Ohio Code § 749.35

§ 749.35.

In lieu of sections 749.04 to 749.34 of the Revised Code regarding any general hospital owned by a municipal corporation, or any general hospital

in which a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners

is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code , the council of such municipal corporation may, upon such terms as are agreed between

the council and a constituted and empowered nonsectarian Ohio corporation, organized

for charitable purposes and not for profit, a majority of whose members reside in

the county in which said municipal corporation is located, lease for use as a general

hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of any such general hospital;  provided,

that if a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners

is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code , the joint township hospital district board or the board of county commissioners

must approve said lease and if said lease is being renewed, the joint township hospital

district board or the board of county commissioners must approve said renewal. Such lease may be from year to year or may provide for a term of not more than thirty

years and may provide that such council has the option to renew such lease, but subject

to the approval by such board of such renewal where so participating with a municipal

corporation, at the expiration thereof for a further term of not more than thirty

years upon such terms as are provided for in such lease.  In the event that said nonprofit corporation fails to faithfully and efficiently

administer, maintain, and operate such hospital as a public general hospital, admitting

patients without regard to race, creed, or color, then, after an opportunity is given

to be heard upon written charges, said agreement may be terminated and the control

and management of said hospital, together with all additions, improvements, and equipment,

shall revert to and become the property of the municipal corporation or municipal

corporation and joint township hospital district board, or municipal corporation and

board of county commissioners, to be operated as provided by law.