That the department of social services be, and is, hereby authorized and empowered to purchase from the board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners of any county of this state, wherein a tuberculosis hospital may now or hereafter have been erected and operated continuously under sections 205.380 to 205.450 for a period of more than five years, all right, title, and interest of said board of said tuberculosis hospital commissioners and of the county so erecting and operating such tuberculosis hospital, in and to the buildings, equipment and land constituting the site of such hospital, at and for the nominal consideration of one dollar, and the board of tuberculosis hospital commissioners of every such county is hereby authorized and empowered to convey title to such hospital buildings, equipment and site, to said department of social services, for and in consideration of the said sum of one dollar, same to be in full payment of the purchase price of said property; provided, that no such sale shall be made unless the same shall first have been authorized and directed by an order of the county commission of such county duly made and entered of record; and provided further, that whenever any such hospital shall be purchased by the department of social services as herein authorized, the conduct and management of said hospital shall thereafter be governed by the provisions of chapter 199, RSMo.

(RSMo 1939 § 15179)

Prior revision: 1929 § 13963