Pennsylvania Act 1937-505 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, SECOND CLASS CITIES

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SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, SECOND CLASS CITIES
                 Act of Jul. 1, 1937, P.L. 2629, No. 505              Cl. 11
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To the act, approved the seventh day of March, one thousand nine
        hundred and one (Pamphlet Laws, twenty), entitled "An act for
        the government of the cities of the second class,"
        establishing a department of lands and buildings in said
        cities; providing for its officers and employes; defining the
        powers, duties, and jurisdiction of said department, and in
        certain cases transferring the same from existing
        departments.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That an additional executive
     department in the government of cities of the second class is
     hereby created, to be known as the department of lands and
     buildings.
        Section 2.  The department of lands and buildings shall be
     under the charge of a director who shall be the head thereof.
     The care, maintenance, repair and alteration, management and
     supervision, of all city buildings, the supervision of janitors,
     watchmen, and elevator service, and the operating maintenance of
     all city buildings, and the lease, purchase, and sale of real
     estate of the city, shall be under the jurisdiction of this
     department. The supervision of contract work in connection with
     the construction of all city buildings may be under the
     jurisdiction of this department, or may be under the
     jurisdiction of the department of public works, as the council
     of said city shall direct in the ordinance authorizing and
     directing the letting of the contract work in connection with
     building construction.
        (2 amended June 20, 1947, P.L.682, No.294)
        Section 3.  All the powers and duties, as set forth in
     section two hereof, which are now under the jurisdiction of any
     other department of said city are hereby transferred to the
     department of lands and buildings, created by this act:
     Provided, however, That the jurisdiction to supervise contract
     work in connection with the construction of all city buildings
     may be under the department of lands and buildings, or may be
     under the department of public works, as the council of said
     city shall direct the ordinance authorizing and directing the
     letting of the contract work in connection with building
     construction.
        (3 amended June 20, 1947, P.L.682, No.294)
        Section 4.  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith
     are hereby repealed.
        Section 5.  This act shall become effective on the first day
     of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.