PRINTER'S NO. 536
No. 485 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY GEORGE, FEE, FAIRCHILD, MELIO, ARGALL, PESCI,
HANNA, S. H. SMITH, LUCYK, COLAIZZO, HESS, STISH, BATTISTO,
LAUGHLIN, PRESTON, TRELLO, SAURMAN, SURRA, GODSHALL,
MIHALICH, VAN HORNE, WOZNIAK AND KING, MARCH 15, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, MARCH 15, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," transferring the
21 administration of certain statutes from the Department of
22 Environmental Resources to the Department of Health; and
23 making a repeal.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 1901-A(6), (8), (9), (11), (12), (13),
27 (14), (21) and (22) of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
1 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, are repealed.
2 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
3 Section 2123. Additional Powers and Duties.--The Department
4 of Health shall administer the following:
5 (1) The control of nuisances from grounds, vehicles,
6 apartments, buildings and places within this Commonwealth, the
7 sanitary condition of tenements, lodging and boarding houses,
8 the management of the sanitary affairs of the Commonwealth, the
9 issuance of waterworks permits and the control of water
10 pollution.
11 (2) The Sanitary Water Board.
12 (3) The act of June 23, 1931 (P.L.899, No.299), known as the
13 "Public Bathing Law."
14 (4) The act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.926, No.369), referred to
15 as the Public Eating and Drinking Place Law.
16 (5) The act of August 20, 1953 (P.L.1217, No.339), entitled
17 "An act providing for payments by the Commonwealth to
18 municipalities which have expended money to acquire and
19 construct sewage treatment plants in accordance with the Clean
20 Streams Program and the act, approved the twenty-second day of
21 June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (Pamphlet Laws
22 1987), and making an appropriation."
23 (6) The act of November 10, 1959 (P.L.1400, No.497),
24 entitled "An act providing for the annual registration of
25 organized camps for children, youth and adults; defining the
26 duties of the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of
27 Pennsylvania; and prescribing penalties."
28 (7) The act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1535, No.537),
29 known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act."
30 (8) The act of November 18, 1968 (P.L.1052, No.322), known
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1 as the "Sewage Treatment Plant and Waterworks Operators'
2 Certification Act."
3 (9) As much of the act of June 23, 1978 (P.L.537, No.93),
4 known as the "Seasonal Farm Labor Act," as relates to the
5 Department of Environmental Resources.
6 (10) The act of May 1, 1984 (P.L.206, No.43), known as the
7 "Pennsylvania Safe Drinking Water Act."
8 Section 3. (a) All personnel, allocations, equipment,
9 files, records, contracts, agreements, obligations and other
10 materials which are used, employed or expended in connection
11 with the powers, duties or functions heretofore exercised by the
12 Department of Environmental Resources in connection with those
13 responsibilities transferred by this act to the Department of
14 Health, as described in section 2, are hereby transferred from
15 the Department of Environmental Resources to the Department of
16 Health with the same force and effect as if the appropriations
17 had been made to and said items had been the property of the
18 Department of Health in the first instance and as if said
19 contracts, agreements and obligations had been incurred or
20 entered into by the Department of Health.
21 (b) All personnel transferred pursuant to this act shall
22 retain any civil service employment status held by said
23 personnel.
24 Section 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 1994.
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