A nonprofit hospital, licensed by the Department of Public Health, which provides lodging, care and treatment to members of the public, and which wishes to enlarge its public facilities by adding contiguous land and buildings thereon, if any, the title to which it cannot otherwise acquire, may prefer a complaint for the right to take such land to the superior court for the judicial district in which such land is located, provided such hospital shall have received the approval of the Health Systems Planning Unit of the Office of Health Strategy in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Said court shall appoint a committee of three disinterested persons, who, after examining the premises and hearing the parties, shall report to the court as to the necessity and propriety of such enlargement and as to the quantity, boundaries and value of the land and buildings thereon, if any, which they deem proper to be taken for such purpose and the damages resulting from such taking. If such committee reports that such enlargement is necessary and proper and the court accepts such report, the decision of said court thereon shall have the effect of a judgment and execution may be issued thereon accordingly, in favor of the person to whom damages may be assessed, for the amount thereof; and, on payment thereof, the title to the land and buildings thereon, if any, for such purpose shall be vested in the complainant, but such land and buildings thereon, if any, shall not be taken until such damages are paid to such owner or deposited with said court, for such owner's use, within thirty days after such report is accepted. If such application is denied, the owner of the land shall recover costs of the applicant, to be taxed by said court, which may issue execution therefor. Land so taken shall be held by such hospital and used only for the public purpose stated in its complaint to the superior court. No land dedicated or otherwise reserved as open space or park land or for other recreational purposes and no land belonging to any town, city or borough shall be taken under the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 73-582, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 81-465, S. 12, 18; P.A. 82-472, S. 63, 183; P.A. 89-371, S. 20; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 52, 130; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 58; P.A. 05-151, S. 9; P.A. 10-179, S. 108; P.A. 18-91, S. 36.)

History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-465 deleted reference to Sec. 19-73n, repealed by the same act; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to counties; Sec. 19-73t transferred to Sec. 19a-162 in 1983; P.A. 89-371 added reference to Secs. 19a-167 to 19a-167g, inclusive; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 removed obsolete language, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health and replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-162 transferred to Sec. 19a-645 in 1997; P.A. 05-151 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 19a-640; P.A. 10-179 replaced “Office of Health Care Access under section 19a-639” with “Office of Health Care Access division of the Department of Public Health in accordance with the provisions of this chapter”; P.A. 18-91 replaced “Office of Health Care Access division” with “Health Systems Planning Unit” and replaced “Department of Public Health” with “Office of Health Strategy”, effective May 14, 2018.