§338-2  Authority and duties of thedepartment of health.  The department of health, herein referred to as thedepartment, shall:

(1)  Establish a central bureau of public healthstatistics with suitable offices properly equipped for the safety and preservationof all its official records;

(2)  Install a statewide system of public healthstatistics;

(3)  Make and amend, after notice and hearing,necessary regulations, give instructions and prescribe forms for collecting,transcribing, compiling, and preserving public health statistics; and

(4)  Enforce this part and the regulations madepursuant thereto. [L 1949, c 327, §3; RL 1955, §57-2; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1,§19; HRS §338-2]