Board of Trustees Hospital, of Allentown State THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Board of Trustees of Danville State Hospi- Executive Officer-Chairman of the Public Ser tal, Board of Trustees of Farview State Hospital. Board of Trustees of Harrisburg State Hospital, Board of Trustees Hospital, vice Commission. The above outline indicates that in addition to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Executive Board and Pennsylvania State Police of Norristown State there are seventeen departments and three sions in the Executive branch of the State independent administrative boards and commisgovernment. Board of Trustees of Warren State Hospi tal, Board of Trustees of Wernersville State Hospital, Board of Trustees of Torrance State Hospital, Board of Trustees of Ashland State Hospital, Board of Trustees of Blossburg State Hospital, Board of Trustees of Coaldale State Hospital. Board of Trustees of Connellsville State Hospital, Board of Trustees of Hazleton State Hospital. Board of Trustees of Mercer State Hospital. Board of Trustees of Nanticoke State Hospital. Board of Trustees of Philipsburg State tal, Board of Trustees of Shamokin State Hospi tal, Board of Trustees of Laurelton State Vill BUREAUS AND DIVISIONS. All departments, except the Department of the Auditor General, the Treasury Department and the Department of Internal Affairs have the right to establish such bureaus and divisions within their departments as may be required for the proper conduct of departmental work; provided, that the Executive Board approves the establishment of such bureaus and divisions. of Fish Commissioners and The Public Service Commission also have the power, with the approval of the Executive Board, to establish necessary bureaus and divisions. The Board of Game Commissioners, the Board DEPUTIES. Deputies to the Auditor General, the State Treasurer and the Secretary of Internal Affairs are provided for by statute. All other heads of departments have the power with the approval of the Governor to appoint and fix the compensation of a deputy or such number of deputies as the Executive Board shall approve. Deputies so appointed have the right to perform all the duties of the respective heads of their Departments in the absence of such heads except that they cannot appoint employes or exercise any function which the Constitution Head of Department-Insurance Commissioner. requires the Department head to exercise per In the Department of the Auditor General, the Treasury Department and the Department of Internal Affairs there are a number of statutory positions. In all other Departments there are no statutory positions. In these latter Departments, the and fix the compensation of all employes who Department heads appoint may be necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the Departments. The Governor must, however, approve both compensation of all employes, and after the the number and the Executive Board has established standard compensation for any kind, grade or class of service, or employment, the compensation of all persons in that kind, grade or class of employment must be fixed in accordance with the standards established by the Board. Generally speaking, the Department heads appoint and fix the compensation of all employes necessary for the work of departmental administrative boards and commissions and advisory boards and commissions within their respective departments. Such appointments are, however, Executive Officer-Executive Secretary of the subject to the same limitations as apply to the Board of Game Commissioners. BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS Executive Officer-Commissioner of Fisheries. appointment of employes doing direct departmental work. A number of departmental administrative boards and commissions, notably, the boards of trustees administering the various State institutions have the right to ap point and fix the compensation of their own employes subject, however, to conformity to the standards fixed by the Executive Board. The Board of Game Commissioners, the Board of Fish Commissioners and the Public Service Commission have the same powers as departments so far as concerns the appointment and compensation of employes. EXTRA COMPENSATION. It is unlawful for employes of any department, board or commission employed at a fixed compensation to have extra compensation paid them for extra services unless such extra compensation is expressly authorized by the Executive Board prior to the rendering of such extra service. FIDELITY BONDS. All Department heads must be bonded in such amounts as the Governor fixes, but not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) each. The same is true of the Secretary of the Board of Game Commissioners, the Commissioner of Fisheries, all members of the Public Service Commission and all members of the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors. Such deputies and subordinate employes as are designated by the respective Department heads, with the approval of the Governor, must be bonded in amounts fixed by the Governor. All fidelity bonds must be approved by the Attorney General and filed with the State Treasurer. All such bonds are procured by the Department of Property and Supplies. DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES. All departments, the Board of Game Commissioners, the Board of Fish Commissioners and the Public Service Commission must maintain central offices at Harrisburg. Branch offices outside of Harrisburg may be established with the approval of the Executive Board in quarters obtained by the Department of Property and Supplies and assigned by the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings. Branch offices outside of Harrisburg may be established under similar circumstances for departmental administrative boards or commissions. OFFICE HOURS. All offices of the State government must be open for the transaction of the public business at least eight hours each day except Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. On Saturdays when not legal holidays they must be open for at least three hours. The hours when all offices shall open and close are determined from time to time by the Executive Board. WORK HOURS AND VACATIONS. All employes of administrative departments and of the Board of Game Commissioners, Board of Fish Commissioners and the Public Service Commission must, if employed for continuous service, work during such hours as the respective Department heads prescribe, but not less than thirty-eight (38) hours per week. Employes of the departments and of the boards and commissions mentioned are entitled during each calendar year to fifteen days' leave of absence with pay. This does not apply to employes of boards and commissions employed by such boards and commissions independently of the heads of the departments with which they are connected. Department heads may extend leaves of absence with pay to thirty (30) days in exceptional and meritorious cases where it would work peculiar hardship to limit the leave with pay to fifteen days in any year. Extensions of leaves of absence with pay beyond thirty (30) days can be granted only by authority of the Executive Board. REPORTS. All departments, the Board of Game Commissioners, the Board of Fish Commissioners and the Public Service Commission are required to report to the Governor not later than October first of each even-numbered year. These reports except when impracticable are for the two-year period ending May thirty-first of the year in which they are made. All departmental administrative boards and commissions and advisory boards and commissions must report not later than September first of each even-numbered year to the heads of the departments with which they are pectively connected and all such reports are attached as exhibits to the reports made by the department heads. PURCHASES. res The Department of Property and Supplies has charge of all purchasing for the State government with the following exceptions: 1. The Department of Health purchases medicines and medical and surgical supplies which it requires and all furniture, materials and supplies used by the various State tuberculosis sanatoria; 2. The Department of Highways purchases materials, supplies and equipment necessary for the construction and repair of highways; 3. Boards of Trustees of State Institutions purchase their Own supplies unless they request the Department of Property and Supplies to make purchases for them. They must, however, either purchase articles according to standard specifications established by the Department of Property and Supplies, or if they depart from such specifications they are required to forward to the Department at the time the purchase is made: (a) the modified specification, (b) the price paid thereunder, (c) the reason for the modification, and (d) whenever practicable, forward to the department for analysis a sample of the article purchased under the modified specification. ADMINISTERING OATHS. All department heads, all deputy department heads, all members of departmental administrative boards and commissions, the Superintendent of the Pennsylvania State Police, the Secretary of the Workmen's Compensation Board, all Workmen's Compensation Referees and such employes of the several departments as the respective department heads shall designate have the power to administer oaths or affirmations with regard to any public business properly coming before such departments, boards, commissions or offices as the case may be. MEETINGS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Departmental administrative boards and commissions and advisory boards and commissions meet upon the call of their respective chairmen at such times and places as the chairmen shall designate or at such times and places as the respective boards and commissions may fix by rule. RULES AND REGULATIONS. All department heads and all boards and commissions except advisory boards and commissions have the power to prescribe rules and regulations not inconsistent with law for the government of their respective departments, boards or commissions, the conduct of their employes, the distribution and performance of their business and the custody, use and preservation of the documents, books and papers pertaining thereto. SUBPOENAS. All departments, boards and commissions and the several Workmen's Compensation Referees have the power to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers pertinent to any hearings before such departments, boards, commissions or officers and to examine such witnesses, books and papers. BUDGET. In every even-numbered year it is the duty of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to obtain and prepare information necessary for the preparation of a State budget for the biennium beginning June first of the following year. Not later than August fifteenth, it is his duty to distribute to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, all departments, boards and commissions, the Chief Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Prothonotaries of the various courts and all Institutions and Agencies which may desire State appropriations to be made to them, blanks necessary for the preparation of budget estimates with a request that such blanks be returned with the desired information not later than December first of the same year. are After the budget blanks returned the Secretary of the Commonwealth may, under direction of the Governor, make further inquiries with regard to the financial needs, expenditures, estimates or revenues of any department, board, commission, institution or other agency, and the Governor may, after giving to departments, boards, commissions, institutions or other agencies, an opportunity to be heard, approve, disapprove, or alter the estimates. On or before January first of each odd-numbered year the Secretary of the Commonwealth is required to submit to the Governor in writ ing the information which he has collected and any additional information requested by the Governor as a basis for the Governor's budget estimates. As soon as possible and not later than four weeks after the organization of the General Assembly it is the Governor's duty to submit to it a State budget embracing therein the amounts recommended by him to be appropriated ΤΟ the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches of to the government, Institutions within the State and for all other public purposes, together with the estimated revenues or receipts from any and all sources and an estimated amount to be raised by taxation or otherwise. It is the Governor's duty to transmit with the budget the various estimates of receipts and expenditures received by the Secretary of the Commonwealth from the elective officers in the Executive and Judicial Departments. PERSONNEL RECORD. A complete personnel record is kept in the offices of the Auditor General and of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. This list shows the names of all the persons employed in Executive branch of the State government--except day laborers-positions, dates of birth, voting residence, salaries, dates of entering the State's service, whether State service has been continuous and all periods of service and positions held under the Commonwealth. This list is kept up to date from month to therein contained month and the information is public information. FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the Commonwealth begins on June first of each calendar year and ends on the thirty-first day of May succeeding. POWERS AND DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND OFFICERS. THE GOVERNOR. The supreme executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor. He is Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the Commonwealth, and of the militia, except when they are called into the actual service of the United States, and takes care that the laws of the Commonwealth are faithfully executed. He holds his office for four years from the third Tuesday of January next succeeding his election, and is not eligible to the office for the next succeeding term. No person is eligible to the office of Governor except a citizen of the United States who has attained the age of thirty years and has been for seven years next preceding his election an inhabitant of the Commonwealth, unless he has been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State. The Governor is required under the provisions of The Administrative Code to present to the Legislature at each biennial session a State budget. All bills and concurrent resolutions except for adjournment must be submitted to the Governor for his approval. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days after it shall have been presented to him the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly by its adjournment prevent its return; in which case it shall be a law unless he shall file it with his objections in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and give notice thereof by public proclamation within thirty days after such adjournment. The Governor nominates and by and with the consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate appoints the heads of all de He may on extraordinary occasions convene the General Assembly, and in case of disagree-partments, except the Auditor General, the State ment between the two Houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months. He may also convene the Senate in extraordinary session for the transaction of executive business. He shall from time to time give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommend such measures as he may judge expedient; and he may require information in writing from the officers of the Executive Department of the State government upon any subJect relating to their respective offices. Treasurer and the Secretary of Internal Affairs, the members of all independent administrative boards and commissions, the members of all advisory boards and commissions and, with few exceptions, the members of all departmental administrative boards and commissions. He also appoints in like manner Workmen's Compensation Referees, Anthracite Mine Inspectors and Bituminous Mine Inspectors. He fills all vacancies in offices to which he may appoint during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which expire at the end of the next Session. He has power to fill any vacancy that may happen during the recess of the Senate in the office of the Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Public Instruction, in a judicial office or in any other elective office he is or may be authorized to fill. He commissions all State officers elected by the people or appointed by himself (except the Lieutenant Governor and members of the General Assembly), all judges, magistrates and justices of the peace, all county officers that require commissions, notaries public, commissioners of deeds, officers in the National Guard, and such others as he may be directed by law to commission. Under the Constitution appointed officers, other than Judges of Courts of Record and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, may be removed at the pleasure of the power by which they have been appointed. All officers elected by the people, except the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of the General Assembly and Judges of the Courts of Record learned in the law may be removed by the Governor for reasonable cause after due notice and full hearing on the address of two-thirds of the Senate. The Governor approves the number and compensation of all employes in all administrative departments, boards and commissions, except the Department of the Auditor General, Treasury Department and Department of Internal Affairs, and he must approve all appointments of deputies except in the three Departments just named, as well as the compensation which they are to receive. He also appoints to serve at his pleasure a Secretary to the Governor and such consultants, experts, accountants, investigators, clerks, stenographers, messengers, watchmen and other employes as may be required for the proper conduct of the work of the Governor's office and of the Executive Board and fixes their compensation. The Governor fixes the amounts of all fidelity bonds given by department heads, members of boards and commissions and State employes. The Governor may call upon the head of any Department (except the Auditor General, the State Treasurer, and the Secretary of Internal Affairs) from time to time to prepare and submit to him for approval or disapproval estimates of the amount of money required for each activity or function to be carried on by such Department during the ensuing month, quarter and such other period as the Governor shall prescribe. If the Governor does not approve the estimate submitted it is required to be revised in accordance with the Governor's desires and resubmitted for approval. After he has approved the estimate it is unlawful for the Department to expend any part of its appropriation except in accordance with such estimate unless the same be revised with the Governor's approval. Upon the failure of any Department to submit an estimate when requested to do so the Governor has the right to notify the Auditor General in writing of such failure and after receipt of such notice it is unlawful for the Auditor General to draw any warrant in favor of the delinquent Department until the Governor has received and approved the requested estimate. On receipt of the returns of the election of electors for President and Vice-President, the Governor enumerates the number of votes given for each one, and declares by proclamation (published in one or more newspapers) the names of the persons duly elected, and delivers to each one a notification of his election on or before the last Wednesday of the month in which he was elected. He also causes three lists of the names of the electors to be made, certified and delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they meet to cast the vote of the State for President and VicePresident. As soon as the result of any election for judges of the Supreme and Superior courts has been determined according to law, he issues a proclamation declaring the number and names of the persons elected. On receipt of the returns of the election of members of Congress from the several districts of the State, he declares by proclamation (published in one or more newspapers), the names of the persons so returned, and transmits the same to the House of Representatives. Upon the receipt of the certificate of the result of the vote on the election of United States Senator from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Governor issues a certificate of election under the seal of the Commonwealth to the candidate receiving the highest number of votes. In case of a vacancy happening in the office of the United States Senator the Governor makes a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy until such time as said vacancy shall be filled by an election, as provided for by law. The Governor approves all charters of corporations for profit created under the General Corporation Act of 1874 and its supplements, and the charters of insurance companies created under the Act of 1921, and issues letters patent to all corporations for profit created under the laws of the State. Under the Act of 1923 he may also issue letters patent to certain corporations not for profit. The Governor signs all patents for lands issued in the name and by the authority of the State. He may order out for actual service, by draft or otherwise, as many of the militia as necessity demands, in case of war, invasion, the prevention of invasion, the suppression of riots, and to aid civil officials in the execution of the laws of the Commonwealth. He has power to remit fines and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commutation of sentences and pardons, except in cases of impeachment; but no pardon shall be granted nor sentence commuted except upon the recommendation in writing of the Board of Pardons, or any three of them. He signs all death warrants of persons sentenced by the courts of oyer and terminer to be electrocuted, and fixes the day of execution. He may demand fugitives from justice from the executive of any other State or Territory, and issue warrants for the arrest of persons resident in this State upon the requisition of the Governor of any other State or Territory. Records and instruments of writing intended for use in other States and Territories are authenticated by the Governor under the seal of the State. He is, ex officio, a member of the Executive Board, of the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings, the Commission to provide for joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York of certain toll bridges over the Delaware River, of the Boards of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State College, the University of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny College, of the Commission to construct a bridge over the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia and Camden, of the State Armory Board, and of the Commission to provide for joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of certain toll bridges over the Delaware River. He is also, ex officio, a visitor to the Philadelphia city and county prisons, to the penitentiaries of the State, to the several mental hospitals and to the Soldiers' Orphan School. THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. The Lieutenant Governor is elected at the same time as the Governor, for the same term, and must have the same qualifications in all respects. He is President of the Senate, but has no vote unless they are equally divided. He is also a member of the Board of Pardons. In case of the death, conviction or impeachment, failure to qualify, resignation or other disability of the Governor, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office, for the remainder of the term, or until the disability be removed, devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD. The Executive Board consists of the Governor who is the chairman of the Board and four other department heads designated from time to time by the Governor. The Board has the power to standardize all titles, salaries and wages of persons employed by the administrative departments, boards and commissions, except the Department of the Auditor General, the Treasury Department and the Department of Internal Affairs. It approves or disapproves the establishment of bureaus and divisions by administrative departments other than those above mentioned. It approves or disapproves the payment of compensation to employes of the Executive branch of the government who are employed at fixed compensation. It determines from time to time the hours when the administrative offices of the State government shall open and close. It approves or disapproves extensions beyond thirty days of leaves of absence with pay for employes of the executive branch of the State government. The various members of the State Police Force are authorized and empowered to make arrests without warrant, for all violations of the law which they may witness and to serve and execute warrants issued by the proper local authorities. They are also authorized and empowered to act as forest, fire, fish and game wardens; and in general, to have the powers and prerogatives conferred by law upon members of the police force of cities of the first class, or upon constables of the Commonwealth. The State Police may, with the approval of the Governor, be called upon by any other department, board or commission of the State government to enforce all laws applicable or pertaining to such department, board or commission or any regulation thereof, and shall, whenever possible, cooperate with counties and municipalities in the detection of crime, the apprehension of criminals, and preservation of law and order throughout the State. at The State Police collect, classify and keep all times available complete information the detection of crime and the useful for identification and apprehension of criminals. Such information shall be available to all police officers within the Commonwealth, under such regulations as the Superintendent may prescribe. It approves or disapproves the establishment outside of Harrisburg of branch offices of the various departments, boards and commissions. After every biennial appropriation to the Department of Property and Supplies it al- The State Police have important powers with locates to the several administrative dopart-regard to fire protection. The Act of June 3, ments, boards and commissions such portions 1919_created a Bureau of Fire Protection in of the appropriation as will fairly represent the needs of such departments, boards or commissions for the purchase of stationery, fuel, printing, paper, supplies, furniture, furnishings, repairs, alterations and improvements during the biennium. After such allocation has been made the Department of Property and Supplies cannot honor requisitions by any department, board or commission exceeding the amount of the allocation without the consent of the Executive Board. PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE. The Department of State Police was created by the Act of May 2, 1905, P. L. 361. The Administrative Code changed the Department's name to "Pennsylvania State Police". The head of the Pennsylvania State Police is the Superintendent of State Police who appoints such deputies, chiefs, statisticians, experts, and other assistants as he shall deem necessary for the work of the Force. He must, however, have the Governor's approval of the number and compensation of persons so appointed. He is also authorized to appoint the State Police Force, which shall consist of one school troop having one captain, two Heutenants, one geant and two corporals, and five troops, each consisting of a captain, a lieutenant, one first sergeant, five sergeants, ten corporals and sixtyfive privates. ser The members of the State Police Force are enlisted for a period of two years. No applicant can be appointed to the State Police Force until he has satisfactorily passed a physical and mental examination, based upon the standards provided by the rules and regulations of the police force of cities of the first class, in addition to which each applicant must be a citizen of the United States, and of sound constitution, able to ride, of good moral character, and between the ages of twenty-one and forty years. The Superintendent of State Police provides suitable uniforms, arms and equipment for the State Police, and, where it is deemed necessary, horses and motor vehicles. He makes such rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor, as are necessary for the control and regulation of the State Police Force. It is also his duty to establish local headquarters in various places so as best to distribute the Force throughout the Commonwealth where they will be most efficient in the preservation of peace and the prevention and detection of crime. the Department of State Police. This Bureau was abolished by the Administrative Code but the powers formerly exercised by the Bureau are now exercised by the Pennsylvania State Police. The Superintendent of State Police may appoint and remove the chief of the fire department of any county, city, borough, town, or township, where a fire department is established, or, where no such fire department exists, the burgess or constable of any borough or town, or constable, or the president or chairman of the board of supervisors of any townships, as assistants to the State Police, subject to his direction and the obligations imposed by the Act of 1919. He may also appoint individual citizens as assistants to the State Police. It is the duty of the assistants to report to the State Police every fire occurring in the State within their respective jurisdictions, and the to investigate cause, origin and circumstances of every fire and determine, if possible, whether such fires were of incendiary origin or the result of design, carelessness, or accident. It is also the duty of the State Police or any of their assistants to institute criminal proceedings in all cases where the investigation of fires indicate that a crime has been committed. It is also the duty of the State Police and their assistants, upon complaint, or when deemed necessary, to inspect the buildings and premises within their jurisdiction, and if found to be in a dilapidated condition or so situated as to endanger other property, or for any other cause liable to fire, they shall, if reasonably practicable, order the same to be removed or remedied. This provision also applies to combustible or explosive matter, or inflammable conditions found in buildings which are in violation of law. The State Police may adopt and enforce rules and regulations governing the having, using, storage, sale and keeping of gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, or other substance of like character, blasting powder, gunpowder, dynamite, or any other inflammable or combustible chemical products, or substances, or materials. The State Police may also adopt and enforce rules and regulations requiring the placing of fire extinguishers in buildings. The State Police, in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, prepare books of instruction, or use in the public and |