PRINTER'S NO. 1113
No. 978 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY GEORGE, HASAY, WOZNIAK, LUCYK, LEVDANSKY, DOMBROWSKI, YANDRISEVITS, LETTERMAN, TRELLO, COLE, SAURMAN, SCHEETZ, FARGO, DISTLER, WASS, FEE, PRESSMANN, STABACK, MERRY, COLAIZZO, MELIO, COHEN, SERAFINI, TIGUE, BELFANTI, GAMBLE, BOYES, RYBAK, BILLOW, E. Z. TAYLOR, J. L. WRIGHT, HALUSKA, VEON, PRESTON, GANNON, STAIRS, VAN HORNE, McVERRY, BUNT, PISTELLA, BARLEY AND DeLUCA, APRIL 4, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, APRIL 4, 1989
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),
1 (14), (21) and (22) of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, 2 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, are repealed. 3 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read: 4 Section 2122. Additional Powers and Duties.--The Department 5 of Health shall administer the following: 6 (1) The control of nuisances from grounds, vehicles, 7 apartments, buildings and places within this Commonwealth, the 8 sanitary condition of tenements, lodging and boarding houses, 9 the management of the sanitary affairs of the Commonwealth, the 10 issuance of waterworks permits and the control of water 11 pollution. 12 (2) The Sanitary Water Board. 13 (3) The act of June 23, 1931 (P.L.899, No.299), known as the 14 "Public Bathing Law." 15 (4) The act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.926, No.369), referred to 16 as the Public Eating and Drinking Place Law. 17 (5) The act of August 20, 1953 (P.L.1217, No.339), entitled 18 "An act providing for payments by the Commonwealth to 19 municipalities which have expended money to acquire and 20 construct sewage treatment plants in accordance with the Clean 21 Streams Program and the act, approved the twenty-second day of 22 June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (Pamphlet Laws 23 1987), and making an appropriation." 24 (6) The act of November 10, 1959 (P.L.1400, No.497), 25 entitled "An act providing for the annual registration of 26 organized camps for children, youth and adults; defining the 27 duties of the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of 28 Pennsylvania; and prescribing penalties." 29 (7) The act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1535, No.537), 30 known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act." 19890H0978B1113 - 2 -
1 (8) The act of November 18, 1968 (P.L.1052, No.322), known 2 as the "Sewage Treatment Plant and Waterworks Operators' 3 Certification Act." 4 (9) As much of the act of June 23, 1978 (P.L.537, No.93), 5 known as the "Seasonal Farm Labor Act," as relates to the 6 Department of Environmental Resources. 7 (10) The act of May 1, 1984 (P.L.206, No.43), known as the 8 "Pennsylvania Safe Drinking Water Act." 9 Section 3. (a) All personnel, allocations, equipment, 10 files, records, contracts, agreements, obligations and other 11 materials which are used, employed or expended in connection 12 with the powers, duties or functions heretofore exercised by the 13 Department of Environmental Resources in connection with those 14 responsibilities transferred by this act to the Department of 15 Health, as described in section 2, are hereby transferred from 16 the Department of Environmental Resources to the Department of 17 Health with the same force and effect as if the appropriations 18 had been made to and said items had been the property of the 19 Department of Health in the first instance and as if said 20 contracts, agreements and obligations had been incurred or 21 entered into by the Department of Health. 22 (b) All personnel transferred pursuant to this act shall 23 retain any civil service employment status held by said 24 personnel. 25 Section 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 1990. C14L71DGS/19890H0978B1113 - 3 -