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289 BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED, by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County that: 1. Under the provisions of N.C.G.S. §131E-15, et. seq., it is in the best interest of the public health and welfare of Cabarrus County to create a hospital authority to be identified as the "Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County". 2. At a minimum, the activities of the Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County shall include those functions of the Board of Health of the County assigned now or later by or through the General Statutes of North Carolina and/or the Board of Commissioners of the County. The Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County is granted the following powers by the Board of Commissioners: (1) To investigate public health, medical, and health conditions and the means of improving those conditions; (2) To determine where inadequate public health and medical facilities exist; (3) To accept donations of money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of the authority and to take title to the same from any person, firm, corporation or society; (4) To acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or otherwise any existing public health facilities; (5) To purchase, lease, obtain options upon, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property or any interest therein from any person, firm, corporation, city, county, or government; (6) To sell, exchange, transfer, assign, or pledge any real or personal property or any interest therein to any person, firm, corporation, city, county or government; (7) To own, hold, clear and improve property; (8) To borrow money upon its bonds, notes, debenture, or evidences of indebtedness, as provided for in G.S. §131E-16 and G.S. §131E-27; (9) To purchase real or personal property pursuant to G.S. §131E-32; (10) To appoint an administrator of a public health facility and necessary assistants, and any and all other employees necessary or advisable, to fix their compensation, to adopt necessary rules governing their employment, and to remove employees; (11) To delegate to its agents or employees any powers or duties as it may deem appropriate; (12) To employ its own counsel and legal staff; (13) To adopt, amend and repeal bylaws for the conduct of its business; (14) To enter into contracts for necessary supplies, equipment, or services for the operation of its business; (15) To appoint committees or subcommittees as it shall deem advisable, to fix their duties and responsibilities, and to do all things necessary in connection with the construction, repair, reconstruction, management, supervision, control and operation of the authority's business; (16) To establish procedures for health care providers to secure the privilege of practicing within any public health facility operated by the authority pursuant to Part B of Article 5 of Chapter 131E of the North Carolina General Statutes; (17) To establish reasonable rules governing the conduct of health care providers while on duty in any public health facility operated by the authority pursuant to Part B of Article 5 of Chapter 131E of the North Carolina General Statutes; (18) To provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration or repair of any public health facility, or any part of a facility; (19) To enter into any contracts or other arrangements with any municipality, other public agency of this or any other State or of the United States, or with any individual, private organization, or nonprofit association for the provision of public health, clinical, or similar services; (20) Subject to the provisions of N.C.G.S. Section 131E-23(c), to lease any public health facilities to or from any municipality, other public agency of this or any other state or of the United States, or to any individual, corporation, or association upon any terms and subject to any conditions as may carry out the purposes of this Part. Subject to subsection (c), the authority may provide for the lessee to use, operate, manage and control the public health facilities, and to exercise designated powers, in the same manner as the authority itself might do;