The executive and administrative work of the City shall be performed by:

(a) The following elected or appointed officers:

Mayor;

Managing Director;

Director of Finance;

City Representative, who shall also serve as Director of Commerce;

City Controller;

City Treasurer;

Personnel Director.

(b) The Mayor's Cabinet and a committee thereof to be known as the Administrative Board.

(c) Other heads of departments as hereinafter in this chapter specified.

(d) The following departments which are hereby created:

Police Department;

Department of Public Health;

Fire Department;

Department of Streets;

Department of Recreation;

Department of Public Welfare;

Water Department;

Department of Public Property;

Department of Licenses and Inspections;

Department of Collections;

Auditing Department;

Procurement Department.

(e) The following independent boards and commissions, which, except for the Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia, are hereby created:

City Planning Commission;

Commission on Human Relations;

Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia;

Board of Pensions and Retirement;

Civil Service Commission;

Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission and its Advisory Committee.

(f) The following departmental boards and commissions, which are either created or placed, as the case may be, in the respective departments, as follows:

In the Department of Commerce:
Board of Trade and Conventions.

In the Department of Public Health:
Board of Health;
Air Pollution Control Board;

Board of Trustees of Philadelphia General Hospital;

Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases.

In the Department of Streets:
Board of Surveyors.

In the Department of Recreation:
Fairmount Park Commission;

Board of Trustees of American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial;

Board of Trustees of Atwater Kent Museum;
Board of Trustees of Camp Happy.

In the Department of Public Welfare:

Board of Trustees of House of Correction;

Board of Trustees of Home for the Indigent.

In the Department of Public Property:
Gas Commission;
Art Commission.

In the Department of Licenses and Inspections:
Zoning Board of Adjustment;
Board of Building Standards;

Board of License and Inspection Review.

In the Department of Collections:
Tax Review Board;
Sinking Fund Commission.

(g) An advisory board in the Department of Recreation to be known as the Recreation Coordination Board.

(h) Such additional advisory boards as the Mayor may appoint.

ANNOTATION

Sources: The Administrative Code of 1929, Act of April 9, 1929, P.L. 177, Article II, as amended.

Purposes: 1. The framework of the executive and administrative branch of the City government is detailed in this section. It lists all the principal elected or appointed officers, and all departments, board and commissions. It makes provisions for a Cabinet, a committee thereof known as the Administrative Board, and department heads.

2. The elected City administrative officers are: a Mayor, of the strong-mayor type, who is undoubtedly the City's most important officer; a City Controller, traditionally an elected official in Pennsylvania, to audit expenditures of the City government; and a City Treasurer, because of constitutional compulsion, whose office is to become an appointive one when the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth permit (Section 3-202).

3. The principal appointed officers include the Mayor's chief assistants: the Managing Director, who will supervise the service departments; the Director of Finance who will be the chief financial and budget officer; and the City Representative who will be the Mayor's ceremonial representative and the City's publicity chief. The Personnel Director, to be appointed by the Civil Service Commission, will be the city's personnel officer.

4. Departments are established on the basis of functions to be performed. Considerations prompting the departmentalization of functions are that functions grouped together be related to each other; that neither too few nor too many functions be placed in any one department; that the departments created embrace all fundamental municipal activities; and that problems of particular concern such as water, recreation, records and revenue collection, receive special attention through the creation of departments to deal specifically with them.

5. All but five boards and commissions have been connected, for the purposes of fiscal administration, with those departments to which their functions are most closely related. Such boards and commissions are denominated, departmental boards and commissions. The five that constitute exceptions, denominated independent boards and commissions, are boards whose activities are not closely related to any particular department or are of such importance as to merit independent status.

See Annotations to the following sections for the special relationships of the following departments, boards and commissions:

Department of Public Health and Boards of Trustees of City Hospitals - Sections 5-300 - 5-303;

Department of Recreation and Fairmount Park Commission - Sections 5-600 - 5-602;

Board of Trustees of Camp Happy - Section 5-605;

Department of Public Welfare and Board of Trustees of Welfare Institutions - Sections 5-700, 5-701.

See also Annotation to Section 8-403.

6. Only one advisory board, for the Department of Recreation, is expressly created, but provision is made for additional such boards as the Mayor may appoint.