1962 ARTICLE 44

ARTICLE 44.

HOSPITALS—MARYLAND.

	Spring Grove State Hospital.	7. Shall maintain effective inspection.
	1. Governor to appoint board of managers.	8. May hold .property.
	2. To be a body corporate.	9. Pay patients.
	3. Quorum.
	4. General power of board.	Springfield State Hospital.
	5; Treasurer; bond; superintendent.	10-11. Board of managers; term of office
	Other officers.	and powers of board.
	6. May make rules.	12. Vacancies; how filled.

Spring Grove State Hospital.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 1.

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall
biennially appoint three persons of undoubted character, and selected with
a view to skill and efficiency, managers of Spring Grove State Hospital,¹
who shall serve without pay, and hold their offices for six years, and until
others are appointed in their stead, so that the said board shall always con-
sist of nine members.

This section referred to in upholding use of public funds for erection or maintenance
of hospital controlled by private agency. Finan v. Cumberland, 154 Md. 564.

As to "lunatics and insane" and the lunacy commission, see art. 59.

See notes to sec. 2. '

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2, 1888, sec. 2. 1878, ch. 341, see. 13.

2. The Spring Grove State Hospital, which was heretofore located and
built on its present site, at or near Catonsville, in Baltimore County, in this
State, by and under the authority of the laws of this State, and which is
now under the general direction and control of the managers of the Spring
Grove State Hospital, is hereby declared to have been built and established
on its said site by the authority and direction of this State; the board of
managers of the Spring Grove State Hospital are a body politic and cor-
porate, by the name of "Board of Managers of the Spring Grove State
Hospital," and shall by that name have perpetual succession; may sue and
be sued in any court of this State, and may have and use a common seal,
and may, at their pleasure, alter and change the same; the said board of
managers of the Spring Grove State Hospital, as such corporation, is hereby
declared to be a public agency of this State, for the administration of one
of the charities thereof; and the hospital aforesaid, located as aforesaid, is
hereby declared to be one of the means adopted by this State for the admin-
istration of one of its public charities.

As to the exemption of hospitals, asylums, etc., from taxation, see art. 81, sec. 7.
As to the powers and duties of institutions for the care and protection of minors, see
art. 23, sec. 193. See also art. 27, sec. 792 and art. 59.
As to the Veterans' Relief Fund, see art. 65, secs. 81 and 82.
¹ Formerly the Maryland Hospital for the Insane. See ch. 187, Acts of 1912.