N.M. Stat. Ann. § 3-44-1
A municipality may:
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-45-1, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1973, ch. 258, § 135; 2001, ch. 291, § 1; 2007, ch. 196, § 1.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department.
Cross references. — For health care authority department, see 9-8-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
For licensing health facilities under the Public Health Act, see 24-1-5 NMSA 1978 et seq.
For the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act, see 27-5-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
For the Medical Malpractice Act, see 41-5-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, amended Subsection F to authorize a municipality to consider in-kind service to sick and indigent persons as part of the consideration in the lease of a hospital.
The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, added the proviso in Subsection F, and substituted "human services" for "health and social services" in Subsection G.
Nurses' home. — Where a benefactor of the Ruidoso hospital has offered to construct a nurses' home on the hospital property and to lease the nurses' home from the hospital board and pay as rental all of the receipts from the home except $100 per month, in view of the fact that the addition of a nurses' home to the hospital would be advantageous and would tend to promote the purposes of the Hospital Act, there is ample statutory authority to carry out the agreement along the lines indicated. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5765.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 40 Am. Jur. 2d Hospitals and Asylums § 3.
Trust for hospital, power of municipality to accept and administer, 10 A.L.R. 1376.
Hospitals for insane, restrictions on location, 17 A.L.R. 526.
Power of municipal corporation to provide hospital, 25 A.L.R. 612.
Civil liability of landowner for killing or injuring trespassing dog, 15 A.L.R.2d 859.
Zoning regulations expressly referring to hospitals, sanitariums, nursing homes, validity and construction of, 27 A.L.R.3d 1022.
Exclusion of or discrimination against physician or surgeon by hospital authorities, 37 A.L.R.3d 645.
Validity and construction of statute requiring establishment of "need" as precondition to operation of hospital or other facilities for the care of sick people, 61 A.L.R.3d 278.
Liability for wrongful autopsy, 18 A.L.R.4th 858.
Liability of hospital for injury to person invited or permitted to accompany patient during emergency room treatment, 90 A.L.R.4th 478.
Liability of hospital, physician, or other medical personnel for death or injury from use of drugs to stimulate labor, 1 A.L.R.5th 243.
Liability of hospital, physician, or other medical personnel for death or injury to mother or child caused by improper administration of, or failure to administer, anesthesia or tranquilizers, or similar drugs, during labor and delivery, 1 A.L.R.5th 269.
Hospital's liability for injury resulting from failure to have sufficient number of nurses on duty, 2 A.L.R.5th 286.
Liability of physician, nurse, or hospital for failure to contact physician or to keep physician sufficiently informed concerning status of mother during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth, 3 A.L.R.5th 123.
Liability of hospital, physician, or other medical personnel for death or injury to mother or child caused by inadequate attendance or monitoring of patient during and after pregnancy, labor, and delivery, 3 A.L.R.5th 146.
Closing or relocation of medical facility serving large numbers of minority citizens as violative of Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 USCS § 2000d et seq.), 69 A.L.R. Fed. 588.
41 C.J.S. Hospitals § 6.