Each health care center governed by sections 38a-175 to 38a-194, inclusive, may expend sums, including sums in the capital reserve fund as provided in subsection (c) of section 38a-183, for the following objects and purposes:

1. (1) To purchase or lease real property for the purpose of construction of a medical service facility or center, an office building, or other facility useful or necessary in the implementation of its program;
2. (2) to purchase, lease or renovate all or part of an existing medical service facility or center, an office building, or other facility useful or necessary in the implementation of its program or to lease a part of an existing hospital;
3. (3) to amortize capital costs for the purchase, construction or renovation of a medical service facility or center, an office building, or other facility useful or necessary in the implementation of its program;
4. (4) to purchase or lease equipment and such property as may be required in the delivery of health care and the transaction of business of the health care center;
5. (5) to construct facilities, including a medical service facility or center, an office building, or other facility useful or necessary in the implementation of its program, and to alter, improve or enlarge such facilities;
6. (6) to make loans, including loans to a corporation under its control, for any of the objects and purposes heretofore prescribed;
7. (7) to do any or all of the foregoing jointly or in association with another health care center, or jointly or in association with any other person, including any other corporation affiliated with a health care center.

(1971, P.A. 445, S. 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 229, 348; P.A. 82-415, S. 8, 18; 82-472, S. 157, 183; P.A. 90-68, S. 8, 16; P.A. 17-198, S. 23.)

History: P.A. 77-614 made insurance department a division within the department of business regulation with commissioner as its head, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance division as independent department with commissioner as its head and abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 82-415 substituted references to health care centers for references to corporations, eliminated the powers of health care centers with respect to hospitals, except for leasing apart of an existing hospital, and deleted provision which specified that corporations governed by the chapter may be organized and operated only for charitable, educational and scientific purposes; P.A. 82-472 made technical correction in Subsec. (a); P.A. 90-68 amended Subsec. (a) to include expenditures of funds for lease or renovation of real property, inserted new Subdiv. (4) to allow the purchase or lease of property required to transact the business of the health care center, renumbering as necessary, and deleted former Subsec. (b) which had stated that capital reserve fund moneys not to be considered a limitation in commissioner's determination whether or not to approve expenditures; Sec. 33-179l transferred to Sec. 38a-184 in 1991; P.A. 17-198 replaced reference to Sec. 38a-192 with reference to Sec. 38a-194, effective July 1, 2017.