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<br /> United States, or with any individual, private organization, or
<br /> nonprofit association for the provision of public health, clinical,
<br /> or similar services;
<br />(20) Subject to the subsection (c), to lease any public health facilities
<br /> to or from any municipality, other public agency of this or any other
<br /> state or of the United States, or to any individual, corporation, or
<br /> association upon any terms and subject to any conditions as may carry
<br /> out the purposes of this Part. Subject to subsection (c), the
<br /> authority may provide for the lessee to use, operate, manage and
<br /> control the public health facilities, and to exercise designated
<br /> powers, in the same manner as the authority itself might do;
<br /> (21) To act as an agent for the federal, State or local government in
<br /> connection with the acquisition, construction, operation or management
<br /> of a public health facility, or any part thereof;
<br />(22) To arrange with the State, its subdivisions and agencies, and any
<br /> county or city, to the extent it is within the scope of their
<br /> respective functions,
<br /> (a) To cause the services customarily provided by each to be
<br /> rendered for the benefit of the public health authority,
<br /> (b) To acquire property, options or property rights for the
<br /> furnishing of property or services for a public health
<br /> facility, and
<br /> (c) To provide and maintain sewage, water and other facilities for
<br /> public health facilities;
<br />(23) To insure the property or the operations of the authority against
<br /> risks as the authority may deem advisable;
<br />(24) To invest any funds held in reserves or sinking funds, or any funds
<br /> not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in
<br /> which trustees, guardians, executors, administrators, and others
<br /> acting in a fiduciary capacity may legally invest funds under their
<br /> control;
<br />(25) To sue and be sued;
<br />(26) To have a seal and to alter it at pleasure;
<br />(27) To have perpetual succession;
<br />(28) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or
<br /> convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority;
<br />(29) To remove vehicles parked on land owned or leased by the public health
<br /> authority in areas clearly designated as no parking or restricted
<br /> parking zones. An owner of a removed vehicle as a condition of
<br /> regaining possession of the vehicle, shall reimburse the public health
<br /> authority for all reasonable costs, not to exceed Fifty Dollars
<br /> ($50.00), incidental to the removal and storage of the vehicle
<br /> provided that the designation of the area as a no parking or
<br /> restricted parking zone clearly indicates that the owner may be
<br /> subject to these costs;
<br />(30) To plan and operate public health facilities;
<br />(31) To provide teaching and instruction programs and schools for medical
<br /> students, interns, physicians, nurses, technicians and other health
<br /> care professionals;
<br />(32) To provide and maintain continuous public health services;
<br />(33) To adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations governing the care,
<br /> conduct, and treatment of patients;
<br />(34) To establish a fee schedule for services received from public health
<br /> facilities and make the services available regardless of ability to
<br /> pay;
<br />(35) To maintain and operate isolation facilities for the care and
<br /> treatment of contagious, or other similar diseases;
<br />(36) To sell a public health facility pursuant to N.C.G.S. 131E-8; and
<br />(37) To agree to limitations upon the exercise of any powers conferred upon
<br /> the public health authority by this Part in connection with any loan
<br /> by a government.
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<br /> NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, the Public Health Authority of Cabarrus
<br />County shall neither have, exercise nor possess any powers identified in
<br />131E-23 which authorizes it to own or operate an acute care hospital facility,
<br />nor may the authority exercise the right of eminent domain granted under the
<br />provisions of N.C.G.S. 131E-24 without a separate express resolution therefor
<br />adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
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<br /> 3. The Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County shall have seven (7)
<br />Commiaslonera (the "Gommiasioners"), all of whom shall be appointed or
<br />reappointed by the Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners for Cabarrus County,
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