[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Doylestown 4-15-1980 as Ch. VII, Art. 8, of the 1980 Code
of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the
following meanings:
Any structure used or intended to be used as a dwelling or place
of business or industry, but shall not include any public building or structure
built as a place of worship or any accessory building located on a lot where
there is also a main building.
Includes any street, road, public highway or private road upon which
there are located two or more buildings, as defined by this chapter, whether
or not such street, road, highway or private right-of-way is physically opened
up or laid out on a recorded plan but not physically opened.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Doylestown shall have the
right from time to time to establish by resolution the names of streets or
to change or alter the names of streets when, in the judgment of the Board
of Supervisors, the existing street names are confusing or prevent proper
identification of such streets and their locations.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 153, Subdivision and Land Development, § 153-24A(6).
The Zoning Officer is hereby authorized to establish a numbering plan
for all lots and buildings in the Township of Doylestown. Numbers shall be
assigned to buildings in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Whenever the Zoning Officer shall find that a section or portion of
the township shall be built up to the extent that the location of buildings
in such section shall be difficult without the use of street numbers or when
the Zoning Officer has ascertained that the United States of America is serving
or proposes to serve such section with mail delivery requiring the numbering
of buildings, then the Zoning Officer shall assign numbers to all existing
buildings in such section as soon as possible.
After the Zoning Officer shall determine the street or section of the
township required to be numbered by the provisions of this chapter, he shall
determine thereafter and send to the owner or occupant of every lot upon which
a building is located a notice of the number assigned to such building. Said
notice may be served personally upon the owner or occupant or by certified
mail. In the event that the Zoning Officer shall ascertain that any building
has been previously numbered and that such number shall not be in the sequence
of established numbers, then the Zoning Officer shall assign a new number
to such building in the manner set forth for the numbering of buildings under
the provisions of this chapter. The property owner or occupant of any building
to which a number has been assigned or, in the event of a renumbering, to
which a new number has been assigned shall, within 15 days after the date
of the service of said notice, affix the number or new number, as the case
may be, to such building or elsewhere upon the property in the manner prescribed
by this chapter. Every property owner who shall disregard or fail to comply
with such notice within the time limits therein shall be guilty of a violation
of this chapter.
Numbers, as assigned to the buildings in the township according to the
provisions of this chapter, shall be affixed to or painted upon or carved
upon such buildings or upon a permanent standard, base or support between
such building and the street. Each number shall be at least three inches high
and be of such color and material as to be visible from the street and shall
be maintained constantly in complete and legible form. A number affixed to
or painted upon a mailbox established in accordance with postal regulations,
if of sufficient size and legibility and properly maintained, shall be deemed
in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. In the event of a renumbering,
the property owner or occupant shall remove the old or former number and shall
place the new number on said property as hereinbefore provided within 15 days
of the date of notice, provided that, in the case of buildings occupied by
other than the owner thereof, the occupant, rather than the owner, shall be
responsible for the placing and maintaining of the numbers upon such building
as hereby required.
Whenever a building shall hereafter be commenced on a street or in a
section of the township in which street numbers have been assigned, the Building
Inspector or the Zoning Officer, as the case may be, shall assign a number
to said building when the zoning and building permits have been granted, and
the owner or occupant shall affix such number prior to the application for
a final compliance inspection.
[Amended 11-4-1991 by Ord. No. 208]
Any person, partnership, association, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in § 1-13 of Chapter 1, General Provisions. Each day's continuance of a violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate offense.
