In order to raise moneys which are required to pay the cost of diagnostic and therapeutical equipment for use in the hospital operated by The Medical University of South Carolina (The Medical University), the Board of Trustees of the University with the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority of South Carolina (the state board) may borrow such amounts as shall be required for such purposes. Not more than two million dollars of debt created pursuant to this section shall be outstanding at any time.
The borrowing authorized by this section shall be in the form of notes of The Medical University payable solely from charges for the service or use rendered by the equipment. Upon its acquisition, an appropriate schedule of charges shall be placed in effect and maintained. All moneys received from the charges shall be remitted to the State Treasurer and deposited in a special fund to be applied to the payment of the principal and interest on the notes. With the approval of the state board any surplus in such fund may be used as a revolving fund to purchase additional diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
No note may be issued hereunder unless the use of its proceeds, its terms, its maturities and the service charge to be imposed for the use of the purchased equipment is approved by the state board.
The charges imposed by authority of this section shall be in addition to the "special charge" established and maintained pursuant to Section 14 of act 1654 of 1972 imposed to secure in part all Plant Improvement Bonds of The Medical University now or hereafter issued.
HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 219, Part II, Section 17; 1978 Act No. 644, Part II, Section 42.