Document Citation: 71 P.S. § 536

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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 71. STATE GOVERNMENT
I. THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODES AND RELATED PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2. THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1929
ARTICLE XXI. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ITS DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATIV

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08/31/2009

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§ 536. (Adm. Code § 2106). Quarantines

The Department of Health shall have the power, and its duty shall be:

(a) With the approval and concurrence of the Advisory Health Board, to declare certain diseases to be communicable, in addition to those by law declared so to be, and to establish such regulations for the prevention of the spread of such diseases as the department and the Advisory Health Board shall deem necessary and appropriate;

(b) To establish and enforce quarantines, in such manner, for such period, and with such powers, as may now or hereafter be provided by law, to prevent the spread of diseases declared by law or by the department to be communicable diseases;

(c) To administer and enforce the laws of this Commonwealth with regard to vaccination and other means of preventing the spread of communicable diseases.