Every hospital, outpatient clinic or other facility heretofore established by act
of Legislature in Duval County, Florida (with the exception of the hospital established
for the Jacksonville Beaches by Chapter 25807, Laws of Florida, Special Acts of 1949)
and every hospital, outpatient clinic or other facility established by the Authority
subsequent to the effective date of this Act shall be for the use and benefit of the
sick, infirm and injured persons and shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of
the Authority. The indigent sick in Duval County shall be admitted to such hospitals,
outpatient clinics or other facilities and shall be entitled to occupancy, nursing
care, medicine and attendance without charge, subject to the rules and regulations
prescribed by the Authority. Such hospitals, outpatients clinics and other facilities
shall care for and treat without charge, patients who are found by the Authority to
be indigent, but the Authority shall collect from patients financially able such charges
as the Authority may from time to time establish. The Authority shall have the power
to extend the benefits and privileges to persons outside of Duval County upon such
terms and conditions as the Authority may from time to time by its rules and regulations
provide; provided, however, that the indigent in Duval County shall have the first
claim to admission.
Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the authority from admitting, treating or
receiving compensation from private patients.
(Laws of Fla., Ch. 67-1308; Laws of Fla., Ch. 80-498, § 3.
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