TITLE 351
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PREAMBLE
I. POWERS OF THE CITY … 1.1-100 (View pdf)
II. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH—THE COUNCIL—ITS ELECTION, ORGANIZATION, POWERS AND DUTIES … 2.2-100 (View pdf)
III. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH—ORGANIZATION … 3.3-100 (View pdf)
IV. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH—POWERS
AND DUTIES—The Mayor, the City Representative and Departments, Boards and Commissions under the Mayor … 4.4-100 (View pdf)
V. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH—POWERS
AND DUTIES—Managing Director and Departments, Boards and Commissions under his Supervision … 5.5-100 (View pdf)
VI. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH—POWERS
AND DUTIES—Director of Finance, Financial Departments,
Boards and Commissions, City Treasurer, Procurement Department, and Board of Pensions and Retirement … 6.6-100 (View pdf)
VII. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH—POWERS
AND DUTIES—Personnel Director and Civil Service Commission and the Civil Service … 7.7-100 (View pdf)
VIII. PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION … 8.8-100 (View pdf)
IX. REMOVAL OF ELECTIVE AND APPOINTIVE OFFICERS … 9.9-100 (View pdf)
X. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES OF COUNCILMEN, CITY OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS, AND PENALTIES … 10.10-100 (View pdf)
XI. SEVERABILITY AND ACTS SUPERSEDED … 11.11-100 (View pdf)
XII. PUBLIC EDUCATION … 12.12-100 (View pdf)
The provisions of this Title 351 issued under act of April 21, 1949, P. L. 665 (No. 665) (53 P. S. § 13101 et seq.), unless otherwise noted.
The provisions of this Title 351 adopted April 17, 1951, unless otherwise noted.
PREAMBLE
Grateful to God for the freedoms we enjoy, and desirous of establishing a form of improved municipal self-government in which all qualified citizens may participate equally without any distinction based on race, color, religion or national origin, we, the electors of Philadelphia, hereby adopt this ‘‘Philadelphia Home Rule Charter,’’ prepared by the Philadelphia Charter Commission under authority of the Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved April 21, 1949, P. L. 665.
The denial of pension benefits to a former city commissioner based upon a forfeiture ordinance adopted pursuant to the Home Rule Charter was not an unconstitutional impairment of his contractual rights even though he was a city employee prior to enactment of the ordinance where the change in terms of his pension plan was not the result of a unilateral act of the city but, rather, of a bilateral act whereby he exchanged his old contractual rights for new obligations and benefits provided under the new plan. Osser v. City of Philadelphia, 485 A.2d 392 (Pa. 1984).
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