Subject to the rules of the Administrative Board, the heads of departments, the members of all boards and commissions, all administrative officers and all persons employed under the provisions of this charter shall be entitled to receive their traveling and other necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their public duties on requisition of the appropriate officer, department head, or chairman or president of a board or commission, but in the case of departmental boards and commissions, such requisitions shall be subject to the approval of the department with which such boards or commissions are respectively connected.

ANNOTATION

Sources: The Administrative Code of 1929, Act of April 9, 1929, P.L. 177, Section 216.

Purposes: Officers and employees are entitled to traveling and other necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their public duties but to prevent abuses the Administrative Board is to promulgate rules governing the circumstances under which such payments are to be made. See Section 4-300(3)(a).