<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 38-4. - Hospital tax.</div>
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               (a)
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               On July 24, 1962, a special election was held which created Catawba Memorial Hospital.
               At that election the county was authorized to issue bonds up to $4,400,000.00 to finance
               the erection and equipment of a new building to provide hospital and other facilities
               operated in connection with hospitals, including a nurses' home, and the acquisition
               of a suitable site for the buildings and the acquisition of existing hospital facilities
               in Newton, North Carolina, and the site thereof, and the alteration, enlargement,
               improvement and equipment of the Newton hospital facilities for the use of the inhabitants
               of the county and a tax therefor, not more than $4,000,000.00 of the proceeds of the
               bonds to be used for the purpose of erecting the new hospital facilities and not more
               than $400,000.00 of the proceeds to be used for the purpose of acquiring, altering,
               enlarging, improving and equipping of the existing hospital facilities.
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               (b)
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               The county was authorized to levy a special tax of not exceeding $0.10, annually,
               upon $100.00 of assessed valuation of taxable property in the county to finance the
               cost of operating, equipping and maintaining public hospitals for the use of the inhabitants
               of the county.
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               (Code 1995, Â§ 34.01)
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