Act 378 of May 1909 Authorized Search for and Start-up of a State Sanatorium

Note: Below is an outline of the Act, with section summaries.

ACT 378 of 1909

AN ACT to provide for the location, erection, organization, management and maintenance of a State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in the State of Arkansas, and making an appropriation for the purchase of the necessary land and the construction and equipment of the necessary buildings and for the maintenance of the sanatorium.

Section

1. The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium is established for treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis.

2. Appropriated $50,000 for purchase of the site, equipment and construction for the Sanatorium.

3. Appropriated $30,000 for running expense and maintenance of the Sanatorium.

4. A Board of Trustees is established with 6 members and terms of office set at six years in rotating schedules.  Two of the board of trustees must be physicians.

5. The powers and duties of board are outlined.

6. The board is to have total control of property and affairs of the Sanatorium.

7. No salary allowed for the members of the board.

8. The board directed to appoint a medical superintendent for the Sanatorium.

9. The board is directed to establish certain by-laws.

10. The criteria for admission of patients is set.  The person must be shown by test or examination to be suffering from tuberculosis and must be a Arkansas resident.  Patients unable to pay will be conditionally admitted upon written application from their County Judge.

11. Persons who are able to pay for their care and maintenance are allowed to do so as long as they meet Section 10 criteria.

12. The general meetings of the board are set.  Duties of superintendent, secretary and treasurer are outlined.

APPROVED:  May 31, 1909

Act 320 of 1973 Authorized Closing the State Sanatorium

Note: Below is an outline of the Act, with section summaries.

ACT 320 of 1973

AN ACT to Transfer Title to the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium to the State of Arkansas; to Transfer Jurisdiction and Control Over the Sanatorium From the Department of Health to Mental Retardation-Developmental Disability Services, a Division of the Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services; to Abolish the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium; and for Other Purposes.

SECTION

1. Title to all property is transferred to the State of Arkansas.

2. Control of Sanatorium is transferred from the Department of Health to the Board of Arkansas Mental Retardation - Developmental Disability Services.

3. No moneys or funds to be transferred.

4. The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Board of Trustees abolished.

5. Any conflicting laws or parts of laws are repealed.

6. An emergency need is declared to exist for immediate enactment of Act.

APPROVED:  March 13, 1973