PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
CHAPTER 8 INDEPENDENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
§3-805. Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission and Advisory Committee.
The Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission shall be composed
of fifteen members, appointed as follows:
(a) Four members shall be
appointed by the Mayor;
(b) Four members shall be appointed by the
Council President;
(c) One member shall be appointed by the City
Controller;
(d) One member shall be appointed by each of the following:
the President of the African-American Chamber of Commerce, the President of the
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Chief Executive Officer of Greater
Philadelphia First, the President of the Greater Northeast Chamber of Commerce,
the President of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Executive Director of
the North Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
(e) The Commission's
Advisory Committee shall consist of twenty-three members. One member of the
Advisory Committee shall be appointed by each of the following: the Director of
Action Alliance of Senior Citizens of Greater Philadelphia, the Director of
Asian-Americans United, the Director of Community Legal Services, the President
of the Board of the Consumer Education & Protective Association, the
Director of the Keystone Research Center, the President of the National Congress
of Puerto Rican Rights, the Director of the Parents' Union, the Director
of Philadelphia NOW (National Organization for Women), the Director of the
Philadelphia Unemployment Project, the Director of the Tenant Action Group, the
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Dean of the Fox
School of Business and Management of Temple University, the President of the
Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors, the President of the Institute for
the Study of Civic Values, the President of the NAACP Philadelphia Chapter, the
Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Economy League Eastern Division, the
President of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Greater
Philadelphia Chapter, the President of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the
Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council,
the President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, the President of the Urban
League of Philadelphia, the Executive Director of the West Philadelphia
Partnership, and the Dean of the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. If any of those organizations ceases to exist or refuses to make
an appointment, the members of the Commission shall by a majority vote designate
an organization of a similar nature to make an appointment.
(f) All
appointments to the Commission and its Advisory Committee shall be made within
thirty days after the Commission is first created.
(g) No member of the
Commission, while serving as a member, shall seek or hold a position as an
elected public official within the Commonwealth, or as an officer of a political
party.
(h) Vacancies on the Commission and its Advisory Committee shall
be filled by the appointing authority who originally appointed the member whose
seat has become vacant.