Jess Parrish Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. City of Titusville

DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment voiding certain acts of a hospital district board.

In 1953 the legislature created a North Brevard County Hospital District and gave it authority to own and operate a hospital and to tax persons within its district. Chapter 28924, Laws of Florida (1953). Later the legislature gave district hospitals the authority to reorganize and act as nonprofit corporations. § 155.40, Fla.Stat. (Supp.1984). Apparently this statute was passed to help the hospitals better compete with the private hospitals; it gave the board of the hospital the authority to…