Section 7. The department of city treasurer is hereby charged with the duty of receiving taxes and funds derived from loans, licenses, water rents, water pipe frontages, permits, and rents from markets, landings, wharves, and other public property, and interest; and with the supervision, control, and direction of such activities. But boards of directors of city trusts now existing, and boards of revision of taxes created by any acts of Assembly, shall be appointed and perform their functions as provided by law.
The city treasurer shall be charged by the controller with the full amount of all tax duplicates of the several wards, and also with all other accounts placed in his hands by the proper officer for collection, and shall make daily returns to the controller of all moneys paid and by whom paid, together with all duplicates of the tax receipts retained by the city treasurer at the time of payment.
The city treasurer may employ such additional clerical and other assistants as are necessary to perform the duties imposed by this section, and he may purchase such mechanical equipment as is needed in connection therewith.
(7 added Apr. 28, 1937, P.L.475, No.110)