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Law No. 984 Of 11 April 1927 To Organize Health House

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 984 din 11 aprilie 1927 pentru organizarea Casei Sănătăţii

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LEGE no. 984 984 of 11 April 1927 for the organization of
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 81 81 of 12 April 1927



FERDINAND I, By the grace of God and the national will, King of Romania, At all present and future, health: The legislative assemblies voted and adopted, and We sanction what follows: + Title I Purpose and duties of the Health House + Article 1 It is established under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and pending by this Ministry a special institution, called "House of Health", established by the right moral and legal person. + Article 2 The Health House is an auxiliary organ of systematic health action, with the following attributions: a) To study the conditions of public health and social protection, in order to highlight the factors that facilitate or hinder the normal development and valorization of the human capital of our country; b) To centralize and manage all funds for constructions, repairs, endowments and facilities of sanitary and protective settlements throughout the country, depending on the Ministry, as well as to manage the goods passed by the Ministry under his leadership; to procure and centralize funds to combat social boals; to combat social boals as: alcoholism, tuberculosis, syphilis, pelagra, malaria, by organizing flywheel health teams and by any other means; c) To administer the funds resulting from the related and the donations, as well as to keep the property proving documents, together with the plans, sketches, inventories and any other papers of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and of the Directions Pending cases which have legal and moral personality; d) To develop and execute in collaboration with the respective directories of the Ministry the systematic plan for the organization of sanitary and protective settlements, as well as to study and introduce the most rational and practical methods for the construction, the endowment and maintenance of all sanitary and protective settlements, even those that are made without the support of the House of Health; e) To help the establishment of medical, sanitary and social assistance institutions and sanitation works, as: asanarea of localities and dwellings, sewerage, drinking water supply and any other works of edilitary hygiene and stimulate private and local initiative, causing it to take on some of the sanitary and protective tasks; f) To effectively collaborate with all other Ministries, in order to coordinate the organization of sanitary institutions; g) To focus, process and publish all data of health and demographic statistics and to make hygienic education of the masses by organizing museums and by any other means of propaganda. For this purpose it will organize a central library, endowing it with the necessary documentary material. + Title II Organization of Health + Article 3 The activity of the Health House will take place in the following A) Medical technical direction with the following sections: 1. Healthcare section; 2. Public Sanitation Section; 3. Social hygiene section; 4. Section of social assistance; B) Direction of statistics, propaganda, publications, museum and library; C) The direction of the constructions and the endowments; D) Accounting and administration service (income, expenses and ordinances, cashier, secretariat, registry and archive, etc.). + Article 4 The House of Health is being placed under an administrator, who is her legal representative. The administrator will be appointed among the health inspectors general or doctors in medicine specialized in hygiene and public health, being helped by a subadministrator, doctor of medicine. The administrator and the sub-administrator shall be appointed by royal decree and shall be definitively and unremovable, not being suspended or revoked except in the conditions provided for in art. 13 of the health law. + Article 5 The administrator directs the services and works of the House, administering her interests and assets, in accordance with respective laws and regulations He can take any legal measures with the aim of providing the necessary funds to the House of Health, having the right to make the necessary expenses within the limits of the allocations registered in the annual budgets of the House The administrator is responsible for the monetary management of funds, as well as the administration of the interests and assets of the House. He is entitled to personally find or through a delegate of or, on the spot, the course of works or supplies of materials that are executed in his account with the help of the House of Health, informing about it both the minister and the council House. In the absence of the administrator is replaced by the right in all his subadministrator's duties. + Article 6 The recruitment of the medical and administrative technical staff of the House of Health, as well as the transfers and filling of vacancies are made after the proposal of the administrator and in accordance with the + Article 7 As needs, the House council will be able to endorse the creation of new services, whose establishment the Ministry will have. + Article 8 The administrator shall be assisted by a board composed of members of law and appointed members. The members of law are: 1. Health Director General. 2. Director of Social Assistance. 3. Technical inspector general for hospitals. 4. Technical inspector general for laboratories. 5. Hygiene teachers at the medical faculties in the country. 6. A representative of the institute of hygiene and public health. 7. Medical Director of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. The appointed members are: 1. An internist. 2. A surgeon. 3. An epidemic. 4. A county primary physician. 5. A city chief doctor. 6. A representative of the Union of cities in Romania, proposed by the Union. 7. An architect. 8. A specialist in sanitary genius. 9. A representative of the Higher Technical Council. The council members are appointed by royal decree. Their mandate lasts 6 years; after the expiration of the mandate they can be appointed again. The appointed members of the council shall be renewed every 2 years in groups of three. The first renewal will be made by drawing lots, after the expiry of the 6-year term. In case of necessity the Council may call upon the meeting for consultation of special persons and competencies. The Council will be chaired by the administrator, which takes part in the deliberative vote. In case the minister or the secretary-general are present, the presidency lies with them rightfully. The council will convene the minister, or the administrator of the House, once a year in ordinary session, and in extraordinary session how many times it will be needed. + Article 9 The House of Health Council will give its opinion on the issues contained in art. 2 of the present law, which will be subject to deliberation. Council opinions are subject to approval by the minister + Article 10 A permanent administrative commission composed of: administrator, general health director and a member delegate by secret ballot shall be established. The task of this commission will be to decide on all current and urgent matters brought before it by the administrator. The decisions of this commission will become enforceable only after the approval of the minister; this commission can still be completed, case by case, with no more than two special persons indicated by the nature of the problems forming the main object of the order by day and which will take part in deliberative voting. + Article 11 In order to facilitate the activity of the House of Health, counties and communes will constitute sanitary committees composed of well-reputed persons and presenting guarantees that they will work for the problems concerning the House of Health. In rural communes the constituency doctors will contest for the constitution of these committees. + Article 12 The significant contributions, brought by individuals to the protection of public health, will be brought to the general knowledge of the public through advertising. Duties of services A. Medical Technical Direction + Article 13 The medical technical direction will do the medical technical studies and surveys. It will gather the entire documentary material on the situation of the medical, health and social assistance institutions in the country, both those depending on the Ministry and those under the leadership of other departments or authorities or companies and private persons; will develop the program of organization of new institutions in collaboration with the respective directions and will centralize the plans of all sanitary and social protection institutions. All this direction will be called to organize the sanitary experiments necessary for the Ministry. B. Direction of statistics, propaganda and publications, museum and library + Article 14 This direction, led by a doctor of medicine, works in collaboration with all the directions of the Ministry and has the following attributions: 1. Strange and coordinates all statistical data on public hygiene, healthcare, social protection and population movement. The respective directions will provide the House of Health with all statistical data collected by them; prepare the statistics of the causes of mortality and morbidity, as well as sanitation works and any other works; centralize the data statistics of all sanitary or assistance settlements, make specialized statistical surveys, collect international statistical data and maintain relatives and exchange of publications with offices in the country and abroad. 2. With the contest of the other constituent directories of the Ministry, study the various sanitary or assistance problems. It organizes and executes in the same way propaganda in the field of health and assistance matters, especially against boals of a social nature. 3. Redact and print the statistics, publications, directories, official bulletin (annals) of the Ministry. 4. Organize and conduct the Ministry's hygiene and assistance museum (social, national). 5. Keep and run the Ministry's library, as well as libraries under the sanitary or assistance settlements. This direction will have the following biuros: a) Office of publications, propaganda and studies; b) Office library and museum; c) Bureau of Statistics, in relation to the statistical central institute and demographic statistics. This service in the margins of its competition will work closely with similar services from the other departments, especially with demographic statistics, coordinating the activity and data. This direction will work in accordance with the law of the statistical institute. + Article 15 All printers are obliged to send to the library of the House of Health a copy of any publication (books, magazines, posters, boards, etc.) that deal with topics of a health or social assistance. C. Direction of constructions and endowments + Article 16 The direction of the constructions, led by a chief architect, will have the following attributions: will study and draw up the projects, supervise and execute all new works and maintenance of all buildings and installations belonging to its services the directions pending by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection. The direction of the construction will include the following biuros: a) Office of checks and secretaries; b) Bureau of new studies and constructions; c) Maintenance and endowment office; d) Office of plumbing and sanitary appliances; e) Balneo-climate technical bureau; f) Outer staff. The director of the constructions has the following attributions: subject to the approval of the higher bodies the program of works of the direction and gives directives to the services under his orders, technically approve all works of the Ministry the institutions pending by the Ministry, which are obliged to execute their works by the direction of the constructions. D. Accounting and Administration Service + Article 17 The administrative and financial service will deal with: the administration of businesses and assets of the House, the pursuit and collection of income, the record and the situation of donations and legates, the administration of private foundations that do not have administration apart, the ordering and accounting of expenses, the verification of supporting documents, the conclusion of situations and accounts of management, as well as any other works of an administrative and financial nature. For this purpose, offices will be created by: a) income; b) expenses and ordinances; c) cassiery; d) secretariat and information; e) archive and registry. Other biuros will set up as the needs of the House demand. + Article 18 The cassieria of the House of Health will constitute a service of its own, put under the management of a cassier, which will collect all the income and make all payments in the House account, based on the delegation given by the administrator. + Title III Health House funds + Article 19 The annual budget of the House of Health shall be drawn up by the administrator with the opinion of the council and is subject to the approval of the Assembly The modification of the budget items by way of viriment can be made only in the conditions provided for in the public accounting law. + Article 20 The management of the House of Health is special and does not encompass itself in the proper management of the Ministry or the other Houses and special funds. The Health House's management accounts will be submitted to the Court of Accounts for verification. + Article 21 If the annual budgetary resources of the House of Health are not sufficient for the execution of works pending by the Ministry, counties or communes, the House of Health, with the authorization of the Council of Ministers, will be able to commit to payment in monthly installments or will could contract loans. In these cases, the rates, interests or annuities will be entered in the budget of the House of Health, especially on the other expenses. + Article 22 The House of Health will be equipped with a fund by the State from which it will be able to provide loans to counties and communes for medical assistance works, health assistance and social assistance, which will be done after the agreement taken with the House of Health. The House of Health being a continuation of law of the rural Public Health House, established by the 1910 law, all properties, as well as the income and the demands of the House, as well as any assets and patrimonial rights that were tested or donated during the Public health times, will be taken in receipt and followed by the House of Health, which will guarantee the good preservation and valorization of these properties and claims. + Article 23 The communes and counties that will not execute the sanitary and social protection works imposed on them by the sanitary and administrative laws, are obliged to register the necessary amounts in the budget for these works, after the opinion and guidance given by the House of Health on the plans, implementing provisions and annual quotas to be entered in the budget. Following the intervention of the Health House, the registration of the necessary amounts will be made ex officio by the Interior Ministry Also the registration in the budget is mandatory for the amounts debursed by the House of Health in carrying out urgent and unexecuted works of communes or counties, according to this article, shedding the hoard in the account of the House of Health. + Article 24 The House of Health will feed from the following sources of income: 1. Amounts donated by counties, communes, efforts, public or private institutions or private persons, for purposes of construction, repair, arrangement, endowments and maintenance of sanitary and social protection institutions. 2. Cotizations and contributions for housing construction for constituencies and other health and care personnel. 3. Subscription fees for the publications of the House of Health, as well as all income coming from the ad and ad fees of the publications of this House. 4. Revenue from voluntary contributions to health propaganda performances, as well as from the sale of propaganda articles. This House will also collect the entrance fees to the hygiene and public health museums organized by the House of Health. 5. Medical fees for the medical visit of foreign workers entering the country, as well as floating vessels that reach for the first time a Romanian port. 6. Income of State effects, donated for edilitary, sanitary or social protection purposes. 7. State effects income of the Ministry. 8. Share of 70% of fees for authorization of sale of foreign and indigenous drug products. 9. All fines that will be charged on the basis of sanitary and social protection laws and regulations, either by administrative means or by court, will constitute by law the income of the House of Health and will be charged under the by the law of March 25, 1923 regarding the increase of the figure of the fines and the way of their collection. 10. From the revenues of the State lottery, when this institution will be reinstated. With the start of the operation of the above-mentioned State lottery, no such lottery will be able to function periodically or continuously, in any form and under any name. 11. By way of derogation from the accounting law, the annual savings from the incomes of hospitals, ambulators, laboratories, as well as other institutions of a health or social assistance that are maintained by the State, apart from the maintenance fees of the sick. 12. The income of buildings and capitalized amounts, coming from donations and related to the Ministry or the House for health purposes determined or undetermined, as well as the revenues of the capitalized amounts from the general fund. 13. Income of enterprises authorized by law for the benefit of the House of Health (spa resorts, sanitary exhibitions, etc.). 14. Taxes that will be charged from the date of promulgation of this law as follows: 5,000-10,000 lei of each authorization for the operation of any sanatorium, Health Houses or other private settlement with the purpose of internal or sick care in ambulatory mode, excluding those made with a benefit purpose; 5,000 lei of each authorization for the opening of pharmacies, drugstores, drug stores, perfumes, drug laboratories, cosmetics; 1,000 lei for any move or transfer of drugstore or pharmacy; 8,000 lei of each authorization for the disposal of a product specialized foreign pharmaceutical; 2,000 lei for authorization for the sale of specialized indigenous pharmaceutical products; 2,000 lei of each authorization to operate any private laboratory for medical tests; 1,000-10,000 lei for the granting of authorisations for the operation of commercial and industrial establishments subject to health control. 15. Any other unforeseen and incidental income. + Article 25 For arguing the resources provided in art. 21 of the present law, which will serve for the granting of loans to communes and counties in order to improve the necessary sanitary improvements, the House of Health will have as a preference to any other Houses and authorities to obtain the amounts deposited at the Houses of State deposits. + Article 26 The money funds of the House of Health will be kept until their use at the House of deposits and consemnations. + Article 27 Any amounts received from the financial administrations in the accounts of the income provided above will be recorded monthly on account of the House of Health, to which the appropriate container will be submitted, accompanied by separate borderos for each individual income. + Article 28 The House of Health will execute any work alone or in collaboration with the efforts, counties, communes or any other interested institutions. If counties, communes or efforts are free of sufficient funds, the House of Health will be able to contribute subsidies, which will not be able to exceed the 50% of the cost of the works, and for the rest will be able to grant Ministers loans payable in annuities with a nominal interest fixed annually by this Council. + Article 29 Counties and communes that will ask for loans from the House of Health will be indebted to the annex at their request a copy of the budget and a situation of receipts and expenses over the last three years, data that will constitute proof of the payment annuities, which in case of approval of the loan are obliged to enroll in the budget especially on the other expenses. + Article 30 Accounting of the funds of the House of Health will be made in accordance with the provisions of the public accounting law. + Title IV Donations and related + Article 31 The House of Health has the right to receive related and possess property and immovable property. Any related or donation made for the benefit of the House of Health is accepted by this House and is used in the public health branch, which the testator had in mind. + Article 32 All existing foundations with health or social assistance fund, which through their founding acts are not put under a special administration, will pass under the administration of the House of Health, which will pursue for this purpose the existence of these foundations, to get acquainted with their acts of foundation. These foundations are obliged within 6 months from the establishment of the House of Health, to submit their founding documents and their operating regulations. The regulations of these foundations as well as their budgets will be approved by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection based on the opinion given by the House of Health. + Article 33 The foundations, the efforts, the epitropias for health care and any other similar settlements will be able to pass under the administration of the House of Health voluntarily and if their acts of foundation do not oppose it. + Article 34 At the opening of any will or the making of an act, establishing a health foundation or providing for any related to public health, the presidents of the courts and public notaries are obliged to collect about it, from Office, Ministry of Health and Social Protection. + Article 35 The House of Health as a moral and legal person has the right to appear in the judiciary as a defender or applicant, and can bring any action and even claim action. + Title V Final and transitional provisions + Article 36 The endowments of the institutions built by the House of Health will be done through the Ministry's saving service. + Article 37 The paintings of materials necessary for the endowment of settlements and new institutions are drawn up by the service to save, under the direct supervision of the House of Health, establishing by mutual agreement with the interested services the conditions of supply. + Article 38 With the approval of paintings and supply conditions for materials, provided for by the previous article, the Ministry, following the opinion of the permanent administrative committee of the House of Health, will decide, in accordance with the provisions of the law public accounting, on the conditions in which supplies of materials are to be executed. + Article 39 Public tenders for the supply of materials will be held in accordance with the provisions of the law of public accounting by a commission composed of: 1. The Administrator of the Public Health House or his delegate; 2. A designated member of the bosom or of the House council; 3. Head of the Ministry's Economy Service. + Article 40 The result of the public tenders held according to the above provisions is subject to the opinion of the permanent administrative commission of the House and the approvals required by the public accounting law. + Article 41 Contracts for supplies of materials shall be indicated and signed in the name of the House of Health by its administrator or by his legal replacement and shall be countersigned by the head of the savings service. The service of saving remains liable for the proper execution of supply of material, being obliged to inform the Health House on a monthly basis of the situation of supplies. The definitive reception of the materials will be made by a commission composed in the same way as the commission for the holding of tenders. + Article 42 The service of statistics, propaganda, museum, studies and library and technical service of the Ministry pass on the day of the promulgation of the present law at the House of Health and will operate in accordance with the articles of The technical service will be called in the future the service of constructions and endowments. + Article 43 The common directions and direction, as well as the special boards and commissions, which give opinions or take provisions concerning the House of Health, will consult this House, to ensure as close collaboration between the House of Health and these directions and services. In order to ensure as close collaboration between the House of Health and the directories of the Ministry, the House of Health will have a representative in all committees and councils dealing with matters in relation to any branch of its activity. + Article 44 When establishing the taxes that are charged by the Ministry in the favor of the House of Health, as well as to the regulation of the receipts of these taxes, the respective directions are obliged to ask for the opinion + Article 45 The heads of the joint services (technical service, service of statistics) who by present law pass to the House of Health, retain their rights granted by the status of civil servants, to take part in the commission of appointments and forwards and in the commission of discipline. + Article 46 In order to ensure more effective control of agricultural holdings on the grounds of the House of Health, the House agricultural inspector will take measures to organize any type of exploitation and supervise the execution of the instructions contained a special regulation. + Article 47 The functioning of the House and its services and how the lottery will be organized as well as any other rules will be established by a special regulation. + Article 48 The Health House administrator will publish an annual report on the House's work, which it will submit to the House and Ministry council. + Article 49 By the present law, some articles of the law of 23 March 1926 are amended as follows: in art. 3 the paragraphs d and f will be repealed by the passage of the respective services to the House of Health; the paragraph of art. 10 10. Articles 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60 of the law of 23 March 1926 are repealed in total. Paragraph intaiu al art. 62 is amended as follows: all household and contentious services form the joint services of the Ministry, which includes: 1. Accounting service with the financial control inspectorate; 2. Service of the staff and secretariat with the intendant; 3. Material service (saving); 4. Contencios. The amended Article 65 becomes art. 16 of the present law, and art. 68 becomes art. 14 of this law; Articles 69 and 70 of the law of March 23, 1926 will not refer to the House of Health. + Article 50 Any articles of law and regulations contrary to this law are also repealed. This law was voted on by the Senate at its meeting on March 28, 1927 and was unanimously adopted by one hundred and twenty-seven votes. Vice-president, Dr. Obregia. ((L.S.S.) Secretary, Noica This law was voted by the Assembly of Deputies at its meeting on April 1, 1927, and was adopted by a majority of one hundred and sixteen votes, against one. Vice-president, Dr. Bardescu. (L.S.A.D.) Secretary, Toma Radulescu We promulgate this law and order that it be invested with the seal of the State and published in the Official Gazette. FERDINAND Given in Bucharest, on 11 April 1927. Health Minister and social protection, I. Lupas. Justice Minister, T. Cudalbu. --------