§ 570. Department of Property and Supplies to erect and equip; qualifications of superintendent
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 50 P.S. Mental Health
50 P.S. § 570
§ 570. Department of Property and Supplies to erect and equip; qualifications of superintendent
The Department of Property and Supplies1 shall proceed, as soon as funds are made available therefor by appropriation, with the erection, construction and equipment of said Western State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, which shall be sufficient to accommodate at least one hundred and fifty psychiatric patients and at least two hundred daily visits of psychiatric out-patients.
Upon the completion of said hospital, it shall be turned over to the Department of Welfare for management and the care, maintenance and treatment of psychiatric patients selected by the Department of Welfare, and for research and the training of medical and other personnel in mental diseases, mental defects and their complications. The superintendent of such hospital shall at all times be a physician of experience in the treatment of mental disease and mental defect.
Credits
1931, June 23, P.L. 1199, § 2. Amended 1945, April 17, P.L. 246, § 1.
Footnotes
Reference to “Department of Property and Supplies” deemed to be reference to Department of General Services, pursuant to 1975, July 22, P.L. 75, No. 45, § 21.
50 P.S. § 570, PA ST 50 P.S. § 570
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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