Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 19-4610 (2026)

Powers and duties of board; bylaws; rules and regulations; expenditures and investments; hospital administrator contracts; employees, appointment, bond and benefit plans

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19-4610. Powers and duties of board; bylaws; rules and regulations; expenditures and investments; hospital administrator contracts; employees, appointment, bond and benefit plans. (a) The board shall make and adopt such bylaws and rules and regulations for the management and control of the hospital as it deems necessary so long as the same are not inconsistent with this act, the statutes of the state of Kansas, the resolutions of the county and, if the hospital is located in a city, the ordinances of the city in which the hospital is located. The board shall have the exclusive control of the expenditures of all hospital moneys, except hospital moneys acquired through the issuance of revenue bonds, and all expenditures shall be subject to the approval of a majority of all the members of the board. The board is authorized to invest in any mutual insurance company organized by an association of health care providers to which the hospital belongs, enter into contracts with such company, pay any assessments pursuant to such contracts and arrange for the issuance of a letter of credit by any bank chartered by this state or which is a member bank of the federal reserve system. The board is charged with the supervision, care and custody of all hospital property. The board is authorized to enter into employment contracts to engage the services of an administrator or chief executive officer to manage the affairs of the hospital, to establish compensation for such services and to establish the terms of the engagement. The board may also require personal or surety bonds of all hospital employees entrusted with the handling of hospital moneys, such bonds to be in an amount to be determined and approved by the board.

(b) The board may establish and fund pension and deferred compensation plans and any other employee benefit plans for hospital employees and may procure contracts insuring hospital employees, their dependents, or any class or classes thereof, under a policy or policies covering one or more risks including, but not limited to, a policy or policies of life, disability income, health, accident, accidental death and dismemberment, and hospital, surgical and medical expense insurance or may provide for a plan of self-insurance for such purposes. The employee's contribution, if any, to the plan and to the premiums for insurance or for the expenses incurred by the board under a plan of self-insurance may be deducted by the employer from the employee's salary when authorized in writing by the employee.

History: L. 1984, ch. 98, § 10; L. 1988, ch. 147, § 12; L. 2008, ch. 31, § 4; July 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2002–2025 · leading case: Interior Contractors, Inc. v. Bd. of Trs. of Newman Mem'l Cnty. Hosp., 185 F. Supp. 2d 1216 (D. Kan. 2002).

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Interior Contractors, Inc. v. Bd. of Trs. of Newman Mem'l Cnty. Hosp., 185 F. Supp. 2d 1216 (D. Kan. 2002). · cites it 4× “The powers and duties of *1223 the board are set forth in K.S.A. § 19-4610, including the adoption of “such bylaws and rules and regulations for the management and control of the hospital as it deems necessary” and “the exclusive control of the expenditures of all hospital…”

Alderfer v. Bd. of Trs., 261 F. App'x 147 (10th Cir. 2008). “1 The Board relies on Kan. Stat. Ann. § 19-4610 (a), which authorizes a hospital board “to appoint an administrator, to fix the compensation thereof, and to remove such administrator.”

Kearny Cnty. Hosp. v. Qualivis, LLC (D. Kan. 2025). · cites it 3× “The parties filed a timely response and reply. II. Legal Standard Arbitration is a matter of contract, and a party must arbitrate only those disputes that they have agreed to submit to arbitration.”

— K.S.A. § 19-4610(a) — 2 cases

Interior Contractors, Inc. v. Bd. of Trs. of Newman Mem'l Cnty. Hosp., 185 F. Supp. 2d 1216 (D. Kan. 2002). “The powers and duties of *1223 the board are set forth in K.S.A. § 19-4610, including the adoption of “such bylaws and rules and regulations for the management and control of the hospital as it deems necessary” and “the exclusive control of the expenditures of all hospital…”

Kearny Cnty. Hosp. v. Qualivis, LLC (D. Kan. 2025). “The parties filed a timely response and reply. II. Legal Standard Arbitration is a matter of contract, and a party must arbitrate only those disputes that they have agreed to submit to arbitration.”

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