53 Pa. Stat. § 13151
The purpose of this act is to carry out the intent and purpose of Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, known as the "Home Rule Amendment", and Article XIV, Section 8 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, known as the "City-County Consolidation Amendment", by enabling the Council of the City of Philadelphia to abolish or provide for the appointment of certain elective officers to abolish certain offices, boards and commissions and, pursuant to Section 1-102(2) of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, to integrate and merge within the framework of the government of the City of Philadelphia functions heretofore performed by certain officers, offices, boards or commissions, so that hereafter all of these functions may be carried out by officers, offices, departments, boards or commissions of the City of Philadelphia under the provisions of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter adopted by the electorate of the City of Philadelphia on April seventeen, one thousand nine hundred fifty-one, pursuant to the First Class City Home Rule Act of April twenty-one, one thousand nine hundred forty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 665).
53 P.S. § 13151