The police juries may, under such regulations as they may prescribe, appropriate annually and use from parish funds, sums of money not to exceed three hundred dollars in aid of charity hospitals or other similar institutions of adjoining states, when the charity hospitals or other institutions are freely used, without cost, by the indigent sick or wounded citizens of the parishes.
La. R.S. 46:5
Parish appropriations in aid of charity hospitals of adjoining states
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