(a) The board shall determine the type, number, and location of buildings and property required to maintain an adequate hospital system.
(b) The board may lease property, including facilities and equipment, and may enter into a lease of all or part of the district’s buildings or other facilities with any person on terms considered to be in the best interest of the district. The term of the lease may not exceed 40 years.

Terms Used In Texas Special District Local Laws Code 1061.108

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005

(c) The district may acquire equipment for use in the district’s hospital system, including medical and health facilities, and mortgage or pledge the property as security for the payment of the purchase price. A contract entered into under this subsection must provide that the entire obligation be retired not later than the fifth anniversary of the date of the contract.
(d) The board on behalf of the district may hold, construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, regulate, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of any type of property, including land or equipment, or a property right, hospital facility, or hospital system on terms the board finds are in the best interest of the district’s inhabitants.
(e) The board may donate to another governmental entity or to a charitable organization any surplus personal property or equipment if the donation serves a public purpose and is accompanied by adequate consideration.