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File #: 140035    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 1/23/2014 In control: Committee on Law and Government
On agenda: Final action: 5/8/2014
Title: Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to create the Department of Prisons, to transfer the functions of certain City agencies with respect to penal, reformatory and correctional institutions to a newly-created Department of Prisons and Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Prisons, and to provide for additional duties of the Department, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Sponsors: Councilmember Jones
Indexes: PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER, PRISONS
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 14003501, As Amended.pdf, 2. Signature14003501.pdf
Title
Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to create the Department of Prisons, to transfer the functions of certain City agencies with respect to penal, reformatory and correctional institutions to a newly-created Department of Prisons and Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Prisons, and to provide for additional duties of the Department, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.

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WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Rule Act (Act of April 21, 1949, P.L. 665, § 6, 53 P.S. § 13106), an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter may be proposed by a resolution of the Council of the City of Philadelphia adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of its elected members; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the following amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter is hereby proposed and shall be submitted to the electors of the City on an election date designated by ordinance.

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ARTICLE III
EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH - ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER 1
OFFICERS, DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES

§ 3-100. Executive and Administrative Officers, Departments, Boards, Commissions and Agencies Designated.

The executive and administrative work of the City shall be performed by:

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(d) The following departments which are hereby created:

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Procurement Department. Department;
Department of Prisons.

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(f) The following departmental boards and commissions, which are either created or placed, as the case may be, in the respective departments, as follows:

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In the Department of Public Welfare:
Board of Trustees of House of Correction;

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In the Department of Prisons:
Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Prisons...

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