Pennsylvania Act 1921-411 — MONEYS RECEIVED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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MONEYS RECEIVED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
                 Act of May 24, 1921, P.L. 1116, No. 411              Cl. 35
                                  AN ACT

     Appropriating to the Department of Health any moneys to be
        received from the United States Government in the promotion
        of sanitation, public health, and health education, the
        protection and care of maternity, infancy, and old age, and
        the prevention, treatment, and cure of disease.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania does hereby accept the provisions and benefits of
     the act of Congress, approved the twenty-third day of November,
     one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, entitled "An act for
     the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and
     infancy, and for other purposes."  All moneys hereafter received
     by the Treasurer of this Commonwealth from the United States
     Government, made available by said act or any other act of
     Congress, for the promotion of sanitation, public health, and
     health education, preventive medicine, the protection and care
     of maternity, infancy and old age, and the prevention,
     treatment, and cure of diseases, now made or to be made, is
     hereby specifically appropriated to said State Department of
     Health for such prevention, control, protection, cure, and
     promotion: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed
     as limiting the right of any person to choose the method of
     treatment he desires, or as limiting the powers of a parent or
     guardian, or person standing in loco parentis, to determine what
     treatment shall be provided for a child.
        (1 amended May 31, 1923, P.L.467, No.255)
        Section 2.  All moneys received hereafter by the State
     Treasurer and hereby appropriated to the State Department of
     Health shall be credited by him to the general fund of the said
     department, and shall be paid out of the State Treasury in the
     same manner as other appropriations to the State Department of
     Health are paid.