Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 5971f. Return to relieve collector

After such return of taxes shall have been made in accordance with the provisions hereof, responsibility of the tax collector or receiver of taxes for the collection of the taxes so returned shall cease.  On making such return, the tax collector or receiver of taxes shall be entitled to exoneration from the taxes so returned on the settlement of his accounts.  On any unpaid taxes returned to the county commissioners, the tax collector or receiver of taxes shall be entitled to receive a commission of two per centum (2%) from the taxing district for which such tax is returned when the tax is paid by the county treasurer to the proper taxing district;  provided, that, where the tax collector is paid on a salary basis, he shall not be entitled to receive this commission of two per centum (2%).