municipalities of [this] state.” [OCGA] § 31-7-76 (a). The purpose of the constitutional provision and the statute based thereon was to create an organization which could carry out and make more workable the duty which the State owed to its indigent sick. As amended, the Law authorizes each county and municipality, and certain combinations of counties or municipalities, to create “a public body corporate and politic” called a “hospital authority.” [OCGA §] 31-7-72 (a), (d). Hospital authorities are governed by 5- to 9-member boards that are appointed by the governing body of the county or municipality in their area of operation. [OCGA] § 31-7-72 (a). (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Fed. Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, _U. S._(133 SCt 1003, 1007, 185 LE2d 43) (2013) (<HOLDING>). In 1964, the Georgia legislature amended the
holding that even where an attorney exercises broad powers to represent a client in litigation these powers of representation alone do not create a specific authority to receive service recognizing separation of powers doctrine holding that states grant of general corporate powers to hospital authorities does not include permission to use those powers anticompetitively recognizing a state agencys powers are limited to 1 holding the facility had certain powers despite fact that statute did not expressly confer those powers because facility does not derive power solely from statute