Tex. Health & Safety Code § 264.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CREATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioners court of a county by order may create a county hospital authority and designate the name of the authority if the commissioners court finds that creation of the authority is in the best interest of the county and its residents.
(b) The authority is composed only of the territory in the county.
(c) The authority is a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the state.
(d) The authority does not have taxing power.
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.264.htm
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- sha256 ef3c567dc321012e30a84154f56b1f6eb6ae0fbfcf607f90a2017b7a5507e358
- 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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