Upon the selection and organization of the first board, the governing body of any political subdivision joining in the establishment of the hospital district which owns and is operating a hospital at the time the petitions for the organization of such hospital district were filed, shall convey or lease its hospital and the tract of land upon which the hospital is located and all the hospital equipment to the hospital district established under the provisions of this act, which conveyance or lease shall take effect upon the delivery and acceptance of the hospital by the hospital district. The governing body of any such political subdivision shall pay over to the treasurer of the hospital district all the unencumbered moneys in the hospital fund of such political subdivision on January 1, and the treasurer shall place the moneys in the operation and maintenance fund of such hospital district. If any such political subdivision has accumulated and set aside funds for the construction of an addition to the hospital owned, operated and conveyed or leased by it or for the purpose of constructing and equipping a new hospital, or for other like purposes, the governing body of such political subdivision shall pay over to the treasurer of the hospital district all such funds on hand on January 1, and the treasurer of the hospital district shall place the same in a special building fund to be used exclusively for the purpose of constructing and equipping an addition to the hospital or for the acquisition of a site and the construction and equipping of a new hospital or for the acquisition of any other hospital within the hospital district; and the funds may be used in addition to any other funds of the hospital district raised for such purposes by the issuance of bonds or the levying of taxes.
K.S.A. 80-2505