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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 221.002

PURPOSE; CONSTRUCTION

Known as the Health Facilities Development Act

The act spans §§ 221–221 (50 sections).

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to enable a municipality, county, or hospital district to create a corporation with the power to provide, expand, and improve health facilities that the corporation determines are needed to improve the adequacy, cost, and accessibility of health care, research, and education in the state.

(b) The legislature intends that a corporation created under this chapter be a public corporation, constituted authority, and instrumentality authorized to issue bonds on behalf of its sponsoring entity for the purposes of Section 103, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 103). This chapter and the rules and rulings issued under this chapter shall be construed according to this intent.

(c) This chapter shall be liberally construed to conform to the intent of the legislature expressed by this section.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.