Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 541 - Advisory Health Board (Adm. Code Section 2111)The Advisory Health Board shall have the power, and its duty shall be:
(a) To advise the Secretary of Health on such matters as he may bring before it;(b) To make such reasonable rules and regulations, not contrary to law, as may be deemed by the board necessary for the prevention of disease, and for the protection of the lives and health of the people of the Commonwealth, and for the proper performance of the work of the Department of Health, and such rules and regulations, when made by the board, shall become the rules and regulations of the department;(c) Repealed by 1963, Aug. 27, P.L. 1257, § 29.(c.1) The Advisory Health Board shall make and from time to time revise a list of such communicable diseases against which children shall be required to be immunized as a condition of attendance at any public, private, or parochial school, including any kindergarten, in the Commonwealth. Such list shall be promulgated by the Secretary of Health along with such rules and regulations as may be necessary to insure that such immunization be timely, effective and properly verified;(d) To prescribe minimum health activities and minimum standards of performance of health services for counties or other political subdivisions.1929, April 9, P.L. 177, art. XXI, § 2111. Amended 1951, Aug. 24, P.L. 1340, § 3; 1974, April 11, P.L. 257, No. 66, § 1.