Texas Health and Safety Code 221.002 – Purpose; Construction
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(a) The purpose of this chapter is to enable a municipality, county, or hospital district to create a corporation with the power to provide, expand, and improve health facilities that the corporation determines are needed to improve the adequacy, cost, and accessibility of health care, research, and education in the state.
(b) The legislature intends that a corporation created under this chapter be a public corporation, constituted authority, and instrumentality authorized to issue bonds on behalf of its sponsoring entity for the purposes of Section 103, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 103). This chapter and the rules and rulings issued under this chapter shall be construed according to this intent.
Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 221.002
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
(c) This chapter shall be liberally construed to conform to the intent of the legislature expressed by this section.