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16 P.S. § 2191
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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 16. COUNTIES
CHAPTER 1. THE COUNTY CODE
ARTICLE XXI. PUBLIC HEALTH
(G) BOARDS OF HEALTH IN COUNTIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
(1) BOARD OF HEALTH
Date:
08/31/2009
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§ 2191. Duties of board of health
The board of health shall enforce the health laws of the Commonwealth and the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health pertaining thereto. The board shall enforce those orders of the State Department of Health for which the State Department of Health reimburses the county for its costs pertaining thereto. The board shall undertake to prevent or diminish the introduction or further spread of infectious or contagious diseases, and otherwise to protect and increase the public health by regulating communication with places of infection or contagion, by isolating carriers of infection or contagion or persons who have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease, by abating or removing all nuisances which the board shall deem prejudicial to the public health, and by enforcing the vaccination laws; and the board shall make all such rules and regulations as to it appear proper for the preservation or improvement of the public health, consistent with this article and the laws of the Commonwealth. The board shall transmit to the State Department of Health all of its reports and publications and such other information regarding public health in the county as may be requested by the department.
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