Tex. Health & Safety Code § 263.050 · Subchapter C. BOARD OF MANAGERS
DISPENSARIES AND CLINICS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board of managers may establish and operate:
(1) an outpatient department or a free dispensary and clinic at the hospital or in the municipality located nearest the hospital; and
(2) a branch dispensary or clinic in a municipality that is located in the county and that has 5,000 or more inhabitants.
(b) The board of managers shall appoint a physician to serve at the dispensary or clinic, determine the time that the physician is required to spend at the dispensary or clinic, and fix the salary, if any, of the physician.
(c) The board of managers shall appoint a trained visiting nurse to serve in connection with the dispensary or clinic and the hospital. The board shall fix the salary of the nurse within the limits of the appropriation made for the salary by the commissioners court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.263.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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