Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 13132. Powers of council

(a) Subject to the provisions of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, the Council of the City of Philadelphia shall have full powers to legislate with respect to the election, appointment, compensation, organization, abolition, merger, consolidation, powers, functions and duties of the Coroner, Recorder of Deeds, City Treasurer, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery and the Board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison. The provisions of Section 1-102(2) of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter are hereby validated and the power of Council to act thereunder is hereby confirmed.

(b) The Council of the City of Philadelphia may abolish or alter the manner of selection of any of the above officers without submitting the determination of that question to the electorate of the City of Philadelphia.

(c) Subject to the provisions of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter and the First Class City Home Rule Act of April twenty-one, one thousand nine hundred forty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 665), the Council of the City of Philadelphia shall have full powers to legislate with respect to the election, appointment, compensation, organization, abolition, merger, consolidation, powers, functions and duties of the Sheriff, City Commissioners, Registration Commission and Board of Revision of Taxes or its successor, with respect to the making of assessments of real and personal property as provided by act of Assembly. The provisions of Section 1-102(2) of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter are hereby validated and the power of Council to act thereunder is hereby confirmed.

(d) Legislation adopted by the Council of the City of Philadelphia under the authority of subsection (c) of this section shall not be effective until approved by the electorate of the City of Philadelphia in the same manner as amendments to the Home Rule Charter under the First Class City Home Rule Act.