CHAPTER 364

AN ACT to provide for the reduction and elimination of occu-
pational disease, and to this end to confer certain powers
upon the State Health Commissioner concerning the in-
spection of certain establishments, the making of tests and
taking of samples, and to recommend certain practices.

[ H 331 ]
Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. 1. The State Health Commissioner or his duly authorized
representatives of the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene shall have
the right of entry at reasonable hours into any industrial or
commercial establishment where persons are employed for the
purpose of checking on occupational disease and to take such
samples and tests as necessary to establish the degree of hazard
existing.

2. The State Health Commissioner may recommend to the
industry affected reasonable rules and regulations to control
occupational disease as defined by §§ 65-42 and 65-43 of the Code
of 1950.