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<br />(14) To enter into contracts for necessary supplies, equipment, or services
<br /> for the operation of its business;
<br />(15) To appoint committees or subcommittees as it shall deem advisable, to
<br /> fix their duties and responsibilities, and to do all things necessary
<br /> in connection with the construction, repair, reconstruction,
<br /> management, super~ision, control and operation of the authority's
<br /> business;
<br />(16) To establish procedures for health care providers to secure the
<br /> privilege of practicing within any public health facility operated by
<br /> the authority pursuant to Part B of Article 5 of this Chapter:
<br />(17) To establish reasonable rules governing the conduct of health care
<br /> providers while on duty in any public health facility operated by the
<br /> authority pursuant to Part B of Article 5 of this Chapter;
<br />(18) To provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement,
<br /> alteration or repair of any public health facility, or any part of a
<br /> facility;
<br />(19) To enter into any contracts or other arrangements with any
<br /> municipality, other public agency of this er any other State or of the
<br /> United States, er with any individual, private organization, or
<br /> nonprofit association for the provision cf public health, clinical,
<br /> or similar services;
<br />(20) Subject to subsection (c), to lease any public health facilities to
<br /> or from any municipality, other public agency of this or any other
<br /> state ur 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, an'd 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 he
<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 /> subJ ecl 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;
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