14-609. Same; use of hospital; fees; regulations. Every hospital established under this act shall be for the benefit of all the inhabitants of said city, and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but every such inhabitant or person who is not a pauper shall pay to the board of hospital trustees, or such officer as it shall designate for such city hospital, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine or attendants, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said board, such hospital always being subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said board shall adopt in order to render the use of such hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number. And said board may exclude from the use of such hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who shall willfully violate such rules and regulations; and said board may extend the privileges and use of such hospital to persons residing outside of such city upon such terms and conditions as said board may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe.

History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 8; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-609.