[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Pottsville:
Art. I, 5-21-1966 by Ord. No. 72-66 as Art. 107 of the 1966 Code; Art. II,
6-10-1980 as Ord. No. 274. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Director of Parks and Public Property — See Ch. 44.
[Adopted 5-21-1966 by Ord.
No. 72-66 as Art. 107 of the 1966 Code]
The registration of real estate in the city, in accordance with the
provisions of the Third Class City Code[1] and the city ordinances, shall be performed by the City Engineer.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 35101 et seq.
The City Engineer shall cause to be made all such necessary books, maps
and plans as will show the situation and dimensions of each property therein,
which books, maps or plans shall be so prepared as to show the city number
and the name of the owner or owners thereof, with blank spaces for the owner
of each lot, with provision for the names of future owners and dates of future
transfer of title. For such purpose, the City Engineer shall have free access,
without charge, to any of the public records wherein the necessary information
may be obtainable therefor. He may also cause search to be made in any other
place for any monuments or evidence of title, not reported to him as hereinafter
provided, and requisite for the completion of such books, maps or plans.
Such books, maps and plans shall be carefully preserved in the office
of the Engineer and shall be so kept, by additions from time to time or otherwise,
as to show the ownership of every lot or piece of real estate or subdivision
thereof within the city limits, with the successive transmissions of title,
from the date of the commencement of such plans. Nothing in this Article shall
invalidate any municipal or tax claim by reason of the fact that the same
is not assessed or levied against the registered owner.
Certified copies, signed by the City Engineer, of any of the entries
in such books or upon such maps or plans shall be received in evidence in
the same manner as the books, maps and plans themselves might be admissible
for such purpose and may be also furnished to any person desiring the same
upon payment of the sum of five dollars ($5.) for each and every certificate
issued as aforesaid.
The Sheriff of Schuylkill County shall present for registry the deeds
of all properties within the city limits sold by him at judicial sales, whether
by execution, in partition or otherwise.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Article shall be
fined not more than six hundred dollars ($600.) and, in default of payment
of fine and costs, imprisoned not more than ninety (90) days.
[Adopted 6-10-1980 as Ord.
No. 274]
The purpose of this Article is to regulate public access to and use
of governmental property within the city for the protection of such property
and the public.
For the purpose of this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
All real estate owned by, leased to or under the control of the city,
and structures, facilities and equipment located thereon.
The City Council may from time to time by resolution regulate access
to and use of governmental property within the city by designating the times
when the public may enter upon or use such property and establishing other
rules governing its use. Upon the adoption of any such regulation by the City
Council, the Director of Parks and Public Property (hereinafter the "Director")
shall cause to be erected and permanently displayed on such property, in a
manner reasonably likely to come to the attention of the public, appropriate
signs setting forth the times when the public may enter upon or use the property
and other pertinent rules governing its use.
Authority is hereby conferred upon the Director to regulate access to
and use of governmental property within the city by designating the times
when the public may enter upon or use any such property and establishing other
rules governing its use where the City Council has not theretofore established
such times or rules or by changing the times or rules where the City Council
has theretofore established any such times or rules, provided that the Director
shall not change the times or rules established by the City Council within
thirty (30) days of the date of the City Council's action except in an emergency.
When the Director designates or changes the times when the public may enter upon or use any such property or established or changes any rules governing its use, he shall cause signs to be erected as provided in § 169-9 hereof.
Regulations adopted by the Director hereunder shall become effective
when the signs are erected and shall remain in effect until the next regular
stated meeting of the City Council, at which time the Director shall make
a written report to the Council on the regulation issued by him, and in the
absence of any other action by the Council at that meeting, the regulation
of the Director shall be deemed to be ratified and to constitute the action
of the entire Council and shall remain in effect until thereafter changed
by the Council or the Director in accordance with this Article.
Any person who enters upon or uses governmental property in violation
of the regulations issued hereunder shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to
pay a fine of not less than fifteen dollars ($15.) nor more than six hundred
dollars ($600.), in addition to the costs of prosecution, and in default thereof
shall undergo imprisonment in the Schuylkill County Prison or other appropriate
facilities not exceeding ninety (90) days.
Nothing herein shall prevent a prosecution under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3503 of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, where appropriate, in lieu of prosecution under § 169-13 hereof.
