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BOARD OF DIRECTORS v. COUNTY INDIGENT HOSP. CL. BD.

No. 8192.

423 P.2d 994 (1967)

77 N.M. 475

The BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MEMORIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY INDIGENT HOSPITAL CLAIMS BOARD OF DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico and Board of County Commissioners of the County of Dona Ana, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

February 20, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.K. Campbell, Las Cruces, for appellant.

Charles Solomon, Neil C. Stillinger, Santa Fe, E.H. Williams, Jr., Dist. Atty., Las Cruces, for appellees.

Montgomery, Federici & Andrews, John G. Jasper, Santa Fe, amici curiae.

OPINION

MOISE, Justice.

We are here called on to determine if the Indigent Hospital Claims Act (Ch. 234, N.M.S.L. 1965; §§ 13-2-12 to 13-2-29, inc., N.M.S.A. 1953) is constitutional. The trial court held it unconstitutional as violative of Art. VIII, Sec. 2; Art. IV, Sec. 31; Art. IX, Sec. 14, and Art. IV, Sec. 24.

In section 2 of the act (§ 13-2-13, N.M.S.A. 1953) its purpose is stated in the following language:

"The purpose...

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