(a) As used in this section, the term “hospital” means a medical care facility as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-425, and amendments thereto, and includes within its meaning any clinic, school of nursing, long-term care facility and child-care facility operated in connection with the operation of the medical care facility.

(b) Any person desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate, or to bequeath or devise any such property, for the purpose of founding, establishing, building, furnishing or maintaining a hospital shall have the right to vest the title to the money or property so donated, bequeathed or devised in the board of directors or trustees of any city hospital that may be provided for by law or to vest such title in any city of this state, and when such gift, bequest or devise shall be to any city, if there is no public hospital belonging to or under the control of the city, then the mayor of the city with the consent of the council, or the commissioners of any city under commission government, shall immediately name a five member board of trustees for the hospital, and upon qualification of the trustees, the title shall vest in the trustees, and in any such case, the title shall thereafter be held and controlled by the board according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property; and as to such property, the board shall be held and considered to be special trustee. At any time subsequent to the initial appointment of a five member board of trustees, the governing body by resolution may increase the number of trustees to serve on the board to seven or nine members. In the event the governing body does not increase by resolution the number of members to serve on the board of trustees, the board of trustees shall consist of five members.

Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-1615

  • Bequeath: To gift property by will.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands but does not imply a sealed instrument. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Employee: means an individual employed in this state by an employer. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,133
  • Employer: means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation or any other entity that is legally doing business in this state. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,133
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;

    (b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;

    (c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;

    (d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;

    (e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and

    (f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692

  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(c) The members of the first board shall hold office for one, two, three, four and five years respectively. Each year the term of one member shall expire and a successor shall be appointed for a term of five years. In case of a vacancy occurring other than by expiration of term of office a successor shall be appointed for the unexpired term. All appointments shall be made in the same manner as original appointments.

(d) Whenever the number of members of an existing board of trustees is increased by resolution of the governing body of the city, the governing body shall provide by resolution for the expiration of the terms of the members appointed to the new positions on the board of trustees to coincide with the expiration of the terms of the members serving on the board of trustees at the time of the creation of the new positions so that no more than a simple majority of the members of the board of trustees is appointed at the same time. Upon the expiration of the terms of those originally appointed pursuant to this subsection, their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years.

(e) The board of hospital trustees shall be authorized to enter into an employment contract to engage the services of an administrator or chief executive officer to manage the affairs of the hospital and which establishes compensation for such services and the terms of engagement; to establish and fund pension and deferred compensation plans for hospital employees; and to procure contracts insuring hospital employees, their dependents, or any class or classes thereof under a policy or policies of life, disability income, health, accident, accidental death and dismemberment, and hospital, surgical and medical expense insurance. The employee‘s contribution, if any, to the plan and to the premium for such insurance may be deducted by the employer from the employee’s salary when authorized in writing by the respective employee so to do. The board may also expend funds deemed necessary in the recruitment or retention of professional staff including, but not limited to, the purchase of professional liability insurance for such staff.

(f) The person making a deed or gift, or the testator, may provide for an advisor or advisory board not exceeding five persons in number to advise and aid in carrying out the wishes of the donor or testator, but such advisor or advisors shall have no vote on the board of trustees unless a legal member thereof.

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