The corporation shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form:

(1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of incorporation or until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-82;

(2) To maintain actions and have actions maintained against it and to defend action maintained against it;

(3) To make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;

(4) To receive, acquire, take and hold, whether by purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, real and personal estate of every description and to manage and dispose of same by any form of legal conveyance or transfer;

(5) To acquire, construct, equip, enlarge, improve, maintain and operate a hospital and to do all things necessary to that end;

(6) With the approval of the board of directors, to design, construct, purchase or otherwise acquire hospitals, clinics and other hospital facilities, and to lease or otherwise make available such facilities to such persons, firms, partnerships, associations or corporations and on such terms as they deem to be necessary and appropriate and consistent with the maintenance of public health services and facilities;

(7) To conduct nurses' training schools;

(8) To borrow money and to issue interest-bearing securities in evidence of the borrowing;

(9) To mortgage, pledge or otherwise convey its property and its revenues from any source;

(10) To appoint and employ such officers and agents, including attorneys, as the business of the corporation may require;

(11) To establish and collect and alter charges for services rendered and supplies furnished by it;

(12) To make rules and regulations for the treatment of charity patients and for the conduct of any hospital owned or operated by it and to alter such rules and regulations;

(13) To provide for such insurance as the corporation may deem advisable;

(14) To cooperate with the State Board of Health, to make such contracts with it as the board of directors of the corporation may deem advisable respecting the operation of any hospital and to take such action not in violation of law as may be necessary in order to qualify the corporation to receive funds appropriated by the United States or the State of Alabama; and

(15) To invest in direct general obligations of the United States and any trust fund established under and subject to the general laws of this state for investment or self-insurance purposes with investment authority as may be authorized by law for such trusts any funds of the corporation which its board of directors may determine are not presently needed for its corporate purposes.