[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Franklin Township 3-2-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-02 (Ch. 4, Part 3, of the 1990 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The intent of this chapter is to require a permit for the temporary storage of movable dwelling units, such as mobile homes, modular homes, and other residential buildings that may be moved from one tract of land to another, in situations where the unit is not intended to remain on the tract, or where no sewage connection permit has been properly obtained, or where no land development plan has been approved for an additional dwelling unit on the tract. An example of such a situation is when one mobile home is replaced by another dwelling unit, but the original unit cannot be immediately removed or relocated to another site.
The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section when used in this chapter:
BUILDING
A combination of materials to form a permanent structure having walls and a roof. Included shall be all mobile homes and trailers to be used for human habitation.
MOVABLE BUILDING
A building intended for, or which could be easily adapted for, residential use and which can be moved as a unit or substantially as a unit. This includes, but is not limited to, any building which can be raised from its base and moved, either on equipment provided by others, or on equipment attached to the unit itself.
PERSON
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity which owns land or has an equitable estate in land coupled with possession or the right to control possession.
A. 
Any person who stores, or permits to be stored, a movable building on a tract of land in Franklin Township on which another building is located which is used or could be used as a residence, and for which no land development plan has been filed and approved allowing more than one residential building on the tract of land, must obtain a permit for the storage of the movable building.
B. 
No person shall store, or permit to be stored, a movable building on any tract of land in Franklin Township without having an existing and valid permit as provided in this chapter.
C. 
The storage or permitting of storage of a movable building without a valid permit as provided in this chapter shall be a violation hereof.
A permit issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire six months from the date it is issued.
Any person having obtained a permit pursuant to this chapter may have a successive permit for the same movable building issued no more than two times.
A fee for each permit issued hereunder shall be collected prior to the issuance of the permit, in an amount as prescribed by the Board of Supervisors from time to time in a resolution establishing such fees. The current list of fees is on file in the Township office.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. A178, Fees.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter, shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.
This chapter shall not apply to any mobile home, modular home, or other movable building sales lot where movable buildings are displayed as inventory for sale, and when the person displaying the movable buildings has otherwise fully complied with all ordinances of Franklin Township regarding the location of such sales lot (such as Chapter 175, Zoning, Chapter 146, Subdivision Land Development, and the like).