PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
CHAPTER 2 ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT
§3-201. City Controller.
The City Controller shall be elected in the manner and at
the times now or hereafter provided by law.
ANNOTATION
Sources: Act of June 25, 1919, P.L. 581, Article XII, Section
1.
Purposes: The City Controller is retained as a special officer
to make him independent of the officials whose expenditures he will
audit.