LD 2046
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purposes; and lease or rent any lands, buildings, structures,
facilities or equipment from private parties to effectuate the
purposes permitted to be engaged in by the district, including
construction agreements, purchase or acquisition agreements,
partnership agreements, including limited partnership agreements,
joint ventures, participation agreements or agreements with leasing
corporations or other financial intermediaries.

 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1967, c. 58, §2, as amended by P&SL 1987, c. 29, §2, is
repealed and the following enacted in its place:

 
*Sec. 2.__Board of directors; powers and duties; limitations.__The district is
governed by a board of directors, composed of 2 members from each
town, except for Lincoln, which has 3 members.__These members are
elected by popular vote or appointed by municipal officials at
the annual town meeting in each town.__The term of office is 3
years and members may serve an unlimited number of consecutive
terms.__The board of directors shall ensure that terms are
staggered so that approximately 1/3 of its membership is up for
election each year.

 
The board of directors is responsible for carrying out the
purposes of the hospital district.__The board of directors shall
adopt bylaws and policies; it shall meet at regular, stated
intervals; it shall appoint necessary committees as indicated for
special purposes, including an executive committee; it shall
establish a formal means of liaison with the hospital medical
staff by a joint conference committee; it shall appoint members
of the medical staff and a qualified hospital administrator.__The
board of directors may appoint up to 9 of its members to serve on
the executive committee.__The board of directors may delegate to
its executive committee such authority as the board determines
appropriate.

 
Any vacancy that occurs on the board of directors, occurring
because of resignation or other loss of a member, must be filled
by appointment by the municipal officers of the town involved,
this appointment to be effective until the next town meeting.

 
Each year the board of directors shall elect a president, a
vice-president and a treasurer.__Upon appointment of a hospital
administrator, the administrator will serve as secretary ex
officio for the board of directors and the executive committee.__
Each member of the board of directors may be paid a fee for each
official meeting of the board of directors that the directors
attend.

 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1967, c. 58, §2-A is enacted to read:


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