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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 4. HEALTH FACILITIES |
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Subtitle A. FINANCING, CONSTRUCTING, REGULATING, AND INSPECTING HEALTH FACILITIES |
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Chapter 221. HEALTH FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT ACT |
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Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Sec. 221.002. PURPOSE; CONSTRUCTION
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(a) The purpose of this chapter is to enable a municipality, county, or hospital district to create a corporation with the power to provide, expand, and improve health facilities that the corporation determines are needed to improve the adequacy, cost, and accessibility of health care, research, and education in the state.
(b) The legislature intends that a corporation created under this chapter be a public corporation, constituted authority, and instrumentality authorized to issue bonds on behalf of its sponsoring entity for the purposes of Section 103, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 103). This chapter and the rules and rulings issued under this chapter shall be construed according to this intent.
(c) This chapter shall be liberally construed to conform to the intent of the legislature expressed by this section.