The board of mayor and aldermen or other governing body of cities or towns in this state may make appropriations out of the revenues of their respective cities or towns to aid in maintaining and taking care of sick or wounded persons who are unable to provide such maintenance and care for themselves in any hospital maintained in their respective cities or towns exclusively for the care of the sick or wounded within the limits of such cities or towns.
Ala. Code § 11-47-133 (1975)