§ 25-61. Noncontract hospitals.

The county is further authorized from time to time to pay cost of care or residents of the county eligible under section 25-58 at hospitals with which the county does not have a contract for care, for emergency admissions, for treatment not obtainable at a contract hospital or for other necessary reasons; provided, that such payment shall not exceed the hospital's audited cost per patient day; provided further, that such payment shall in no event be more than seventeen dollars ($17.00) per patient day. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 89-59; 1970 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 2.)