[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Franklin Township 4-3-1997
by Ord. No. 1997-02. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words when used in this chapter shall have the meaning
ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
or requires a different meaning:
That person or persons who has the use of real estate of a lessor
and who is responsible for the giving of any type of consideration for said
use, but excluding those persons who are lessees for a period of less than
30 days.
Any person who grants a lease or otherwise permits the use of his
real estate or a portion thereof for a consideration, monetary or otherwise.
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
All lessors, within 60 days after the effective date of this chapter,
or in case of real estate thereafter acquired or thereafter rented, within
30 days after the acquisition, rental or availability for rental thereof,
as the case may be, shall report to the Township Secretary in writing addressed
to the Township Office the number of parcels or units of real estate presently
rented or hereafter rented, a description (by address number and/or some other
meaningful method) of the said parcels or units for rent, and the name of
all lessees at the time of such report, together with a designation as to
which unit or parcel is occupied by each.
Any change in the occupancy of real estate rented or leased or in the identity of the lessee from that shown in the report of the lessor as required in § 119-2 hereof, shall be reported by the lessor to the Township Secretary within 10 days after such change. It is intended hereby that lessor shall report a new lessee or a lessee who rents or leases a different unit or parcel of lessors's real estate.
The Township Code Enforcement Officer may prepare a form report entitled
“Status of Occupancy Report” which form report may require that
information set forth above and may request such other pertinent information
as the Township may direct by resolution to be incorporated into the said
report form. The failure to have such report forms or to provide them to the
lessor shall not excuse the obligation of lessors to provide the information
required herein.
Any lessor violating any of the provisions of this chapter or who furnishes
false information to the Township or who uses a false name or address in any
report required by 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.
