Terms Used In Michigan Laws 331.503

  • Hospital: includes public health centers and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care. See Michigan Laws 331.502
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   There is hereby established in the executive branch of the state government an office of hospital survey and construction, which shall be administered by a full-time salaried director appointed by the governor, to serve at the pleasure of the governor. This office shall constitute the sole agency of the state for the purpose of (1) making an inventory of existing hospitals, surveying the need for construction of hospitals, and developing a program of hospital construction as provided in Part B of this act, and (2) developing and administering a state plan for the construction of public and other non-profit hospitals as provided in Part C of this act.