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§ 825-5 Assessment of penalty.
§ 825-6 Appeal from penalty assessment.
§ 825-7 Penalty assessment final after 30 days.
§ 825-8 Allegheny County Environmental Health Fund.
§ 825-10 Purpose and policy.
§ 825-11 Determination of charges.
§ 825-12 Billings for established service charges.
§ 825-14 Review by Board of Health.
§ 825-15 Schedule of fees and charges for personal health services.
The purpose of this article is to create an ACHD mechanism to accept and expend funds generated by activities of the Bureau of Environmental Quality in the areas of solid waste, water pollution, and drinking water as well as to create a County Health Department mechanism to deal with violations of certain county environmental health regulations and state laws expeditiously and without resorting to litigation where circumstances dictate and law or regulation allows such action.
The intent of this regulation is to provide additional cumulative remedies and processes and in no way is to be construed as replacing, revoking, or supplanting any existing remedy, law or regulation.
The actual date of receipt of a notice from the Department or either the date of mailing via the United States postal service, whichever is earlier.
A natural person, corporation, municipality, partnership association, institution, cooperative enterprise of legal entity.
This article shall apply to all civil penalties initiated by ACHD under Article III, "Food Safety"; Article VI, "Houses and Community Environment"; Article VIII, "Solid Waste and Recycling Management"; Article IX, "Lifeguards, Bathing Places, Bathing Beaches, Hot Tubs and Spas"; Article XII, "Carbon Monoxide Hazards"; Article XIV, "Sewage Management"; Article XV, "Plumbing Code of the Allegheny County Health Department"; and Article XXII, "Use of Electronic Cigarette Devices in Public Places."
This article may be utilized to assess and utilize civil penalties initiated and obtained via ACHD enforcement and administration under state environmental statutes and minimum program standards, 28 Pa. Code, Chapter 17.
The Director may assess a civil penalty against any person for a violation of any ACHD article as provided herein.
The Director may assess a civil penalty against such person whether or not the violation is willful. The penalty so assessed shall not exceed $10,000, plus up to $2,500 for each day of continued or repeated violation.
Penalty determination. In determining the amount of civil penalties to be assessed, the Director shall consider the economic benefit gained by such person by failing to comply with the article, the willfulness of the violation, the actual and potential harm to the public health, safety and welfare and to the environment, the nature, frequency and magnitude of the violation, and any other relevant factors.
Penalty payments. Civil penalties assessed by the Director shall be payable to Allegheny County and shall be collectable in any manner provided at law for the collection of debt. If any person fails to pay such penalty after such assessment has become final, the amount of such penalty together with interest from the date of demand and any costs which may accrue shall be a lien in favor of Allegheny County upon the real and personal property of such person, but only after the penalty has been entered and docketed of record by the Prothonotary of the County in which such property is situated.
Any appeal from penalty assessment by the Director shall be taken in accordance with Article XI, ACHD Rules and Regulations, Hearings and Appeals.
Any penalty assessment imposed by the Director under this article shall be final 30 days from date of notification or upon written acceptance of such assessment by the person against whom the penalty was issued.
The purpose of Allegheny County Environmental Health Fund is to support activities related to the improvement of environmental health within Allegheny County and to support activities which will increase or improve knowledge of the environment as it relates to public health and its control so as to benefit public health.
Disposition of monies collected. All funds received by the County as a result of consent orders, civil penalty actions, consent decrees, or civil penalties relating to actions taken by the Department in conjunction or cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources under State statutes or regulations relating to water pollution, drinking water, sewage or solid waste, shall be paid into a special fund known as the Allegheny County Environmental Health Fund which is hereby established.
This fund shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of the Second Class County Code and other applicable laws. The County Treasurer shall invest monies deposited in the fund and in such manner as not to impair the liquidity of the fund and shall credit all interest accruing on such monies to the fund.
The Director shall report on the status of the fund to the Board of Health on a semiannual basis, or at such other intervals as the Board may require.
Audits of the fund shall be performed as required by law.
The purchase of equipment, materials, or services to supplement the County's environmental health enforcement programs.
Disbursement of monies from the Environmental Health Fund shall not be used to replace the normal operating funds of the Allegheny County Bureau of Environmental Quality.
The Director shall prepare requests for disbursements upon consultation with the Board of Health.
The Director shall present requests for disbursements to the Board of County Commissioners. The request shall include a statement as to the results of the consultation with the Board of Health.
The Board of County Commissioners shall approve or disapprove requests for disbursement made by the Director. If approved, the Board of County Commissioners shall authorize disbursement of funds in the manner provided by law.
The provisions of this article shall become effective on September 1, 1990.
It is the policy of the Allegheny County Health Department that individuals seeking medical services from the Department shall not be denied such health services because of inability to pay. However, where a charge can be made, it is the policy of the Department to bill the individual and/or appropriate third party.
All recipients of services provided by the Allegheny County Health Department shall be charged, where applicable, a fee in accordance with the provision established under § 825-15 and the schedule of fees and charges for personal health services.
Charges for personal health services shall not be more than, but may be less than, the cost of providing these services.
Separate fees shall be charged for x-rays and other diagnostic tests.
All persons shall be responsible for the cost of the services received except patients whose cost of medical care is the responsibility of a third-party payor.
Charges for services shall be billed directly to the third-party payor or the private payor, as appropriate, but not both, and payment made by third-party payor will be accepted as payment in full.
The Director of the Allegheny County Health Department shall be responsible for the determination of charges and the administration of the charge policy established by the Board of Health of the Allegheny County Health Department under this regulation.
The Director shall annually provide the Board of Health a current schedule of medical service fees.
Immunizations, biologicals and related pharmaceuticals.
Where Allegheny County Health Department is prohibited by statute, regulation, contract, or grant specifications from collection of medical service fees specified herein, it shall not collect such fees.

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