[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:
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.
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.
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]
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).
