The Department of General Services shall, without cost or obligation to the state, assist the Chowchilla Memorial Hospital District, and any other hospital district with a bed capacity of less than 100 beds which has entered into a joint powers agreement with the Chowchilla Memorial Hospital District, in procuring insurance for the purpose of paying medical injury tort judgments or settlements exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) in the aggregate. Any such procurement may, upon request of the hospital district concerned, be made by the Department of General Services on behalf of such hospital district.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
