The operation, control and management of the land and improvements thereon and the equipment, furnishings, fixtures and personal property within any buildings, or incidental thereto, of the Charles H. Miner State Hospital, at Hamburg, are hereby transferred from the Department of Health to the Department of Public Welfare where it shall be maintained as a State mental institution, and known as the Hamburg State School and Hospital.
The Department of Public Welfare shall manage and control the same, and have such powers and duties with respect thereto as are now provided by law for other State schools and hospitals in its department.
Until a physical transfer of the Charles H. Miner State Hospital is effected from the Department of Health to the Department of Public Welfare, all moneys expended for the operation and maintenance of said hospital shall be chargeable to the appropriation for operation and maintenance of hospitals of the Department of Health.
71 P.S. § 1519.51