§1097. Commission; powers, duties, responsibilities, limitations
A. The commission and district shall have all the general powers, duties, functions,
and responsibilities of a hospital service district created under Part I of this Chapter. Each
commission created under this Part may construct or acquire a new general hospital facility
in Orleans Parish or renovate an existing general hospital facility in Orleans Parish and
provide for the operation of such facility.
B. Each commission is further authorized to lease any such facility to any state or
local agency, department, or other entity.
C. No hospital shall be constructed or acquired pursuant to this Part until a
professionally prepared financial feasibility study is completed, the findings of such study
have been reported to the committees on health and welfare of the Senate and House of
Representatives pursuant to R.S. 40:1094(D), and the report has been approved by the
Louisiana Department of Health. Such study shall include an examination of the financial
feasibility of staffing such an entity under the then current conditions, the funding of the
construction or acquisition, and the costs of annual operation of the hospital. The study shall
be conducted by a firm qualified for such purposes by the FHA 242 mortgage program.
D. Nothing in this Part shall be construed to adversely affect the authority of any
constitutionally created higher education management board, nor shall any entity created
pursuant to this Part regulate any medical facility or higher education facility under the
control of a constitutionally created higher education management board.
Acts 2006, No. 830, §1, eff. July 5, 2006; Acts 2011, No. 278, §1, eff. June 28, 2011.