C.R.S. Section 25-3-302
Board of trustees

(1)

If a board of county commissioners decides to create a public hospital board of trustees, levy an annual tax, and appropriate funds to purchase, erect, and maintain or turn over to the public hospital board of trustees control of a county hospital, the board of county commissioners shall proceed at once to appoint to the public hospital board of trustees, for designated terms, seven trustees chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for office. All of the trustees must be residents of the county, and none may be an elected or appointed state, county, or city official. Nothing in this article 3 requires a licensed physician to be appointed to a public hospital board of trustees; however, if a licensed physician is appointed to a public hospital board of trustees, membership on that board is limited to one licensed physician at any given time. The seven appointees constitute the public hospital board of trustees for the public hospital. The public hospital board of trustees is a body corporate under the name “Board of Trustees for ............... Hospital”, the name of the hospital being inserted in the blank.

(2)

One of the trustees, so designated in such original appointment, shall hold office until the second Tuesday of January following his appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the second January following his appointment, two until the second Tuesday of the third January following their appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the fourth January following his appointment, and two until the second Tuesday of the fifth January from their appointment. Thereafter, the term of office of each appointee shall be five years from the end of the preceding term. At the expiration of the term of each of said trustees, the office shall be filled by appointment of the board of county commissioners.

(3)

Intentionally left blank —Ed.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3)(b) of this section, in counties with a population of less than three thousand, the board of public hospital trustees shall consist of five citizens at large that have the same requirements with reference to their fitness for such office as all other counties. One of the trustees, so designated in such original appointment, shall hold office until the second Tuesday of January following their appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the second January following their appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the third January following their appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the fourth January following their appointment, and one until the second Tuesday of the fifth January following their appointment. The term of office and the method of filling vacancies shall be the same as for all other counties.

(b)

The board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than three thousand that creates a public hospital board of trustees may determine, by a resolution of the board of county commissioners, that the public hospital board of trustees shall consist of seven, rather than five, citizens at large that have the same requirements with reference to their fitness for such office as all other counties. For a public hospital board of trustees that is created after August 7, 2023, and that consists of seven members pursuant to this subsection (3)(b), the trustees shall hold office as is specified in subsection (2) of this section. For a public hospital board of trustees that is in existence when the board of county commissioners determines that the public hospital board of trustees will consist of seven members, one of the additional trustees shall hold office until the second Tuesday of the third January following their appointment, and the other additional trustee shall hold office until the second Tuesday of the fifth January from their appointment. The term of office and the method of filling vacancies shall be the same as for all other counties.

Source: Section 25-3-302 — Board of trustees, 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

§ 25-3-302’s source at colorado​.gov