Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 12011. Powers and duties of the county board of health

(a) The board of health shall appoint the health director in accordance with section 8 of this act.  1

(b) The board of health shall advise the health director on such matters as he may bring before it.

(c) The board of health shall exercise the rule-making power conferred upon the county department of health by the formulation of rules and regulations for the prevention of disease, for the prevention and removal of conditions which constitute a menace to health, and for the promotion and preservation of the public health generally. Rules and regulations formulated by the board of health shall be submitted to the county commissioners or, in the case of a joint-county department of health to the joint-county health commission, for approval or rejection. Within thirty (30) days after the receipt of the rules and regulations, the county commissioners or the joint-county health commission, as the case may be, shall give written notice to the secretary of the board of their approval or rejection.

If approved, the rules and regulations shall be certified by the secretary of the board of health, and shall be recorded in a book which shall be kept at the principal office of the county department of health and shall be at all reasonable times open to public inspection. Within ten (10) days after any rule or regulation is approved it shall be published in at least one and not more than two newspapers of general circulation in each county. Instead of publishing the rule or regulation in full, an abstract thereof or the title thereof, as the county commissioners or joint-county health commission may determine, with reference, in any case, to its place of record, shall be a sufficient publication. No rule or regulation shall become effective sooner than the tenth day after it is approved, except that regulations which are declared by the board of health to be emergency measures shall become effective immediately upon approval of the county commissioners or the joint-county health commission.