Pennsylvania Act 1949-496 — LEASING WEST STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

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LEASING WEST STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
                 Act of May 20, 1949, P.L. 1643, No. 496              Cl. 50
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to lease to
        the University of Pittsburgh, the Western State Psychiatric
        Institute and Clinic, in Allegheny County, and providing for
        the management thereof by the University of Pittsburgh.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The Western State Psychiatric Institute and
     Clinic, located in Allegheny County, shall be used for study and
     research into the causes, treatment, prevention and cure of the
     various types of nervous disorders and mental diseases. This
     institute shall also provide training and teaching both at the
     undergraduate and at the graduate level of students who, upon
     graduation, will enter the practice of general medicine, with a
     technical background of training in mental illness, as well as
     for the purpose of taking up the great gap between the number of
     qualified psychiatrists and the number who are needed as a
     result of the constantly mounting number of persons needing
     attention for mental disorders.
        A further purpose of the institute shall be to provide
     regular courses of study for State Hospital personnel in order
     that there may be a more highly trained and efficient staff and
     personnel in the various mental institutions throughout the
     Commonwealth.
        A further purpose shall be to deal with the mental hygiene of
     the normal child in the way of study and training in order that
     there may be a program of prevention of mental and nervous
     disorders as a result of giving children the proper background
     and training that will prevent such disorders.
        A further purpose shall be the training and teaching of
     nurses and other personnel needed in the treatment, care and
     prevention of mental illness.
        For a further purpose the institute shall focus its expert
     activities on problems of administration so that studies may be
     made to deal effectively, humanely and economically with the
     care of mental illness throughout the Commonwealth.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 1001(3) of Act 141 of 1951 provided
            that section 1 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
            with Act 141.
        Section 2.  The Western State Psychiatric Institute and
     Clinic shall be under the management of the Board of Trustees of
     the University of Pittsburgh, which board shall select and
     appoint a director of the institute who shall be a physician of
     qualifications and experience in the care and treatment of
     mental diseases and mental defectives.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 1001(3) of Act 141 of 1951 provided
            that section 2 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
            with Act 141.
        Section 3.  In addition to the Board of Trustees hereinbefore
     provided for, such institution shall have a medical advisory
     board, the duty of which shall be to submit policy
     recommendations relative to the treatment and cure of persons
     admitted to the same for treatment, and recommend anything
     necessary to carry out the purposes of the institute, as
     hereinbefore set forth.
        The Medical Advisory Board shall be composed of the Secretary
     of Welfare, the director of the Bureau of Mental Health of the
     Department of Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the
     chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Eastern
     Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, the director of the Western
     State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, who shall be chairman of
     the Medical Advisory Board, the dean of the School of Medicine
     of the University of Pittsburgh, the dean of the Graduate School
     of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, the dean of
     the School of Nursing of the University of Pittsburgh, the
     president of the Western Pennsylvania Neuro-Psychiatry Society,
     and the chairman of the committee on the Medical Center of the
     Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh.
        Section 4.  All recommendations concerning the policies of
     the institute and clinic which come from the Medical Advisory
     Board shall be referred to the Board of Trustees through the
     trustee committee of the Medical Center of the University of
     Pittsburgh. When such recommendations are considered by the
     trustee committee on the Medical Center of the University of
     Pittsburgh, the Secretary of Welfare shall be invited to be
     present and to participate in the discussion of the same.
        Section 5.  The Department of Property and Supplies, with the
     approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed to
     lease for the rental of one dollar ($1.00) per annum, to the
     Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, all the
     lands, buildings and equipment in the City of Pittsburgh, County
     of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which comprise the Western State
     Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, for such term as shall be
     agreed upon.
        Section 6.  The lease shall be prepared by the Department of
     Justice and executed by the Secretary of Property and Supplies,
     with the approval of the Governor and the Attorney General.
        Section 7.  The Department of Welfare of the Commonwealth of
     Pennsylvania is hereby authorized and required to relinquish the
     government, management, operation and control of the Western
     State Psychiatric Institute and Clinic to the University of
     Pittsburgh, at such time as may be agreed upon by the terms of
     the lease hereinbefore mentioned.
        Section 8.  Section two thousand three hundred nineteen of
     the act, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand nine
     hundred twenty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 177), entitled "An act
     providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the executive and
     administrative work of the Commonwealth by the Executive
     Department thereof and the administrative departments, boards,
     commissions, and officers thereof, including the boards of
     trustees of State Normal Schools, or Teachers Colleges;
     abolishing, creating, reorganizing or authorizing the
     reorganization of certain administrative departments, boards,
     and commissions; defining the powers and duties of the Governor
     and other executive and administrative officers, and of the
     several administrative departments, boards, commissions, and
     officers; fixing the salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant
     Governor, and certain other executive and administrative
     officers; providing for the appointment of certain
     administrative officers, and of all deputies and other
     assistants and employes in certain departments, boards, and
     commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the number and
     compensation of the deputies and all other assistants and
     employes of certain departments, boards and commissions shall be
     determined," as last amended by the acts, approved the twenty-
     sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred forty-five
     (Pamphlet Laws 63) and the seventeenth day of April, one
     thousand nine hundred forty-five (Pamphlet Laws 245), is hereby
     repealed.