53 Pa. Stat. § 53301
The appointment, promotion and reduction in rank, suspension and removal of paid operators of fire apparatus in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class, shall be regulated by this act only in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class having two paid operators of fire apparatus, if a civil service commission created under the act, approved the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, eighty-four), has been appointed; or in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class having three or more paid operators of fire apparatus, if no civil service commission under the act, approved the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, eighty-four), has been appointed.
53 P.S. § 53301