PRINTER'S NO. 3082
No. 2242 Session of 1986
INTRODUCED BY VAN HORNE, AFFLERBACH, PRESSMANN, BLACK, SWIFT,
CALTAGIRONE, WAMBACH AND BORTNER, MARCH 12, 1986
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 12, 1986
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," further providing for
21 general health administration in cities of the third class.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2102(h) of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
26 amended to read:
27 Section 2102. General Health Administration.--The Department
1 of Health shall have the power, and its duty shall be:
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3 (h) Whenever, in the opinion of the department, conditions
4 exist in any city of the third class, any borough, or any
5 township of the first class, within the Commonwealth, which
6 constitute a menace to the lives and health of the people living
7 outside the corporate limits of such city, borough or township,
8 or, after it be known to the department that any city of the
9 third class, any borough or any township of the first class is
10 without an existing or efficient board of health, to enter and
11 take full charge of and administer the health laws, regulations,
12 and ordinances, of such city, borough or township, and to
13 continue in charge thereof, until the department shall decide
14 that a competent and efficient board of health has been
15 appointed and qualified for such city, borough or township and
16 is ready, able, and willing to assume and carry into effect the
17 duties imposed upon it by law, and to collect all expenses
18 incurred by the department in performing its duties hereunder,
19 as may now or hereafter be provided by law;
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21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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