(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.
One of the trustees, so designated in such original appointment, shall hold office untilthe 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.
In those counties having a population of less than three thousand, the board of publichospital trustees shall consist of five citizens at large having the same requirements with reference to their fitness for such office as all other counties. One of said 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, one until the second Tuesday of the third January following his appointment, one until the second Tuesday of the fourth January following his appointment, and one until the second Tuesday of the fifth January following his appointment. The term of office and the method of filling vacancies shall be the same as for all other counties.
Source: L. 43: p. 276, § 2. L. 47: p. 503, § 1. CSA: C. 78, § 151(2). L. 53: p. 343, § 2.
CRS 53: § 66-7-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 66-7-2. L. 84: (1) amended, p. 752, § 1, effective March 5. L.
2019: (1) amended, (HB 19-1065), ch. 90, p. 334, § 1, effective August 2.