Section 11A. For any wilful violation of this act, or of the act to which this is an amendment, arising after the date of the approval hereof, the collector of taxes may be removed from office by the court of common pleas, sitting en banc, upon the petition of not less than thirty taxpayers of such city, which shall be verified by the oath of at least one of said petitioners, to which petition the said collector of taxes shall have fifteen days for reply. At the time of filing such petition, the petitioners shall also file a bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, with surety to be approved by the court, conditioned to pay the costs and counsel fees of the collector of taxes in case such proceedings for removal shall be unsuccessful. The amount of counsel fees chargeable against unsuccessful petitioners shall be subject to the approval of the court--the total of costs and counsel fees so chargeable in no case to exceed the amount of the bond.
(11A added June 22, 1931, P.L.666, No.240 and repealed in part June 3, 1971, P.L.118, No.6)