Whenever a petition signed by not fewer than two hundred qualified electors of any county in this state shall be presented to the county commissioners of the particular county asking that a vote be taken on the question or proposition of constructing, purchasing, renovating, remodeling, equipping or re-equipping a county hospital or a county-municipal hospital and acquiring the land necessary therefor, setting forth in general terms the object of the petition and the amount of bonds asked to be voted for, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of that county to which the petition may be presented, within ten days after the presentation, to call an election to be held within sixty days thereafter in that county, and to give notice of such election by publication once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in any newspaper published or of general circulation in the county, which notices shall set forth the time and place of holding the election, the hospital proposed to be purchased, constructed, renovated, remodeled, equipped or re-equipped and the land necessary to be acquired, and which bonds are to be voted for. After the defeat of any proposition once voted for, a second special election upon any question or proposition under the provisions of the Hospital Funding Act shall not be held for a term of two years, unless a petition requesting another election, containing the names of qualified electors of the county equal to ten percent of the vote cast for governor in the last preceding election and otherwise conforming to the requirements of this section, shall be presented to the county commissioners; provided, however, that in no event shall more than two elections upon any proposition or question under the Hospital Funding Act be held in any two-year period. A bond election as provided in this section also may be called by the county commissioners without any petition, after the county commissioners have adopted a resolution calling for such an election, which resolution shall set forth the object of the election and the amount of bonds to be issued.