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Show I ATTORNEY fiENERAL ON HOSPITAL LAW Gives Opinion Bond Issue May Exceed Amount of Tax Levy at 2 Mills for One Year I The following opinion of the Attorney Attor-ney General for Utah on the construction construc-tion of Chapter 106 of the Compiled Laws of Utah, relating to the erection erec-tion and maintenance of county hospitals, hos-pitals, will be of interest to the residents resi-dents of this section: Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 22, 1920. Dr. M. J. Maefarlane, Cedar City, Utah. Dear Doctor. I have your letter let-ter of the 20th inst., wherein you ask for an opinion of this office upon Chapter 106, Compiled Laws of Utah, 1917, with particular reference to Section Sec-tion one of said Chapter, in relation to the constiuction of county hospitals. Replying to your letter, will say that said chapter provides for the establishment es-tablishment and maintenance of county coun-ty hospitals. Section one -provide that when there is not sufficient money on hand, bonds may be issued in a sum not exceeding the gross amount to be raised by a levy of a two mill tax over a period of twenty years. It is obvious ob-vious that the Legislature did not intend in-tend to limit the amount to be raised to two mills for one year, else, as you well ask, why bond? I desire to call your attention particularly par-ticularly to the fact that the maximum amount to be raised shall include the purchase of the site, and the erection thereon of a public hospital building; and the support and maintenance, of the same must be, also, included in the amount so raised. I trust that this fully answers your question, and will clear up what was, apparently, a dilema. DAN. B. SHIELDS, Attorney General. |