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Ordinance No.. 7
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CHARGE OF RIVERSIDE HOSPITI,L, Iii TIE CITY OF P_-!DUCAH, KEUTUCKY.
BE IT ORDLIIIED BY TIIF; BO.:_RD OF COr:l:ISSIOIJERS OF THE; CITY OF
P:'_DUCAH, XMUTUCKY: .
Section 1. That the I.:ayor and :four Commissioners of the
City of Paducah, Kentucky are hereby constituted a Board, to be knol:rzi
as the Hospital Board.
Section 2. That the Commissioner of Public Property shall
be the ex officio chairman of said Hospital Board, and said Chairman
shall be the executive officer of said Board and have the general charge
and supervision of Riverside Hospital, in all respects, when said. Board
is not in session, but subject to such rules, regulations and orders as
may be hereafter enacted and promulgated by said Hospital Board.
Section 3. Said Hospital Board shall have the control and
management of Riverside Hospital, together with tic ?rounds and all
buildings, and all of the affairs and business connected there:ith,-and
shall have the right to determine the number and character of employees
and nurses therein and therefor, and to define their duties and powers,
and to fix their salaries, to create such executive officers in con-
nection with the management, operation and maintenance of said hospital
as they may deem necessary, and to adopt such rules and regulations and
to maim such orders as may be necessary for the enforcement thereof as
may be deemed expedient by said Board.
Section 4. Said Hospital Board shall, by proper action,
establish specified times for the meetings of said Board, for the trans-
action of the business of said Board, which meetings shall be held at
least once every two weeks.
Section 5. For the transaction of any business coming before
said Board any three members thereof shall constituto a Quorum, and upon
any action taken by said Board a majority; of those present shall control
in the voting upon said action.
Section 6. Said Board may, by appropriate order, reluire the
City Physician or physicians of the City of Paducah to be present at any
or all meetings of said Board, and may further reduire him '-o perform
such duties in connection with the maintenance of said Hospital and the
treatment of the patients therein as may be deemed advisable by said
Board.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its.adoption and publication.
P',SSED BY TI9, BOi^D OF C0 ?'._ISSI OI!LR5 J._ ;t':_;Y 4th, 1915.
RrCORDPM,JiIIUARY 6th, 1915.
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