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AGO 1951 NO. 78 >

The board of county commissioners may enter into a lease of the county hospital by which terms it is operated as a county hospital for welfare patients only and as a private hospital in all other respects, but the operation as a county hospital must conform to all laws applicable to county hospitals and the operation must have all the attributes of county operation, including county employment of personnel in attendance on welfare patients.