C.R.S. Section 25-3-301
Establishment of public hospital

(1)

Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county which has a population of at least three thousand is presented with a petition signed by five hundred resident registered qualified electors, or by fifty percent of the resident registered qualified electors of such county, at least two hundred fifty of whom are residents of other than the county seat or town where it is proposed to locate such public hospital, asking that a public hospital board be appointed and that an annual tax be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a public hospital at a place in the county named therein, and which petition shall specify the maximum amount of money proposed to be expended in purchasing or building said hospital, such board of county commissioners shall have the power to create, by resolution, such public hospital board, to levy such tax, and to appropriate to such public hospital board the funds for purchasing or building such hospital and for maintaining the hospital, as well as the power to turn to the control and maintenance of such public hospital board any public or other hospital then being conducted by the board of county commissioners. Said tax shall not exceed three mills on the dollar for each year.

(2)

If it is proposed in such petition, or in a petition later filed with like number of resident registered qualified elector signers, to create an indebtedness of the county for purchasing, erecting, or enlarging of buildings or equipment for such public hospital, then the board of county commissioners shall submit such question in the manner provided by law for creating debt for erecting public buildings and, if the vote authorizes it, shall issue such bonds, so authorized, as the public hospital board requests. In those counties having a population of less than three thousand, a public hospital board may be created by the petition of not less than fifty-one percent of the resident registered qualified electors or two hundred such resident registered qualified electors, regardless of where they live in the county. In such counties, an annual levy of not to exceed five mills on the dollar shall be assessed to purchase, build, and maintain such a county hospital.

Source: Section 25-3-301 — Establishment of public hospital, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-25.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

25‑3‑100.5
Definitions 25‑3‑101
Hospitals - health facilities - licensed - definitions 25‑3‑102
License - application - issuance - certificate of compliance required - rules 25‑3‑102.1
Deemed status for certain facilities 25‑3‑102.5
Nursing facilities - consumer satisfaction survey - pilot survey 25‑3‑103
License denial or revocation - provisional license - rules 25‑3‑103.1
Health facilities general licensure cash fund 25‑3‑103.5
Nondiscrimination - hospital surgical privileges - hospital rules and regulations 25‑3‑103.7
Employment of physicians - when permissible - conditions - definitions - repeal 25‑3‑104
Reports 25‑3‑105
License - fee - rules - performance incentive system - penalty 25‑3‑106
Unincorporated associations 25‑3‑107
Disciplinary actions reported to Colorado medical board or podiatry board 25‑3‑108
Receivership 25‑3‑109
Quality management functions - confidentiality and immunity 25‑3‑110
Emergency contraception - definitions 25‑3‑111
Authentication of verbal orders - hospital policies or bylaws 25‑3‑113
Health-care facility stakeholder forum - creation - membership - duties 25‑3‑115
Stroke advisory board - creation - membership - duties - report - definition - repeal 25‑3‑116
Department recognition of national certification - suspension or revocation of recognition 25‑3‑117
Heart attack database - hospitals to report data on heart attack care 25‑3‑118
Hospital off-campus location - obtain and use unique NPI - definitions 25‑3‑119
Freestanding emergency departments - required notices - disclosures - rules - definitions 25‑3‑120
Regulation of surgical smoke - requirement to adopt a policy - definitions - applicability 25‑3‑121
Health-care facilities - emergency and nonemergency services - required disclosures - balance billing - deceptive trade practice - rules - definitions 25‑3‑122
Out-of-network facilities - emergency medical services - billing - payment - deceptive trade practice 25‑3‑123
Mental health facility pilot program - establishment - rules - definitions 25‑3‑124
Food donations to nonprofit organizations encouraged 25‑3‑125
Visitation rights - hospital patients - residents in nursing care facilities or assisted living residences - limitations - definitions - short title 25‑3‑126
Health facilities - requirements related to labor and childbirth - rules - definitions 25‑3‑127
Emergency room intake data - marijuana use - annual report 25‑3‑128
Hospitals - nurses, nurse aides, and EMS providers - staffing requirements - enforcement - waiver - rules - definitions 25‑3‑129
Office of saving people money on health care - study - report 25‑3‑130
Intimate examination of sedated or unconscious patient - informed consent required - rules - definitions 25‑3‑301
Establishment of public hospital 25‑3‑302
Board of trustees 25‑3‑303
Organization of trustees 25‑3‑304
Trustees - powers and duties 25‑3‑304.5
Hospital collaborative agreements - additional powers 25‑3‑305
Vacancies - removal for cause 25‑3‑306
Right of eminent domain 25‑3‑307
Building requirements 25‑3‑308
Improvements, operations, or enlargements 25‑3‑309
Hospital fees 25‑3‑310
Rules and regulations 25‑3‑311
Donations permitted 25‑3‑312
Training school for nurses 25‑3‑313
Lease of hospital 25‑3‑314
Charge for professional services 25‑3‑315
Records of hospital 25‑3‑401
Department to administer plan 25‑3‑403
Department to administer federal mental health construction funds 25‑3‑601
Definitions 25‑3‑602
Health facility reports - advisory committee - creation - duties 25‑3‑603
Department reports 25‑3‑604
Privacy 25‑3‑605
Confidentiality 25‑3‑606
Penalties 25‑3‑607
Regulatory oversight 25‑3‑701
Short title 25‑3‑703
Hospital report card - rules - exemption 25‑3‑704
Fees 25‑3‑705
Health-care charge transparency - hospital charge report - definitions
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 25-3-301’s source at colorado​.gov