Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:4 – Parish appropriations in aid of charity hospitals
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:4
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- Indigent: means any person who meets the state definition of indigent who would have qualified for indigent care in any general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana prior to arrest and who is housed in any parish or municipal jail or detention facility or state prison, shall be treated in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:17
Police juries may, under such regulations as they may prescribe, appropriate annually and use from parish funds, sums of money not to exceed one thousand dollars in aid of charity hospitals or other similar institutions, when the charity hospitals or other institutions are freely used without cost by the indigent sick or wounded citizens of the parishes.