(65 ILCS 5/11-23-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-7)
Sec. 11-23-7.
Every hospital established or purchased under this Division
23 shall be maintained for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city in
which it is established who are sick, injured, or maimed. But every
inhabitant of that city shall pay to the hospital board, or to such officer
as it shall designate, reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing,
care, medicines, or attendance, according to the rules and regulations
prescribed by the board. The hospital shall always be subject to such
reasonable rules and regulations as the hospital board may adopt in order
to render the use of the hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest
number. The board may exclude from the use of the hospital all inhabitants
and persons who wilfully violate those rules and regulations. The board may
extend the privileges and use of the hospital to persons residing outside
of the city but within this state, upon such terms and conditions as the
board may prescribe by its rules and regulations.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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