{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3250.6","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3250.6","heading":"Authority, powers, and duties of community hospital","body":"public trust authority – Conflict of interest – Compliance with\n\nstatutes – Audits – Issuance of bonds.\n\nA. 1. Each community hospital public trust authority shall be\n\na governmental entity and a body politic and corporate with powers\n\nof government and with authority to establish and operate a hospital\n\ndistrict and to exercise the rights, privileges and functions\n\nspecified by the Oklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust\n\nAuthorities Act and Sections 176 through 180.3 of Title 60 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes.\n\n2. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as authorizing\n\nany hospital district to levy or collect taxes or to pledge the\n\ncredit of the state or any subdivision of this state.\n\nB. Each community hospital public trust authority shall have\n\nthe power to:\n\n1. Adopt bylaws and promulgate rules for the regulation of its\n\naffairs and the conduct of its business;\n\n2. Adopt an official seal;\n\n3. Act as a vehicle for securing funds for education, indigent\n\nmedical care, trauma, emergency and other health care services;\n\n4. Coordinate the delivery and efficiency of health care\n\nservices within the hospital district established pursuant to the\n\nOklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust Authorities Act;\n\n5. Sue and be sued;\n\n6. Make and enter into all contracts necessary or incidental to\n\nthe performance of its duties and the execution of its powers\n\npursuant to the Oklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust\n\nAuthorities Act;\n\n7. Purchase or lease equipment, furniture, materials and\n\nsupplies, and incur such other expenses as may be necessary to\n\ndischarge its duties and responsibilities or to implement the\n\nprovisions of the Oklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust\n\nAuthorities Act;\n\n8. Accept grants and other funds from agencies of this state\n\nand the United States of America, from other government entities, or\n\nfrom any corporation or agency created or designed by the United\n\nStates or other government entity, and to enter into such agreements\n\nas the United States or such corporation or agency may require;\n\n9. Accept grants and gifts from private individuals and\n\norganizations;\n\n10. Accept and make intergovernmental transfers authorized by\n\nstate law. A hospital district may make intergovernmental transfers\n\nto the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to the extent permitted by\n\nstate or federal law;\n\n11. Issue bonds and other evidences of indebtedness, and to\n\nsecure the payment thereof by mortgage, pledge, or deed of trust of,\n\nor any other encumbrance upon, any or all of its then-owned or\n\nafter-acquired real or personal property, assets, franchises, or\n\nrevenues;\n\n12. Become a member of other cooperatives, joint ventures,\n\npartnerships, corporations or other legal entities or to own stock\n\ntherein;\n\n13. Conduct its business and exercise its powers within or\n\nwithout this state;\n\n14. Assess fees, levies, assessments, or charges upon and\n\nenforce the payment of such fees, levies, assessments or charges\n\nagainst any hospital located within the geographical boundaries of\n\nits hospital district and to remit such monies to the Oklahoma\n\nHealth Care Authority for purposes of meeting the state’s share for\n\nthe supplemental Medicaid programs to the extent and manner\n\nauthorized by federal law. Fees, levies, assessments or charges may\n\nbe enforced by a community hospital public trust authority through\n\ncivil action brought in the district court in the county in which\n\nthe community hospital public trust authority is located;\n\n15. Appoint officers, agents and employees, prescribe their\n\nduties and fix their compensation;\n\n16. Engage in long-term planning for the operation and\n\nmanagement of a community hospital public trust authority;\n\n17. Establish petty cash funds as needed and provide for\n\nappropriate accounting procedures and controls; and\n\n18. Do all other things necessary and proper to implement the\n\nprovisions of the Oklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust\nescribe their\n\nduties and fix their compensation;\n\n16. Engage in long-term planning for the operation and\n\nmanagement of a community hospital public trust authority;\n\n17. Establish petty cash funds as needed and provide for\n\nappropriate accounting procedures and controls; and\n\n18. Do all other things necessary and proper to implement the\n\nprovisions of the Oklahoma Community Hospitals Public Trust\n\nAuthorities Act.\n\nC. No director or officer of a community hospital public trust\n\nauthority shall vote on any issue before the authority in which such\n\ndirector or officer has a direct interest in any contract or for any\n\nwork by or for the community hospital public trust authority.\n\nD. The trustees of each community hospital public trust\n\nauthority created pursuant to the Oklahoma Community Hospitals\n\nPublic Trust Authorities Act shall make and adopt bylaws for the due\n\nand orderly administration and regulation of the affairs of the\n\ncommunity hospital public trust authority. All bylaws and\n\namendments thereto of a community hospital public trust authority\n\nshall be submitted in writing to each beneficiary of the community\n\nhospital public trust authority, the Governor of this state and to\n\nthe Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the\n\nPresident Pro Tempore of the State Senate.\n\nE. No appropriation of state funds shall be made to any\n\ncommunity hospital public trust authority. Each authority may\n\nreceive the funds it may be entitled to receive pursuant to the\n\nMedicaid program as administered by the Oklahoma Health Care\n\nAuthority.\n\nF. Each community hospital public trust authority shall comply\n\nwith:\n\n1. The annual budget provisions of the state requiring a\n\nbalanced budget. A copy of the budget shall be submitted annually\n\nto the Governor and to each beneficiary of the community hospital\n\npublic trust authority;\n\n2. The Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974;\n\n3. The Oklahoma Open Records Act;\n\n4. The Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; and\n\n5. The provisions of Sections 176 through 180.3 of Title 60 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes and the Community Hospitals Public Trust\n\nAuthorities Act.\n\nG. 1. Each community hospital public trust authority shall\n\nprovide for complete financial audits on all accounts of the\n\ncommunity hospital public trust authority and authorize periodic\n\naudits by an independent external auditing agency. Such audits\n\nshall be performed annually in a format approved by the State\n\nAuditor and Inspector. The audits shall be made in accordance with\n\ngenerally accepted auditing standards and government auditing\n\nstandards. Financial statements shall be prepared in accordance\n\nwith generally accepted accounting principles. Such audits shall be\n\nsubmitted to the State Auditor and Inspector and to the beneficiary\n\nof the community hospital public trust authority for review.\n\n2. In addition to the audits specified by this subsection, the\n\nState Auditor and Inspector, whenever the State Auditor and\n\nInspector deems it appropriate, and at least once each five (5)\n\nyears, or upon receipt of a request to do so from the beneficiary of\n\na community hospital public trust authority, the Governor, the\n\nAttorney General, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the\n\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives or the community hospital\n\npublic trust authority shall conduct a special audit of the\n\nauthority. Such audit shall be paid from the funds of the community\n\nhospital public trust authority.\n\nH. 1. Except for acts of dishonesty, no trustee of a community\n\nhospital public trust authority shall be charged personally with any\n\nliability whatsoever by reason of any act or omission committed or\n\nsuffered in the performance of such trust or in the operation of the\n\ntrust property.\n\n2. A community hospital public trust authority established\n\npursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Hospitals\nt for acts of dishonesty, no trustee of a community\n\nhospital public trust authority shall be charged personally with any\n\nliability whatsoever by reason of any act or omission committed or\n\nsuffered in the performance of such trust or in the operation of the\n\ntrust property.\n\n2. A community hospital public trust authority established\n\npursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Community Hospitals\n\nPublic Trust Authorities Act shall be covered by The Governmental\n\nTort Claims Act.\n\n3. Officers, employees, agents, independent contractors and\n\nemployees of independent contractors of hospitals participating in\n\nthe hospital district shall not be covered by The Governmental Tort\n\nClaims Act. The provisions of this paragraph shall not affect the\n\nimmunity provided to hospitals or to officers and employees of\n\nhospitals covered by Section 152 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.\n\n4. In no event shall the state, county or municipality be\n\nconstrued to be or become liable for any act, omission or obligation\n\nof a trustee or of the community hospital public trust authority.\n\nI. A community hospital public trust authority may be\n\nterminated by agreement of the trustees of this state; provided,\n\nthat such community hospital public trust authority shall not be\n\nterminated while there exists any outstanding contractual\n\nobligations chargeable against the trust property.\n\nJ. 1. Compliance with the provisions of Sections 176 through\n\n180.3 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes and the Oklahoma\n\nCommunity Hospitals Public Trust Authorities Act by a community\n\nhospital public trust authority shall be and constitute a binding\n\ncontract with the county or counties and municipality beneficiaries\n\nfor the acceptance of the beneficial interest in the trust property\n\nby the designated beneficiary and the application of the proceeds of\n\nthe trust property and its operation for the purposes, and in\n\naccordance with the stipulations, of the public trust instrument.\n\n2. Each community hospital public trust authority shall be the\n\nregularly constituted authority of the beneficiary for the\n\nperformance of the functions for which the community hospital public\n\ntrust authority shall have been created.\n\nK. 1. A community hospital public trust authority shall have\n\nthe power and duty to make and issue bonds and to pledge revenues of\n\nthe community hospital public trust authority subject to the\n\nOklahoma Bond Oversight and Reform Act. Nothing in the Oklahoma\n\nCommunity Hospitals Public Trust Authorities Act shall authorize the\n\nissuance of any bonds by a community hospital public trust authority\n\npayable other than from revenues of the community hospital public\n\ntrust authority.\n\n2. Community hospital public trust authority revenue bonds\n\nissued under the provisions of this subsection shall not at any time\n\nbe deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political\n\nsubdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state\n\nor of any political subdivision, but such bonds shall be payable\n\nsolely from the funds herein provided.\n\n3. Such revenue bonds shall contain on the face thereof a\n\nstatement to the effect that neither the state nor the community\n\nhospital public trust authority shall be obligated to pay the same\n\nor the interest thereon except from the revenues of the project or\n\nprojects for which they are issued and that neither the faith and\n\ncredit nor the taxing power of the state or any political\n\nsubdivision thereof is pledged, or may hereafter be pledged, to the\n\npayment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds.\n\n4. The interest income derived from any obligation issued by a\n\ncommunity hospital public trust authority shall be exempt from the\n\ntax imposed pursuant to Section 2355 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"28924f8b6ecb41573ad230356144f8eb084bcb02686572c83dff1519b7325b83","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3250.5","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3250.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}