135B.3 Licensure. No person or governmental unit, acting severally or jointly with any other person or governmental unit shall establish, conduct, or maintain a hospital or rural emergency hospital in this state without a license. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §135B.3] 2023 Acts, ch 16, §3, 20, 21 2023 amendment applies to a facility or, due to change in ownership, a successor facility that was, on or before December 27, 2020, a general hospital with no more than fifty licensed beds, located in a county in a rural area as specified in section 135B.3A with a specified population, and operating on and prior to a specified date under a valid certificate of need; 2023 Acts, ch 16, §20 Section amended
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