[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Oil
City 3-12-1896 by Ord. No. 403 (Ch. 146 of the 1986 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purpose of procuring accurate information in reference
to the ownership of all real estate liable to municipal taxation or
assessments in the City of Oil City, a registration thereof is hereby
established as provided for in Article 16 of An Act Providing for
the Incorporation and Government of Cities of the Third Class, approved
May 23, 1889.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See now 53 P.S. § 37704, Real Estate
Registry.
[Amended 12-22-1986 by Ord. No. 2456]
The City Engineer of Oil City shall cause to be made books of
plans of Oil City or such supplemental books to those already in existence
as may be necessary, showing the situation and dimensions of each
property therein, with the City number and Engineer's file number
of the owner or owners thereof, with blank spaces for the names of
future owners and dates of future transfers of title, and for such
purpose, said Engineer may cause search to be made in any of the public
records of the country wherein the necessary information may be obtainable
and may also cause search to be made in any other place for any muniments
or evidences of title not reported to him as hereinafter provided
and requisite for the completion of said plans. Said books of plans
shall be carefully preserved in the Bureau of Engineering of Oil City
and shall be so kept by additions from time to time as to show the
ownership of each 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. Certified copies
under the hand of said Engineer of any of the entries in said books
of plans shall be furnished by said Engineer to any person desiring
the same on prepayment of $0.50 for each certified copy of the entries
concerning any one piece or parcel of ground, said money to be for
the use of the City.
It shall be the duty of all owners of unregistered real estate
within the City limits, within one month from the date of approval
of this chapter and, of every subsequent purchaser, devisee or person
acquiring title by partition or otherwise to any real estate therein,
within one month after acquiring such title, to furnish said Engineer
at his office descriptions of their respective properties and, at
the same time, to present their conveyances to be stamped by said
Engineer without charge as evidence of the registration thereof.
[Amended 9-8-1986 by Ord. No. 2452]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine not exceeding $300
and costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding
90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
