San Luis Obispo County Municipal Code Art. II Public Accountability

In addition to any other provision of law, before closing, leasing, selling, or in any way transferring the management of General Hospital, the Board of Supervisors must submit the question of such action to the voters of San Luis Obispo County at a regularly scheduled statewide election. To take effect, the proposed action must be approved by a majority of the voters. In conformity with existing law, the term "transferring the management" means transferring the direct responsibility for and control over the hospital enterprise from the Board of Supervisors to another entity, including, but not limited to, contracting out the management of the facility.

This article shall not apply to changing an area or changing the level of medical services unless such changes amount, solely or in aggregate, to a loss of services, either by elimination or by reduction, which then conflicts with the level of services required to fulfill the hospital's Mission Statement, adopted March 16, 1990. If a proposed reduction or elimination of services conflicts with the hospital's Mission Statement, including but not limited to, providing a 24-hour Basic Emergency Medicine Department, a Renal Dialysis Unit, an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, a full service diagnostic Laboratory and X-Ray Unit, nursing services including a 24-hour medical-surgical and intensive-coronary care inpatient unit and a comprehensive obstetrics program specializing in high-risk deliveries, then, in addition to any other provision of law, the Board of Supervisors, before taking the action, shall submit the proposed action to the voters in conformity with this article.

The San Luis Obispo County Civil Service Ordinance, Chapter 2.40, as adopted shall govern personnel matters in order to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for the administration of General Hospital personnel.

Part 4: SEVERABILITY.

The sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable; therefore if any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance.

* THIS ORDINANCE IS BEING CODIFIED PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, ISSUED ON APRIL 16, 1998. IT IS THE OPINION OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS INVALID. (SEE 80 OPS. CAL. ATTY. GEN 315 (11/12/97)