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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 450.201. Department: General powers and duties

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

The department shall, pursuant to the provisions of the act, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 177), as amended, cited as “The Administrative Code of 1929”  1:

(1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this act and the regulations made pursuant thereto.

(2) Install and maintain a statewide system of vital statistics.

(3) Be the custodian of all vital statistics files and records collected, created or compiled under the provisions of this act.

(4) Have supervisory power over all local registrars appointed under the provisions of this act.

1 71 P.S. § 51 et seq.
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