This chapter does not apply to any of the following:

1. Any religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of any church or religious society or denomination, or any cemetery organized, controlled and operated by any of them.
2. A private or municipal cemetery.
3. Any fraternal burial park not exceeding ten acres in area, established before July 2, 1963, in which the sale of burial spaces is restricted exclusively to its members.
4. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home and the Arizona pioneers' home cemetery.

The governor shall have charge and control of the Arizona pioneers' home, the state hospital for miners with disabilities, the state prison and prison farm and other state institutions the management of which is not otherwise provided by law.

A home for aged and infirm Arizona pioneers is established and shall be known as the "Arizona pioneers' home". For purposes prescribed in section 25 of the enabling act, the pioneers' home shall be designated as the hospital for miners with disabilities.  The home shall be maintained at or near Prescott, Arizona.

1. The governor shall appoint a superintendent of the Arizona Pioneers' Home.
2. The Superintendent shall receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38-611.

A. A person of good character is eligible to be admitted to the Arizona pioneers' home who:

1. Is and has been for a period of five years prior to his application for admission a citizen or legal resident of the United States.
2. Has been a resident of this state for not less than fifty years.
3. Has reached the age of seventy or more years.
4. At the time of admission, is ambulatory, has proper bowel and bladder control and is able to bathe, clothe and feed himself without assistance.
5. At the time of admission, does not require care in a hospital or in a skilled care or intermediate care nursing home.

B. An applicant for admission to the home shall submit to the superintendent a verified financial statement showing all assets and income, a social and health history and the results of a current medical examination on forms furnished or approved by the superintendent.

C. The superintendent may admit a person to the home when a full examination and investigation reveal that the person possesses the qualifications prescribed by this section.

D. A person admitted to the Arizona pioneers' home shall pay to this state, to the extent that he is financially able to do so, the cost incurred by this state for his care. The cost shall be paid monthly to the superintendent and shall not be in excess of the average monthly per capita cost of operating the home based on the average number of persons then residing at the home during the year. A person who neglects or refuses to reimburse this state as required under this subsection shall not be permitted to reside at the home during the continuance of this neglect or refusal to pay. This subsection applies only to those persons admitted to the home after August 11, 1970.

E. In determining the cost to the person, the superintendent shall consider the same factors for each person and shall include all assets and income of the person including the fair market value of any asset owned by the person and disposed of during residency or within two years before admission to the home. The superintendent shall verify all applicant and resident financial information.

A. The superintendent of the home shall, subject to the directions of the governor, be charged with the care, custody and management of the home.

B. The superintendent shall admit persons to the home and shall see that persons admitted to the home are comfortably cared for, fed and provided necessary medications and furnished with necessary medical treatment in the most cost-effective manner determined by the superintendent. For the purposes of this subsection:

1. "Formulary" means a listing of drugs intended to include a large enough range of drugs to enable health practitioners to prescribe treatment that is medically appropriate.
2. "Necessary medical treatment" means procedures, treatment and medical equipment covered by a resident's medical insurance plan.
3. "Necessary medications" means medications that are prescribed by the resident's physician and that are on a formulary or are nonformulary prescriptions that are approved by the superintendent through a prior authorization process.

C. The superintendent shall select a supplemental medical insurance plan for residents of the home. Residents of the home shall participate in the supplemental medical insurance plan selected by the superintendent. If a resident does not participate in the supplemental medical insurance plan selected by the superintendent, the resident assumes all financial and logistical responsibility for the resident's medical care.

D. Claims for salaries and expenses authorized by this article shall be approved by the governor.

E. The superintendent, on or before the tenth day of each month, shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, all monies received under this article in the state general fund.

The superintendent is the only employee of the Arizona pioneers' home authorized to accept from residents of the home private funds of such residents for safekeeping, to be held in trust for such residents. Such funds shall be disbursed by the superintendent only upon instruction of the residents or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

A. The Arizona pioneers' home fund is established consisting of monies, grants, gifts and contributions donated to the Arizona pioneers' home and proceeds deposited pursuant to section 41-927. The fund shall be divided into a special donations account and a cemetery proceeds account.

B. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home shall administer the fund. Monies in the cemetery proceeds account are continuously appropriated. The monies in the Arizona pioneers' home fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

C. The superintendent or the superintendent's designee may receive donations from the public for the Arizona pioneers' home. The donations shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the special donations account and are subject to state auditing procedures. The donations shall be used in accordance with the requests of the donor for activities or purchases that benefit the residents or the home, or for staff education or recognition or any other such purpose approved by the superintendent. The donations will be disbursed by the superintendent only for these purposes or at the specific request of the donor.

D. Monies in the cemetery proceeds account shall be used for the statutorily prescribed purposes of the Arizona pioneers' home and for the Arizona pioneers' home cemetery.

A. The superintendent of the home shall manage the state sovereign land described as follows:

Yavapai county parcel number 115-09-98A; section 29, township 14 north, range 2 west of the Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Yavapai county, Arizona.

B. The superintendent of the home:

1. Shall maintain the Arizona pioneers' home cemetery located on the land described in subsection A of this section.
2. May authorize burials in the Arizona pioneers' home cemetery located on the land described in subsection A of this section.
3. Shall not sell, exchange or barter the land described in subsection A of this section, with the exception of interment rights. The superintendent shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the proceeds from any sale of interment rights in the cemetery proceeds account established by section 41-926.
4. May lease portions of the land described in subsection A of this section. The superintendent shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the proceeds from any lease of this land in the cemetery proceeds account established by section 41-926.

C. The superintendent of the home and the cemetery are exempt from the requirements of title 32, chapter 20.

A. There shall be a state hospital for disabled miners as a separate facility for the benefit of disabled miners at the Arizona pioneers' home at Prescott which shall be managed by the governor.

B. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home shall serve as superintendent of the miner's hospital and, subject to chapter 4, article 4 of this title, may appoint assistants and employees and prescribe their duties, subject to approval of the governor.

C. Claims for salaries and expenses authorized by this article shall be presented and paid as other state claims.

A. A person, under the order of the governor, shall be admitted to the hospital for disabled miners who:

1. Has been a resident while in the occupation of mining in this state.
2. Is a citizen or legal resident of the United States.
3. Has reached the age of sixty years or more, and is financially unable to support himself, or has suffered incapacitating injuries arising from and in the course of mining.

B. Based on available space and funding, the governor may approve a person for admission to the hospital for disabled miners who has not yet reached the age of sixty years but otherwise qualifies for admission under subsection A.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. 1. "Claim" has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.
2. 2. "Mine" has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.
3. 3. "Mining":

                      (a) Has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.

                      (b) Does not include performing executive, administrative, support or clerical functions for the owner or operator of a mine, unless a person who performs executive, administrative, support or clerical functions for the owner or operator of the mine had significant environmental exposure to mining activities, that could be detrimental to a person's health.

                       (c) Does not include activities performed by an owner of a private mining claim who did not actually work the claim.