[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Hilltown 1-26-1998 by Ord. No. 98-3. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No person, natural or otherwise, shall hereafter
occupy, allow to be occupied or let to another person for occupancy,
any residential rental unit within the Township of Hilltown unless
the landlord/lessor notifies the Township within 30 days after said
occupancy of the name(s), address and number of persons occupying
a specific unit. Registration forms may be obtained at the Township
Building.
A registration for each residential unit shall
be filed by January 31 of each calendar year and then throughout the
year whenever there is a change of occupant(s) as set forth above.
All registrations under this chapter shall be forwarded to the Township
within 60 days after the enactment hereof for the first year.
The landlord/lessor shall provide a forwarding
address of any tenant (residential, commercial, industrial) that has
vacated the leased property during the previous reporting period.
No fee shall be charged for this registration.
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 unreported tenant constitutes
a separate offense; 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.
