206.010. District created, how--territory included--name--powers. - Missouri Statutes

District created, how--territory included--name--powers.

206.010. 1. A hospital district may be created,incorporated and managed as provided in this chapter and mayexercise the powers herein granted or necessarily implied. Ahospital district may include municipalities or territory not inmunicipalities or both or territory in one or more counties;provided, that the provisions of this chapter are not effectivein counties having a population of more than four hundredthousand inhabitants. The territory contained within thecorporate limits of an existing hospital district shall not beincorporated in another hospital district.

2. When a hospital district is organized it shall be a bodycorporate and political subdivision of the state and shall beknown as ".............. Hospital District", and in that name maysue and be sued, levy and collect taxes within the limitations ofthis chapter and the constitution and issue bonds as hereinprovided.

(L. 1961 p. 524 § 2)

(1985) Statute provision that the hospital district "may sue and be sued" in its own name does not waive sovereign immunity for negligence actions. State ex rel. New Liberty Hospital District v. Pratt (Mo.banc), 687 S.W.2d 184.