Opinion No.

Honorable Charles S. Brack Chambers County Attorney P.O. Box 1200 Anahuac, Texas 77514

Re: Whether a hospital district may lease part of its facility for the operation of a private adolescent drug treatment facility (RQ-278)

Dear Mr. Brack:

You have requested our opinion as to whether the Cambers County Hospital District No. 1 (hereafter "the district") may lease a part of its facility to a group of private physicians to operate as an adolescent drug treatment center. You indicate that, following an election in September, 1991, the district was converted into a hospital district operating under…