53 Pa. Stat. § 30451
No regularly appointed employee in either the competitive or noncompetitive class of the classified civil service of any city of the second class A in this Commonwealth shall be removed, discharged or dismissed without his written consent, except after a decision to that effect, rendered against him by a tribunal of trial or inquiry constituted as hereinafter set forth, which decision shall be certified by the tribunal to the civil service commission of the city.
The decision of the tribunal shall be made only after an inquiry or trial by it on the charge or charges against the employe previously filed in writing with the civil service commission of the city. The charge or charges filed must aver facts in detail, constituting one or more of the following on the part of the employe against whom they are made disability for service, in which case the tribunal shall be one of inquiry, whose decision may be that the employe be honorably discharged from the service, neglect, violation of law or duty, inefficiency, intemperance, disobedience or unbecoming official or personal conduct, in which cases the tribunal shall be one of trial and its decision may, if against the employe, impose a fine on him of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), to be deducted from his salary or wages, or suspend him without pay for a period not exceeding one (1) year, or dismiss him from the service.
The head of the department in which the accused employe serves may, at his discretion, suspend the employe from duty until the trial of the same. No trial shall be delayed for more than thirty days after filing of the charge or charges against the employe with the civil service commission. The tribunal shall decide if the employe shall receive salary or wages during the period of his suspension.
53 P.S. § 30451