[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Fallowfield 3-26-2003 by Ord. No. 170. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Fallowfield hereby
reestablishes the streetlighting districts previously established
in Van Voohris, under Ordinance No. 63 of 1966, and in Wertz Way,
under Resolution No. 144 of 1982. The Board hereby reestablishes the
lighting districts as outlined herein, in accordance with the terms
and conditions of 53 P.S. § 67002.
The Board of Supervisors and the Township Secretary are hereby
authorized and empowered to execute such agreements with electrical
service providers as necessary to accomplish the illumination of the
streets and public places within the established streetlighting districts.
Further, any agreements presently in place as executed by and between
the Township of Fallowfield and any electrical service providers are
hereby affirmed, ratified and confirmed.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Fallowfield hereby
established an annual assessment upon each property benefited within
each streetlighting district, in accordance with the terms and conditions
of 53 P.S. § 67003(a)(3). The Township Secretary is directed
to compute the annual assessment for each property benefited by the
illumination of the streetlighting district in accordance with the
formulas and practices presently utilized by the Township. The assessment
for each property shall be computed by dividing the total number of
benefitted properties in each district into the total annual cost
of the lighting in each respective district for the calendar year
prior to the determination of the assessment.
The Township Secretary is directed to provide the annual assessment
figures for each property benefitted in the streetlighting districts
to the Township Tax Collector, in accordance with 53 P.S. § 67003(e).
The Township Tax Collector is duly empowered and directed to bill
such assessment on the annual real estate tax bill for general Township
purposes for each benefitted parcel, together with such commission
and expenses as provided under 53 P.S. § 68301(a) and as
permitted by law for collection of the same. The assessments established
hereunder shall become effective beginning with the January 2004 real
estate tax bills, and shall continue for each annual tax bill thereafter,
unless amended by subsequent ordinance of the Township.
All assessments when collected by the Tax Collector shall be
paid over to the Township Treasurer, who shall receive and keep same
in a separate account and shall pay out such sums necessary to meet
the expenses as billed by the electric utility service providers,
and upon direction by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Fallowfield. The Treasurer is further authorized to make reimbursements
from such accounts when any such expenses for the electric service
providers are paid from the Township general fund.
