Section 609-A. Department of Health.--(a) The Department of Health is authorized to charge fees for the following purposes and in the following amounts:
(1) Permit for operation of clinical
laboratory..................................
$100.00
(2) Provisional approval issued to nursing homes:
(i) Provisional license:
(A) First provisional..................
100.00
Each approved nursing home bed.......
2.00
(B) Second provisional.................
200.00
Each approved nursing home bed.......
2.00
(C) Third provisional..................
300.00
Each approved nursing home bed.......
2.00
(D) Fourth provisional.................
400.00
Each approved nursing home bed.......
2.00
(3) ((3) deleted by amendment Dec. 23, 2003, P.L.282, No.47)
(4) Nursing homes:
(i) Regular license........................
100.00
Each inpatient bed......................
2.00
(ii) Renewal of regular license............
100.00
Each inpatient bed......................
2.00
(5) Home health care agency:
(i) License................................
200.00
(6) Vital statistics:
(i) Certified copy of a birth record.......
20.00
(ii) Certified copy of a death record......
20.00
(b) When there is no local registrar, upon application and payment of a fee of twenty dollars ($20), the local Department of Health office shall issue a certificate of death. Each fee received by the local Department of Health office shall be distributed as follows:
(1) Eleven dollars ($11) shall be retained by the Department of Health.
(2) Eight dollars ($8) shall be deposited in the General Fund.
(3) One dollar ($1) shall be retained by the Department of Health for distribution to the county coroner or medical examiner as provided for in section 206 of the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953.
(609-A amended Oct. 30, 2017, P.L.379, No.40)