Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 16257. Rights of former departments vested in city;  suits, etc., to be in name of city

All bonds, contracts and obligations heretofore executed, judgments entered, claims filed, and suits now pending in the name of any department of said city, formerly having had a corporate existence, are declared to be good and valid, and to inure to the use of the city;  but no such department shall be taken to have had, since the passage of the act to which this is a supplement, a separate corporate existence, and hereafter all suits growing out of their transactions, and all claims to be filed for removing nuisances, together with all bonds, contracts and obligations, hereafter to be entered into or received by the said departments, shall be in the name of the city of Philadelphia.