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Office of tb Attorncp Ocnral
Mtate of Texas
DAN MORALES June 1, 1992
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Honorable John Hannah, Jr. Opinion No. DM-122
Secretary of State of Texas
P. O. Box 12697 Re: Methods of electing hospital district
Austin, Texas 78711-2697 directors under chapter 286 of the Health
and Safety Code (RQ-367)
Dear Secretary Hannah:
You ask about the provisions of Senate Bill 907 of the 71st Legislature
(repealed by Acts 1991, 72d Leg., ch. 14, 285(b)(8)) which are now codified as
chapter 286 of the Health and Safety Code. Chapter 286 provides for the creation
of hospital districts pursuant to local petition and election. You seek clarification as
to the methods of electing hospital district directors permitted by those provisions.
Your specific questions are:
1. Whether, in a hospital district created under chapter 286, all
directors may be elected from single member districts;
2. If so, whether such single member districts must be
coterminous with county commissioners' precincts.
Creation of hospital districts under chapter 286 is initiated by the petition of
registered voters of the territory of the proposed district. Health & Safety Code
286.021. A petition is submitted to the county judge of each county in which the
territory of the district is to be located, and if it is in order, the commissioners court
calls an election on the issue of creation of the district. Id. 286.021, 286.023.
Subsection (a)(7) of section 286.022 requires the petition to show "the method by
which the permanent directors will be elected, as provided by Subsection (c)."
Subsection (c)(2) of section 286.022 provides for the petition's indicating:
the method by which directors are to be elected, whether atlarge, by place, or both, so that a specific number of directors
are elected from each commissioner precinct and a specific
number are elected at large.p. 629
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