SENATE BILL NO. 450

A bill to amend 1913 PA 350, entitled

"An act to enable counties to establish and maintain public hospitals, levy a tax and issue bonds therefor, borrow money and issue bonds and notes therefor, elect hospital trustees, maintain training schools for nurses, maintain nursing home facilities, provide suitable means for the care of tuberculous persons, and to make possible the ultimate establishment of an adequate supply of hospitals,"

by amending section 17 (MCL 331.167).

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 17. (1) The board of hospital trustees shall have power to determine whether or not patients presented at said the public hospital for treatment are subjects for charity, and shall fix such the compensation for care of patients other than those unable to assist themselves, as the said board may deem considers proper, the receipts therefor to be paid to the treasurer of said the county and credited by him the treasurer to the hospital fund.

(2) The power of a board of hospital trustees under this act is subject to the hospital financial assistance act.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 449 of the 103rd Legislature is enacted into law.