or any part of one
or more counties with power to issue bonds for the purchase,
construction, acquisition, repair or renovation of buildings and
improvements and equipping same, for hospital purposes; providing
for the transfer to the hospital district of the title to any land,
buildings, improvements and equipment located wholly within the
district which may be jointly or separately owned by any city, town
or county, providing that any district so created shall assume full
reponsibilityfor proving medical and hospital carefor its nedy
inhabitants.... [Emphasis added.]
Such districts may be created by either general or special laws. Moore v. Edna Hasp.
Dist., 449 S.W.2d 508 ('rex. Civ. App.-Corpus Christi 1969, writ refd n.r.e.); see
V.T.C.S. 4494q; see also 2 GEORGE D. BRADEN, THE CONSITTION OF THE STATE OF
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO95-088, text, December 22, 1995; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth277030/m1/1/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.