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<br />To enter into contracts for necessary supplies, equipment, or services
<br />for the operation of its business;
<br />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, supervision, control and operation of the authority's
<br />business;
<br />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 />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 />To provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement,
<br />alteration or repair of any public health facility, or any part of a
<br />facility;
<br />To enter into any contracts or other arrangements with any
<br />municipality, other public agency of this or any other State or of the
<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 />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 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 />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 />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 />To insure the property or the operations of the authority against
<br />risks as the authority may deem advisable;
<br />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 />To sue and be sued;
<br />To have a seal and to alter it at pleasure;
<br />To have perpetual succession;
<br />To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or
<br />convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority;
<br />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 />To plan and operate public health facilities;
<br />To provide teaching and instruction programs and schools for medical
<br />students, interns, physicians, nurses, technicians and other health
<br />care professionals;
<br />To provide and maintain continuous public health services;
<br />To adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations governing the care,
<br />conduct, and treatment of patients;
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