Pennsylvania Act 1874-51 — POOR HOUSES, ETC. - INSPECTION BY APPOINTED VISITORS

Act text

POOR HOUSES, ETC. - INSPECTION BY APPOINTED VISITORS
                   Act of May 7, 1874, P.L. 119, No. 51               Cl. 67
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To the act to create a board of public charities, approved the
        twenty-fourth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight
        hundred and sixty-nine, authorizing and empowering said board
        to appoint visitors, and to transfer certain insane persons
        from county institutions to state hospitals.

        Section 1.  Appointment of visitors to institutions
        The said board shall have power, by a resolution, to be
     entered on its minutes, subject to such terms and regulations as
     it may prescribe, to designate three or more persons in any
     county, to act, without compensation, as visitors in said county
     of the several poorhouses and other institutions therein,
     subject to the visitation of the board, in aid of and as
     representatives of such board; and all public officers and
     others in charge of such institutions shall admit to said
     institutions all such persons so designated, upon the production
     of a copy of such resolution, certified by the president or
     secretary of said board, to visit, examine and inspect the
     grounds and buildings of every such institution and every part
     thereof, and all its hospital and other arrangements, and to
     have free access to all its inmates.  Any public officer,
     superintendent or person in charge of any such institution, who
     shall refuse to admit any person so designated, or shall refuse
     to give said visitors all requisite facilities for the
     examination and inspection herein provided for, shall be subject
     to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each such
     refusal, which penalty may be sued and recovered in the name of
     the people of the State, by the district attorney of the county
     in which such institution is situated, and the sum so recovered
     shall be paid into the Treasury of the State. 1874, May 7, P.L.
     119, Sec. 1.