Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 12010. Powers and duties of county departments of health

(a) shall execute the powers and duties vested in it or in local health authorities generally by the laws of the Commonwealth, and the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health and other departments, boards, or commissions of the State government;

(b) shall have the power to employ personnel to assist the board of health and the health director.  The recruitment, selection, tenure, removal and working conditions of all personnel shall conform to the standards of personnel administration prescribed by the State Department of Health, except that the State Department of Health shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, compensation and removal of any individual employed in accordance with such standards, other than the approval of the qualifications of the county health director by the State Secretary of Health as provided in section 8 of this act;   1

(c) shall prevent or remove conditions which constitute a menace to public health;

(d) may cooperate with the departments or boards of health of municipalities exempt from its jurisdiction in accordance with section 14 of this act;   2

(e) may cooperate with the authorities of county hospitals and tuberculosis sanatoria and with the authorities of all other public or private hospitals and similar institutions;

(f) shall make and enforce such rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the county commissioners or, in the case of a joint-county department of health the joint-county health commission, and institute such programs not inconsistent with law as may be necessary for the promotion and preservation of the public health.