98.040 Construction and improvement of hospitals and institutions. When the legislative body of any city of the first class desires to construct a new hospital or a new home for the aged and infirm or desires to reconstruct, improve, alter, extend or repair any existing hospital or home for the aged and infirm, and to equip and furnish such buildings, it may do so under KRS 98.040 to 98.170. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3037e-1.