Section 1. From and after the passage of this act, all laws relating to cities of the third class shall continue to apply to cities of that class which have passed or may pass into a city of the second class by reason of increase in population, except so far as such laws are supplied by, or in conflict with, laws relating to cities of the second class.
(1 unconstitutional 34 Sup. Ct. 133)
SCHEDULE.
Section 1. Within thirty days from the approval of this act, the Governor of this Commonwealth shall, by appointment, fill the office of city recorder in each of the existing cities of the second class. The persons so appointed shall have the same qualifications as required for the city recorder under this act, and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties belonging to the office of city recorder under this act, until their successors are elected and qualified. Said successors shall be chosen at the regular municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and three, and shall be qualified and enter upon their office on the first Monday in April following said election. The provision in article one, section one, making city recorders ineligible for re-election for the next succeeding term, shall not apply to city recorders appointed by the Governor; and said appointees, and their successors appointed by him, shall be subject to removal by the Governor during the term for which they may be appointed, and in case of such removal, or the death or resignation of any such appointee, his successor shall be appointed by the Governor in the same manner as provided by this section.
Section 2. Upon the appointments being made, as provided in the preceding section, the office of mayor as heretofore existing in any city of the second class shall be abolished. The city recorders so appointed by the Governor, and their successors so appointed, shall have the right and power, and are hereby authorized to remove from office:
Director of Department of Public Safety.
Director of Department of Public Works.
Director of Department of Charities and Corrections.
The Collector of Delinquent Taxes.
City Solicitor.
Members of the Sinking Fund Commission.
Members of the Board of Assessors.
Said recorders may appoint the successors of said officers, as provided in section one of this schedule, and the officials so appointed shall have power, and are hereby authorized to remove any and all of the officers and employes and persons holding position and employment in their respective departments, and appoint their successors, and the person so appointed shall be governed and controlled by this act. Controllers and treasurers shall fill out the terms for which they were elected or appointed, and at the expiration thereof their successors shall be appointed as herein provided.
Section 3. The provisions of this act as to confirmation by select council of appointments by the city recorder, shall not apply to those made by the persons appointed as city recorders of existing cities, as provided by section one of this schedule; but the city recorders so appointed may fill all offices and employments, which by this act are to be filled by the city recorder, without such consent, but those appointed shall possess the qualifications required by this act. The city recorder and the heads of departments to be appointed under this schedule, shall receive out of the city treasury annual salaries as follows:
The city recorder, ten thousand dollars; the head of each department, five thousand dollars. But councils may reduce the said salaries as follows: That of the city recorder, to not less than three thousand dollars, and the heads of departments to not less than twenty-five hundred dollars; and where two departments are consolidated under this act, the salary of the officer performing the duties of the said two departments may be reduced to not less than twenty-five hundred dollars. The city recorders appointed by the Governor under the provisions hereof, shall give bond to the city in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, said bond to be approved by the Governor. City recorders elected under the provisions hereof, shall give such bond, and receive such salary, as may be fixed by ordinance of councils.
Section 4. The act entitled "An act in relation to the government of cities of the second class," approved the fourteenth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby repealed except the first and second sections thereof.
(4 amended June 20, 1901, P.L.586, No.288)