As used in the Special Hospital District Act:

A. "board of trustees" means the governing board of the special hospital district;

B. "qualified elector" means a natural person resident in a proposed or existing special hospital district who is registered to vote in state general elections;

C. "special hospital district" means a district wherein a public hospital is located or is proposed to be created and which:

(1) is composed of contiguous and compact territory lying wholly within a single county; or

(2) is composed of contiguous and compact territory which includes all or a portion of two or more counties or any combination thereof; and

(3) contains within its boundaries one or more incorporated municipalities; or whose boundaries coincide and are concurrent with the territorial areas of one or more political subdivisions within such county or counties;

D. "hospital facility" includes a medical facility or an outpatient clinic or both; and

E. "subdistrict" means, in the case of a special hospital district composed of all or a portion of two or more counties, the portion of the special hospital district which is located in one county.

History: 1978 Comp., § 4-48A-2, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 29, § 2; 1979, ch. 134, § 1; 1981, ch. 84, § 1; 1987, ch. 273, § 1.

Constitutionality. — The provisions of Subsection C(3) are not irrational for a legislature to impose. Although these provisions bear no relation to the specific purpose of a special hospital district - the creation and maintenance of hospitals - they do have a rational relationship to the establishment of a new local governmental body. State ex rel. Angel Fire Home & Land Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. South Cent. Colfax Cnty. Special Hosp. Dist., 1990-NMCA-072, 110 N.M. 496, 797 P.2d 285, cert. denied, 110 N.M. 330, 795 P.2d 1022.