30:9-79 - Expense; apportionment; bonds
30:9-79. Expense; apportionment; bonds
As and when the cost and expense of the purchase of real estate for the site or sites of and the erection, construction and establishment of joint municipal hospitals for communicable diseases is ascertained and certified by the joint meeting organized under section 30:9-77 of this title, the respective governing bodies of the contracting municipalities shall provide the money to defray the same by borrowing if necessary, issuing temporary notes or other temporary obligations therefor, until the completion of the hospital or hospitals. After the entire cost of establishing and furnishing the hospital or hospitals has been ascertained and certified by the joint meeting, each governing body of the respective contracting municipalities shall issue bonds for its share.
The cost and expense of acquiring lands and building, establishing, equipping and furnishing such hospital shall after each census taken pursuant to law be apportioned between the several contracting municipalities according to their respective populations as determined by such census.
Each governing body shall raise by taxation in each year, as other moneys are raised in such municipality, such sum of money as shall be necessary to pay its share of the cost and expense of the maintenance of such hospital buildings. Such amount shall be fixed and determined in accordance with the provisions of the joint contract above referred to and shall be certified to the governing body by the board of health of such municipality. The moneys so raised shall be in addition to any other moneys raised for health purposes.