PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
CHAPTER 2 ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT
§3-205. Personnel Director.
The Civil Service Commission shall appoint the Personnel
Director.
ANNOTATION
Sources: No specific source.
Purposes: The Civil Service Commission, rather than the Mayor,
has been designated the appointing power of the Personnel Director as a step
towards assuring the complete independence of the Personnel Director and the
separation of the administration of the civil service system from partisan
political considerations and influences, direct or indirect. This is an
indispensable requirement of any true merit system of City
employment.