No hospital district shall incur a bonded indebtedness exceeding 10 percent of the assessed value of all the taxable property in the district as shown by the last equalized county assessment roll or rolls of the county or counties in which the district lies. Any bonds of local hospital districts which shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be legal investments for all trust funds and for the funds of insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, and trust companies, and whenever any moneys or funds may by any law now or hereafter enacted be invested in bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties or school districts within the State of California, such moneys or funds may be invested in said bonds of local hospital districts issued under this chapter, and whenever bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties or school districts within the State may by any law now or hereafter enacted be used as security for the performance of any act or the deposit of any public moneys, said bonds of local hospital districts issued under this chapter and in pursuance of its provisions may be so used.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 18.)