Section 223.013 - Contracts Relating to Hospital Project(a) An issuer may execute a contract, including a lease, with a nonprofit organization with respect to a hospital project. A contract may authorize the nonprofit organization to use, operate, or acquire the hospital project on the terms, including payment provisions, the issuer's governing body determines to be advisable.(b) A contract may include the sale of a hospital project to a nonprofit organization, including a nonprofit organization using the hospital project. The terms of the sale may include installment payments. The sale must be fully consummated when all bonds of the issuer issued to provide the hospital project are paid or provision is made for their final payment if, during the time the bonds or interest on the bonds remains unpaid, there is no failure to make any payments owing under any lease or contract at the time and in the manner as the payments come due.(c) A contract under this chapter may be for the term agreed to by the parties and may provide that the contract continues until the bonds specified in the contract, or refunding or substitution bonds issued in place of those bonds, are fully paid or provision is made for their final payment.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 223.013
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1989.